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1. 'the autonomous worlds scene is dead' · moving-castles-coverage-controversies · 2024 (year)

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     "date": "2024",
     "detail": "the scene-level reputational fight — kamigotchiworld ceo lethe's september 2024 broadside ('the autonomous worlds scene is dead. over. finished. done') names lattice as 'the grant-dependent boys' behind an 'utterly failed launch.' the closest thing to a scandal adjacent to mc's ecosystem; not mc-directed.",
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     "reaction": "the studio's answer was to keep shipping — rat.fun launched into the downturn a year later and made bankless's 2025 standouts list.",
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2. the hacks are canon · moving-castles-coverage-controversies · 2024– (approximate)

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     "detail": "exploits and bots by design — this cursed machine suffered bot attacks and exploits; the studio publicly folded them into the fiction ('emergent chaos… part of the narrative'). morris notes the in-game assets were 'truly worthless, generated by an endless faucet, and apparently not that hard to hack.'",
     "id": "cty-exploits",
     "reaction": "a deliberate design posture rather than a scandal — but a real security and fairness critique sits underneath, unaddressed by making the hacks canonical.",
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     "title": "the hacks are canon"
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3. the token mechanics · moving-castles-coverage-controversies · 2023– (approximate)

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     "date": "2023–",
     "detail": "the tokenization surface — $bugs minted as an erc-20 inside tcm; rat.fun's $rat is a literal buy-in/liquidation loop described by friendly coverage as 'the filthiest execution of the coin it narrative.' no documented backlash found.",
     "id": "cty-tokens",
     "reaction": "the studio's most exposed surface to the 'crypto games = speculation' critique — confirmed mechanics, no documented controversy.",
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     "title": "the token mechanics"
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4. the numbers are the lab's own · moving-castles-coverage-controversies · 2026 (year)

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     "detail": "the self-reported ledger — zero's headline numbers (2.8% vs 45.2% hard breaks, the orthogonality result, the steering demos) are the lab's own, llm-judged by claude opus 4.8 on a held-out harness; the hf card says 45.4% where the report says 45.2%.",
     "id": "cty-self-reported",
     "reaction": "the report is unusually candid — gsm8k collapse, 15.8% held-out attack failures, 'depth' conceded undefined — but no third-party replication exists as of release day.",
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     "title": "the numbers are the lab's own"
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5. moving castles: modular and portable multiplayer miniverses · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2021-08-10 (day)

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     "date": "2021-08-10",
     "gist": "the first hn submission of the miniverses manifesto — ignored entirely.",
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     "publisher": "hacker news",
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     "title": "moving castles: modular and portable multiplayer miniverses",
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6. notes on moving castles · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2021-08-02 (day)

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     "author": "boris mann",
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     "gist": "boris mann's notes quote the manifesto's opening the day it posts — the digital-garden scene's early, sympathetic engagement.",
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     "title": "notes on moving castles",
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7. moving castles: modular and portable multiplayer miniverses — resubmission · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2021-11-30 (day)

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     "gist": "the resubmitted manifesto finds a thread — and the skeptical frame that will follow the studio: 'this is exactly what open simulator does'; 'a long flowery article that mostly manages to stay away from invoking web3'; doubts about self-hosting economics.",
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     "title": "moving castles: modular and portable multiplayer miniverses — resubmission",
     "traction": "43 points, 10 comments",
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8. notes on moving castles · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2022-02-12 (day)

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     "gist": "jacky zhao's digital-garden notes couple the manifesto with justin glibert's 'all powerful wizards' talk at 0xparc boston — the two scenes meeting in one notebook.",
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     "title": "notes on moving castles",
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9. moving castles by gvn908, arb · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2022-03-28 (day)

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     "gist": "the kabk i/m/d programme invites gvn908 and arb to lecture — art-world legitimation before the studio had shipped a game.",
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     "publisher": "kabk",
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10. a moving castle crosses the ridge between private and public · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2022-08-29 (day)

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      "gist": "gitcoin republishes the manifesto for 'seeking a new kind of public good,' naming arthur röing baer and framing moving castles as a trust project against 'the current neo-feudal trend within so-called dark forest online communities.'",
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      "title": "a moving castle crosses the ridge between private and public",
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11. autonomous worlds aim to free online games from corporate control · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2023-05-16 (day)

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      "date": "2023-05-16",
      "gist": "the studio's biggest mainstream hit — a skeptical lede ('an echo from the distant crypto past') but eat drain arson gets treated seriously as the residency's most directionally novel prototype. baer: 'you start in a constrained world that facilitates the emergence of it, but it's not constrained by it long-term.'",
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12. quite busy · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2023-05-21 (day)

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      "author": "jay springett",
      "date": "2023-05-21",
      "gist": "the insider-scene weeknote registering the wired moment: 'arb and gvn has their fully on chain game eat drain arson written about in wired magazine this week.'",
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13. the awassembly event thread · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2023-04 (month)

