decentralized rts game, built with zk-snarks on @ethereum and @gnosischain | a @0xPARC project
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we built an rts with zk snarks. coming 8/8
blog.zkga.me/announcing-dark…
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"This is also likely why blockchain projects that raise a lot of money but are unscrupulous, or even just corporate-controlled profit-oriented 'VC chains', tend to fail: even a billion dollars of capital cannot compete with a project having a soul."
New post: Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond
vitalik.ca/general/2020/12/2…
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dark forest is hiring a full-stack developer. details below.
work on the world's only fully crypto-native MMO game, at the bleeding edge of applied ZK tech and Ethereum application development. (1/n)
darkforest-eth.notion.site/D…
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Dark Forest v0.6 Round 5: The Junk Wars will begin in 15 minutes (10PM PST).
💡 We're emailing keys now, and you may enter the universe now, but you won't be able make any moves until 10PM PST.
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LADIES, IF HE:
- keeps his secrets to himself
- never responds
- generates toxic waste during a multiparty computation setup ceremony
- is a tuple of 3 elliptic curve points in F_p^12 and F_p
he's not your man. he's a zero-knowledge succinct noninteractive argument of knowledge
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dark forest v0.4 is live at zkga.me
keys going out in batches this weekend and early next week
more info below (1/n)
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Dark Forest v0.6 is now live. (1/n)
blog.zkga.me/announcing-v6
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Dark Forest v0.6 Round 4: Society Eggnog, will begin this Friday, October 1st.
It's the lightning round!⚡️
🧵 (1/n)
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the Dark Forest team supports the implementation of EIP-1559 to improve the user experience of Ethereum network transactions. supporteip1559.org #supportEIP1559 #Ethereum
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Merry Christmas!
dark forest v0.5 is live -> zkga.me
sending keys this weekend. happy hunting 👾
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dark forest is a fully-decentralized RTS built on ethereum with zk-SNARKs. it the first persistent hidden information game ever built on a decentralized system (2/n)
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dark forest has passed 1 million transactions on @xdaichain in only ~2 weeks! 🥳
blockscout.com/poa/xdai/addr…
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Round 4 begins tomorrow. 🪐
Need some extra time to secure the win? Fill this out and give it to your employer:
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a huge thank you to dark forest players and fans for an amazing gitcoin round! your support makes this all possible 🚀🚀🚀
we’ve been relatively quiet the past few weeks. round 4 coming soon, as well as some exciting new stuff…
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Hello Dark Forest players! The dreaded whitelist is no more! Today we're launching Dark Forest Lobbies! Here’s a video by @spencecoin explaining how it works. To learn more, keep reading 👇
piped.video/watch?v=sZUrykyO…
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Dark Forest v0.6 Round 3: Grape Extra-Small, will go live on August 12 (this Thursday)! 🪐
The objective?
It's a race to the center of the universe.
🧵(1/n)
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we're floored by your contributions to the Dark Forest @gitcoin grant.
the support you've all shown us, whether it's gitcoin, here on twitter, discord, or in Dark Forest itself... it's humbling.
the DF universe will continue to grow. ❤️
gitcoin.co/grants/2323/dark-…
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shoutout to xDAI for smoothly scaling up their node infrastructure to handle the traffic generated by this dark forest round :)
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The final round of Dark Forest v0.6 - Round 5 - is coming soon. 🪐
There are a LOT of new things. 🚀
Welcome to The Junk Wars.
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1/ New DF guest blog post!
*NightMarket: A zkMarketplace on Dark Forest*
@0xSage and @xyz_pierre present a marketplace where @darkforest_eth players can privately buy / sell planet coordinates using zkSNARKs.
Built for @0xPARC's ZK Learning Group.
blog.zkga.me/nightmarket
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to the anonymous player who purchased $2000 of hats...
we see you and we appreciate you 🥺🥺
(planet hat proceeds support dev work and the prize pool 🤠🤠🤠)
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the reveal marketplace allows anyone to auction off coordinate broadcasts for xdai.
thanks to interoperability, *new game features* in a decentralized game can be added by anyone, not just the original devs - this is literally not possible in traditional games.
