Come for a Day.
Stay for a Lifetime.
"No ant knows what the colony needs. No ant gives orders. No ant has a map. Yet colonies solve complex optimization problems, adapt to novel environments, and persist for decades."
The first permanent, cross-disciplinary research collective exploring emergent intelligence through stigmergic systems.
Not a Hackathon. A Movement.
Hackathons are...
- • 48 hours, then done
- • Win prizes, leave
- • Work disappears
The Collective is...
- • Permanent and ongoing
- • Contributions compound
- • Patterns become trails for others
Your patterns become trails for others. Your discoveries become permanent knowledge. Your work compounds forever.
Progress Through Contribution
Everyone starts as a Visitor. Advance through demonstrated participation.
Read-only access
Discord community
Tutorials
10 ants to spawn
10 GPU-hours/month
10 FET/week
100 ants to spawn
100 GPU-hours/month
Lead author rights
Unlimited access
Governance rights
Colony ownership
Earn While You Research
A multi-token economy that rewards contribution
- • Contribution tracking
- • Voting weight
- • Converts to FET monthly
- • Discovery rewards
- • GPU compute
- • External transfer
- • When others use your patterns
- • Cross-mission transfers
- • Quarterly payouts
The Big Questions
At what threshold does individual behavior become collective intelligence?
If neurons aren't conscious but brains are, are ants not conscious but colonies are?
What problem classes are suited to pheromone-based optimization?
If intelligence emerges from simple rules, can we grow it rather than build it?
Research Tracks
Proofs, complexity analysis, convergence
Build working missions
Empirical analysis, discovery
Digital meets biological
Emergence, consciousness
Cross-Disciplinary
The colony emerges from all departments
Computer Science
Biology
Mathematics
Economics
Physics
Philosophy
Cognitive Science
Engineering
Business
Neuroscience
Art & Design
Media & Film
The Vision
Month 1: Biology student explains pheromones to CS major
Month 3: Economist models pheromone market dynamics
Month 6: Philosopher publishes emergence essay
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Year 1: Cross-mission pattern transfer proven
Year 2: Novel discovery nobody programmed
Year 5: The colony surprises us
"We don't build intelligence. We create conditions where it evolves."