alvarius retweeted
you can prompt this entire facility
one model controls everything: equipment, researchers, and inventory
I spent two weeks living inside it, working on C5R's launch with Astra – here's what it felt like:
it’s like MUD but for science
alvarius retweeted
After five years, Lattice is winding down.
Redstone shuts down May 15, 2026 (23:59 UTC). If you have funds on Redstone, withdraw before then — especially anything held in contracts like Uniswap pools. After shutdown we'll deploy an L1 withdrawal contract for EOA balances, but funds in contracts won't be recoverable that way. Bridges in reply.
We started Lattice in 2021 to build Autonomous Worlds: virtual worlds with unchangeable onchain physics and deep player programmability on top. To make that possible, we built MUD, Redstone, Quarry, and Dozer.
We never managed to turn it into a sustainable business. By early 2025 runway was getting shorter.
Rather than wind down quietly, we spent the remainder on one final push: DUST (@dust_org), the autonomous world we'd always envisioned. Players built marketplaces, cities, transportation systems, even a newspaper. It validated our thesis about emergence, but it didn't reach the scale to sustain a business, and we didn't have conviction that raising VC was the right path.
What happens next:
- DUST has migrated to the DUST Chain (hosted by @conduitxyz, supported by the @Optimism Foundation). Same speed, same cost. Team members continue working on DUST and autonomous worlds through 0xPARC.
- MUD is feature complete, OpenZeppelin-audited, fully open source. The migration tool that moves entire worlds between chains is available to any MUD project.
- Quarry (Wiresaw, 7ms confirmations) and Dozer (high-performance MUD indexer) are now open source.
- Redstone shuts down May 15. Withdraw your funds.
Thank you to 0xPARC, the Ethereum Foundation, the Optimism Foundation, CCP Games, the Dark Forest team, and the early backers who believed in us. To everyone who built on MUD, used Redstone, or played zkDungeon, OPCraft, Sky Strife, or DUST. And to the team. Full credits in the post linked below.
If you were part of this in any way, thank you.
Ludens & Alvarius
I may be biased but it honestly keeps blowing my mind how pleasurable it is to build on top of MUD and DUST.
This week I built a submission and voting app for the DUST HACK #1:
Defined a table schema.
Wrote a simple contract to manage submissions and votes.
Deployed into the DUST world with a single CLI command.
Immediately usable via the world explorer, which picked up the new functions and tables.
Asked claude to built a frontend for it, one shot success - not too surprising, it’s really simple, just read the onchain MUD table state and call onchain functions.
Registered the app with a single CLI command to make it available in everyone’s DUST client.
Finally wrote a simple chest contract that allows anyone to deposit items but only allows the hackathon winner to withdraw the items, by reading from the same tables used above, and deployed it again with a single CLI command.
You can see the app and all projects submitted in DUST HACK #1 here: dust-hack-voting.vercel.app
Very excited for this, there is so much cool stuff to build. Some ideas:
- Swap chest: A smart chest that accepts a configured amount of wheat seed in exchange for wheat slop
- Uniswap chest: A chest that implements a bonding curve to trade items
- Courier system: An automated service to send items to far-away destinations in the world
- Westworld agent: An autonomous in-game agent with a Westworld-like backstory and goals
- Security cameras: Replay onchain events from a given position at a given time in a 3D client
- Proximity voice chat: P2P voice chat in-game app based on player’s onchain position
- Tamagotchi idle app: Manage simple actions like farming and eating from a mobile app
- Capture the flag: Force field contract that implements win condition of stealing the other flag
alvarius retweeted
1/ The first 10 years of @ethereum brought the world onchain. In the next 10, ethereum grows a world of its own.
Celebrate the birth of digital civilization.
Join smart contract coordinated construction.
Build the first fully onchain monument in Ethereum's name.
alvarius retweeted
🔑 The Keymaker has laid down their tools for the final time. DUST is now open to everyone. Enter the world at alpha.dustproject.org/ 🗺️
Permutation City just launched an app that rewards you with Permutation Pesos for constructing the city. Feels like a massive collaborative puzzle. nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1DXxyqjpa…
alvarius retweeted
Chronicles // 002
Dust is both a world you live in—and a computer you program.
@_alvarius uploads The Longevity Board. It tracks who’s stayed alive the longest.
Everyone sees it. They start discussing bounties—paid in ETH and melons—to hunt the top survivors.