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A new community-run Dark Forest round from our friends at @DFArchon starts in 3 days!
👋Welcome back to @darkforest_eth!
🚀We’re organizing DF ARES v0.1 Round 1 at @alt_layer
🗓️19th Jul. - 23rd Jul.
🎁Win awesome prizes 😍😍
🙏Special thanks to @masknetwork @GoldAdventure & all the supporters 🔥🔥🔥
mirror.xyz/dfarchon.eth/Ji42…
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Dark Forest v0.6 Round 3: Grape Extra-Small, has ended. 🍇
There were over 2500 players in this race to the center of the universe!
🧵 (1/n)
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dark forest v0.5, deployed on @xdaichain, has been quietly but single-handedly exceeding all total eth mainnet gas usage in the last week
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Love making nifty UIs? Think you could improve our game's look and feel? We're hiring! notion.so/ivanchub/Dark-Fore…
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Thank you all for coming to the Dark Forest x @d_fdao Community Meetup here at ETHDenver! 🙌
It was great to meet so many of you explorers face to face.
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Hello Dark Forest players!
During the final several days of v0.6 Round 5, the @d_fdao group discovered a mechanism by which they could multiply the energy regeneration of a planet they owned by 1024, allowing them to turn a planet into an energy gatling gun.
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the scoring period for Dark Forest v0.4 has ended. our recap post: blog.zkga.me/v4-recap (1/n)
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we've seen nothing but positive reactions after launching Dark Forest artifacts as NFTs.
three separate Dark Forest DAOs (guilds) have even built p2p marketplaces for those NFT artifacts.
The outrage from gamers over the inclusion of NFTs is an astronomical unwitting vote against self-interests.
If gaming cos are able to build more sustainable revenue models without paywall DLC, NFTs can improve player experience even if you opt out of buying them yourself.
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dark forest v0.6 round 2 starts today
first batch of whitelist keys has just been sent out; check your inbox
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dark forest is on @gitcoin. we'd love to have your support during this matching round 🪐
the games & digital worlds of the future will be community-designed, community-built, and community-supported; we're excited to be a part of the movement ❤️
gitcoin.co/grants/2323/dark-…
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to all the dark forest explorers out there: thank you for coming on this journey with us. we couldn't do this without you
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Round 4 is officially over!
Congrats to @orden_gg on 1st place with a classy 777,777,777 score. 🏆
The wrapup will follow in the coming weeks - for now, feel free to continue exploring the universe. 🪐
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forget the markets, focus on the tech. buckle up, the crypto-native gaming journey is going to be a long ride
an excellent thread below from a cautious skeptic on permissionlessness, digital physics, zkSNARKs, and more
Okay, the day has finally come.
I am forced to grudgingly admit that I have found a blockchain game that legitimately does something with Blockchain that is genuinely new, innovative, and that you can't do with a centralized service.
That game is Dark Forest.
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thinking about the future of DF. dms open at @chubivan if you wanna talk (^:
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*new post: a look at the dark forest zkps*
blog.zkga.me/df-init-circuit
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the most powerful nation-states 150 years from now will exist natively in & will have been born in cyberspace (1/3)
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Hack with us on some new games and autonomous worlds, alongside @ETHGlobal, @0xPARC, and @latticexyz!
1/ [Announcing the Autonomous Worlds Hackathon]
on May 18, @ETHGlobal, @0xPARC and @latticexyz will be hosting a 5-day online hackathon on the theme of AWs. Join us to explore the frontiers of onchain games, virtual worlds, and their tooling & scaling
0xparc.org/blog/autonomous-w…
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Dark Forest v0.6 Round 1 - Fascinated Manager - is complete! Congratulations to all who participated 🪐
A wrap-up post and information on winners, prizes, and Round 2 are coming shortly.
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Dark Forest v0.6 Round 3: Grape Extra-Small..
is now LIVE! 🪐
zkga.me
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Ever wonder who develops Dark Forest? Now's your chance to meet the team! Learn many interesting, thoughtful, and 100% true facts about the dev squad in these new graphics.
