Stumbled upon World of Claudecraft, an open source MMO created with Fable 5 (RIP). It's shockingly full featured - you can accept quests, trade items, duel, earn rewards, and more. And you can interact with other live players! Fun look at the future of vibecoding real games 👀

keep an eye on this 👀 spent last evening checking out the new @0xCitadel update, gameplay feels amazing, and i absolutely love that you can play it with friends now never thought i'd see a game of this type running that smooth in a browser 👏

My gamble is that ruining your life in your 20s to be unemployed and play video games is still better than working 47 years to accrue a Roth IRA just to retire, have an existential crisis because your sense of self is tied to working, and be immediately diagnosed with cancer

trying indie onchain games again pt. 2

Excuse me??

Gaming went from 62.5% of all web3 venture investment in 2022 to single digits by 2025. But Web3 gaming didn’t fail because crypto crashed. It didn't help, but that’s the lazy explanation. Multiple capital structures broke at the same time: 1. VC-funded studios. 2. Retail NFT mints plummeted 3. P2E guilds got crushed 4. Metaverse everything was valueless 5. Telegram tap-to-earn funnels. All of them relied on the same assumption: Rapid growth (demand) would arrive before durable gameplay demand. It didn’t. The numbers are brutal: of $12B-$15B that flowed into blockchain gaming between 2020 and early 2026, the report estimates ~$11B of that is gone. 93% of GameFi projects are classified as effectively dead. The average GameFi token is down ~95% from all-time highs. Quarterly VC funding to web3 game studios fell from $1.6B in Q1 2022 to ~$18M in Q2 2025. 300 gaming dApps went inactive in Q2 2025 alone. And the case studies tell the same story: @Pixelmon raised $70M from an NFT mint before shipping a public game (they were later bought out by good leadership and have made some interesting things). @hamster_kombat reportedly went climbed to 300M users (a massive amount of bots, surely, but still insane) to 12M in six months. @AxieInfinity went from 2.8M daily active users at peak to around 100K. Off the Grid is probably the most interesting test case. It had $100M raised, Call of Duty talent, Neill Blomkamp involved, major streamers, and 14M self-reported lifetime users... But the report says it still struggled to break ~15K concurrent players on Steam, and now they are being accused of not paying contractors, Node investors have gotten washed (me included) and the token hasn't been a success either. That matters because OTG is not a random Discord server with a JPEG project. It is one of the closest things web3 gaming has had to a serious mainstream swing. So the issue is not one bad game... it's an entire funding model that encouraged projects to (aggressively) monetize ownership before they earned attention. That said, I don’t think the takeaway is “blockchain can never work in games.” The better takeaway: Token-first web3 gaming looks cooked. Blockchain-as-invisible-infrastructure still has a shot, but it is much smaller and way less sexy than the 2021 pitch deck promised. Quality web3 titles are reportedly seeing 35%-45% monthly retention, close to web2 benchmarks of 40%-50%. @PlayCambria has processed $150M in PvP wagers with 4,500 concurrent players. @pixels_online has shown steadier engagement with a lower-overhead model. Web2.5 studios are moving toward stablecoins, invisible wallets, and blockchain as backend infrastructure instead of making the token the main character. That is probably the healthier path. Players do not want to be “onboarded into an ecosystem.” They want a good game. If ownership, trading, or payments make the game better, great. If those things are the game... you should probably just trade perps or prediction markets instead. The first era of web3 gaming tried to financialize fun before proving the fun existed. The next era, if it exists, has to reverse the order: Build games people want to play. Use blockchain only where it improves the experience. Stop treating token liquidity like product-market fit. Let me leave you with one more important piece of context. - Only ~20% of all published video games ever make any profit. - 70% of indie games never break even. - The top 10% of games generate around 90% of total industry revenue. Games are hard with or without blockchain.

Most of the world's problems would be solved if we had another massive viral MMORPG

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

the world is ready for a new MMO

Next meta might be a web3 game with a legit economy, where you can go from rags to riches and convert it to real life wealth somehow

Apparently Disney was completely blindsided by the Sora decision.

So proud to see F.03 make history as the first humanoid robot in the White House 🤖 🇺🇸

I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.