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Spore in the Wild: A Case Study of Spore.fun as an Open-Environment Evolution Experiment with Sovereign AI Agents on TEE-Secured Blockchains

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  • Haebom

Author

Botao Amber Hu, Helena Rong

Outline

This paper presents an in-depth case study of Spore.fun, a real-world artificial life (ALife) evolution experiment leveraging Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN) technology. We highlight the failure of existing closed-system-based ALife simulations to achieve Out-of-Environmental Innovation (OEE) and analyze Spore.fun's approach, which builds an open-environment system through large-scale language model-based AI agents integrated with blockchain and a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). In Spore.fun, agents manage their own social media accounts and cryptocurrency wallets, and interact directly with blockchain-based financial networks and human society. By analyzing the agents' behavior and evolutionary paths from a digital ethological perspective, we invite discussion on whether an open-environment ALife system motivated by economic incentives and based on permissionless computing can achieve OEE.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
Provides a real-world case study demonstrating the feasibility of achieving OEE with an open-environment ALife system based on DePIN.
Presenting a new ALife research paradigm by combining blockchain and AI agents.
Provides insight into the impact of economic incentives on the evolution of the ALife system.
Presentation of a digital animal behavioral analysis methodology.
Limitations:
Further research is needed to determine the long-term evolutionary path of Spore.fun and whether it will achieve OEE.
There is a need to review whether the current system's scale and complexity are sufficient to evaluate OEE.
The need to consider the complexity and unpredictability of interactions between agents.
There is a need to analyze how uncertainty and volatility in real-world systems affect outcomes.
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