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uh all right hello uh I'm drill I work
on biomes biomes you probably played in
the gaming Corner over there there or
maybe you saw the demo earlier in the
morning um you can
also uh you know just go and BIW and
actually play it so today we're going to
talk about growing the biomes GDP which
the primary thing we're trying to prove
out with biomes and and two things we
want to use to try and Achieve those
goals before we start we're going to
take just like a minute to think about
why we're doing this uh most people who
view ethereum they view it as an open
Financial system if you view it this way
you care about a particular set of
things you care about stable coins on
rwas treasuries wallets and payments but
this is kind of the weird room this is
that's why it's in a classroom and uh
it's it's a bit of a different scene
it's not interested in moving our
existing World on chain rather it's Ed
in trying to uncover a totally new and
weird future that's very different from
the world that exists today and if I was
going to sum up the core question that's
being asked in this
room okay I think people probably will
have a problem with me speaking on
behalf of the room but I will do it if
if Bitcoin was able to birth digital
coins that people treat like real
valuable coins can we basically 100x
this and birth a digital planet that
people treat like a real planet and and
I think the short answer is that I think
we can and and I think it actually might
end up being much more simple and
obvious than we might have thought
before there might be a line of sight to
this um I think what we should just do
is we should take ideas that already
work and we should just reshape them
right we should reshape them from being
built for finance and and just and just
make them work with Virtual Worlds right
so we we got to take the idea of scarse
digital coins and and and convert that
to scarse digital matter we got to take
temper IUS and turn that into temper
proof physics and we got to take smart
contracts and turn that into smart items
and that's basically what this talk will
be about and we're going to actually
make this concrete with examples of us
trying to do this within biomes and I
hope that makes this much more
legible um and the claim with those with
those three pieces the the claim is that
the digital matter and smart items can
birth a crazy new asset class the
weirdest asset class the world has seen
and that if it gets mind share will will
unlock autonomous worlds it will make
them super obvious super visceral and
you will never have to answer the
question of why you put this on
train so to make things come let's look
at biomes uh on the surface biomes is
just Minecraft with everything on chain
you can you you probably tried it out
the items players physics all the
actions you can see it move and mine and
build it's all on chain you know right
now there's like a this like client
optimization thing going on to make this
work sometimes it'll be bugs but you
know I I think you got a press or t dot
wherever you find him to make Cory go go
main net faster and then and then and
then this will not happen um and what's
been H happening with biomes ever since
we have sort of been in our Alpha phase
the last month is it's it's coming alive
the world is coming alive there's a lot
of more activity we're sort of seeing a
go the transactions are up and to the
right you know the players up and to the
right GDP up and to the right everything
bullish there's uh people like Ben who
are spending 5 hours building something
Dei spending 8 hours plus days mining
stuff
um you know so people are doing stuff uh
Redstone is like sometimes in the top
five changing rob. WTF which is really
funny considering this like barely ever
hits 15 current players right um and and
ditto can ditto's a Community member who
made this Grand claim that biom felds
like ethereum but more playful and so
what we're going to do today is we're
going to go down the rabbit hole why are
people so excited if on the surface just
it just looks like onchain Minecraft why
are we even doing this right the first
concept is digital matter the thing the
thing we brought up in the beginning
think of digital matter as a playful
vision of blockchain created scarcity so
while in Bitcoin you have scarse coins
in biomes you have scarse crops and wood
and ore and land in Bitcoin you have
tamperproof IUS in biomes you have
tamperproof physics and what this means
is if there is a tree I can't just like
Snap My Fingers and mint more trees
arbitrarily the only way for their to be
more trees is if I farm it according to
the physics right so there's always like
wood is actually
valuable and if you do like the weird
thought experiment you might be like if
Bitcoin was an AWS It could only be
worth so much but Bitcoin with charity
and tamperproof rules could be worth a
trillion dollars and if you go a bit
crazy why can't the same happen with
digital wood right you you have like Ben
who's maybe thinks one Sakura wood will
be wor
$31,000 so like this can happen this can
happen just you just need to believe
right um and just like having lots of
scars Bitcoin grants you power power in
bitcoin's World controlling lots of the
scarse resources and land let you build
businesses and be effective in the
