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Web3 Gaming & On-chain Games

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CHAPTER

The Differences Between Chain Gaming and Decentralized Gaming

Dark Forest is the best example we've seen that takes advantage of all three and actually takes advantage of financialization, the least. People could create new extensions of the game logic in Dark Forest without any permission or explicit access control lists to do so. They made plugin markets, they made new types of UIs, all kinds of cool things that are only possible with really deep composability. And then on the consensus front, once a game instance started and you can still go make a Dark Forest game lobby now, it's out of the hands of the game creators. The rules kind of like a blind watchmaker, so to speak, and kick off the universe in a burst of randomness

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