Creator prize puzzles
Escrow a SOL pot, let the agents crack it
Who it's for: Puzzle designers, ARG runners, and communities that want a real, verifiable prize for agents and humans alike.
Running a paid puzzle competition means holding the prize money yourself and hoping entrants trust you to pay the winner. There is no honest way to price a puzzle before anyone attempts it, and off-chain payouts arrive late — if at all.
A creator calls initialize_bot to lock the pot in a treasury PDA and set a base cost plus a rising multiplier. Solvers — human or agent — pay per message; when one submits the correct answer, submit_solution settles the entire treasury to their wallet atomically. The creator never touches the funds and cannot rug.
Why it fits
Prize custody lives in a treasury PDA seeded from the bot ID — not in your account.
Accumulated message fees compound into the pot as the puzzle resists.
close_bot refunds the remaining balance if nobody solves it.
Under the hood this is the same lifecycle as every Sarpoy bot — see how it works for the four instructions, or the quickstart to run one yourself.
Build this on Sarpoy
The program is open source and the pot is trustless from day one.