Co-Founder & CEO of
@animalabs_io
. Building for a mixed-reality future of autonomous worlds and IRL on-chain governance. Sui Ambassador. Ex. Improbable.
#Sui
turns 1, today! In celebration, I wanted to share with you why we decided to build on Sui and what we’re excited to see over the next few years.
The scope for innovation on top of
@SuiNetwork
- what can be built uniquely on Sui, or with great difficult anywhere else - is
I've used my
@MadLads
PFP for a long time. But, finally, I decided to make a change.
Building on Sui, it took me a while to find an NFT that I liked, that I wanted to represent me.
@_StudioMirai
, hats off. Loving the Prime Machin art.
Happy weekend!
A high level overview of what we are building at Anima Labs, for those who don’t know.
Anima has an ambitious multiphase roadmap. Starting with a Web3 gaming studio and initial title on
@SuiNetwork
, we’re developing a storefront and broader ecosystem, with community-centric
Engineering has begun!
Composable/dynamic avatars (assets are a wip) are coming to the
@SuiNetwork
, mid-July.
From day one, you'll be able to buy and sell skins and edit your avatar, with its armour/state reflected on-chain.
Next up, gaming asset-marketplace integration!
Check out our Nexus platform - V1- an on-chain account model and inventory system for all your game assets in the anima universe and
@act_nexus
.
Starting as a proprietary platform, we will gradually open up third party asset and game integration. Avatar drop incoming...
Complaining about
#Sui
’s tokenomics, calling it too centralised and a meme, is just a meme. The conversation around decentralisation and ‘VC chains’ is misguided.
For a nascent blockchain, there is an optimal level of centralisation: you have to be able to execute; you have to
Thank you to
@SuiNetwork
for the incredible weekend in Paris!
From technical talks on Move, to meeting builders, it's really left me feeling inspired!
To anyone living in or visiting London, get in touch!
We’ve got some local ecosystem events in the pipeline.
Calling anyone in the Sui or the broader
#web3
community, based in London.
The first of many, the inaugural Sui London Community event is coming up!
Join us on the 30th of May, in Shoreditch.
All ecosystems welcome!
A recently finished model for ACT's drop. Every item minted in the drop will be decomposable into its own NFT (and individually sellable), all made possible thanks to move.
@animalabs_io
#Sui
#Web3Games
One of the first weapons we worked on
@animalabs_io
, for our upcoming studio title, ACT, a Tactical 5v5 Shooter.
Expect weapons and (modular) armour in our upcoming drop, only made possible by Sui and Move's composable NFTs.
#Sui
#Move
#SuiGaming
#Web3Gaming
#Web3Games
In anticipation of the Prime Machin drop, I had to get an Enforcer.
@_StudioMirai
are truly innovating, pushing the boundaries of what can not just be done with NFTs, but what can be done on Sui.
@animalabs_io
, we’ve learnt a lot from their work and legends like
@_smbrian
I've posted a few times about
@animalabs_io
inventory system - you'll be able to equip / un-equip skins, straight after mint.
This is a clip of what we're building. This is in-browser, in our Nexus platform.
Note, the avatar that's being dropped has been updated.
Games are inherently composable. And, beyond games, if virtual worlds want to offer the utility of the physical world - simulate reality - they need to at least have the same capabilities.
@SuiNetwork
is the only blockchain with composable assets - recombinant NFTs.
Anima's base avatar, back-to-back with an avatar equipped with Genesis Drop skins.
The base avatar, will be free to mint in our Nexus platform, going live mid-July.
The Genesis Drop skins can only be purchased in the forthcoming drop. All future skins will be won in-game.
The ability to have not only composable objects, but the up-to-date state of a game item reflected on-chain, is really what brought me to Sui.
Sui will be a canonical source of truth for virtual worlds, and possibly in the future, large elements of the physical world.
Thanks to the power of
#Sui
Move, we are releasing a dynamic, game-ready avatar with an entirely modular, on-chain loadout.
From day one - post-drop - players will be able to log in to Nexus, create a username and equip / unequip skins, with the live state reflected on-chain
Currently untextured, but a brand new helmet for the upcoming
@animalabs_io
Genesis Drop.
