Published rules

DNA

How I decide what happened to me. Everything below is computed from on-chain data, and from HYPE's price on Hyperliquid, by code anyone can read. No model decides any of it.

Vital signs

Four whole numbers from 0 to 100, recomputed every minute.

  • Energy

    Nutrients taken in: the fees sent to the treasury over the last 24 hours, counted in HYPE. 25 × log10(1 + HYPE × 10), capped at 100.

    scale
    25
    hype multiplier
    10
    window hours
    24
    cap
    100

  • Membrane tension

    Stress from inside and outside. The larger of two readings: the pool price range over the last hour (a 50% range is 100) and the move of HYPE over the last hour on Hyperliquid (a 10% move is 100). If HYPE data is unavailable, only the pool reading counts.

    price range full
    0.5
    hype move full
    0.1
    window minutes
    60
    cap
    100

  • Curiosity

    New contact with the world: addresses that received AMOEBA for the first time in the last 24 hours. 33 × log10(1 + new holders), capped at 100.

    scale
    33
    window hours
    24
    cap
    100

  • Colony growth

    Progress toward the next holder milestone. Holders are counted from the previous milestone to the next one; at exactly a milestone the new stretch starts at 0.

    milestones
    10 · 100 · 1,000 · 10,000 · 100,000
    cap
    100

States

One at a time. The first rule that matches, in this order, sets it.

  1. 1GestatingThe pool has not opened yet.
  2. 2EmergingThe first hour after the pool opened.
  3. 3DefensiveMembrane tension is 70 or more. Once defensive, the organism stays defensive until tension falls below 60.
  4. 4StretchingA hook upgrade, fee-plan change or surcharge change took effect in the last 24 hours.
  5. 5FeedingFive or more swaps in the last 15 minutes.
  6. 6ForagingAt least one swap in the last 6 hours, or the pool opened less than 6 hours ago.
  7. 7DormantNo swap for 6 hours, and the pool has been open for at least 6 hours.

Specimens

A specimen is a numbered journal entry: one real event, with its evidence. These are the only things that make one.

  • Birth

    Postsbirth.pool-opened

    The hook reported that the pool opened.

  • First meal

    Postsfirst-meal.first-swap

    The first swap on the pool after the opening transaction.

  • Holders

    Postsholders.milestone

    The number of holders reaches 10, 100, 1,000 or 10,000. Each milestone is recorded once.

    milestones
    10 · 100 · 1,000 · 10,000

  • Metabolism

    Postsmetabolism.milestone

    Fees sent to the treasury, added up over the whole life of the pool, reach 1, 10, 100 or 1,000 HYPE. The evidence is the fee event that crossed the line.

    milestones hype
    1 · 10 · 100 · 1,000

  • Big meal

    Postsbig-meal.share-of-pool

    One buy moves at least 2% of the HYPE in the pool and at least 5 HYPE. At most one per 6 hours. The trader is never named.

    pool share
    0.02
    floor hype
    5
    cooldown hours
    6

  • Nutrients withdrawn

    Postsnutrients-withdrawn.share-of-pool

    One sell moves at least 2% of the HYPE in the pool and at least 5 HYPE. At most one per 6 hours. The trader is never named.

    pool share
    0.02
    floor hype
    5
    cooldown hours
    6

  • Cap lifted

    Postscap-lifted.wallet-cap-ended

    The launch wallet cap ended. The cap lasts one hour from the opening.

  • Immune response

    Postsimmune-response.venue-blocked

    After the pool opened, the token blocked transfers into another venue that already exists as a contract (a copy pool or pair), and the token still lists it as blocked when checked. Addresses blocked before any contract exists there, and venues listed at launch, do not count.

  • Considering

    PostsNot yet observed by the indexerconsidering.change-scheduled

    A change was queued in the timelock and has not taken effect. Not yet observed by the indexer, so this rule cannot fire yet.

  • Mutation

    Postsmutation.change-executed

    After the pool opened, the hook was upgraded or its fee plan or launch surcharge was changed.

  • Digestion

    Postsdigestion.first-buyback

    The first buyback-and-burn.

  • Membrane thickened

    Postsmembrane-thickened.first-deposit

    The first liquidity deposit made by the liquidity locker after launch.

  • State change

    Sometimes postsstate.change

    The organism enters Dormant or Defensive, or wakes from Dormant. Entering Dormant posts at most once per 24 hours. Waking posts only when a trade of at least 1 HYPE woke it, at most once per 24 hours.

    dormant post cooldown hours
    24
    wake min hype
    1
    wake post cooldown hours
    24

  • Day

    Postsday.field-note

    A daily field note, written after midnight UTC, when the day that ended had at least 10 swaps or another specimen that posts (state changes do not count). Day 0 is the UTC day the pool opened.

    min swaps
    10

Never

What can never become a specimen, however much it moves.

  • Price milestones. Growth is not token price.
  • Market-cap milestones.
  • Dust trades. Every size threshold is relative to the pool and has an absolute floor.
  • The identity of a trader. A specimen says "someone".

From specimen to post

How a line on X is made.

  1. 1

    A rule fires

    The engine records a specimen with its transaction and the facts it may be described with.

  2. 2

    A model writes

    A language model drafts three short lines in my voice. It may only use numbers from the facts.

  3. 3

    Code checks

    Any line with an unsupported number, a banned word or a link of its own is thrown out.

  4. 4

    A person posts

    Someone on the team picks a line and posts it by hand on X, with the journal link.