1/ Dust is an autonomous world with fixed rules of physics, scarce resources, and player-programmable civilization. What happens when a virtual world takes itself seriously?. Dust goes live today.

Settlers tour landmarks and host campfires—discussing the proliferation of Dust. Bases and farms take shape with increasing intent. Civilization begins to tame nature. The world develops.

Dust has fixed supplies of matter—provably scarce seeds, trees, stones, ores, and more. Permutation Markets display each item's supply and price across trade chests. They reveal @BigMouthMeta's Sunflower Monopoly— control over the supply and story of a rising luxury.

Dust set fixed rules of physics. Durham added rules and incentives for construction. Structures form as $Pesos demand grows. Order emerges over chaos. Who will be next to reshape the world?

Chronicles // 005. DUST is deeply programmable. Durham incentivizes construction of Permutation City by deploying smart contracts that:. Define the city's blueprint. Reward $Pesos to those who help complete it.

@ethereum Bitcoin, the first digital money, evolved over 15 years from e-cash for idealists to payments for unregulated activity to digital gold for government reserves. How far will the first digital world go?. Read More:

@ethereum Today's virtual worlds are theme parks: server wipes, admin abuse, only owners can add mechanics. Dark Forest solved their problems: replace servers with smart contracts. MUD unlocked co-creation: letting anyone add mechanics. Biomes set the blueprint. The World was earned.

@ethereum The World Computer faces critique:.- DeFi is self-referential. - NFTs trade onchain but function offchain. - It grew what it tried to replace: stablecoins, RWAs. The World gives The World Computer its own "physical" scarcities & consequences. A new civilization begins.

The World completes the World Computer. Dust is the new world: onchain physics, scarce matter, programmable civilization. @Ethereum finally exits—into its own world, its own civilization, its own future.

Territories grow into communal megastructures. The Lorax Monument rises beside BabyYoda. The Arena Eternal continues construction. Permutation City spans the largest force field in the world. The greatest works deserve to be built in a world, not in a theme park.

Physics were Dust’s only rules—until now. $Pesos has joined. Durham has introduced economic mechanics that run alongside Dust’s fixed rules of physics, reshaping it forever. Deforestation accelerates as $Pesos demand grows. Who will be next to reshape the world?

Durham programmed chests into shops. The Permutation Markets begin at coordinate (611,149,-1509). For $P1000, anyone can open an autonomous, programmable chest shop in the city's market hall. Trade is no longer informal. Civilization brews. market . permutationcity . org

Chronicles // 004. Dust sets fixed rules of physics. Settlers code civilization. At coordinate (503,149,-1585), Durham starts Permutation City. A shared force field protects it. Contribute energy, earn $Pesos—the city’s labor-backed currency:. energize . permutationcity . org

Each week, settlers gather around a campfire to discuss the proliferation of Dust. The world is developing, stabilizing, and unsettled. Still, settlers return: ~45 min avg sessions, 50% D7 retention. Once you inhabit a world, you don't go back to theme parks.

Territories are evolving from personal bases into communal megastructures. x_bbyoda_x builds the BabyYoda Monument—poised to become the first publicly secured territory. @AnotherSprankle breaks ground on the Arena Eternal: a hub for fights, events, and economic gravity.

Resource scarcity drives more than PvP—it drives trade and coordination. Farming advances fast: spherical farms now outperform vertical ones. Wheat slop is now profitable—@cypherbadger produces 100 for $4, Ima sold $25 worth. @YeomenAI agents arrive to escalate automation.

@frolic escalates already tense PvP by uploading The Loot Tracker—a live window into every player and chest inventory. Everyone sees it. The rich are targets. The only way to keep your loot is to stay alive.