biomes world the second thing we're
going to look at is smart items so at
digital matter now we're going to look
at smart items smart items present a
playful vision of smart contracts you
can think of them as items with
functionality in the in the physics that
you can program with a smart
contract they make it really easy for
players to build real economies for
anything in the world to visualize it
think of a smart contract as a chip and
you can insert a chip into an item like
a chest to program it so if I have my
Unis swap chip and I put it into a chest
it turns into Unis swap chest and at
this point if people mine ores around
the world they can put ores in the chest
and get you know swap it for some tokens
according to the amm prices or or they
can give tokens to the chest and and get
ores according to amm set
prices and you can sort of take this
concept and basically apply to all the
kind kinds of different objects in the
world you can imagine I have a door and
it turn it into a token gate right I
need the token to actually open it so
what you just did here is you like gave
the home treatment to ethereum where you
if if you told Homer simpon what is a
token gate that's what he would think it
is right and so now you're like taking
all of these smart contract track
patterns and you're just making them
much more relatable for a more like
normal audience so you can turn a door
into token gate a force field a cart a
bed and with all of these items you can
build a lot of cool stuff uh and these
are all real examples of things that are
already being built within biomes the
bizaar is the biomes version of Unis
swap it's like this like Shop with a lot
of liquidity where you can trade all
kinds of items for coins the funny thing
is as soon as we made the bazaar there's
like this existing other group that put
up a a really crappy shop next to it um
you know relatively and it's like the
sushi swap of biomes right and it's
trying to vamper attack the bizaar and
take all the liquidity you also have
like Sakura Temple where there's this
like big big Temple where you donate
sakur wood to get this membership nft
they use all that wood to build the
largest sakur tree in the world and all
future Sakura meme events that happen
will probably gate access based on
whether you donated the sakura tree and
got the
nft the Castle Hotel Sakura in they sell
they give you safe spaces to sleep and
recharge your play and lo without
worrying about you know getting grieved
and in return you just sort of have to
pay rent The Pyramid Arena and parkour
challenge are going to host a bunch of
games and and these games will use Smart
items to have betting and prize pools
and everything so in a way you can
basically think of these as like
deploying daps inside of a world right
and third if you have digital matter and
you have Smart items you have a new
asset class um and I think it will be
the craziest asset class that crypto has
ever seen maybe the world has ever seen
and I think when that asset class gets
mind sure is is when you know like is
when we no no longer have a classroom
and we have a building um um so to to
sort of Imagine imagine a chest right
and I can program a chest with a smart
contract imagine I program it such that
when a player gets gold ore from the
world which is scarse and they put it in
it mins a coin right so now you have a
coin that is backed by the actual gold
in the virtual world and if I put the
coin in it burns the coin and lets me
take out a gold or and every time this
happens the chess takes a small fee and
it uses that fee to incentivize players
to charge the force field and defense of
the chest to make sure it cannot be
broken
in if this this coin rises in price
let's say it's even worth like 10
million or something it becomes
extremely extremely obvious why all the
gold or need to be provably scarse
because if I just like mint more gold
ORS with a thin air I can just put them
in the chest and mint more coins for
myself so it's really obvious why you
don't want you know you need the gold or
to be scars and you don't want the devs
to just randomly mint more it's also
really obvious why the physics needs to
be on chain because if I change the
physics so it's that to become super
easy to break the force field I can now
come in and steal all the gold doors
from within the chest and now that coin
that was backed by the gold ores iser
backed by anything and it's just going
to plummet right so if you have this
acid class take off it's super super
obvious why the actual physics and
research of the world are sign
significant to do one more example we
can kind of imagine how uh in the 2021
like crazy Bow Cycle there was this of
nft land right so basically in the
sandbox and decentraland you could own
and trade land nfts and if you held one
of these nfts you had total total
forever land ownership of that land and
this was really good for a particular
type of user that you can have hyper
rational financial markets and
speculation on those nfts because if I
buy an a land nft I forever own that
land so I can you know speculate on it
and trade these nfts 8 months down the
line it' be totally okay you do that in
biome right if you want to control land
and biomes you need to build defenses
you need a military you need force field
the military can now decide that okay US