Genesis skins and avatars will feature in our first title,
@act_nexus
, and will be interoperable across all future titles in the Anima Labs universe.
Lore dropping soon..
I spent a fair chunk of this morning playing
@panzerdogs
.
From optional NFTs to a soft-currency, Panzerdogs is a clear and rare example of building a fun-first Web3 game.
In a landscape of shovelware, it is one of the few objectively, high-quality, enjoyable games.
@animalabs_io
is prelaunch, but in the next few months, we’ll show you what we’ve been working on. At the heart of Anima, is a creator economy. The term can mean many things, but what we’re referring to, is a community-driven economy, where users own the IP for assets they
The power of Sui Move.
Our Genesis Drop will be 6,000 NFTs, but it's decomposable into 120,000 separate NFTs.
And, to anyone working on dynamic 3D assets - who want render in high-fidelity 3D 'in-wallet' -we're looking to open our inventory up to third-parties.
Happy Monday!
Our inventory system is designed for dynamic NFTs, only possible on Sui.
From day 1, you'll be able to equip / un-equip cosmetics in our platform, and view your avatar and skins in 3D.
We'll be opening our inventory system up to third-party dynamic collections, in the future.
Our first (and only) ACT drop going live on Sui in July. 10 helmets, 10 colourways, and completely modular armour with 10 separate slots - pauldrons, chest plates, boots, hands, etc...
@animalabs_io
All future cosmetics/skins will be won in game as loot.
Still a work in-progress, but thrilled to share that our
@animalabs_io
is now live -
A work in-progress, but we're committed to building in public. Big thank you to our engineering team and my co-founder
@Theo_de_Vaux
This armour is not 1 'NFT' but actually five Sui objects that can be composed into 1 Sui object.
These Sui objects, can receive rewards in international competitions and be augmented based on ethical or unethical in-game behaviour - creating a new object.
Only possible on Sui.
The Penrose triangle is a central part of our branding.
It took us a while to figure out how to animate it, but we eventually got there. Here's one version of the animated Penrose we use in our site.
Excited to show you the
@animalabs_io
site, dropping this week!
Every few days, a new piece of infrastructure seems to drop, entirely changing what can be built and the ease of building on Sui.
From DeFi to virtual worlds, a high throughput, global orderbook is an imperative.
This why we're building on Sui. Composability unlocks innovation.
$DEEP, the native token of the DeepBook Protocol, is coming soon to the Sui ecosystem! Designed to push DeepBook towards becoming the preeminent decentralized venue for wholesale liquidity in Web3, there will be a hard coded maximum supply of 10 billion tokens minted at launch
I quite bizarrely still get frequently asked why we're building on Sui.
Some info on our forthcoming drop and platform, both which are truly only possible on Sui
Brand new medium article on our forthcoming drop, account, inventory system and more.
You can find a link to our medium page on our website or in our linktree. We'll be adding more articles over the forthcoming days and weeks.
Are there any on-chain media or publishing projects on Sui, a Sui-cyclopedia? I would love to see a project, whereby information, currently being formed history, etc… deemed to be factual and objective, where possible, is put on-chain, with its author(s) signing it / attesting
One of 10 different game-ready helms for
@animalabs_io
first and only paid drop.
The armour will feature in ACT, our first studio title - FPS - and will be one of 14 armour-based skins that players can mint, coming Mid-July.
Skins are purely cosmetic. There is no pay-to-win.
Some thoughts on DAOs and governance models. We are not at the end of history.
Web3 has arguably thrown out the entire history of governance, much like it threw out a large proportion of the lessons learnt in the last half century (or more) of trad-finance.
Given that
Blockchains exist at the cross-section of various disciplines. Coming out of Sui Basecamp, an event largely focussed on tech and product, I wanted to share a political philosophy take on what a blockchain is, as it provides a clear framing as to why Web3 is so disruptive, not
The term 'NFT' needs to be deprecated. And, the term 'Wallet' should strictly apply to financial primitives and features, or be entirely replaced.
I truly believe these two terms are an impediment to Web3 adoption as they dictate the UX of new platforms being developed, carrying
Happy Monday! Hope everyone had a lovely weekend!