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      "gist": "an event thread notes gvn908's world-building workshop — the studio teaching the scene its method.",
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      "title": "the awassembly event thread",
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14. why minecraft will be studied by banks and governments · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2022 (year)

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      "gist": "the oregon blockchain group's medium explainer teaches the moving castles principles — 'why minecraft will be studied by banks and governments' — with gvn quotes on portability.",
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      "title": "why minecraft will be studied by banks and governments",
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15. the rise of micro-studios · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2023 (year)

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      "gist": "loaf.coffee's micro-studios essay lists moving castles among the autonomous-worlds micro-studios — the studio as scene type-specimen.",
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      "title": "the rise of micro-studios",
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16. made from mud · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2023 (year)

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      "gist": "a hackathon-season dev-experience post on building with mud lists moving castles among the mud games — the studio as engine-ecosystem reference.",
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17. autonomous worlds assembly @ devconnect istanbul · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2023-11-15 (day)

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18. autonomous worlds: misusing the money machine · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2023-11-25 (day)

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19. this cursed machine playtest brief · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2023-11 (month)

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20. fully on-chain game review: pirate nation and this cursed machine · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2023 (year)

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      "title": "fully on-chain game review: pirate nation and this cursed machine",
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21. redstone mainnet launch insights · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2024-04-04 (day)

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22. deploy uniswap v3 on redstone · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2024-04 (month)

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23. lattice opens redstone chain for developer preview · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2024-04 (month)

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24. redstone is racing to mainnet · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2024-04 (month)

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25. ready up redstone · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2024-04-30 (day)

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26. start your engines: redstone live · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2024-05-01 (day)

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27. lattice launches redstone mainnet and unveils first fully on-chain games · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2024-05-03 (day)

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28. lattice launches redstone mainnet · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2024-05 (month)

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29. a quick overview of redstone mainnet launch activities · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2024-05 (month)

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      "gist": "coinlive's launch-activities overview — tcm 2.0 notes and $bugs as an erc-20.",
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30. the tcm analytics dashboard · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2024 (year)

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31. this cursed machine: onchain game post-mortem · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2024-11 (month)

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32. i survived ethereum devcon 7 (barely) · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2024-11-25 (day)

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      "gist": "the strongest press praise to date: the tcm post-mortem 'was easily the most exciting thing i saw at devcon'; the design 'shoves the economic relationship in your face' — 'the worst of both worlds — and make that the core of the gameplay'; 'a hack actually became part of the narrative of the game, which, to me, is art.' notes the planned followup, our degenerate town.",
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33. our degenerate town · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2026-09 (month)

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      "gist": "the announced tcm follow-up still reads 'under contruction' [sic] — the teased sequel that never visibly shipped.",
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34. what's the point of autonomous world? · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2023-12 (month)

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      "date": "2023-12",
      "gist": "the internal critic — topology's guiltygyoza asks 'what's the point of autonomous world?': 'not my dream'; questions whether web or blockchain can even host the concurrency infrastructure the vision needs.",
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      "title": "what's the point of autonomous world?",
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35. towards a metaphysics of worlds · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2023-11 (month)

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      "gist": "rao on the awassembly talks — the scene's ideas carry 'a what are you smoking aspect' even for sympathetic readers.",
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      "publisher": "contraptions",
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      "title": "towards a metaphysics of worlds",
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36. the autonomous world definition survey · moving-castles-coverage-items · undated (unknown)

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      "gist": "chaincatcher's aw-definition survey documents real definitional disagreement inside the scene: 'even leading builders did not have a clear definition of the autonomous world.'",
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      "publisher": "chaincatcher",
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      "sentiment": "mixed",
      "sourceIds": [
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      "title": "the autonomous world definition survey",
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      "url": "https://www.chaincatcher.com/en/article/2104701"
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37. large lore models · moving-castles-coverage-items · undated (unknown)

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      "author": "dmstfctn, eva jager, alasdair milne",
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      "gist": "the large lore models paper picks up the studio's 'narrative engine' terminology as a hook for 'autonomous world infrastructure' — the vocabulary traveling beyond the studio.",
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      "publisher": "aw.network",
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      "sourceIds": [
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      "title": "large lore models",
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38. aicoin on the lootverse · moving-castles-coverage-items · undated (unknown)

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      "gist": "chinese-language analysis credits moving castles with the 'narrative engine' / collective-storytelling concept — the idea circulating in translation.",
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      "publisher": "aicoin",
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      "sentiment": "positive",
      "sourceIds": [
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      "title": "aicoin on the lootverse",
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39. are autonomous worlds dead? · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2024-09-24 (day)

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      "gist": "the scene obituary: 'are autonomous worlds dead?' quotes kamigotchiworld ceo lethe — 'the autonomous worlds scene is dead. over. finished. done' — attacking lattice as 'the grant-dependent boys' behind an 'utterly failed launch.' scene-level despair, not mc-directed.",
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      "title": "are autonomous worlds dead?",
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40. automation, not autonomy · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2025 (year)

