By Chandler, Foresight News
In the current bleak market, the Bitcoin ecosystem seems a bit quiet, but this does not mean that the exploration of Bitcoin ecosystem innovation has stopped. On the contrary, new technologies such as the RGB++ protocol and the DOB protocol are being actively tried by various projects, bringing new hope. Recently, we found that the BTC autonomous world World3 based on RGB++ seems to be able to arouse some new thinking about BTC ecosystem innovation, and at the same time, we can't help but wonder whether AI can inject new vitality into the sluggish BTC ecosystem.
About World3
In short, World3 is a decentralized Autonomous Intelligent Worlds (AIW), which uses the Bitcoin mainnet as the asset control layer of digital objects (DOB) and CKB as the DA layer and smart contract layer of digital objects, realizing the seamless connection between Bitcoin and other Turing-complete blockchains. This cross-chain compatibility facilitates users to freely trade and transfer assets between different networks, while also enhancing the functionality and flexibility of applications. In addition, World3 will also provide a display and interaction layer for digital objects, constructing a new digital world around full-chain digital objects.
The predecessor of World3 is the Metaverse project Matrix World developed on the Ethereum chain. The project attracted the attention of many individual and institutional investors at the beginning. In February 2022, Matrix World completed a $5.5 million angel round of financing with a valuation of $50 million, led by Tess Ventures, Everest Ventures Group, Com2Us and Y2Z Ventures. Other investment institutions include Sky9 Capital, Dapper Labs, Animoca Brands, Bonfire Ventures, Matcha, SecondLive, Hash Global, LucidBlue Ventures and PANONY.
World3 — A multi-chain world driven by artificial intelligence
World3 is a multi-chain world built on the solid foundation of the Bitcoin network. It will support players to customize their personal on-chain instance space, allow creators to create various digital objects, and establish economic cycles such as production, consumption, finance, and entertainment in its ecosystem. In World3, the integration of AI technology is one of its core features. It not only gives the virtual world the ability to self-evolve and optimize, but also provides users with a more intelligent and interactive experience. Users can also customize their own AI agent partners SOULmates, which can be personalized and equipped according to the user's preferences, respond to the user's behavior, and provide a unique and engaging experience through continuous interactive learning and adaptation.
World3 encourages users to build and integrate customized 2D and 3D decentralized applications (DApps). This user-driven development model allows creators to shape unique experiences based on their imagination and contribute to the diversity and functionality of the platform. Users can participate in the construction of 3D open worlds and further expand the richness of their application scenarios and ecosystem through built-in creation services and computing resources.
World3's core assets
The core assets of the project consist of the following three key parts:
World3 Treasure
As the foundation of the ecosystem, World3 Treasure supports the token economy and protocol, incentivizing developers to create applications and services entirely on-chain to facilitate community expansion and collaboration.
World3 Cortex
Integrating advanced large-scale language models and innovative AI technologies, World3 Cortex drives user-generated content, with application scenarios including AI agents in games, personalized shopping experiences, and digital companions that can develop unique personalities.
World3 Nexus
As the hub for World3, Nexus provides an integrated social platform that supports both 2D and 3D content, allowing users to play, create and interact in a rich social environment.
World3: Exploration and realization of autonomous worlds
The concept of autonomous world originated from LUDENS's "The Case for Autonomous Worlds: Blockchains as World Technology". The autonomous world here is more like a digital ecosystem, which realizes the decentralized management of entities and rules through blockchain technology. This ecosystem is not just a virtual collection, but a complete system with consistent internal rules and logic, allowing users to experience, interact and create value in it.
Its core includes:
Blockchain is the cornerstone of data and logic. Blockchain technology provides an unalterable and fully transparent data storage and state transition platform for the autonomous world. State root and state transition function are two key concepts in blockchain, which ensure the continuity and consistency of the world, allowing anyone to verify and participate in the state of the world through the same rules.
High degree of autonomy guarantees decentralization. The biggest feature of the autonomous world is its high degree of autonomy. This world does not rely on any single individual to maintain its operation, but achieves self-management and self-sustainment through collective consensus and pre-defined rules. This autonomy reduces dependence on centralized authority and enhances the system's anti-censorship and robustness.
Open ecology and innovation. The openness principle of the autonomous world encourages third-party developers and users to participate in the construction of the ecosystem. Open source smart contracts and clients enable anyone to innovate based on the existing framework and promote the development and evolution of the autonomous world.
Boundaries and consensus. The autonomous world realizes the value exchange with the real world through blockchain technology. The interoperability between digital assets and real assets not only deepens the depth and meaning of the game, but also brings a richer interactive experience to users.
