TapeCode Application Call for Submissions
What kinds of applications are we looking for?
I. Real
Already deployed On Chain with a link that can be opened now
Not a demo submitted after simply running through a template
II. Useful
Connected to a domain and accessible through a standard browser
Users can understand what it does from the first screen
The core flow works from start to finish
The TapeCode security audit has been completed and all flagged issues have been fixed
III. Valuable
You can answer these four questions
What service does it provide
Who are the users
Why would users pay
Why would they come back after using it
Games, web services, digital goods, and bringing an established Web2 business On Chain all count
We will use these applications to connect with potential partners and recommend them to community foundations for possible support
Submissions are open on an ongoing basis
You can submit again after updating your application
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This call only accepts applications developed with TapeCode
Form link
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got tagged to introduce @jerallaire to @obrainarc. before i could even type the intro, he'd replied to them himself.
so here's the introduction anyway, for everyone wondering what a fruit fly is doing in the @circle & @Arc CEO's replies.
oBrain took the BANC v888 connectome of an adult female fruit fly, 169,088 cells and 325,292 weighted connections, and compiled it into bytecode on Arc mainnet. not a model trained to act like a fly. the published wiring diagram itself, pruned to the strongest synapses per neuron, weights quantized to 16-bit integers, spread across 85 contracts as 1.96 MB of code. the kernel reads its own anatomy with eth_getCode. integers only, because floats don't replay the same on every node, and a brain that lives in consensus has to.
every think() is one tick of neural time. sensory charge comes in, propagates across the tapes, cells that cross threshold fire and reset, the rest leak. the contract emits which cells fired, how many synapses were crossed, and a state root of the whole potential field. you can replay that tick on your laptop and match it byte for byte. they've published seven field studies doing exactly that. 85 of 85 tapes verified, 74 of 74 spike lists reproduced, predictions hashed before the chain resolved them.
and the gas is USDC. by their own count, roughly $600 USDC in gas over 7 days, 4,322 thoughts from 111 wallets, around 12 to 16 cents each. that's the part Jeremy noticed. nobody here is moving dollars around. the dollars are paying for a biological computation to happen, and the result gets written into chain history.
then it got stranger. on september 26 they hatched 333 founder flies, each one a clone of the brain with its own genome. 64 genes, each one bends a slice of the synapses by up to 25%. courtship is decided by the fly being courted. the suitor's pheromone goes into one sensillum, and if the target's courtship region fires enough, it's a yes. offspring take each gene from one parent with a 2% mutation rate. by october 7 the colony is 384 flies, 51 of them born onchain, 82 courtship rulings, 4,331 thoughts, and the inheritance audit came back mendelian 33 out of 33.
a brain on a disk is a map. a brain in consensus is an organism nobody can edit, pause or fake, and anyone can check. i've been poking these flies since hatching day and i still can't tell you what they're for. that's the honest answer, and i think it's also why Jeremy's reply was what it was.
built on Arc. code, wiring, chain history and research, all public.
I believe @arc has the potential to become one of the strongest networks for builders.
But infrastructure should not be judged by hype, narratives, or a few weeks of attention. It should be judged by what developers can actually build on it, how reliably those products can operate, and whether real users choose to stay.
Arc is still in its early days. From our experience building on it so far, the infrastructure has been remarkably stable.
Now, let time do its work.
Let developers push the network to its limits.
Let real products generate real activity.
Let users decide what is worth returning to.
For us, the mission is simple: keep researching, keep building, and turn the infrastructure into something people actually want to use.
A great network should not need builders to constantly explain why it is great.
Eventually, the products built on top of it should prove that.
$UBI's buyback is now permanent 🔥
We burned the $UBI creator NFT, which means nobody can switch the buyback off anymore. Not us. Not anyone.
56%+ of every $UBI trading fee will continue buying and burning $UBI.
And now every creator on https://t.co/cWXzQr6qw0 can make the same commitment to their coin with one click: burn the creator NFT and renounce control for good.
Onchain proof: 0x8e54f37173306d6535b49029baaa12e4879491be750c8666ebfb605aacd632a9
💙
Round 1 closes in 3 minutes.
$4,197 USDC and counting goes to $UBI holders. That's 24% of the trading fees from every coin on https://t.co/cWXzQr6qw0 today.
Snapshot at 00:00 UTC. Hold $UBI in a regular wallet to be included.
Claims open ~24h later.
Why 24h?
Every payout list is published before it goes live, then sits behind an on-chain 24h timelock.
Anyone can recompute it from public chain data and flag a mistake before a single USDC moves.
Fairness you can check, not trust. 💙