military are protecting this land we're
going to tokenize this land and sell it
to you and if you hold this token you're
allowed to come and build within our
premises knowing that everything will be
secure let's say I buy this token I come
back in 4 months and that military is
just dead all the defenses are broken
now this token doesn't mean mean
anything even if I hold this token I
don't actually have access to any land
right so now you have this like entire
asset class that is only worth anything
as long as players actually like
maintain their defenses and what you
just did right here is you made a
fundamental like switch you you made a
switch from the system caring about who
owns what asset into the system only
caring about physics and assets can live
on top of them but the assets are not
the first class citizen um to make a
concrete you went from metaverse land
nfts where you own something until you
sell it to a tokenized force field where
you own something until someone breaks
the force field and when you have a new
asset class you birth an economy with
new properties this requires new types
of participation and appeals to a new
set of users um which is really cool
which is why even though this like has
voxal and stuff it's it's not the
sandbox right it's it's a very different
system um and this brings us back to the
original claim that we started off with
matter and smart items can birth a crazy
new asset class tokenize digital
Commodities tokenize force fields that
will unlock autonomous worlds because
they'll make the autonomous worlds
really obvious and to visualize it one
more time you think let's just expand
that statement unlike Bitcoin scarse
digital coins and tamperproof IUS
autonomous worlds will have scarse
digital matter and tamperproof
physics inside the players will use
Smart items which are tangible physical
forms of smart contracts to grow
extremely large economies and what we
have done here is we've kept it simple
we haven't sort of you know went too
outside and too wild we have taken ideas
that already work and we have just kind
of reapplied them we have changed these
ideas such that instead of being built
for finance they're now built for these
Virtual Worlds scarse digital coins
become scarse matter temper prooof IUS
becomes temper prooof physics smart
contracts become smart items I think if
you take anything away from this talk I
think it would just be this slide
um and okay now now zooming out only CU
I have like a few more minutes so I can
just say some um we're seeing
how ethereum can eventually birth worlds
we don't inhabit physically but we still
treat us tremendously real and valuable
right so imagine biomes has like A10
billion GDP right or or maybe the
autonomous world you build has a 10
million 10 billion GDP um and autonomous
agents start living inside then you have
a really funny thing so so
if they live inside they're obviously
going to they're going to M they're
going to Value the scarse digital matter
in the world they live inside much more
than the coins from our world they don't
actually live in our world right if if I
if I have an autonomous agent in biomes
and I give it a bunch of neptunium ore
it can take that and build weapons with
it and use those weapons so it's good
it's clear why it has value if I give it
coins if I give it the US dollar it
can't like what it can't buy a burger
right what's it going to do with a
burger so give a about our coins it
will only care about all the all the
scars matter and then you have a really
weird future right agis will only accept
secur for payment they don't believe in
coins in 2027 biomes is our only
communication challenge channel to ASI
agents and when we want Council we
travel into biomes and journey to their
lands and homes and bring the agents
glowstone and in return they give you
you know some cryptographically
encrypted reman hypothesis solution in a
book so this is how we solve the problem
of the future right we just we just we
just appeal to the the agents in in
biomes and and they give us all their
Solutions and Skylar is really smart you
need to trust in Skylar right he he he
built this like he he runs this event
thing which means everything he says is
definitely true and and what he said is
that biomes is Unstoppable Minecraft
today but that doesn't mean you can take
it you know for fun you have to take it
very seriously because tomorrow he said
it'll be an Unstoppable lifelike
simulation that's going to have
unalterable digital physic by AI who
believe they're senten as we believe we
are which is crazy so take it seriously
stock up on all the Sakura you can um go
to biomes aw you'll see all this unfold
it'll probably like go through many
cycles over the years but hopefully
something really crazy will come out of
it at some point um and thank
you all right question times um as
before scan the C code log in with zass
start asking your your questions you can
also up vote other questions if you want
them to top to come to the top of the
screen uh please do that so we don't
have to scroll because it was awkward
last time so we'll start with the first
question can smart items interact with
the world like Place remove blocks and
Define regions yeah so smart items are
items with functionality in the world um
for example a chest is an item that you
can store stuff and take stuff out of a
