Portals

Portals (portals.to, X handle @portals) is a platform for free games that run in a desktop web browser. It started on Solana in 2021 as an NFT metaverse and issued the PORTALS token on Solana in September 2025. It is a different project from Portal (PORTAL), the cross-chain gaming token, and from Portal Bridge.

Today Portals works like a small, browser-first Roblox. Creators describe a game and get an AI-built first draft, or upload a game they already made. Players sign in with Google, Apple or email and play for free. Creators earn by selling items and in-game extras, paid for with in-app Coins bought by card.

How Portals works for players and creators

Portals hosts games made by its community and lets anyone play them in a desktop browser with no download. You can play as a guest, join a friend's party and pick a lobby. A Portals account, made with Google, Apple or email, adds friends, chat and purchases.

The play page lists featured, popular and trending games, such as the battle royale Guardian Arena and the car-soccer game Retro League. The games we saw there in November 2026 were made by individual creators and small studios, and many are built with the three.js web graphics library.

Mobile support is limited. The site tells phone visitors that Portals games need a desktop browser. The exception is Jelly Tide, an offline Android game that, per the terms, needs no account.

A wallet is optional. Portals' privacy policy lists a public wallet address among the details it holds only "if you connect a wallet". Playing, building and buying do not require one.

How to make a browser game on Portals with AI

The create page gives you two ways in. You can describe the game you want, and Portals builds a first draft and suggests an engine or browser stack. Or you can connect a GitHub repository or upload a ZIP of a game you have already built. Portals checks the project, gives you a playable preview, then asks you to publish.

In an August 2026 post on X, Buster (@_bus_bus_bus), who posts as "Buster | Portals" and describes himself as one of its builders, listed what creators get. Hosting is free, multiplayer networking servers are built in, and voice chat and friends lists can be added. The post also linked Portals' own plugins for OpenAI and Claude, published under the portals-labs GitHub account, that publish an existing game to Portals.

Portals also has an AI Lab that makes images, 3D models and audio from text prompts. Its terms say it sends prompts to outside providers, including Replicate, Google Cloud, Anthropic, Tripo and ElevenLabs. The AI Lab may need credits or a paid plan.

Any published game can be remixed. Remixing copies it into your own projects so you can edit it and publish your version, which needs a Portals account.

Portals Coins, the shop and creator earnings

Coins are Portals' in-app currency. You buy them by card through Stripe in fixed packs, and the Coins page says bigger packs give more Coins per dollar. You spend them in the shop and on fixed-price extras inside games. Coins do not expire, but you cannot cash them out or send them to another user.

The shop sells creator-made cosmetics, such as hats, outfits and backpacks. Many come in limited runs of 100 to 500 copies. That shop, a creator marketplace and new games came in a July 2026 platform upgrade, reported by eGamers.

Creators can earn in two ways, with very different terms.

The figures come from Portals' fee schedule. If you want real money from your work today, the dollar marketplace is the route. The Coin channel pays the full price, but only in Coins you can spend inside Portals. Portals says it may consider a Coin conversion programme in future, with no rate or date promised. Coin-priced purchases inside games are open only to accounts Portals has confirmed are 18 or over.

PORTALS token on Solana: launch and supply

PORTALS is the Portals token on Solana. It went live on 16 September 2025, with a total supply of one billion tokens. Its presale ran on Genesis, the launch tool from Metaplex MPLX$0.067-7.6%, and sold out in 11 seconds. Metaplex says it was the first game token to launch that way.

The presale raised 3,700 SOL at a $90 million valuation, according to Portals' sponsored launch press release on Decrypt. The release said holders would get access to upcoming token drops, and Portals claimed its annual revenue had grown 400% year over year.

At launch, Bitget's guide split the supply like this. About 23% was in circulation on day one, with the rest on vesting schedules.

The token's price, market cap and liquidity are on our PORTALS token page. Inside the app, purchases run on Coins. The Coins terms describe them as separate from any cryptocurrency or external wallet balance.

