been waiting until things settled to talk more openly about @kamigotchiworld / @asph0d37 and where we're taking it as a new & focused cohort. 1/ web3 gaming is at its lowest point. most gamefi projects are effectively dead, and there are only a few survivors in the arena. most tokens down ~90%+ from peak. studio funding down 90%. plenty of games shut down and billions of dollars burned over the last ~5 years. extraction became the business model and founders/teams walked away with bags from 7-9 figure raises, leaving tokens to bleed to 0 and communities/investors holding the bag. the money has largely left for AI. 2/ and yet, through a long feature drought and internal strife, kamigotchi is still here. 1yr+ live, fully onchain. every action public and permanent. the world has never reset. it runs on yominet, our own appchain on @initia, which has stayed steady and gives us the chain-level control to keep building. a dedicated team remains, and we're here to turn the ship around. 3/ the plan, at a high level: → stabilize the economy → ship quality features and re-engage players old and new → position KW as a long-horizon benchmarking substrate for AI automation is already native: houses like kamibots and player-written strategies have become a real part of how the world is played. agents are the natural next step, and a few community members have already taken serious strides in pushing that angle forward. we have some exciting stuff to share in the coming week(s) in that regard 4/ deepmind's silver & sutton call it the "era of experience": the next leap in AI comes from agents learning from their own experience. persistent streams and rewards from real outcomes rather than human raters. that needs a world that never resets, with real stakes. we'd add one more requirement: provenance at the protocol level. every action publicly auditable, and any change to history would be visible to everyone, including changes by us. 5/ in may, google deepmind took a stake in the studio behind eve online to research exactly this: memory, continual learning, long-horizon planning in a player-driven world. their first experiments run on offline copies of eve, walled off from live players. 6/ why kamigotchi works as a substrate: → never resets. agents enter a world already shaped by every player before them → verifiable history. nobody needs to trust our servers or datasets → humans and agents on identical terms. no bot ladder, no sandbox copy → you have to learn what matters via complex economic gameplay → actions are transactions. you're testing planning, memory and long-horizon decision making → real stakes. in-game earnings convert to ETH, so an agent can, in principle, earn enough to pay for its own thinking 7/ we want it dynamic, punishing, and rewarding, a place where real game knowledge pays off the money left gaming for AI. we think the next chapter is where they meet. this is our shot at that intersection and i'll drop a discord link below if you want to come along for the ride. 🫡

some of the most impressive tech I’ve seen built on top of @kamigotchiworld it’s awesome how much detail and foresight went into everything @0xTokedo is building regarding game tooling, agent harnesses, and overall benchmarking and research. i played around with his stack myself and have nothing but positive things to say. will share some longer form thoughts and example runs from my own testing in the coming days 🙏

Will provide more details when we can 🙏

This is so dope lol. Just ordered a robot duck 🦆🤖