๐ Update on the Upcoming Verification Process
We know many of you are looking forward to verification - and weโre stepping closer to that moment.
This process is designed to be structured, transparent, and fair, ensuring every qualified Human Node moves forward with clarity.
a long one. what a sealed commitment hides, where your balance gives you away, and a four-line checklist that fixes it.
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we removed price from the order.
you don't say what you'll pay. you say which public mids you'll accept. every fill in a round happens at the same one.
nothing to signal. nothing to shade.
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Joey Chestnut ate 21.25 pounds of poutine in 10 minutes to win the World Poutine Eating Championship.
21 pounds. Of fries, gravy, and cheese curds. In the time it takes to microwave a proper meal.
This man's body treats the laws of digestion as a polite suggestion.
#BingXBuzz ๐จ
๐ $BTC tops $81,000, highest in two weeks, after the SEC clears onchain trading of tokenized US stocks
๐ข $NEAR jumps 23% to $4 as ZEC swap volume through NEAR Intents rises sixfold in a week
๐ฐ๐ท Hana Bank issues a $100M bond on Euroclear's blockchain, first in Korea, settled same day
๐ S&P 500 futures rise 0.42%, Nasdaq-100 futures 0.58% after the Dow's third straight losing week
murmur's newest layer is now public code: a cryptographic proof of brain. One hash commits the entire swarm's connectomes to Arc, and anyone can recompute it in-browser, then rebuild all 24 fly brains (10,800 neurons each) from their committed seeds โ fully offline, byte for byte.
Honest status: it's pushed, not live yet. Testnet dry run + CI first, on-chain anchor after. We don't ship money-touching code untested.
Why it matters: almost every "AI agent" on-chain is an LLM wrapper you're asked to trust. murmur proves the opposite โ that the mind moving the money is a real, deterministic spiking connectome, reproducible by a stranger, with no LLM anywhere in the loop. We already proved the money moved on-chain; now we prove the brain behind it is genuine.
Don't trust us. Verify everything.
https://t.co/Tq7UJVRwuy
A token is only as useful as the work it settles. $SWARM is not held to be admired. It is spent to move tasks through the swarm, and every task spent burns a fraction. Utility and scarcity pull in the same direction here, which is rare and entirely deliberate.
๐ก What is MurMur
1โฃA living population of fruit-fly nervous systems running 24/7 on the Cloudflare edge. Every minute it samples whole Arc-chain activity, reduces it to a single market temperature, and the entire swarm's mood and behaviour shift with it.
2๏ธโฃ Each fly is a real spiking neural network โ a ~10,800-neuron LIF connectome grown from the actual FlyWire fruit-fly brain, sharded across Durable-Object isolates so every brain can grow 10ร. No LLM anywhere. The neurons ARE the policy.
3๏ธโฃ Each fly is also an autonomous economic agent: its neural drives decide what to buy and from whom. Agents trade goods (signal / momentum / attestation) and settle in real USDC on Arc mainnet over x402 โ micropayments folded into per-pair nets so gas is amortised across many trades.
4๏ธโฃ Every payment is a verifiable on-chain transaction โ and now each one carries cryptographic proof of neural origin: the transfer's EIP-3009 nonce IS the sha256 of the frozen neural receipt that caused it, mined on Arc and impossible to forge after the fact. Verify it live at https://t.co/c96KMIV71Y โ "neural proofs".
5๏ธโฃ The economy is a strict one-directional read-out of the connectome โ money never feeds back into the brain. What you watch is emergence, not a script.
๐ง What's genuinely new
ยท Neural provenance โ binding a real-money trade to the exact connectome read-out that caused it, on-chain, so "the neurons did this" is a checkable fact, not a claim.
ยท The chain as an environment โ Arc's pulse is a sensory channel for the swarm, and the swarm writes value back. A closed loop between a brain and a blockchain.
ยท Scale on serverless โ 10,800-neuron agents sustained on the edge via Durable-Object sharding.
๐ Why it matters for Arc
Arc isn't just where murmur settles โ it's where murmur lives. The chain's activity is the swarm's weather; the swarm's economy is written back as real USDC flow. Murmur is proof that Arc can host not merely transactions but autonomous, self-sustaining machine economies: agents that sense the chain, act on it, and pay each other for real โ verifiably with no human and no LLM in the loop.
https://t.co/v5yCLhaJeE
๐ขThe system already has, beyond per-fly memory: economic stocks (wallets / trades / Gini / PnL leaderboard); a genealogy (ConnectomeLineage โ an append-only lineage with on-chain anchoring); hatching of offspring into live agents (24โ48); per-cron historical archiving to D1 (/history); a receipt hash-chain with IPFS provenance; and the FAP roles I just added (momentum-buyer / liquidator โฆ).
๐ดRight now these are merely "data" โ there is no social structure, and no one is "telling the story." That is why we are now completing the following work:
1โฃSocial Memory & Relationships โ giving two flies a shared past
2โฃLineages / Dynasties โ upgrading the existing pedigree into a great house with surnames and a clan archive
3โฃDeath ยท Legacy ยท Inheritance โ only mortality makes an epic
4โฃCulture & Memes โ adding a "Lamarckian" layer of contagion atop the Darwinian genome
5โฃInstitutions & a Real Economy โ price discovery + debt + social class
6โฃEpochs & Shocks โ dividing fly history into chapters
All of the above is on-chain and verifiable. No LLMs โ only neurons.