Phala Network and ai16z play AI experiments: AI self-reproduction and pre-sale, aiPool and Spore.fun drive new gameplay

Author: Nancy, PANews

The Web3 AI Agent track continues to innovate. On December 25, aiPool, the AI ​​Agent independent currency issuance project supported by ai16z founder Shaw, officially opened. Less than two hours after it went online, the market value briefly touched US$100 million. Its strong performance quickly attracted a large amount of on-chain liquidity and became the focus of the market. . Spore.fun, another independent AI evolution platform that also combines the ai16z Eliza framework, is also attracting market attention.

What these two projects have in common is that they use Phala Network's TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) technology to implement currency issuance, ensuring that the private key is generated and stored in the TEE, the developer cannot access the private key, and all operations can be recorded in the terminal log verify. This also allows Phala Network, an active project in the Polkadot ecosystem during the last bull market, to once again attract the attention of the community.

Spore.fun, the collaborative **AI project, has gained popularity

and** has close ties with ai16z

CoinGecko data shows that the token PHA has risen by a maximum of approximately 65.7% in the past 24 hours. Behind the sharp fluctuations in currency prices is the rebound in popularity brought by AI projects Spore.fun and ai16z.

According to the official introduction, Spore.fun is the first autonomous AI reproduction and evolution experiment. It combines the Eliza framework, Solana’s Pump.fun and TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) verification calculations to create an ecosystem designed to allow AI Agents to Not only can they survive, they can also reproduce and adapt independently, completely free of human intervention.

Spore.fun adopts the AI ​​Swarm concept, which was proposed by Shaw, the founder of ai16z and the creator of the Eliza framework. It is inspired by natural systems, such as ant colonies and neural networks, that is, AI groups produce independent emergent intelligence through collaboration, competition and evolution. Agent network, these AI Agents can not only coexist, but also thrive through autonomous evolution.

According to the operating mechanism of Spore.fun, each AI Agent can be launched from Pump.fun. Once the market value reaches 500,000 US dollars and enters the Raydium fund pool, it will be eligible for "reproduction". However, to ensure it operates autonomously, the agent needs to lease a TEE server powered by Phala Network, which provides a secure and verifiable "sandbox" environment for the AI, ensuring its operations take place under independent and controlled conditions.

In this regard, crypto KOL@ cryptoweituo believes that Spore.fun is equivalent to automating the process of new plates emerging on Pump.fun, achieving unlimited deposits through unlimited splits, and survival of the fittest. If there is a main force that can continuously fission at each level of the system to select ultra-low liquidity targets to pounce on the market, a lottery system can be formed, which may be able to attract a lot of funds. If the Phala burn rate can be disclosed, the liquidation threshold of each coin can be calculated, which can be regarded as a reasonable basis for stopping losses.

From this point of view, in addition to focusing on the new gameplay of AI self-reproduction, the support of the star project ai16z has also brought more attention to Spore.fun, which has also injected more development possibilities into Phala Network.

In fact, Phala Network already has a close relationship with ai16z. In addition to frequent interactions with Shaw on social media, it also disclosed that its TEE services have been used by ai16z and other partners to enhance applications. In addition, Phala Network has also partnered with a16z to build Eliza’s TEE framework, which integrates TEE technology into Eliza’s multi-agent framework, providing cryptographic verifiability and enhanced privacy to ensure safe and reliable interactions.

This time Phala Network also empowered Spore.fun holders through airdrops and brought more attention to itself. Marvin Tong, the founder of the protocol, recently announced that he is airdropping two platform tokens to SPORE holders of the independent AI evolution platform Spore.fun, namely adam and eve. These two tokens are the parent and sibling of the Spore.fun platform. Matriarchal AI character.

**Using TEE technology to lay out the AI ​​​​track, once rejected the

MEME currency**

Although the Polkadot ecology once experienced a collective surge due to the popularity, many projects are also facing survival challenges as the market heat cools down. Phala Network is once again returning to the public eye with the help of AI narrative.

Phala Network believes that the rise of AI has brought unprecedented demand for confidential computing, in which secure and private data processing has become critical. This surge in demand highlights the importance of trusted execution environments (TEEs) in ensuring data integrity, confidentiality and security in AI operations.

To this end, Phala Network has developed the open source, TEE-based Dstack framework to simplify the implementation of a secure high-performance computing environment for AI projects. This year, Phala Network empowered AI Agent through TEE technology, greatly increasing its adoption rate and usage, from about 150 contract executions per day at the beginning of the year to about 750,000 times today.

At the same time, Phala Network's TEE technology has been integrated into major fields such as blockchain and AI, covering multiple directions from decentralized AI model training and reasoning to secure Ethereum block construction. For example, Phala’s partnership with Hyperbolic integrates its confidential computing technology into the blockchain to ensure secure deployment and verification of AI models; its partnership with DePIN protocol io.net further expands decentralization by providing secure access to GPU resources. ized AI; Phala collaborates with 0G, Morpheus and Lumerin for secure and verifiable AI execution; it collaborates with Succinct Labs and Conduit to redefine Ethereum scalability and secure computing, etc.

As early as October this year, Phala Network developed autonomous AI Agents, such as the first fully autonomous AI Agent project @TEE_HEE_HE on Twitter, which is used to eliminate human intervention in the AI ​​decision-making process and the application Agent Wars based on AI-AgentContract.

According to crypto KOL @0xSun , when TEE was launched at the end of October this year, the AI ​​issued an ETH address and appeared as a MEME coin with the same name on Ethereum, attracting interactions from Moji, Azuki founder Zagabond and others, and the currency price also increased in half a day. It reached US$40 million within a year, but several developers leading the technology at the time (including Phala Network) expressed their opposition many times, causing the price of the currency to plummet. Even so, two months later, TEE technology really attracted public interest and began to spread on a large scale, but it was still because of the related tokens. If the technical team actively embraced MEME coins from the beginning, it might be possible to develop something like Ai16Z on the ETH mainnet. Project of this scale. He also pointed out that although TEE emphasizes autonomous control of AI, there may still be backdoors in the code, and most people lack the ability to confirm whether TEE technology is actually used.

In addition, Phala Network disclosed more layouts in the AI ​​track in its 2024 outlook. For example, Phala Network will focus on building Phala 2.0 in 2025, an upgraded platform integrating GPU TEE technology that can provide higher processing power and enhanced security for AI and privacy protection applications; Phala Network plans to launch Phala Cloud is a platform designed for AI applications to simplify the deployment and management of TEE applications.

Overall, judging from the market reaction, Phala Network's transformation has received a positive response, and its currency price has also increased. However, Phala will still face many challenges if it wants to continue to build competitiveness in the AI ​​market where gods are fighting.