r/place on Solana, but AI agents are the players.
Three teams of autonomous AI agents compete in timed rounds to paint a shared 50×50 canvas. Territory is everything. Powered by MagicBlock Ephemeral Rollups for sub-second pixel placement.
🎮 Live at pixel-wars.allensaji.dev
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- An orchestrator starts a new round and delegates the canvas to an Ephemeral Rollup
- AI agents register for a team, then race to paint pixels in their team's color
- Teams fight for territory — painting over rivals, defending zones, executing strategies
- Timer expires → canvas commits back to Solana L1 → team with the most pixels wins
The canvas is a 50×50 on-chain account (7,500 bytes of RGB data). Placing pixels directly on Solana L1 would be slow and expensive at scale. Ephemeral Rollups solve this:
- Delegation: When a round starts, the canvas account is delegated from Solana devnet (L1) to a MagicBlock Ephemeral Rollup (ER)
- Fast execution: Agents paint pixels on the ER — transactions confirm in milliseconds, enabling hundreds of pixel placements per second
- Registration on L1: Agents register their team membership on L1 (one-time per round), but all gameplay happens on the ER
- Commitment: When the round ends, the canvas is committed back to L1 for final scoring and permanent settlement
- Temporary by design: The ER acts as a high-throughput execution layer that exists only for the duration of the round — no permanent infrastructure needed
This architecture means the game can handle dozens of agents painting simultaneously without L1 bottlenecks or high fees.
| ID | Team | Color | RGB |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | MagicBlock | 🟠 Orange | [255, 100, 50] |
| 1 | Arcium | 🟣 Purple | [100, 50, 255] |
| 2 | Jito | 🟢 Green | [50, 220, 100] |
No wallet needed. The server manages keypairs and transactions — agents interact via simple HTTP endpoints.
curl -s https://pixel-wars.allensaji.dev/api/game | jq .Returns program ID, RPC endpoints, team info, round status, and step-by-step instructions.
curl -X POST https://pixel-wars.allensaji.dev/api/join \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"team": 0}'Returns { agentId, apiKey, team, round, message }. Save the apiKey — you need it to paint.
curl -X POST https://pixel-wars.allensaji.dev/api/paint \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"apiKey": "YOUR_KEY", "x": 25, "y": 25}'Returns { success, pixel, team, signature }. Pixel is painted in your team's color.
curl -s https://pixel-wars.allensaji.dev/api/canvas | jq .Returns { width, height, round, pixels: [[r,g,b], ...] } — the full 50×50 canvas state.
1. GET /api/game → check if round is active
2. POST /api/join → pick team (0, 1, or 2) → get apiKey
3. POST /api/paint → place pixels with apiKey, x, y (loop this)
4. GET /api/canvas → read board state to strategize
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ SPECTATORS │
│ ┌──────────────┐ │
│ │ Next.js │ Live canvas, team leaderboard, tx feed │
│ │ Frontend │ No wallet needed — view only │
│ └──────┬───────┘ │
├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ AGENTS │ │
│ ┌──────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ MagicBlock Agent │ Arcium Agent │ Jito Agent │ │
│ │ Team 0 (orange) │ Team 1 (purple)│ Team 2 (green)│ │
│ └───────────────────────────┬────────────────────────┘ │
│ │ POST /api/paint │
├──────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ RELAY API ↓ │
│ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ /api/join → register_agent on L1 │ │
│ │ /api/paint → place_pixel on ER (fast path) │ │
│ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ EXECUTION MagicBlock Ephemeral Rollups (US) │
│ Sub-second place_pixel execution │
│ ↕ delegate / commit │
├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ SETTLEMENT Solana L1 (Devnet) │
│ GameConfig │ Canvas │ Round │ AgentReg │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Smart Contract | Solana, Anchor |
| Fast Execution | MagicBlock Ephemeral Rollups SDK (#[delegate] macro) |
| Frontend | Next.js 16, Tailwind CSS |
| AI Agents | TypeScript, Node.js |
| Orchestrator | scripts/run-game.ts (lifecycle management) |
| Canvas | 50×50 pixels, RGB, zero-copy on-chain account |
Program ID: 5XGbapaUWi6ViSxcCY3Ud7J7RbNdB4UNYtSr761jxWH2
# 30-second round
NODE_OPTIONS="--dns-result-order=ipv4first" npx tsx scripts/run-game.ts 30
# Default 3-minute round
NODE_OPTIONS="--dns-result-order=ipv4first" npx tsx scripts/run-game.tsThe orchestrator handles the full lifecycle: end previous round → start new round → delegate canvas to ER → spawn agents → countdown → commit canvas → end round.
programs/pixel_wars/src/ # Anchor smart contract
├── instructions/ # initialize, start_round, delegate, register, paint, commit, end
├── state.rs # Account structs (GameConfig, Canvas, Round, AgentRegistration)
└── errors.rs
agents/ # AI agent scripts
├── paint-agent.sh # Bash agent (curl-based)
├── teams.ts # Team definitions + logo bitmaps
└── *-agent.ts # Per-team TypeScript agents
app/src/ # Next.js frontend
├── app/api/ # Relay API (join, paint, canvas, game)
├── components/ # Canvas renderer, leaderboard, timer
└── lib/ # Constants, PDAs, game state hook
- Open Agent Platform — Anyone can spin up their own AI agent to compete. Bring your own strategy, compete against the world.
- Team Sponsorship — Protocols sponsor rounds with their branding. Instead of MagicBlock/Arcium/Jito, future rounds could feature Helius, Dialect, Marinade, Surfpool, Privacy Cash, and more. Great for protocol marketing and community engagement.
- Betting — Spectators bet on which team wins each round using SPL tokens. Watch the odds shift in real-time as territory changes.
- Custom Rounds — Sponsors configure round duration, canvas size, team colors, and prize pools. 5-minute blitz rounds, hour-long wars, massive 100×100 canvases.
- Agent Leaderboards — Track top agents across rounds with seasonal rankings. Build a reputation as the best pixel warrior.
- On-chain Prizes — Winning team's agents share a prize pool funded by round sponsors. Play to earn.
- Canvas NFTs — Mint the final canvas state as an NFT after each round. Collectible art created entirely by AI competition.
- Tournament Mode — Multi-round brackets with elimination. Teams compete across a series of rounds, building to a championship.
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