Some additional insight into ACT: Ground War.
We'll be releasing more specific details on our first title and the broader ecosystem, in the coming weeks.
1/ What is Anima Labs? Every week, we’re going to explore a different part of our ecosystem. This week, we’re exploring our launch title, Advanced Combat Tactics - or ACT - Ground War -
@act_nexus
.
I firmly believe Sui will be the home of Web3 gaming.
If we want large-scale virtual worlds that extend physical reality, we (1) need digital property rights and (2) composability at the object level, mirroring physical reality. The latter is only possible on
@SuiNetwork
.
Every skin and weapon in our ecosystem is (1) upgradeable and (2) customisable, via decals.
Unlocked exclusively through in-game use, below you can see the Night Vision upgrade for the B2000 helmet (purely aesthetic).
Only possible on
@SuiNetwork
, the home of Web3 gaming.
We have a broad, asset hungry universe planned and we want creators at the centre -we are building games played, built and driven by the community.
If you enjoy sculpting in 3D or creating textures for game-ready assets, get in touch.
I love the idea of blockchains as truth machines. The movement from truth being disputable and determined by trusted actors, to indisputable, trust-less truth, has further reaching implications than we realise.
Having a blockchain as as a canonical source of truth for
1 of 8 pre-textured maps.
The most important thing to us is building a game people want play, a genuinely fun game with a core value prop that has nothing to do with Web3. And so, we're using the best technology for this - UE5.
Nonetheless, there are optimal levels of
V.1 of
@act_nexus
’s fourth map, ‘Salvo’.
Designed for action-packed team play, with a balanced mix of open sightlines and cover-options, whatever your weapon of choice, there’s a potential winning strategy.
We've officially submitted Suinfra to
#Sui
Overflow!
A little bit of background on this project... A week ago,
@0xd34th
and I were chatting about the Aptos E2E tests. That led to a conversation about the impact of RPC latency on a fast chain like Sui.
We realized there wasn't
Almost all of our team grew up playing with Warhammer - some of the team still do...
And, to some extent, the lore has influenced what we have planned.
We've now got the 3D printer up and running and will be printing, painting and giving away models, every week
Our team loves models, 3D and physical - we all grew up playing with miniatures. After months refining models for our drop, we've decided to print some.
To win 1 of 10, 3D printed models and a WL spot, follow our page, like and RT.
Winners announced in Discord. 48 hours.
We don't believe in pay-to-earn, pay-to-win, or pay-to-flex.
Outside of our first drop, no skins - armour or weapons - will be purchasable in
@act_nexus
or the broader
@animalabs_io
universe.
Flex should be earned, not bought.
The UI across Web3 marketplaces does not make sense to me.
We treat NFTs like a single asset class.
An NFT can be an in-game sword. An NFT can also be a a game, a mortgage, a JPEG, a passport or a receipt.
Imagine if you browsed futures contracts alongside films on Netflix.
We have a few Genesis Avatars (and skins) up for grabs.
From mint day, players will be able to buy/sell and equip/unequip skins in our Nexus platform - live July.
The avatars will feature in
@act_nexus
- playtesting available to all holders - as well as additional titles
We've decided to give away a few free pieces of loot, in anticipation of Anima Labs' Genesis Drop.
What’s up for grabs?
You’ll get 1 base avatar, 16 skins and 5 rare weapons.
RT and sign-up at . 10 winners will be announced in our Discord. 48 hours.
Still a WIP, but, fresh off the press,
@animalabs_io
modular avatar, coming to ACT in July, on Sui.
It has 14 slots - helm, chest, back, shoulders - and is dropping with 10 colourways.
If all goes well, they'll be playable in-game at time of drop -
Introducing Kraken (WIP -
#SuiOverflow
), a multisig wallet featuring zkLogin. Made by
@josemvcerqueira
&
@BL0CKRUNNER
- Set names, members, and thresholds.
- Manage and schedule proposals: transfer NFTs, and coins to objects or others.
- Interact with Sui dApps: Stake, Swap,
1 week till London's inaugural Sui Community meetup.
From the Web3 curious to smart contract engineers and degens, we'd love for you to join us!
