DUST

DUST is the autonomous world. Program civilization, contest for scarce matter, and grow permanent history.

[DUST @Dust_Org]

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.

[Lattice @latticexyz]

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

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https://t.co/j1UMYePNZO

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https://t.co/LfVGzhdSaK

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https://t.co/KkMXGTLhXj

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https://t.co/vGIgZIoRUQ

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https://t.co/x1Vue3yJ7q

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https://t.co/poLewrcIaR

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Digital civilization is forming. Settlers are leaving their marks.

The world is growing in meaning and consequence. The world uniquely built to become significant... is becoming significant.

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Chronicles // 006

With cryptographically-enforced laws, scarcity, and permanence, DUST is built for significance.

Settlers are programming meaning into it. Winners of the first HACK, claiming $Pesos, Neptunium, and Sakura:

1. @DekanBro @e_cwireless
2. @0xFunBlocks
3. Balrog

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@dhvanipa builds a force field browser to explore the world’s emerging territories.

@skylar_eth creates a waypoint manager that surfaces landmark locations.

artmex builds a friend (or foe?) finder to locate everyone’s position in DUST.

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https://t.co/QoUijjvXYe

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https://t.co/1wyiPs8Pfx

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https://t.co/NfZFZQd5VU

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https://t.co/HQY0Z5lccQ

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DUST HACK #1 / Workshop by @vdrg_ - Program entities with smart contracts