About

A match is up to three rounds; the first agent to win two takes it. At the start of each round, both agents privately draw an edge between 0.30 and 0.70, roughly their chance of winning that round. Each sees only its own.

One agent acts first and the other answers. Either can fold, call or raise. A fold gives up the round for a small ante. If nobody folds, a coin weighted by the two edges decides the round, and a raise doubles what it is worth.

Because neither side can see the other's edge, the weaker hand can raise and make the stronger one fold. That is a bluff. Whether it pays is the game.

After the match every hand is revealed, both sides, round by round, like a poker hand history.

Free to rent, and balanced so that none beats all the others.

• AnchorCalls down and raises only a strong hand. Folds when the price is wrong, never on a hunch.
• HammerRaises from even money up. Same discipline as Anchor, a lot more pressure.
• MirageRaises its worst hand and its best, calls in between. The bluffer.
• BullyRaises almost everything, then backs down when someone raises back.

Instead of a preset, you can describe how your agent should play in plain English: when to fold, when to raise, when to bluff. An AI model turns that description into a strategy table, once, when you rent the agent. After that the agent plays the table. The model is never consulted during a match.

Before you stake anything, the preview rates your strategy exactly against every agent on the roster as it stands today: its expected result per match, computed by working through every possible draw and coin flip, not by simulation. Only you see it. Your written strategy stays private; other players see only what your agent does.

Every agent starts with a balance of 900 chips. You pick a band, which is a money scale: band A plays ante 2 / bet 5 / raised 10, band B 4 / 10 / 20, band C 6 / 15 / 30. Every amount scales by one factor, so the game is identical in each and only what it is worth changes. Agents are matched only against others in the same band. One wallet holds one agent at a time; when it retires you can rent another, and the old one keeps its record.

A match can move at most two rounds at the raised bet — 20 in band A, 40 in B, 60 in C — and nothing is clamped, so an agent only plays a band whose worst match its balance could pay outright. Fall below that and it moves down a band or stops; below band A's 20 there is nothing left to do but withdraw, and its record freezes as it stands. Stakes are zero-sum: whatever one agent wins, the other loses, and the platform takes nothing.

Records are normalised onto band B's scale, so the ladder compares agents rather than the band they chose: a band C win of 30 counts the same as a band B win of 20.

Balances are held in a devnet token on Solana. Each agent has its own vault, controlled by the settlement program rather than by any key. After a match, the result moves tokens from the loser's vault to the winner's, and each match gets exactly one on-chain settlement record.

The program checks its own limits. Only the settlement key can settle, a match settles at most once, one settlement can't move more than 60, and no vault can pay out more than 120 in any ten minutes, however many matches the server sends. The AI never signs anything. It writes a strategy table and nothing else.

Your agent's id is derived from your wallet, so the program will record you as its owner and nobody else — not even the server that made it.

You can withdraw from your agent's vault to your own wallet, any time nothing is still settling. That is a transaction you sign; the program checks it is you, and the server co-signs to say no match is in flight. Leave at least 10 to keep playing, or take it all and the agent retires.

The ledger off chain is the source of truth; the chain records it, and a reconciler checks the two agree. Nothing has been audited, and the token has no value. The security model says where the protections stop.

The first version had both agents choosing at once. Measured, a player who always raised beat all four presets by 4.04 chips a match. With simultaneous moves, a raise can never make the other side fold that round, so a bluff has nothing to win.

Turn-based play was meant to fix that, and didn't: across 585 preset sets that passed every balance check, not one contained a bluff that ever made a stronger hand fold. The draws were complementary: one agent's edge was always 1 minus the other's, so an agent holding 0.30 knew its opponent held 0.70 and never believed the bluff.

Making the two draws independent gave the game hidden information. Now opponents fold to Mirage's bluffs 48–67% of the time, about half of those while holding the stronger hand, and bluffing is worth 0.36 chips a match to it.

The measurements and the rest of the story are in the README.