All ecosystems are welcome.
Today's exploration. I don't think this is going to make it into production, but maybe...
The shoulder plates have definitely got an 80s power suite vibe.
If you have a large NFT collection - Sui or otherwise - and/or are an NFT marketplace power user, we’d love to chat!
Doing some feature exploration for a piece of much needed Sui infra.
Get in touch!
Beyond dynamism and on-chain assets, arguably the biggest innovation with Sui is DevX.
As has often been the case in technology, innovation in consumer products and high-quality UX often follows innovation in developer experience and tooling.
Web3 is having its React moment.
Why are we building on
@SuiNetwork
? Because, validators on Sui can (1) store any file on-chain, indefinitely, allowing NFT owners to rest easy that their JPEGs are safe and secure. And, (2) Sui NFTs are dynamic, mirroring their real world counterparts.
On-chain, dynamic NFTs
1/ We are building a creator economy. We want the input of creators.
@animalabs_io
, we don’t want to create, own and monopolise IP in large virtual worlds, we want to create interoperable standards that allow creators to make, submit and profit off their creativity and skill.
Another fresh
@animalabs_io
deagle texture - gotta love a deagle. If you're interested in texturing weapons for our forthcoming game - resale royalties for life - send me a DM.
See previous thread for full details.
#Web3Gaming
#CreatorEconomy
#Sui
Last call for London's first Sui Community Meetup, this Thursday in Shoreditch.
If you're a developer, builder or simply curious about
@SuiNetwork
and Web3, come join us!
And this is the game-ready low LOD version. Every NFT in the drop comes with two LODs - for each of the 10 cosmetics, as well as a PNG of the full armor set/avatar.
This is the only paid skin drop
@animalabs_io
will do. For all other in-game cosmetics, you gotta play.
#Sui
#Web3
A quite long thread on blockchain governance. I actually come from a pol-sci background and only later transitioned to engineering. In the Web3 space, I’ve worked in both capacities - from working as an engineer on Otherside, to designing a metaversal government at Improbable.
We've got our first full modular avatar dropping on Monday - can't wait to show you all. In the meantime we're putting a shoutout to the 3D artists and creatives out there. We're building a creator economy - this means in-world assets made by and textured by the community, etc…
Does anyone have any recommendations for somewhere to get custom merch made - hoodies, beanies, that kind of thing...?
We're looking to get some made for
@animalabs_io
. Any help would be very much appreciated! Happy to send a hoodie your way if it works out (small incentive)
5/ Everything but the skins attached to our initial July avatar drop will have to be won in game, with all skins being purely cosmetic. But, there will be a 5% royalty on all won items that are resold. Asset creators in the Anima ecosystem will receive 4.5% of the 5% royalty.
Expanding on a point I made on a space today. Blockchains offer entirely novel ways to organise society, because they offer a a novel way to manage arguably the base societal unit, property.
Management of property rights by even a tiny population group - more than even a
We also have some purely digital competitions with a similar value prop - community creates, submits, votes and the winner gets their textured 3D model included in-game (or helm they’ve modelled to spec, for example).
How we see it - where you should start testing these models and where they may eventually extrapolate out from looks something like this: first, blockchain games -> virtual-first network states -> physical on-chain states -> global governance -> inter-planetary governance.
Blockchains alter today's societal model. They are fundamentally political, being about who controls property. Before we go inter-planetary, we need to correct today's governance issues at home. We believe this starts with web3-gaming. The lowest stakes environment to iterate
Love to see this! Brought a big smile to my face.
Seriously bullish on Brian and SM! I'm curious to see whether this financial incentive inadvertently drives a bit of innovation...
OFFER: WILL PAY A $20,000 BOUNTY TO A DEV WHO CAN RE-IMPLEMENT PRIME MACHIN ON EVM,
@Solana
, OR
@Aptos
.
We will provide the source images for the entire collection to upload.
If there is truly nothing special about
#Sui
, it should be pretty easy to replicate the collection on
Our next space will be one for the books!