Portals NFTs and the original Solana metaverse

Portals began in 2021 as a 3D world on Solana. You opened it in a browser and logged in with a Solana wallet. Owners built and decorated their own rooms with drag-and-drop tools. They could hang their NFTs on the walls and host events as avatars, with voice and text chat.

To own a room, you held a Portals NFT. The NFTs came in three sizes: Ivory, Onyx and Vision. Ivory rooms were the small, common ones, and Vision rooms the big, rare ones, per a 2022 Coin Bureau review. Audius, Magic Eden and Binance.US all set up rooms in the city.

Greylock wrote in February 2022 that Portals had become the biggest metaverse NFT collection on Solana in under three months. The platform now centres on games and Coins, not owned rooms. For NFT prices, check a Solana NFT marketplace.

Team, Greylock seed funding and history

Adam Gomez, Jacquie Chang and Christian Lund founded Portals, Greylock says. Gomez is the CEO. The firm is Portals Labs, Inc., and its terms give a Los Angeles address.

Greylock led a $5 million seed round in Portals, announced in February 2022. Decrypt lists Multicoin, Solana Ventures and Alameda Research among the other backers. Greylock's own post adds Foundation Capital.

Key dates:

• 2021: Portals launches as a browser-based Solana metaverse with Ivory, Onyx and Vision space NFTs.
• February 2022: $5 million seed round led by Greylock.
• September 2025: the PORTALS token launches after a Metaplex Genesis presale. The launch announcement also cites CHRONO, a token launched on Portals' launchpad.
• July 2026: an upgrade adds new games, a collectibles shop and a creator marketplace.
• August 2026: Portals releases OpenAI and Claude plugins for publishing existing games to the platform.

Is Portals safe? Risks to know

Portals is a regular company running a hosted service. Your account, games and Coins live on its servers, not on Solana. That is simpler for most players than handling a wallet. It also means Portals controls access. Under its Coins terms, it can freeze Coin spending, hold creator sales or reverse purchases in cases of fraud or misuse.

Coins carry the main money risk. They have no cash value, and neither players nor creators can withdraw them. If Portals ends the Coin programme, it says it will publish a wind-down plan. Holders get no right to cash back unless the law or that plan provides it.

Creators should read the AI rules. Portals owns everything its AI Lab makes, and gives you a broad licence to use it, even for profit. Portals can also train its systems on your AI Lab prompts and outputs. It says it does not train general AI models on content you upload. Disputes go to private arbitration in Delaware, and you have 30 days to opt out.

PORTALS token holders face a separate market risk. The token's price can fall whatever happens in the app. Check the live figures on the token page before you trade. We found no public security audit for Portals' platform or token.

Who is Portals for?

Portals suits indie and hobby game makers who want to put a browser game in front of players for free, with multiplayer and hosting handled. It suits AI-assisted builders in particular, since you can start from a prompt or publish through the OpenAI and Claude plugins. It also suits people who want free, no-download browser games to play with friends on a desktop.

It is a weaker fit if you want to earn cash from in-game sales today, since Coin earnings cannot be withdrawn. Phone players are mostly left out, as games need a desktop browser. If you came for Solana ownership of in-game items, note that Coins and shop items are account balances, not tokens or NFTs.

Portals vs Roblox, itch.io and Portal (PORTAL)

Portals sits between Roblox and itch.io. Like Roblox, it mixes games with friends, cosmetics and an in-app currency. Roblox has far more players and runs on phones and consoles. Portals runs in a desktop browser and takes games made with common web tools. Like itch.io, Portals hosts indie web games. It adds free multiplayer servers, parties and AI tools on top.

Portals is easy to mix up with other crypto projects called Portal. Portal (PORTAL) is a separate gaming platform with its own token across several chains. Portal Bridge is a tool for moving tokens between chains. Neither one is linked to Portals or the PORTALS token.