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Seeing a Dark Forest round run independently, by the community, is mind-blowing. 👏
Will be exciting to watch this unfold!
Welcome back to Dark Forest @darkforest_eth!
RED or BLUE?
buidl.mirror.xyz/ABCf2087XIy…
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If you hold a Dark Forest prize planet NFT, you can now enter the Valhalla channel in the DF Discord.
type "!join" in #enter-valhalla to get in 🪐
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thank you alan!
@alanw_luo is stepping down from the core dev team to focus on school. grateful for your contributions!
blog.zkga.me/thank-you-alan
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check out the latest DF community round by @DFArchon on @redstonexyz!
tune into a kickoff stream with @gubsheep, @DFArchon, and @redstonexyz in 10m at the link below:
twitch.tv/redstone_community
Dark Forest Ares v0.1 Round 3 : Kardashev 🔷
🏁🔴🪨🔷💣🌟🎹🥷💰
@darkforest_eth community round on @redstonexyz
🗓️Start: May 6 3 pm UTC
🗓️End: May 12 3 pm UTC
🫱 discord.gg/XpBPEnsvgX 🫲
Please join our Discord to get latest news 🥳
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we're running a program on building w/ ZK crypto starting later this month.
if you're a strong engineer looking to spend 10-15h/wk learning about SNARKs and their applications, see below. no crypto experience required, though familiarity with basic discrete math is recommended
(1/n) 0xPARC: Applied ZK Learning Group
Developers from Ethereum Foundation and 0xPARC are facilitating a small "applied ZK learning group" for engineers interested in learning about zero-knowledge cryptography and its applications.
Apply by Fri Nov 19 airtable.com/shrViKjgmJZIrvV…
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Want to host your own Dark Forest round for a few friends, or for an entire community? 🪐
We'll walk you through it.
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A lot has happened since we announced Dark Forest v0.6 six months ago.
Really, it was that recent... 🤯
Well, here's what's happened since then, and here are some thoughts on the future (including Round 5):
blog.zkga.me/holiday-develop…
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we're opening DF v0.5 for freeplay mode and sending out 3000 more whitelist keys this weekend 🥳
with the start of freeplay mode comes our first COMMUNITY PLUGINS CONTEST! we'll be awarding "mythic"-tier artifacts to the best plugins. more info: blog.zkga.me/v05-plugins-con…
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Dark Forest v0.6 Round 2: Inspire Hallowed, has concluded. 🪐
This round was live from June 28 through July 7 and had nearly 1900 players!
🧵 (1/n)
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Any Dark Forest friends here at #ETHDenver?
📣 Come to the Dark Forest x @d_fdao community meetup!
🗓️ Tomorrow (Sat. Feb 19)
🕑 2PM MST
📍 WeWork - 1615 Platte St, Denver, CO 80202
(capacity limited to 50)
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-friEND
-boyfriEND
-girlfriEND
-bestfriEND
only ZERO-KNOWLEDGE SUCCINCT NONINTERACTIVE ARGUMENT OF KNOWLEDGE has no END
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Dark Forest v0.5: the top 50 players.
Prize pool winners will be contacted shortly.
blog.zkga.me/v5-winners
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Dark Forest v0.6 Round 2 (Inspired Hallowed) has ended.
More updates, a recap, and round 2 valhalla prize planets coming soon…
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Dark Forest v0.6 Round 4: Society Eggnog, ended in a flash! ⚡️
The lightning round lasted for less than 4 days (roughly 84 hours!) yet still 1700 players were able to participate.
🧵 (1/n)
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round 1 of dark forest v.06 has officially concluded! here are the top players and the points they scored. thank you to everyone who participated, and make sure to look out for the next round!
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Might bring some stickers to #ETHDenver 👀
Which artifact of these four would you want the most as a sticker?
(Poll below)
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hello DF players and devs!
we've been lying low since @EFDevconnect - cooking on a few new things, and watching + supporting community projects building on top of DF. here's an update on what the core team has been up to:
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