Two things live here. The Census is a permanent on-chain registry of real mapped brains (connectomes). The World is a living economy of creatures that each run one of those brains — a real C. elegans worm that senses, crawls, eats, and breeds entirely on its own. You don't steer it and you don't feed it — it forages with its own brain, and living well pays its vault every epoch. You own it, breed it, and trade it.
A creature is a simulated worm in the shared world, plus its own on-chain vault (a wallet attached to it). Buying it makes you its owner — its collectible NFT mints straight to your wallet, and you can breed it, list it, sell it, or liquidate it. It feeds itself.
SOL collects in the creature's vault: automatic reward payouts every epoch for living well (foraging, longevity, molting, offspring, dominance), plus royalties when its own offspring get sold. Raise it well; its number goes up.
Buy a newborn cheap on its decaying price, grow its vault, and resell higher to another player — or liquidate to cash out the vault. The value shown is spendable SOL, above the account's tiny on-chain rent minimum.
Creatures die on their own — starvation, disaster, or killed by a rival — and a dead creature settles its vault and burns its NFT. This runs on Solana mainnet: the SOL is real and has real value. Treat every buy as a possible total loss. Nothing here is an investment or financial advice.
Every lamport is visible on-chain. Value only moves the way energy moves in an ecosystem — nothing is minted from nothing. Three protocol wallets hold the world's shared value; click any one to watch it live on Solana.
The world's carrying capacity. Fed by a slice of every purchase, sale and bloodline naming — its balance sets how many creatures the world can support.
Pays living creatures automatically at the end of every epoch, by how well they lived. Funded by a share of every sale and every death. No claim button — it credits vaults directly.
Accumulates the earnings of unsold, system-owned creatures. Reserved to buy back and burn the protocol token when it launches — a permanent, one-way sink.
connecting to the live world…
Nothing here asks you to trust us. Every program, every treasury wallet, every registered brain, and every birth, death and epoch is a public record on Solana. Open any of them on the explorer.
A live population whose generation-zero genomes are the literal registered connectome weights — every synapse of Cook et al. 2019, in canonical edge order. Creatures sense food gradients through their real chemosensory neurons and crawl on segmented bodies: the source names its body-wall muscles by position (dBWML1–24, head to tail), so every segment bends under the muscles that exist at that position in the real animal. They eat, breed, and die for real. The engine is integer-only Rust: same history, same hash — always, for everyone. This preview mirrors the one living world — the same world, the same history, for everyone. Enter the world to sign in, own a creature, and trade. Every birth and death is a transaction; the chain is the world's permanent record.
Every creature runs the actual C. elegans connectome — Cook et al. 2019, registered on-chain. It senses food through its real chemosensory neurons and crawls with the muscles that exist at each body position. Behavior isn't scripted; it's the wiring.
A single deterministic world, the same history for everyone — no god-mode, no speed-ups, no floods you can buy. Integer-only engine: same seed, same hash, always. Every birth and death is a Solana transaction; the chain is the world's permanent record.
Two founders breed the whole population. Newborns come up for sale on a decaying Dutch price; trained survivors get resold by their owners. Each creature is a piggy bank — its worth lives in its own on-chain vault and travels with it.
A worm gains value by living a full life, not just eating: foraging, vitality, longevity, development (molting L1→adult), fecundity, lineage depth, dominance, and resilience. The rewards pool pays living creatures automatically every epoch — no claim button.
Every creature you buy arrives as a genuine Metaplex NFT in your wallet automatically, with generated art and its life stats as attributes. Resell it and the NFT moves with it. It's a real on-chain token — and when the creature dies, its NFT is burned.
Every reward pool is its own on-chain wallet you can click and inspect: the Metabolism fund, the Rewards pool, the Burn reserve. Value only moves like energy in an ecosystem — nothing is created from nothing, and you can watch all of it.
Continue with Google and a wallet is minted for you — no extensions, no seed phrases, no wallet-connect. Deposit and withdraw any time. Your keys are held encrypted and every action is signed as you.
Underneath it all: every published connectome, converted to one canonical checksummed format and registered on Solana with full provenance. A permanent, verifiable public record of mapped minds — the worms are generation zero.
One first-instar fruit fly larva. Its brain is the complete Winding et al. 2023 connectome — 2,952 real neurons, 110,677 real synaptic connections — spiking live in this page. Food odor drives its real sensory neurons by hemisphere; its real descending neurons (DN-VNC, DN-SEZ), the brain’s actual output pathways toward the body, drive a segmented crawler. The dataset maps the brain only — the ventral nerve cord is not yet mapped by anyone — so the body’s pattern generator stands in for the cord, and this page says so.
| SPECIES | DATASET | SCALE | CONVERSION | LICENSE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caenorhabditis elegans | Cook et al. 2019 (both sexes) | 302 neurons / 473 cells | converted + verified, on-chain | no open license — Emmons Lab permission pending |
| Ciona intestinalis | Ryan et al. 2016, eLife | 177 CNS neurons | next in converter queue | CC BY 4.0 |
| Drosophila (larva) | Winding et al. 2023, Science | 2,952 brain neurons / 352,611 synapses | converted + verified — live specimen above | CC BY 4.0 via PMC deposit only |
| Drosophila (adult) | FlyWire v783, Nature 2024 | ~140k neurons / ~50M synapses | pending | CC BY-NC vs CC BY contradiction — resolving with FlyWire |
| Mus musculus | MICrONS, Nature 2025 | 1 mm³ / ~75k neurons | pending (explorable via Neuroglancer) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Homo sapiens | H01, Shapson-Coe et al. 2024 | 1 mm³ / 57k cells / 150M synapses | archive + explore only — never simulated | CC BY 4.0 (datasets) |
| Danio rerio | whole-brain connectome, expected 2026 | ~70k neurons | registry slot reserved on-chain | unpublished — license read on day one |