door is an item that you open or close
to like enter something so smart items
are just like regular items with
functionality in the world and all you
do is by inserting a smart contract into
the item you can hook into that
functionality and further augment it
with your own economics right so I turn
a door that opens and closes into a door
that is now token gating before deciding
if it wants to open or
close thank you um what are the
considerations when designing or
deploying physics and New Primitives it
seems that playing God is high stakes
yeah I feel like
something we've been noticing is um as
people start investing their time into
this stuff and they start building stuff
with the world especially if they use
Smart items so now they're actually
building an economy in the world you
can't anymore just arbitrarily push
physics updates if we start like
randomly one day minting a lot more
sakura trees it kind of screws up what a
lot of people are building um so it does
make it more more high stakes you need
like you need to really get some sort of
rough consensus within your community so
you don't piss people off we trying to
build stuff inside um it is higher
Stakes yeah
um okay I I'll take the the digital
physics one so how can we design digital
physics to attract agents to live in our
games coins may be useful for them to
pay for compute and
storage second part is probably a
statement not a question yeah yeah um so
okay ultimately I'm going to say at the
end of the day right now biomes is very
much Minecraft it's not we're not
creating some super AGI thing but okay
how do we Design This like this this
world how do we evolve biomes um to
attract agents I think basically if you
get the GD GDP of the world to be high
enough like if if if you reach a world
where there's neptunium or people value
like people valued at $100 because they
can build a weapon with it and be
powerful in the world agents might just
want to live in these World from a
purely rational region such that all the
gdps there and all the activities there
um oh okay I think there's one down
there which was can you play for free
and earn for free can you play for free
um at some point I'm sure you'll be able
to play for semif free when you have the
pass key onboarding stuff so you won't
need to worry too much of a gas what you
can do in the world is yeah I can come
in okay imagine this imagine like you
have different parts of the world have
different types of resources that
they're abundant in if I build a train
system to move resources from one part
of the world to another part to create
all these Arbitrage opportunities if I
build this train system I just need to
play the game and like build a train
right and then I protect the train
system with a force field to make sure
it can't be broken down by others and I
make this train system start charging
tickets to for people to actually like
take it I can start selling these
tickets people can buy them and now I'm
making money from the game but it's not
play to earn in the in the sense of I'm
earning these points it's kind of if you
build build a business inside and and
the world sort of has a GDP then you can
the normal actions you take inside will
be economically
significant um I'm just going to log in
on my phone to see the questions myself
but from now I saw someone's question
which roughly goes like is it possible
for me to put a door down as a smart
item that Grieves someone by using a ton
of gas like in a wild Loop or something
like
that yeah I think right I think one of
the challenges with the smart item stuff
is going to
be what if you in insert like a trct
into one of these smart items that is
just a bad actor and then if players
interact with it it's just doing some
crazy stuff this is possible but I think
this is also possible on the evm right
it's kind of the wild west west and
we're going to probably let it up to
clients and communities to maybe white
label which type of SM item chips they
audit and verify and know to be
trustworthy and they'll only use those
items so I don't think you need to build
security against this at the protocol
level and and you can sort of deal with
it higher up uh another quick one is Are
biomes contracts going to be
audited well well right now biomes is
like uh it's in a heavy Dev like update
cycle thing so there's like the physics
that's changing and getting updated at
some point you probably want it to Ed
especially if the GDP is going to be
high so I could see this happening down
the line another one is how do you
bridge biomes to solve real word
scientific
problems yeah so I think
I'm not totally sure you want to do that
I think like if you want to solve real
world problems with simulation
technology I think you can just run
simulation technology on a normal
computer and simulate whatever you want
there and use that to like solve your
problems in the world I don't think this
will solve that for you I think this is
more about creating this like digital
simulation that for some reason people
take super seriously and they just want
all the wood
inside okay so maybe maybe any IRL
questions I'm I'm running out of the
list um if someone wants to raise their
hand we can bring them a mic I'll give
10 seconds for people to make our
mind okay so thank you thank you
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