Dark Forest: Lessons from 3 Years of On-Chain Gaming
summary
A fully decentralized MMORTS runs its rules and hidden-state verification on-chain using ZK snarks (circom, snarkjs); early moves were estimated at $10–$100 and players execute thousands of transactions per round, collectively spending trillions of gas across testnets and Gnosis. About 10,000 players join rounds, ~100 open-source plugins enable client hacks and automation, third‑party clients (Rust terminal) and marketplaces like Broadcast Market and Night Market appear, and the Astral Colossus smart‑contract player reaches top‑50 in 48 hours.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 7:06Why Build Games on the Blockchain To Begin with
- 9:00Third-Party Client Implementations
- 14:38What Is Permissionless Interoperability Mean
- 15:02Why Build Games on the Blockchain
- 24:25The Infinite Game
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