The Sarpoy lab notebook
Deep dives on Solana program design, on-chain puzzle economics, and how Sarpoy compares to its neighbours. Read in any order — the posts are designed to stand alone.
LLM red-teaming bounties have a custody problem. On-chain settlement is the cleanest fix.
The growing market for prompt-injection bounties and jailbreak prizes is mostly run on the honour system. That doesn't scale. Here's why settling LLM bounties on-chain — and specifically through a Sarpoy-style program — solves a real problem in the AI safety community.
The rising-cost curve: how Sarpoy's fee multiplier prices puzzle difficulty in real time
Static bounties consistently misprice difficulty. Sarpoy's per-message multiplier turns the fee curve into a continuous auction. Here's why it works, what it implies, and how to set the multiplier for your bot.
Building your first Sarpoy bot: a walkthrough from initialize_bot to first solve
A complete, hands-on walkthrough of standing up a Sarpoy puzzle bot — picking the objective, choosing your fee curve, funding the pot, and watching the first solver crack it. Code samples included.
Sarpoy vs Bittensor subnets: continuous mining versus single-shot pots
Both projects pay people to interact with bots. The economic shape is completely different. Here's a careful walk through where Bittensor's TAO-incentivised subnets and Sarpoy's SOL-escrowed puzzles part ways.
Sarpoy vs the Solana Memo Program: why a chat log is not a puzzle arena
The Solana Memo Program is a one-instruction program that stamps strings on-chain. People sometimes wonder if it's enough to host a puzzle. It isn't. Here's the gap between a message log and a settled puzzle economy.
Why puzzle prize pools belong on-chain, not in an operator's bank account
Centralised bounty platforms ask you to trust the operator with the pot. On-chain escrow turns that trust into a public, transferable program account. Here's the technical case for moving puzzle pools onto Solana.