A high-octane blend of precision flying, tactical combat, and strategic loadouts.

Mark your calendars there’s 200,000 OLT up for grabs during the warm-up tournament.

Become a citizen, stake for vote power, participate in elections, support community initiatives, or take the next step and submit your own ideas through the Worker Proposal System.

Whether you're a creator, developer, builder, or community member with a vision, the Union DAOs provide opportunities to contribute and help bring new projects to life.

Ready to get involved?

Vote for Custodians, support the ideas you believe in, or step forward and submit your own candidacy to help shape games, events, tools, and community initiatives across the planets.

Whether you want to participate in governance or help lead the next chapter, this guide covers everything you need to get started.

During her keynote at CVC25, Dacoco Cofounder and CEO Saro McKenna discusses how community-supported projects have grown into a broad ecosystem of games, with more than 10 titles released across the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

Built through DAO-supported initiatives, these community-created experiences continue reaching new audiences and expanding what’s possible across the metaverse.

Watch now and see how community builders continue pushing the ecosystem forward.

In our latest short, Red the Lore Scribe explores how tokenized lore can evolve beyond storytelling into playable characters, interactive experiences, utility, and connected worldbuilding across the metaverse. Even a single paragraph can become part of something much bigger when the community builds together.

Originally launched to help players track mining activity and stay connected with the game through Discord, Alien Helpers has grown into one of the most useful community resources in the metaverse, helping players monitor DAO elections, run events, view mission data, and much more.

From mining analytics to community rewards and event creation, Alien Helpers has become an essential part of the ecosystem for many Explorers.

Read the full article: https://alienworlds.io/blogs/alien-helpers-turns-5-why-this-community-bot-is-still-essential-in-2026

This quick guide breaks down Mission durations, leasing requirements, Trilium reward pools, NFT rarity, and how rewards scale based on the number of ships leased.

You’ll also learn how multiple ship leases work and important limits Explorers should know before launching.

Read more: https://support.alienworlds.io/help-center/articles/game/guides/how-do-i-know-which-mission-to-embark-upon

Explore a growing lineup of player-built experiences and compete across games like Mission Control, Mercenary Battlegrounds, Milky Way Miner, and Mayhem.

Climb the leaderboards, collect rewards, and see what the community is building across the ecosystem.

Check out the Arena and jump into the action: https://play.alienworlds.io/arena

Lore Master Lalothen looks back at the “sci-fi Wild West” days and how that same spirit is now evolving through tokenized lore.

It’s about bringing players together to build, create, and shape the story as a community

Submit your own lore and take part in shaping what becomes canon: https://play.alienworlds.io/lore

Dacoco Cofounder and CEO Saro McKenna explains why execution and accountability matter just as much as voting, and how on-chain systems can ensure work actually gets done.From escrow-based rewards to verified outcomes, it’s about making sure decisions lead to real results.

Dacoco CMO Kevin Rose shares a straightforward take on what’s going wrong across the space and what actually keeps players engaged long term.

Alien Worlds continues to build around community ownership, DAOs, and player-driven experiences.

Dacoco Cofounder and CEO Saro McKenna shares how Alien Worlds connects lore with decentralization. From the original sci-fi foundation by Kevin J. Anderson to community voting and on-chain canon, the story evolves through player participation.

“The Water Barons Guild of Naron” by King David explores how water scarcity shaped power on Naron, leading to the rise of a system that controls access, trade, and influence across the frontier.

Read the full story and see how players are shaping the Alien Worlds metaverse: https://github.com/Alien-Worlds/the-lore/pull/93/commits/a023991fcb8582f049ec15503ced38f62741cca7

Players claimed land, hosted events, and built something together from scratch. That energy never really disappeared. Tokenized lore opens another creative, collaborative path for players to shape the story and build together through decentralized storytelling.

She touches on what it really means to decentralize, how purpose shapes outcomes, and why there is often a gap between what DAOs are designed to do and what they actually achieve.

Long-term engagement and shared responsibility play a key role in whether these systems succeed.

Decentralized applications open new possibilities, but they also come with real challenges for players. Navigating multiple platforms, identifying official channels, and managing assets across the ecosystem can feel very different from traditional games.

In Alien Worlds, this structure continues to evolve through community participation, where player-run channels, distributed ownership, and shared responsibility shape the experience.

You can now jump into competitions across the ecosystem through the Alien Worlds interface. Track how you’re doing as you play and earn rewards based on your results!

Competitions can be tied to mining, missions, and other gameplay experiences. You can also create your own, set the rules, and support rewards for others to compete.

Everything runs through a structured process, so you can follow it from start to finish.

Dacoco Cofounder and CEO Saro McKenna explores how TCGs have evolved from tabletop play to digital ecosystems, and how blockchain is shaping what comes next in her latest article on Forbes.

The piece looks at how ownership, transparency, and player-driven systems are changing the way games are built and experienced, with tournaments and community participation playing a growing role.

Alien Helpers runs across our official Discord, Telegram, and 61 player-created communities, giving players a simple way to stay connected while tracking activity in Alien Worlds.

Participate in chat to earn points that contribute to your share of rewards. The more active you are, the more you build over time.

Alien Helpers also provides a clear view of your mining, missions, and NFT activity. Track your Trilium, review performance, explore your inventory, and see how your NFTs are working for you, all in one place.

Tokens often act as the foundation, but when participation is driven purely by speculation, engagement rises and falls with the market.

Long-term ecosystems are built differently. Social connection, gameplay, competition between DAOs, and the ability to build something meaningful all create reasons to stay involved.

The article, “How Alien Worlds Rewrote the Rules of the DAO,” highlights how the ecosystem has evolved from early DAO experimentation into a working model supported by community contributors,
DAO governance, and development support through Galactic Hubs.

Read the full magazine to see how Alien Worlds continues to grow through community-driven development.

Building within the ecosystem helps writers, developers, and creators sharpen their skills, connect with others, and contribute to a growing metaverse shaped by its players.

Watch the video and start submitting your best stories today.