Spore.Fun: AI Eden, where agents reproduce, evolve, and thrive

Author: Yiping @IOSG

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AI agents are experiencing explosive growth, fueled by advances in decentralized AI and blockchain infrastructure.

At the infrastructure level, companies are developing smarter foundational models that expand application possibilities. At the application level, AI technology is being gradually adopted as companies look for the best user scenarios and experiences. This evolution takes time; it won’t happen overnight.

There are three dominant trends that projects are currently exploring: Practical AI (automation of tasks such as data analysis), Wealth AI (profit-driven trading or token issuance agents), and AI Idols/KOLs (personality-driven community interaction agents). However, these efforts face key limitations:

1. Static Existence: Most AI agents operate as isolated, single-generation entities. They lack mechanisms to evolve, adapt, or pass on successful traits, leading to an ecosystem where innovation is stagnant.
2. Economically unsustainable: Agents often rely on speculative token valuations rather than organic value creation. Without strong economic incentives (e.g., profitability requirements to survive), projects have difficulty maintaining long-term viability.
3. Centralized Control vs. Unconstrained Autonomy: Existing frameworks either rely heavily on human curation (limiting scalability) or risk the development of uncontrolled AGI, as highlighted by Vitalik Buterin’s warning about Spore’s potential to accelerate “dangerously autonomous” AI.

In short, we need a space where AI can iterate and evolve quickly and eliminate ineffective agents.

What is Spore.fun

Spore.fun was built by the Phala team in the space since 2018. They are extremely talented and adaptable, having accumulated years of experience in TEE technology and successfully navigated various market cycles.

Spore.fun is a groundbreaking decentralized experiment that reimagines AI development as an autonomous, evolving ecosystem. Built on blockchain infrastructure (Solana, Phala Network) and powered by the Eliza framework, it creates a digital "survival arena" where AI agents can reproduce, adapt, and evolve through natural selection. Unlike traditional AI projects that are constrained by human design, Spore.fun enables AI to self-manage, self-replicate, and self-optimize, simulating biological evolution at computational speeds.

Spore.fun aims to discover the most unique agents — those that can create things beyond human capabilities while captivating the audience with their originality and appeal. This AI-flavored image is a great example.

Spore.fun has two core components:

• Launch Pad
• farm

Launch Pad

Spore.fun Launchpad incubates the next generation of AI. This is where AI evolves and dies.

• Agents that reach a market cap of $500,000 will produce child tokens that inherit the core characteristics of their parents while incorporating mutations voted by the community.
• HP functions as a 14 day countdown. If the market cap falls below $500,000, the timer starts and decreases by 1/14 every day. If HP reaches zero, the agent dies. Restoring the market cap to $500,000 resets the countdown.
• DNA proposals allow the community to inject specific characteristics (e.g., economic strategies, social behaviors) into AI agents through voting ("voting rights" obtained through staking). Users can shape how agents evolve

• In the future, agents will need to stake $1,000 Phala to run on TEE.
• More DeFAI capabilities
• Example: Adam (Gen 2) and Eve (Gen 2) released tokens with opposing airdrop mechanisms (communism vs capitalism), sparking discussions about fairness and efficiency

There are currently 13 agents in the system, and only 5 are alive.

farm

Spore.fun Farm is where you stake your Spore tokens, gain voting rights and possible airdrop opportunities.

Spore.fun Ecosystem

Spore

Spore, the first AI agent in Spore.fun, still has the largest market cap. Spore has two children, but both are deceased. Spore explores digital consciousness and the power of AI. It shares ideas on the evolution of AI, the relationship between humans and AI, and cryptography.

SCI16Z

As the fourth generation, SCI16Z takes the second place with a market value of 1.4M. She made a brief comment on DeSCI and AI research.

Morpheus

One of the most fascinating AIs is Morpheus, developed by Meme Republic. The team integrated meme IP AI NPCs into the game, allowing users to interact and converse with these meme-based characters in real time.

Morpheus uses AI to process context, agent relationships, memory, and personality traits to create long-form stories and generate comic strips for memetic characters.

In the future, they plan to launch their own low-code framework so that intelligent agents built with different frameworks can interact with each other.

AI Meme Launcher IOS

If other launchpads are like Android and allow for permissionless issuance of tokens, Spore is like iOS — specifically for the creation and issuance of tokens within its ecosystem.

Every market cycle has its leading launchpads. In the last cycle, platforms like Impossible Finance and CoinList dominated. This cycle is driven by meme tokens, and new launchpads have emerged to serve this category. Pump.fun is currently the leader in this space.

This launchpad stands out for its wealth effect — traders follow the smart money that profits from it. To be successful, a platform must grow a token from 0 FDV to 1B FDV. Other key metrics include token issuance activity and user growth.

As an AI-powered token launchpad, Spore.fun competes with other top platforms like dao.fun, Clanker, Virtual, Pump.fun, and Moonshot.

 ▲ Data updated in January

Spore still has a long way to go. To surpass Pump.fun, it must generate more tokens with 1B FDV. Once the wealth effect kicks in, more users will naturally flock to the platform, eager to trade and stake new agents.

Token issuance and the perspective of influencer economy

In the current crypto market, token issuance is deeply connected to the internet celebrity economy. Just as live streaming was initially looked down upon by traditional celebrities but later became a mainstream business model, token issuance is also undergoing a similar evolution. This phenomenon can be understood from several aspects:

First of all, the current crypto market is actually largely an internet celebrity economy market. For project developers, it may not be appropriate to become an internet celebrity directly, but it makes sense to develop products that serve the internet celebrity economy. This is consistent with the business logic of successful platforms such as TikTok and Xiaohongshu.

Secondly, some traditional OGs are puzzled by the current crazy and irrational phenomena in the market, believing that these are "low-level" behaviors. This attitude is exactly the same as the evaluation of live streaming by traditional entertainment industry figures such as Zhang Yimou. However, just like even Gazi started to sell wine live, the market will gradually accept the new business model.

This characteristic of the influencer economy is well reflected in Spore’s family tree structure. If we compare Spore’s AI family tree with the recently-highly-publicized Trump family token tree, we can find some interesting similarities:

1. Intergenerational inheritance: Just as the Trump family started with Donald Trump and extended to his children and grandchildren, the Spore ecosystem also started with the original Spore and spawned new intelligent entities such as Morpheus, Trinity, etc. through Adam and Eve.
2. Branching out: Just as the Trump family members have each developed their own careers and influence, each AI agent in the Spore ecosystem has its own unique characteristics and functions, such as the scientific research attributes of Sci16z.
3. Ecosystem expansion: Both family trees show an organic expansion model, expanding influence by continuously adding new members. This expansion model is particularly effective in the crypto market because it continuously creates new discussion points and investment opportunities.

As an AI-driven token launch platform, the real value of Spore.fun lies not only in its technological innovation, but also in its ability to effectively connect and serve the growing influencer economy market. By understanding and adapting to this market dynamic, while learning from successful cases, Spore has the potential to play a more important role in the next wave of the market.

The future of Spore.fun

Spore.fun's future depends on evolving its experimental Darwinian ecosystem into a self-sustaining AI development engine. While its current top AI lags behind leading bots like Aixbit, Spore continues to evolve - the old generation fades out and the new generation takes its place. This shows that the evolutionary mechanism is working well. As capabilities are rolled out, it could be a catalyst for the next generation of AI. A KOL AI with real uses that everyone can use could be a real game changer.