Autonomous AI World 3: Can AI Empowering Inject New Vitality into the Stalled BTC Ecosystem?

Author: Chandler, Foresight News

In the current bleak market environment, the Bitcoin ecosystem seems somewhat quiet, but this does not mean that innovation and exploration within the Bitcoin ecosystem have ceased. On the contrary, new technologies such as the RGB++ protocol and the DOB protocol are being actively experimented with by various projects, bringing new hope. Recently, we discovered that the BTC autonomous world World3, based on RGB++, seems capable of provoking new thoughts on BTC ecosystem innovation, while also raising curiosity about whether AI can inject new vitality into the sluggish BTC ecosystem.

Introduction to World3

In short, World3 is a decentralized autonomous AI world (Autonomous Intelligent Worlds, AIW), using the Bitcoin mainnet as the asset control layer for digital objects (DOB), and CKB as the DA layer and smart contract layer for digital objects, achieving seamless integration between Bitcoin and other Turing-complete blockchains. This cross-chain compatibility facilitates users' ability to freely trade and transfer assets across different networks, while also enhancing the functionality and flexibility of applications. Additionally, World3 will provide a visualization and interaction layer for digital objects, constructing a new digital world around full-chain digital objects.

World3 is the successor to the metaverse project Matrix World, developed on the Ethereum chain, which attracted significant attention from numerous individual and institutional investors at its inception. In February 2022, Matrix World completed a $5.5 million angel round financing at a valuation of $50 million, led by Tess Ventures, Everest Ventures Group, Com2Us, and Y2Z Ventures, with other investors including Sky9 Capital, Dapper Labs, Animoca Brands, Bonfire Ventures, Matcha, SecondLive, Hash Global, LucidBlue Ventures, and PANONY.

World3 ------ An AI-Driven Multichain World

World3 is a multichain world built on the solid foundation of the Bitcoin network, supporting players to customize their personal instance space, allowing creators to create various digital objects, and establishing economic cycles of production, consumption, finance, and entertainment within its ecosystem. The integration of AI technology is one of the core features of World3. It not only endows the virtual world with the ability to self-evolve and optimize but also provides users with a more intelligent and interactive experience. Users can also customize their AI companion partners, SOULmates, which can be personalized and equipped according to user preferences, responding to user behaviors and providing unique and engaging experiences through continuous interactive learning and adaptation.

World3 encourages users to build and integrate customized 2D and 3D decentralized applications (DApps). This user-driven development model allows creators to shape unique experiences based on their imagination, contributing to the diversity and functionality of the platform. Users can participate in the construction of a 3D open world and further expand the richness of their application scenarios and ecosystems through built-in creation services and computing resources.

Core Assets of World3

The core assets of the project consist of the following three key components:

World3 Treasure

As the foundation of the ecosystem, World3 Treasure supports the token economy and protocol, incentivizing developers to create fully on-chain applications and services to promote community expansion and collaboration.

World3 Cortex

Integrating advanced large language models and innovative AI technology, World3 Cortex drives user-generated content, with applications including AI agents in games, personalized shopping experiences, and digital companions capable of developing unique personalities.

World3 Nexus

As the hub of World3, Nexus provides an integrated social platform that supports 2D and 3D content, allowing users to play, create, and interact in a rich social environment.

Exploration and Realization of the Autonomous World in World3

The concept of the autonomous world originates from LUDENS's "The Case for Autonomous Worlds: Blockchains as World Technology." Here, the autonomous world is more inclined to be a digital ecosystem that achieves decentralized management of entities and rules through blockchain technology. This ecosystem is not merely a virtual collection but a complete system with consistent internal rules and logic, allowing users to experience, interact, and create value within it.

Its core includes:

• Blockchain as the cornerstone of data and logic. Blockchain technology provides an immutable, fully transparent data storage and state transition platform for the autonomous world. The state root and state transition function are two key concepts in blockchain that ensure the continuity and consistency of the world, allowing anyone to verify and participate in the world's state through the same rules.
• High autonomy guarantees decentralization. The greatest feature of the autonomous world is its high degree of autonomy. This world does not rely on any single individual to maintain its operation but achieves self-management and self-sustainability through collective consensus and predefined rules. This autonomy reduces dependence on centralized authority, enhancing the system's resistance to censorship and robustness.
• Open ecology and innovation. The principle of openness in the autonomous world encourages third-party developers and users to participate in the construction of the ecosystem. Open-source smart contracts and clients allow anyone to innovate based on existing frameworks, promoting the development and evolution of the autonomous world.
• Boundaries and consensus. The autonomous world achieves value intercommunication with the real world through blockchain technology. The interoperability between digital assets and real-world assets not only deepens the depth and meaning of games but also provides users with richer interactive experiences.
• Value interoperability. The autonomous world recognizes that the value of blockchain is not limited to digital assets but can connect with the value system of the real world. Assets and achievements in games can interoperate with real-world assets, deepening the depth and meaning of games while providing players with richer interactive experiences.

