Business Advantages of Autonomous Worlds

Key Insights

• Building worlds is expensive. Autonomous worlds (AWs) distribute and decrease world building costs by incentivizing community members to augment games at every layer of the gaming stack.
• Lattice (MUD engine), Dojo, Curio (Keystone), and Argus Labs (World Engine) are four of the key infrastructure players to watch in the autonomous worlds space.
• The gaming stack is broadly composed of the gameplay, front end, and IP layers. AWs decrease cost and increase innovation by enabling permissionless iteration at every layer of the stack.
• Hurdles to adoption include distribution risks, insufficient marginal benefits to gamers versus Web2 counterparts, and financial system design risks.

Advantages of Autonomous Worlds

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