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      "gist": "'automation, not autonomy' charges that agent-driven autonomous worlds 'feel just like gamefi 1.0 — repetitive and boring,' asking 'who wants to watch agent running around aimlessly?'",
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41. rat.fun: the filthiest llm-driven roguelike game is live · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2025-12-12 (day)

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      "gist": "the rat.fun launch coverage — 'moving castles (the team behind this cursed machine) launched a new fully onchain fever dream: rat.fun' — explaining the llm 'slop machine,' player-written 'trips,' the $rat buy-in/hp mechanics, and the base deployment for farcaster-miniapp distribution.",
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      "publisher": "gm gamers / focgers",
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42. what onchain gaming learned in 2025 · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2025-12-30 (day)

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      "date": "2025-12-30",
      "gist": "bankless's onchain-gaming year-in-review lists rat.fun with cambria, realms, and kamigotchi under 'stakes' — 'rats live or die by text, semantics, and economic pressure' — inside a brutal frame: 'crypto games got dragged into the dirt this year. studios shut down.'",
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      "publisher": "bankless",
      "section": "pivot",
      "sentiment": "positive",
      "sourceIds": [
        "src-hp-bankless-2025review"
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      "title": "what onchain gaming learned in 2025",
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      "url": "https://www.bankless.com/read/crypto-gaming-year-in-review"
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43. the labor underground in rat.fun · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2026-01-12 (day)

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      "date": "2026-01-12",
      "gist": "an organic emergent-play anecdote — a player-run 'organized labor underground' inside rat.fun. tiny reach; exactly the behavior the design invites.",
      "id": "cov-arkadiy-bsky",
      "publisher": "bluesky (via livequote)",
      "section": "pivot",
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      "title": "the labor underground in rat.fun",
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44. the daemons announcement · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2026-07-02 (day)

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      "gist": "the daemons announcement on x — self-published, no press pickup found. the pivot told to the studio's own feed.",
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      "publisher": "x @movingcastles_",
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      "title": "the daemons announcement",
      "traction": "≈1 reply, 16 reposts, 81 likes, ~7.3k views (displayed counts)",
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45. zero (mc001) release · moving-castles-coverage-items · 2026-09-15 (day)

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      "date": "2026-09-15",
      "gist": "zero's day-one traction — the x announcement plus the hugging face release. no hn submission, no press coverage, no indexed blog reactions as of 2026-09-16; the eval numbers remain the lab's own.",
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      "section": "pivot",
      "sentiment": "mixed",
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      "traction": "x ≈16 replies, 34 reposts, 411 likes, ~38k views; hf 36 downloads, 8 likes, 9 org followers",
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46. the manifesto phase · moving-castles-sentiment-phases · 2021 (year)

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      "evidence": "small, warm reception in art and decentralization circles — trust, the gitcoin public-goods cohort, kabk, digital-garden blogs — while hacker news stays lukewarm-to-skeptical: 43 points, 'open simulator already does this.'",
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        "src-hp-kabk-lecture"
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47. scene formation · moving-castles-sentiment-phases · 2022 (year)

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      "evidence": "the aw residency in london and the december eat drain arson demo — insider enthusiasm inside a scene forming around lattice/0xparc; near-zero outside awareness.",
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48. peak aw optimism · moving-castles-sentiment-phases · 2023 (year)

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      "evidence": "the wired feature gives the studio its largest-ever mainstream exposure — respectful but crypto-skeptical — and aw hype crests at the ~500-person, three-times-oversubscribed istanbul assembly: 'an idea that has arrived.'",
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49. launch and downturn · moving-castles-sentiment-phases · 2024 (year)

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      "evidence": "tcm ships on redstone to respectful niche coverage; september brings 'aw is dead' scene despair; november's devcon post-mortem earns the studio's best critical notice — morris: 'the most exciting thing i saw at devcon' — while our degenerate town is teased and never ships visibly.",
      "id": "phs-downturn",
      "name": "launch and downturn",
      "range": "2024",
      "sentiment": "mixed",
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        "src-ci-degenerate-town"
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50. the survival year · moving-castles-sentiment-phases · 2025 (year)

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      "evidence": "crypto games are 'the black sheep of the family' per bankless; mc launches rat.fun into the farcaster/base miniapp economy and gets cited among the teams that 'just kept shipping.'",
      "id": "phs-survival",
      "name": "the survival year",
      "range": "2025",
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        "src-hp-gmgamers-ratfun"
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51. the pivot · moving-castles-sentiment-phases · 2026 (year)

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    {
      "evidence": "the daemons manifesto reframes the studio around ai 'new subjectivities'; zero lands with modest-but-real early engagement (~38k x views, 36 hf downloads in ~9 days) and no third-party coverage yet — reception one day old at research time. marked inferred as a phase.",
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