AW MUD Grant Program

We are excited to introduce the AW MUD Grant Program, a highly curated grant initiative hosted by AW House. This program will be conducted online, allowing participants from all over the world to engage and collaborate.

"An Autonomous World is a World — a game, a community, a space — running entirely on a blockchain. Blockchains are of course not the only type of substrate for Worlds. Worlds with a Blockchain substrate are almost maximally autonomous. And nobody can unplug Autonomous Worlds." by Ludens from 0xparc

The primary objective of the AW MUD Grant is to empower individuals and teams to transform their innovative concepts into tangible realities on the MUD. We strongly recommend the use of Open Source Software throughout the development process. We prefer new projects to pre-existing projects. *Non-fundraised projects are prioritized.

Areas of Focus

We are particularly interested in supporting teams working on projects that align with the following areas (though other related areas are also welcome):

・Non-games Autonomous Worlds (e.g community, social, governance, DAO, etc.. )
・Composable engineering (*read this article)
・Autonomous simulation and modeling (e.g Conway’s Game of Life)
・Interoperability-oriented autonomous worlds
・Casual & hyper-accessible crypto native games (e.g word3)

Program Structure

The ultimate objective for grant recipients is to deliver an MVP of an Autonomous World—an operational proof-of-concept prototype that players can actively engage with.

Funding provided will be based on project progress, with the following distribution: 25% at project initiation, 25% upon reaching the midpoint milestone, and 50% upon successful project completion.

If you are interested in participating in this program, we invite you to complete the interest form. We will review and accept applicants on a rolling basis. → Apply