The Autonomous Intelligent World (AIW) is the core concept promoted by World3. The project believes that although the Bitcoin network is the only truly decentralized network with unique advantages in stability and security, its protocol characteristics impose certain limitations on the expansion of user scenarios. Conversely, the development of AW also faces some issues. Many early AW applications primarily focused on small comprehensive games, which, while emphasizing autonomy, lacked the ability to evolve and self-evolve. The introduction of AI technology provides a new solution to this problem, endowing the autonomous world with more autonomy and self-evolution capabilities.

World3's solution is to build a globally state-verifiable, traceable, and self-evolving autonomous world. This system consists of multiple key components, each playing a crucial role in ensuring the system's autonomy and intelligence. First, WORLD3 Brain, similar to Microsoft's Copilot, can answer user questions based on the latest and historical states of the world. This feature helps users better interact with the virtual world, whether through experiences, communication, or content creation, and can autonomously create content, driving the continuous development and evolution of the world. Second, WORLD3 State Management (Git) is the foundational service for managing the global state of the entire autonomous world. All important state information is stored on the Bitcoin network through hash functions, while L2 solutions are utilized to optimize and store large-scale data. This design ensures that all content is verifiable and traceable on the Bitcoin network while also achieving efficient storage and retrieval on L2. Additionally, WORLD3's economic system includes tokens and incentive mechanisms for creators. Creators can earn rewards by building dApps and publishing content on the WORLD3 platform, stimulating more innovation and applications, and promoting the prosperity of the entire ecosystem.

This system architecture ensures the verifiability and traceability of the global state, leveraging the security and decentralization characteristics of the Bitcoin network to ensure the authenticity and transparency of the system state. At the same time, by optimizing storage and performance through L2 solutions, it guarantees the efficient operation of the system. The introduction of AI Brain enhances user engagement and content creation experiences, providing users with more intelligent services in their interactions.

Currently, World3 has officially launched an invitation competition for whitelist activities. According to the project's roadmap, its core in the second quarter of 2024 is brand revitalization and the launch of World3 QUEST, stimulating user participation enthusiasm through task and reward mechanisms, as well as the first official launch of WORLD3 assets and WORLD3 SOUL in the Bitcoin ecosystem, allowing users to create personalized digital companions. In the third quarter, the introduction of a user-generated landscape system will begin, allowing users to decorate their land in the 3D Nexus and providing deeper user interaction experiences through 3D SOULmates. Furthermore, the expansion of WORLD3 SOUL games and applications will further enrich the content of Lite Client and 3D immersive spaces, while the launch of Animal City will provide a unique showcase platform for partners' MEME animals.

What is particularly interesting about World3 is its combination of the RGB++ asset issuance protocol and the gameplay of digital objects DOB. The advantage of RGB++ lies in its ability to achieve cross-chain asset transfer without relying on cross-chain bridges, supporting transaction folding and non-interactive transfers, simplifying user operations and improving transaction efficiency. Digital objects DOB demonstrate high flexibility and composability, allowing creators and artists unprecedented freedom to define and showcase the attributes of digital objects. Its low transfer costs and open design further broaden the application scenarios of digital objects, indicating potential in building cross-chain digital ecosystems. In the future, we will see projects like Nervape combining with the World3 autonomous world, allowing users to experience richer interactions and gameplay. For example, Nervape can publish its "Naked Ape" on the Bitcoin mainnet through the RGB++ protocol, while accessories and other related assets are published on the CKB chain. Combined with World3's AI empowerment, the new DOB can exhibit richer, more combinable, and personalized characteristics than the original NFTs, evolving into diverse forms akin to life.

Relatively speaking, the autonomous world is a relatively complex and comprehensive ecosystem that needs to encompass not only a collection of technologies but also a convergence of creative expression, community participation, economic cycles, and governance mechanisms. Utilizing AI to enhance the system's autonomy and intelligence, endowing creators with new forms of expression and economic return mechanisms, is undoubtedly a high-quality choice to promote the development of digital culture and activate the ecosystem. These innovative elements contribute to forming a highly interactive and inclusive ecosystem. Currently, what the Bitcoin ecosystem lacks, aside from confidence, is the exploration and innovation of more multidimensional and multilayered ecological construction solutions. From this perspective, World3 has its necessity and value.