Weekly Product Update

Key details

• Merged changes reviewed: 58
• Core repos shipped: 2
• Major product themes: 6

Top Highlights

Studio can now continue working on an existing game across a conversation, show live previews while B.O.B. builds, and publish playable versions with shareable play URLs.

B.O.B. Ultra landed across the app and backend with in-loop asset generation, image previews, cheaper image support across tiers, and safer model routing.

Studio credits and treasury flows are clearer, with USD-denominated balances, DEX-quoted top-ups, lower sweep thresholds, and better protection around sandbox secrets.

Search, ranking, notifications, and live activity became faster and more relevant, including typo-tolerant game search and reputation-aware ranking foundations.

Creators can test their own unpublished draft games before launch, and moderators/operators gained safer recovery and account-repair tools.

Studio Can Iterate And Publish

The builder now feels less like a one-shot prompt box and more like a workspace where a game can evolve, run, and reach players.

• B.O.B. can continue iterating on the existing project across a conversation instead of starting over for each request.
• The Studio preview can open as work begins, update while the agent builds, fall back to any runnable HTML entry, and surface runtime errors with a one-click path to ask B.O.B. for a fix.
• Creators can preview generated image assets as thumbnails and use fullscreen play surfaces when testing interactive Three.js or HTML5 builds.

B.O.B. Ultra And Asset Creation Landed

Higher-end Studio runs now have clearer model choices and more of the image-generation machinery needed for richer game output.

• B.O.B. Ultra was added to the Studio model picker and backend tiering, with routing fixes so Ultra requests are not accidentally downgraded.
• The backend can generate assets during a run, including cheaper image support on every tier and a pixel-art pipeline for game-friendly visuals.
• Generated sprite assets gained background removal and module-format checks so they are easier to use inside runnable projects.
• Model labels, reasoning effort, output-token limits, and visible tier behavior were aligned more closely across the product and runtime.

Credits And Treasury Flows Got Clearer

Studio funding now communicates value in friendlier terms while giving operators safer rails under the hood.

• Studio billing now presents USD-denominated balances and uses C-Chain DEX quotes to estimate top-up value instead of asking creators to reason through raw token amounts.
• Bridge and sweep thresholds were lowered so small Studio deposits can move more naturally, while swept USDC stays on C-Chain unless a Base bridge is explicitly needed.
• The backend tightened sandbox environment handling, billing tests, and fair-use protections so creator runs and operator funds are easier to trust.
• A pre-flight reserve bug that made some Studio balances look roughly twelve times too small was fixed.

Search, Ranking, And Activity Improved

Finding games and following activity should feel faster, more forgiving, and more useful.

• Game search gained typo-tolerant fuzzy matching and a Postgres-backed projection that can self-populate for more resilient results.
• A new reputation and centralized ranking foundation gives the platform a cleaner way to sort games by quality signals over time.
• The live activity ticker does less unnecessary work, helping active pages stay responsive while still showing fresh movement.
• Like notifications now open the correct post, and notification/feed paths were tightened so social activity feels less brittle.

Draft Games Are Easier To Test

Creators and moderators now have a cleaner path from private draft to playable launch.

• Creators can play their own unpublished draft games without making them public first.
• Backend license checks now honor free-access overrides, and the frontend adds a free-access toggle for paid games when that is the intended setup.
• The runtime gained built-in leaderboard client helpers for score submission and leaderboard reads, giving generated games a simpler way to hook into Grotto systems.
• A one-shot cloud-save backfill hook supports the production migration path for durable game runtime data.

Wallets, Recovery, And Analog Reliability Tightened

Several focused fixes reduced edge-case friction around accounts, HERESY actions, and live NFT reads.

• HERESY max-spend actions now keep a smaller native gas reserve, so people can use more of their balance while still leaving room for the transaction.
• Account recovery tooling now supports dry runs, tolerates incidental malformed JSON, and can rerun idempotently.
• Live ERC-721 inventory reads now cap RPC log chunks to stay under Avalanche RPC limits, improving Analog Distortions ownership checks.
• Unnecessary GitHub Actions runs were reduced across the frontend and backend so shipping work creates less background noise.

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Source record

The Grotto’s official update was published June 28, 2026.