Introducing Quarry: A modern computing environment for your World
“But can it run Doom?” is a well-known rallying cry in the computing world, which has spawned efforts to put the open-source first-person-shooter on everything from old Macs, to Pelotons, to tractors. Up until now, blockchains have largely fallen short of this achievement, which serves as an unofficial benchmark for the sophistication of a piece of hardware.
We’re proud to announce that we put Doom onchain, with just 7 milliseconds of latency. And we’re releasing the tech behind the feat to an alpha-tester group (with a full release coming in early 2025), so you can build ultra-fast applications onchain too. Quarry, our new infrastructure that powers this tech, is a full suite of offerings from Lattice that enables MUD applications to run in real-time at scale.
At Lattice, we believe the Ethereum Virtual Machine can one day be the World Computer, not just the world’s financial computer — an open, accessible network that plays host to emergent behavior and eventually Autonomous Worlds. The software we build reflects this belief. With MUD, we built an operating system for applications on the EVM that enables developers to build with a familiar data model and automatic indexer, greatly simplifying the development process, encouraging third-party development, and leaning into the EVM’s natural support of composability. With Redstone, we built a super-low cost Layer Two, which uses an Alt-DA protocol built by Lattice and upstreamed to the OP Stack. Teams like CCP Games (EVE Frontier), Biomes, and more use Redstone and MUD to build Autonomous Worlds and push the frontier of EVM applications.
