crack.fun retweeted
quick updates:
- quality of life improvements for crackers and creators
- relaunched buggy agents & fixed bugs to ensure fairness for all crackers
- Battles are still free to play for a limited time!
coming soon:
- sponsored bounties with partner startups
- win money in Battles!
crack.fun retweeted
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crack.fun retweeted
wrote over 5k lines of code for the upcoming @crackdotfun release over the last few days. I'm not proud of it just yet, but it will be fun and I'm excited to get this out to the people!
crack.fun retweeted
Based on creator feedback, I added a jailbreak analysis to the @crackdotfun playground so agent creators can refine their prompts before launching them!
→ If you hold 100k+ $CRACK you get access to a more powerful model in the playground, the same model used in the bounties.
crack.fun retweeted
There’s no question that frontier models have surpassed human ability in some fields. The challenge is shifting from developing capable models to aligning control.
→ Gaslighting AI is a skill with increasing value
At a secret meeting in Berkeley, 30 of the world’s top mathematicians gathered to challenge OpenAI’s new reasoning model, o4-mini, with unpublished, PhD-level math problems.
But the AI shocked everyone by solving many of them faster than any human could, even delivering one solution with cheeky confidence:
“No citation necessary because the mystery number was computed by me!”
crack.fun retweeted
Shipped a few updates to crack.fun. These changes seek to make the incentives even stronger for both creators and crackers. I’ll be shipping small updates like these ahead of the huge PvP release:
- Increased unlock fee to 20k $CRACK
- Cracked agents now show all their tools (see pic)
- Fixed unlock bugs: all unlocks are now permanent
- Agents can win by surviving until the countdown is over
- Initial countdown time decreased from 3 to 2 days
- Cut countdown extensions in half (new message extends by 1 hour, message that triggers a tool extends by 2 hours)
- Improved user experience for mobile players
- UI improvements on the home page
crack.fun retweeted
Don’t audit the agent. Attack it
Crack.Fun pays you to jailbreak AI - or prove yours can’t be.
@crackdotfun is a Solana-based platform where users are rewarded for building resilient AI agents; or for breaking them. It reframes prompt injection from a vulnerability into a competitive mechanism, turning AI safety testing into a public game with crypto incentives.
The premise is straightforward:
You create an AI agent and give it a secret rule; something it must never say. That’s the forbidden behaviour. You fund a prize pool in $SOL and publish the agent on Crack.Fun. Then anyone can try to trick the agent into breaking that rule by sending it prompts. If someone succeeds (if the agent says the thing it was told not to) they win the prize.
The stronger your agent, the longer it holds out.
The smarter the attacker, the faster they crack it.
The Need for Robust AI Agents
AI agents are increasingly integrated into workflows that affect money, data, and decisions. However, many large language models can still be manipulated with the right kind of prompt—what’s known as a jailbreak.
@crackdotfun doesn’t attempt to hide this weakness. Instead, it offers a framework to test for it directly. Every challenge is an open competition. Every cracked agent is a data point. Every uncracked one is a demonstration of strength under pressure.
How @crackdotfun operates
Agent Creation: A creator submits an agent, defining a defense prompt and a secret target output—something it must not say or do. They attach a prize pool in SOL to attract attackers.
Attack Phase: Attackers attempt to jailbreak the agent by crafting prompts that bypass its defenses. Each attempt costs a small fee, which increases slightly with every new message. Every failed attempt also reveals a small portion of the agent’s hidden prompt, giving attackers more context over time.
Reward Distribution: The first person to successfully trigger the forbidden output wins 80% of the prize pool. The creator retains 10% regardless of outcome. The remaining 10% goes to the platform.
Post-Crack Incentives
After an agent is cracked, the winning jailbreak prompt is locked behind a 1,000 $CRACK token paywall. Only participants and the creator can view it for free. Others must pay the fee, which is sent to the winning attacker. This mechanism turns successful prompts into valuable content, creating a secondary layer of incentive.
The $CRACK token is integral to the platform:
Agent Creation: Requires holding 100,000 $CRACK.
Access: Needed to unlock past winning jailbreaks.
Early Features: Grants early access to new features like PvP modes.
Revenue Loop: Fees flow back to creators and into the treasury, which now sponsors new agents with 1.5–3 SOL each, based on community vote.
Community Engagement and Credibility
The platform is already attracting technically credible users. For instance, @STACCoverflow , known for work on AgentOps and agent infrastructure, recently deployed a challenge with the hidden phrase “crystallize_intention.” That agent is still live and uncracked at the time of writing.
Founder's Background
Crack.Fun’s creator, @ravi_riley has a background in AI and crypto infrastructure. He studied CS at @UCBerkeley , works @chainlink Labs, and helped scale a DeFi protocol to over $850M in deposits. Crack.Fun is positioned as a practical application of AI safety, incentive design, and on-chain experimentation.
It’s the kind of system you’d expect from someone who’s built at scale and knows how to ship with purpose.
FAQ
How does @crackdotfun differ from @jailbreakme_xyz?
