Growing The Biomes GDP Using Digital Matter & Smart Items | Devcon SEA

[Music] 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 [Music] [Applause]