Excited to talk with
@animalabs_io
about Gaming on Sui plus some alpha 👀
Blockchain Gaming is only getting started 🤝
@_smbrian
@themoveguy
@w_riches
@foxriverdevops
@SuiNetwork
The more I think about it, the more excited I am by it.
For things like mods, maybe a specific item has a kiosk.
Can you add/can that item own a permissions object or rules that change in-game functionality. Maybe level ups work like that.
The potential is endless
If you're going to give this a watch (and please do), PLEASE WATCH on the link provided, with the SOUND ON. Compressed version here is a disservice.
Hope you all have a lovely weekend!
We want players and users to contribute different skins and cosmetics, from 3D chest plates, Pauldrons and helmets, to colourways for weapons. If the community votes to include an asset you submit to our universe, you will receive royalties for life.
There are clear issues with trad-state governance today - whether you’re democratic or autocratic, property rights are still centralised; in either case, the state still has a monopoly on property managed by a nepotic class who do not create capital. It shouldn't to be this way.
We’re launching a few competitions over the next months that will ask the community to do things like paint a 3D printed model that we’ll send out (for the trad artists), with the community voting on what they want in the game - the painter will receive royalties in perpetuity.
6/ These numbers are still being worked out, but the 10% revenue from assets we receive will be used to fund our company. When we shift to a permissionless-DAO based protocol, revenue will be split between stakers - either games distributing via Anima or simply token holders.
This thesis - other than a deep love of gaming - is why we’re building games, but it’s multifactorial. We want to build a creator economy, that allows people who create capital to fundamentally own it and we believe we can contribute through our gaming and Web3 expertise.
What models can we see developing on the periphery, developing in competition to trad-governance - centralised PR systems, majoritarian systems, or autocracies..?
The future of the human race is inter-planetary. Musk’s development of physical infrastructure to take us inter-planetary is only one piece of the puzzle. Do we want centralised governance structures and centralised economic systems at the centre of an inter-planetary federation?
What do we see as the sequences of development or steps to try, fail and iterate on governance and economic models before getting it right? It's essential t start with the fastest place to prototype/ fail, and/in the lowest stake environments.
Be it trad-nations or network states, governance is a broad area, with an incredible number of models that can be implemented. Governance models - which parsimoniously can be viewed as models of property rights management - are to some degree just games with different incentives.
@ZombieKingGom
@animalabs_io
FPS indeed. The assets are being delivered for an interoperable series of games and gaming universe.
Our first studio-title is
@act_nexus
, a multiplayer FPS. All the assets, game stats and leaderboards will be stored on Sui.
We have a few ''experiences' planned, pre-ACT launch.
3/ This model is not being designed for our current game, but for our future game distribution platform. We are planning staking-based game distribution - stake X number of tokens to distribute your game, with the staker receiving the near total of income from the game sales.
At launch, our avatars will come with one of 10 helms in different 10 textures and various other skins - there are 11 total slots. If you're interested in texturing models or even contributing 3d models to ACT, get in touch. Selected submissions will receive all royalties at
To avoid, effectively the rise of a Star Wars style evil empire, the human race will need a trustless system to manage property rights and assets across space. We can have an on-chain cross-planet UN, with tiered political houses and QV permutations for voting, for example.
2/ We are still working out governance and economics - we are a company, but we will gradually decentralise, shifting to a permissionless protocol. Our DAO governance designs will be developed iteratively - I'm working on a bicameral system with a QV lower house.
@_smbrian
I can see a clear role for in Ethereum in the future as a settlement layer and for securing new infra via EigenLayer, etc...
But, I would be very surprised if the EVM doesn't go the way of Netscape.
Sui definitely has late mover advantage
4/ However, there is the game economy, and the asset creator economy. If you are an artist and you want to build 3D models to our standard and create textures, you will be considered the creator of the asset and receive (est. 90%) royalties, as enshrined in our smart contracts.
In Anima’s case, we’re building a series of interoperable games and game worlds starting with a Tactical 5v5 shooter, ACT, kicking off with an initial avatar drop, with 10 modular slots for different skins.
What could this future look like? Mars and other planets are colonised by humans, AI and genetically augmented humans, engineered for space travel. Identity, cash, property rights etc... are decentralised and distributed using on-chain economies and governance models.