Value interoperability. Autonomous World recognizes that the value of blockchain is not limited to digital assets, but can be connected to the value system of the real world. In-game assets and achievements can interoperate with real-world assets. This interoperability deepens the depth and meaning of the game while also providing players with a richer interactive experience.
Autonomous AI World (AIW) is the core concept of World3. The project believes that although the Bitcoin network, as the only truly decentralized network, has unique advantages in stability and security, the characteristics of the protocol have limited its expansion in user scenarios. In contrast, the development of AW also faces some problems. Many early AW applications were mainly focused on small comprehensive games. Although they emphasized autonomous features, they lacked the ability to evolve and self-evolve. The introduction of AI technology provides a new solution to this problem, giving the autonomous world more autonomy and self-evolution capabilities.
World3's solution is to build an autonomous world with verifiable, traceable and self-evolving global status. The system consists of multiple key components, each of which plays a vital role in ensuring the autonomy and intelligence of the system. First, WORLD3 Brain is similar to Microsoft's Copilot, which can answer users' questions based on the latest and historical status of the world. This feature can help users better interact with the virtual world, whether through experience, communication or content creation, and can also create content autonomously to promote the continuous development and evolution of the world. Secondly, WORLD3 State Management (Git) is the basic service for managing the global state of the entire autonomous world. All important state information is stored on the Bitcoin network through hash functions, while L2 solutions are used to optimize and store large-scale data. This design ensures that all content is both verifiable and traceable on the Bitcoin network, and can also be efficiently stored and retrieved on L2. In addition, WORLD3's economic system includes tokens and incentive mechanisms for creators. Creators can get rewards by building dApps and publishing content on the WORLD3 platform, which will inspire more innovation and applications and promote the prosperity of the entire ecosystem.
This system architecture ensures the verifiability and traceability of the global status, and uses the security and decentralization of the Bitcoin network to ensure the authenticity and transparency of the system status. At the same time, the L2 solution optimizes storage and performance to ensure the efficient operation of the system. The introduction of AI Brain enhances user participation and content creation experience, allowing users to obtain more intelligent services in interaction.
At present, World3 has officially launched the invitation competition and whitelist activities. According to the roadmap of the project, its core in the second quarter of 2024 is the rebranding and launch of World3 QUEST, which will stimulate users' enthusiasm for participation through tasks and reward mechanisms, as well as the first launch of official WORLD3 assets and WORLD3 SOUL in the Bitcoin ecosystem, enabling users to create personalized digital companions. Entering the third quarter, the user-generated landscape system will be introduced, allowing users to decorate their own land in 3D Nexus and provide a deeper user interaction experience through 3D SOULMates. In addition, the expansion of WORLD3 SOUL games and applications will further enrich the content of Lite Client and 3D immersive space, and the launch of Zootopia will provide a unique display platform for partners' MEME animals.
What is relatively interesting about World3 is that it also combines the RGB++ asset issuance protocol and the gameplay of digital object DOB. The advantage of RGB++ is that it can realize cross-chain transfer of assets without relying on cross-chain bridges, supports transaction folding and non-interactive transfers, simplifies user operations and improves transaction efficiency. Digital object DOB shows a high degree of flexibility and composability, allowing creators and artists to define and display the properties of digital objects with unprecedented freedom, and its low transfer cost and open design further broaden the application scenarios of digital objects, indicating its potential in building a cross-chain digital ecosystem. In the future, we will see projects such as Nervape being combined with the World3 autonomous world, and users will be able to experience richer interactions and gameplay. For example, Nervape can publish its "naked ape" on the Bitcoin mainnet through the RGB++ protocol, while accessories and other related assets are published on the CKB chain. Combined with World3's AI empowerment, the new DOB can show richer, more combinable and personalized characteristics than the original NFT, similar to the evolution of diverse things like life.
Relatively speaking, the autonomous world is a relatively complex and comprehensive ecosystem, which needs to cover not only a collection of technologies, but also the intersection of creative expression, community participation, economic cycle and governance mechanism. Using AI to enhance the autonomy and intelligence of the system and give creators new forms of expression and economic reward mechanisms is a good choice to promote the development of digital culture and the active ecology. These innovative elements help to form a highly interactive and inclusive ecosystem. What the Bitcoin ecosystem lacks at present, in addition to confidence, is the exploration and innovation of more multi-dimensional and multi-level ecological construction plans. From this perspective, World3 has its necessity and value.
References:
LUDENS,THE CASE FOR AUTONOMOUS WORLDS, https://aw.network/posts/the-case-for-autonomous-worlds
https://docs.world3.ai/world3
https://medium.com/@WORLD3_AI/welcome-back-to-matrix-labs-a-web3-metaverse-journey-in-review-ec73b0d8f140