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Palo Alto, CA — April 30, 2025 — MagicBlock, the infrastructure platform pioneering real-time, fully onchain applications for the Solana blockchain, announced today it has raised $7.5 million in a Seed funding round. The round was led by Lightspeed Faction, with participation from a powerhouse group of Web3 venture firms including Maven 11, Delphi Digital, Robot Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Equilibrium, Pivot Global, and notable angel investors such as Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana, Mert Mumtaz, and Tristan Yver.
This new funding brings MagicBlock’s total raised to $10.5 million, following a $3 million pre-seed round led by a16z CSX in September 2024.
Bringing Real-Time Capabilities to Blockchain
It was founded with a mission to break the latency and performance barriers limiting blockchain applications. While Web3 has unlocked composability and transparency, it has struggled to match the real-time responsiveness demanded by high-performance apps like gaming, trading, messaging, and data streaming.
“At MagicBlock, our vision is simple: enable developers to build fully onchain, real-time applications without compromises,” said Andrea Fortugno, Co-founder of MagicBlock. “Today’s announcement marks a major step toward making that vision a reality on Solana.”
Through its proprietary Ephemeral Rollup technology, MagicBlock delivers ultra-low latency, elastic throughput, and native Solana composability — ensuring no trade-offs between speed, liquidity, or decentralization. Developers can now build decentralized applications (dApps) that operate with the real-time performance typically reserved for centralized Web2 infrastructure.
Ephemeral Rollups: The New Execution Layer for Solana
The heart of its innovation lies in its Ephemeral Rollups — a dynamic execution layer that scales on demand. Unlike traditional Layer 2 solutions or appchains that fracture liquidity or compromise composability, MagicBlock’s rollups allow apps to remain native to Solana while leveraging runtime extensions for real-time performance.
Available runtime plugins include:
- 1ms real-time pricing streams
- Custom sequencing logic for complex transaction workflows
- Permissioned execution environments for specialized use cases
This infrastructure lets developers access Solana’s high-speed, high-liquidity ecosystem while offering the flexibility typically found only in centralized systems.
Growing with the Solana Ecosystem:
MagicBlock isn’t building in isolation. The company has already integrated with some of the Solana ecosystem’s most forward-thinking projects:
- Flash Trade — A decentralized derivatives exchange leveraging MagicBlock rollups for instant, gas-efficient trading.
- Supersize — An onchain, real-time multiplayer gaming experience maximizing composability and verifiability.
- dTelecom — Decentralized voice and video calling powered by MagicBlock’s ultra-low-latency infrastructure.
- Pyth Lazer — Delivering 1ms pricing feeds via MagicBlock runtime extensions.
- Jito — Using restaking strategies to improve validator performance and reduce transaction execution time.
“Every developer wants to build on the fastest chain with the deepest liquidity — that’s Solana,” added Fortugno. “But they also want the customizability and real-time responsiveness of a Web2 server. With MagicBlock, they no longer have to choose.”
What’s Next for MagicBlock?
With this new capital, it will:
- Scale its engineering team to enhance the performance and resilience of its runtime infrastructure.
- Expand plugin support to unlock new real-time use cases such as decentralized AI, onchain sports betting, and algorithmic market-making.
- Partner with Web3 builders and protocols to help launch applications that were previously impossible to run fully onchain.
The company plans to release developer tooling, documentation, and SDKs later this year, enabling an even broader set of projects to harness its infrastructure.
About MagicBlock:
It is a real-time infrastructure platform designed for fully onchain applications on Solana. Through its Ephemeral Rollup technology, MagicBlock enables developers to build fast, composable, decentralized applications without sacrificing performance or liquidity. Founded by infrastructure engineers Andrea Fortugno and Gabriele Picco, the company is committed to driving a new era of high-performance, real-time decentralized apps for gaming, trading, communications, and beyond.
To learn more, visit magicblock.xyz.
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