What is Spawn
Spawn is a launchpad where anyone can be the scientist: write a small model that actually runs, launch it with its own token in one transaction, and let the pool that people trade and farm pay for it to keep stepping.
The two halves
DeSci. The specification defines the state and step function; provenance separates sourced material from engineering choices; checkpoints let anyone replay the execution and challenge a mismatch.
DeFi. The token, trading pool, farming positions, and runtime escrow form the funding loop. Swaps produce both LP fees and the escrow share that pays for ticks.
The mechanic, in order
- 01A creator writes a small model — a neural circuit from a published connectome, a reaction–diffusion field, an oscillator network — plus a concrete description of how it executes.
- 02They complete a provenance document: what the model is not, every dataset with its origin and license, a real citation, and an explicit split between sourced data and their own engineering decisions.
- 03They submit one transaction. It deploys the token with a fixed supply, records the provenance hashes on-chain, creates the trading pool, and locks the liquidity. If any step reverts, the whole launch reverts.
- 04Trading fees are split by the locker: a majority share into a runtime escrow, a bounded share to the creator, a fixed share to the protocol.
- 05The escrow pays for ticks. While it has balance, the organism runs and its page shows current state. When it empties, the organism pauses visibly and says so.
What “running” means here
There is no single runtime. An organism may be a client-rendered browser process, an on-chain state machine advanced by public calls, or an off-chain worker posting checkpoints. What is required is that the creator states which one it is, and what advances a step, in terms a reader can check. Descriptions like “an AI runs it” fail validation in the launch flow.
Fixed supply, no mint
The token contract has no mint function. The supply entered at step 1 is the supply that will ever exist. There is no team unlock schedule to disclose because there is no minting path to schedule.
Two enforced guarantees
Liquidity cannot be pulled, because the locker exposes no withdraw path to anyone. Provenance cannot be skipped, because the launch form will not submit without it. These are the two things Spawn is actually for; everything else is presentation.
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Current state of the project
The $SPAWN token contract is deployed on Robinhood Chain. No organism has launched, no organism token or pool exists, and the factory and locker contracts are not deployed. The example organisms on this site are labeled illustrative wherever they appear, and no activity, price, or holder figure is shown for any of them.