Will DAW (Decentralized Autonomous World) be the next whole-chain new narrative?

The ultimate ideal of DAO is the DAW decentralized autonomous world.

A recent emerging project AutonomousWorlds Network got me thinking from a social and governance perspective. Re-imagining what a world based on the blockchain would look like. In a sense, DAO is an attempt at a decentralized autonomous world from a social perspective.

Autonomous World Network AW, a project aimed at promoting innovation that advances the Autonomous World plot. This project is a member organization of 0xPARC. The organization's full name is Program for Applied Research in Cryptography, which is used to support application-level research and development on Ethereum and decentralized platforms.

0xPARC is supported by the 0xPARC Foundation, and has received donations from well-known projects such as Ethereum Foundation, Dark Forest, gitcoin, Gather, Gnosis Chain, and ETH Global.

At the same time, projects funded and supported by 0xPARC include Dark Forest, Lattice, ZKonduit, Index Supply, Zupass, ZFT, Hack Lodge, EthUniversity, etc.

The Autonomous World Network (AWN) aims to foster innovation and advance the Autonomous World. Its main areas of focus include

①Research and development of blockchain how to break through the self-governing world;

②Open source tools and infrastructure;

③Education and ecosystem development.

At the same time, AWN is also the main organizer of the 2023 Autonomous World Congress, which will be held in Istanbul on November 15-16 this year.

After introducing the background, let's go back to What is the autonomous world AW? What kind of impact might it have on our future.

An autonomous world is a Fully On-chain world, whether it is a game, a community or a space.

We can see that in the Autonomous World Residency Program realized in 22 years, the more core focus is on:

①Autonomous Worlds prototypes** Autonomous World Prototype**

②On-chain games full-chain games

③AW blockchain infrastructure** infrastructure (** game engine, extension solution, account abstraction, service, etc.)

If we want to explain the self-governing world, we have to introduce it from its underlying logic - the latter content will be more complicated, and at the same time have no obvious effect on everyone's transactions, so friends who are not interested in logic can skip directly to the end , just need to know that there is a narrative concept called self-governing world, don't rush to FOMO.

From an artistic point of view, the function of blockchain to enrich digital physics is not only technical, but also cultural and philosophical. Maybe in the future it will become a mainstream, full of investment value.

Let's start with the composition of the autonomous world (the world with the blockchain as the bottom layer).

1. Using physics to build an autonomous world

When it comes to the most essential worldview, every world contains a set of basic laws that govern everything in it.

For the real world, the biggest law is physics, the physics here does not refer to the common physical laws in our reality (Newton's second law, law of universal gravitation), but refers to the basic law system , the law is the invariant in this system.

The greater the number of rules that make up the world, the more interesting interactions between these rules can occur.

Second, use engineering to create an autonomous world

Physics accompanies engineering, and what we are doing is the practice of applying our understanding of the physics of the world to manipulate objects into novel and valuable configurations.

In Red Alert, players can design armies of mixed unit types that can be optimized for specific unit types on the opponent's team or to complement specific unit types on the same team.

But Red Alert players can design new works within the enforced boundaries of world physics, for example: in the game, you cannot design the type of military unit, because this is defined at the beginning, which itself is the bottom part of the world Logical expression.

For an autonomous world, the computing world outside the blockchain (such as: every military unit in the Red Police) is usually only defined by a single, and all these elements are called the characteristics of the world, determined by the world's Indigenous residents invented weapons from within, rather than being introduced from the outside by gods (such as people are gods in the game world), thereby maintaining the autonomy of the world.

3. Composable Engineering Promotes the Evolution of the Autonomous World

The human world is composed of various basic elements, and composable engineering is defined here as the affordance of a world: allows recursive combination of engineering artifacts, and the depth of recursion is unlimited. Composable engineered artifacts in autonomous worlds will allow inventive composition, enabling the same knowledge compositional processes that have driven human history in atomic realities, thereby driving the evolution of our computing world.

Mathematics, law, code, and physics are all narrative boundaries. The self-governing world is to incorporate certain encryption primitives into the technology stack behind the self-governing world, and integrate asymmetric information through composable engineering. Introduced into boundaries that can be crossed across composition - form an autonomous world of rules formed by cryptographic primitives and cryptographic matrices.

In this world, blockchain is indistinguishable from mathematics, physics, and law. Just formally define the import rules in computer code. In a world with a blockchain substrate, residents are able to participate in consensus, collectively running a network of computers, agreeing on each introduction of a new narrative entity.

4. Construct a real autonomous world with blockchain

To achieve an autonomous world, two blockchain concepts are important foundations.

①Blockchain state root: The state root is the compression of all entities in the real world. Using the state root, it is possible to determine whether any entity is a narrative. To believe in a real-world state root is to believe in the real world itself, and the state root represents the entire narrative and non-narrative of the real world at that particular time.

②Blockchain state transition function: Each blockchain defines a state transition function. It can be thought of as an explicit import rule. It defines how previous states of the world (sets of narrative entities) introduce new narrative entities through human and machine input. In the case of Bitcoin, state transition functions define how balances are spent and transferred between addresses.

**In an autonomous world with a blockchain substrate, participants' belief in the rules introduced implies full acceptance of the entities it introduces. **

The autonomy of the world does not necessarily need to be based on the blockchain, from the ballads of primitive tribes to the blockchain in the real world, we have been iterating and trying. But using the blockchain as the bottom layer of the world can bring a qualitative improvement to the autonomy of the world. The world with the bottom layer of the blockchain is the most autonomous, anyone can implement the introduction of the rules without compromising its objectivity, and the disappearance or betrayal of any specific individual will not harm the world - this power is consensus.

The self-governing world is an objective reality, an entity system implemented by the blockchain and objectively introduced rules. Ethereum and smart contracts are the substrates of the autonomous world, and a large theoretical design space can be enforced by blockchain and smart contracts.

In essence, the autonomous world is using the autonomy and transparency of the underlying blockchain world to endow the rigidity and objectivity of our shared physical reality into our shared intangible reality. In this way, anyone can openly observe the whole picture of the world and reach a consensus. In this world, the entities of this self-governing world remain narrative as long as there is one person participating in the digital consensus.

Of course, it is still unknown whether it will eventually become a trick of counting heads to deceive people. After all, ** used to count heads to deceive VC, but now it is counting heads to deceive leeks**, and it may become DAU (heads) in the end. ) > DAW (new concept) > DAO (old concept) a hype trap.