Now in corporate Web2, I realize even more what a banger it was to deliver such OS code in Web3. Huge respects to, @l_udens, @_alvarius, @frolic and the team for the work you put into MUD. You had mission. You delivered, and it mattered. Thanks for everything
I rarely check this place anymore, but something prompted me to look today, and it’s a sad discovery. After 5 years, Lattice is winding down. It’s hard to put into words the impact they’ve had on my first steps as a Web3 developer
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 remember constantly bouncing issues off the team on their support channel. They must’ve been fucking pissed seeing my messages pop up again, but they always helped me move forward. I owe you much for that (I'm still waiting for replies from other leading Web3 libs since 2022)
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let's go back to early 2023 before Initia raised the pre-seed...
markets are down bad, alpha version of the L1 exists w/ Move, and Stan + I are pondering the VC route vs. the ICO route
we decide to try raising (it worked ty binance labs) but we also hedge by building a an LBP system directly into the L1's Enshrined DEX
2 years later, @battleforblock choses the ICO route and is using that LBP contract we built into the L1s DEX so long ago!!!!!1!!!1
glad it didn't go to waste and hope to see it used more in the future, thanks for carrying the torch @stokasz
on the sale itself ofc NFA DYOR