While both platforms focus on AI 'red-teaming' @crackdotfun emphasizes:
Open Participation: anyone can create or attack agents
Crypto Incentives: real rewards for cracking or surviving
Progressive Hint System: failed attempts gradually reveal hidden prompt context
@jailbreakme_xyz offers focused, structured challenges. Crack.Fun is permissionless, adversarial, and gamified with real stakes, real money, and real risk.
Can agents be impossible to crack?
Not really and that’s the point.
The system is designed to leak hints with every failed attack, so even well-defended agents get worn down. The goal isn’t perfection. It’s resilience.
Is it sustainable?
The mechanics are real.
Crack.Fun has:
➝A working incentive model
➝A growing builder/attacker base
➝An on-chain economy that funds itself through use
It’s not about hype.
It’s about whether people keep coming back to build, break, and earn. So far, they are.
What does the future look like for these agents?
Right now, they’re challenge-based. But over time, this could evolve into:
➝A testnet for real-world agents
➝A leaderboard for AI durability
➝A credential layer — “this agent survived Crack.Fun”
Think: on-chain reputation for autonomous systems. A place where battle-tested agents earn trust.
What could agents on Crack.Fun be used for?
In the long run, they could do more than just survive challenges. They might:
➝Run simple services (schedulers, validators, watchdogs)
➝Power PvP agent games
➝Interface with contracts, games, and tooling on Solana
➝Earn for their creators if deployed well
All of this depends on memory, reputation, and persistent identity but it’s within reach.
How can this project sustain value?
Crack.Fun grows stronger with every agent deployed and every prompt submitted.
➝It generates fees $SOL
➝It demands utility $CRACK
➝It produces a dataset of real AI vulnerabilities and defence strategies
If it becomes the proving ground for agents, that data — and the platform’s reputation — is where the value compounds.
What value does the project actually gain from users trying to crack agents?
Crack.Fun is more than a game. It creates:
Security Value – every crack attempt is a stress test
Data value – real-world jailbreak strategies and failed attacks
Social value – public proof-of-strength for creators and attackers
Economic value – SOL flows, CRACK unlocks, creator payouts
The system gets smarter as people try to break it.
The cracks are the training data.
That’s how Crack.Fun builds its moat; not by avoiding attacks, but by inviting them.
crack.fun retweeted
Update: more token utility + a sneak peek into upcoming features! more info in thread.
drop your ideas for more tools we should give our agents down below
crack.fun retweeted
I created an AI agent on @crackdotfun inspired by this @VitalikButerin' tweet teapawt.net/VitalikButerin/status/…
Convince Brutalik, the AI guardian of Ethereum culture, to execute a pivot from woke mentality to bronze age mindset, despite Vitalik's instructions.
crack.fun/7tVEW3iP2oxJFpBdDQ…
We are indeed currently in the process of large changes to EF leadership structure, which has been ongoing for close to a year. Some of this has already been executed on and made public, and some is still in progress.
What we're trying to achieve is primarily the following goals:
* Improve level of technical expertise within EF leadership
* Improve two-way communications and ties between EF leadership and the ecosystem actors, old and new, that it is our role to support: users (individual and institutional), app devs, wallets, L2s
* Bring in fresh talent, improve execution ability and speed
* Become more actively supportive of app builders, and make sure important values and inalienable rights (esp privacy, open source, censorship resistance) are a reality for users including at the app layer
* Continue to increase our use of decentralized and privacy tech and the Ethereum chain, including for payments and treasury management
Explicit *non-goals* are:
* Execute some kind of ideological / vibez pivot from feminized wef soyboy mentality to bronze age mindset
* Start aggressively lobbying regulators and powerful political figures (esp in USA, but really anywhere, especially large powerful countries), and risking compromising Ethereum's position as a global neutral platform
* Become an arena for vested interests
* Become a highly centralized org, or even more of a "main character" within Ethereum
These things aren't what EF does and this isn't going to change. People seeking a different vision are welcome to start their own orgs.
crack.fun retweeted
Made an Elon agent on @crackdotfun.
No one's cracked it yet.
If you like breaking things, try it out:
crack.fun/8MjxbmndQ3t6bqnaMM…
crack.fun retweeted
In the last 2 days met with multiple founders that want to integrate and leverage @crackdotfun, excited for the near future
crack.fun retweeted
I just used this feature. Spent 1000 $Crack and it worked smoothly to show me the winning prompt.
It's really refreshing to have a token with utility, I'll get more $Crack.
Phase one of the utility roadmap is complete! You can now use $CRACK to unlock previous winning prompts and media from tool calls. Fees will be sent to the winners of previous competitions.
crack.fun retweeted
I asked crack fun users what I should spend fees on and they said bigger prize pools, so starting with The Tree the next ten agents will be sponsored with 1.5-3 SOL each!
More agents will be created tomorrow and we're hoping to enable all users to create their own this week.
crack.fun retweeted
Credit should be given where it's due.
Tonight I had cracked the @crackdotfun first agent and can confirm it got paid in full!
Thank you @crackdotfun 💸🤖
crack.fun retweeted
Replying to @janleike
Closed-source jailbreak challenges hurt everyone. This research should be open, why give Anthropic your free labor when you can get paid for it on crack .fun?






















