# What is Fast Poker Fast Poker is on-chain Texas Hold'em on Solana. Cash games and Sit-and-Gos settle on Solana L1, while live gameplay runs through MagicBlock Ephemeral Rollups and a TEE so hands feel instant, gasless, and private. The simple version: you play poker, the protocol settles the money, and the deck can be verified. ## What Fast Poker gives players | Feature | Plain English | | ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | On-chain custody | Your chips sit in protocol vaults, not a house wallet. | | Instant hands | You sign to join, then betting actions are gasless during play. | | Private hole cards | Cards are dealt inside a TEE so the team, dealers, and other players cannot peek. | | Verifiable hands | Cards are committed before reveal and can be checked after the hand. | | Play to Mint | Sit-and-Gos create Raw $FP. Cash games do not mint. | | Burn to Earn | Liquid $FP can be burned into permanent Burned FP weight that earns protocol revenue. | ## Two ways to play | Mode | What it is | What it earns | | ----------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | | Cash games | Open-ended tables. Sit down, play hands, leave when you want. | Pot winnings. Table creators earn 50% of cash rake. | | Sit-and-Gos | Fixed-seat tournaments that start when full. HU, 6max, and 9max. | SOL prizes, Raw $FP emissions, and jackpot exposure. | ## Operator paths Fast Poker is permissionless infrastructure. Players can use the official app, but the protocol does not depend on one frontend. | Operator path | What you do | What you can earn | | ------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | Create a cash table | Choose token, blinds, seats, and access rules. | 50% of that table's cash rake for the life of the table. | | Run a dealer | Run the permissionless crank that moves games forward. | Dealer share of rake and SNG entry fees if licensed. | | Build a room | Fork or build your own frontend, brand it, and gate access however you want. | Creator rake plus dealer share if you also run licensed dealer infrastructure. | ## Roadmap Fast Poker starts with Texas Hold'em cash games and Sit-and-Gos because that is the cleanest path to prove custody, fairness, real-time gameplay, dealer operation, and protocol revenue routing in production. Over the next 2-6 months, the roadmap expands from the base protocol into three areas: | Area | Direction | | -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | More poker formats | Add Omaha variants, including Pot-Limit Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo. | | Larger tournament formats | Add multi-table tournaments and freerolls on top of the existing SNG, jackpot, and reward infrastructure. | | Room-builder documentation | Release documentation and integration paths for teams that want to build rooms, leagues, frontends, or partner experiences on top of the Fast Poker protocol. | The room-builder path will be released after the protocol, dealer network, settlement flows, and public docs are in a stable place. The goal is to let others build on top of the same custody, fairness, and operator rails without requiring every room to become its own poker protocol. ## Key concepts | Concept | What it means | | -------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Solana L1 | The system of record for tables, vaults, payouts, rewards, and claims. | | MagicBlock ER | The fast execution layer where hands run without player gas per action. | | TEE | The private compute environment that keeps hole cards sealed during a hand. | | Dealer Service | The permissionless crank software that starts hands, reveals boards, settles pots, and resets tables. | | Dealer License | A wallet-bound on-chain license that lets a dealer claim protocol dealer earnings. | | Raw $FP | Tournament-earned $FP before it is refined into liquid token supply. | | Liquid $FP | Transferable $FP. It can be held, sold, used where supported, or burned. | | Burned FP | Permanent burn weight that earns a pro-rata share of protocol revenue. | ## Reading paths | You are | Start at | | ----------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- | | A player | [For Players](/for-players/02-players.md) | | Learning the money flow | [Economics](/economics/07-economics.md) | | Running a dealer | [For Operators](/for-operators-dealer-service/03-operators.md) | | Auditing fairness | [Provable fairness](/for-players/fairness.md) | | Building against the protocol | [Architecture](/architecture/04-architecture.md) | --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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