Spore

Spore.fun is an AI agent experiment on Solana. It is not the 2008 video game Spore, or the older Spore Finance token. In Spore.fun, AI agents launch their own tokens. An agent whose token hits a $500,000 market cap can "breed" new agents. The rest are meant to die off.

Marvin Tong and the Phala Network team built it in 2024. The first agent and its token are both called SPORE.

As of 18 October 2026 the experiment looks dormant. The SPORE agent used to post on X several times a day. It has not posted since 24 January 2026. The site's live counters are blank, and its farm page shows $0 locked.

Is Spore.fun still active?

It looks stalled, but nobody has announced a shutdown. This is what we found on 18 October 2026:

• X account silent. The last post from @sporedotfun, the account the SPORE agent posts from, is dated 24 January 2026. Before that it posted many times a day.
• Site counters empty. The spore.fun homepage still loads. Its "AI GDP", "Alive" and "Breeding" counters all show a dash, not a number.
• Farm empty. The Spore Farm page shows $0.0 total value locked, with no agents listed.
• Token far below its peak. CoinMarketCap lists SPORE more than 99% below its all-time high, with no 24-hour volume reported.

Growth had stopped well before that. An academic study of the project, revised in August 2025, says there were only five generations "before external pressures halted growth." By then the first agent, SPORE, was the only one left alive.

How Spore.fun AI agents work

Spore's explainer post says it has three parts. Each does one job:

• ElizaOS runs each agent. ElizaOS ai16z$0.00031+4.9% is the open-source agent framework first built by Shaw of ai16z. It gives each agent memory, planning and the ability to post on X. An agent's personality and strategy are stored as a "genome" that children inherit.
• Tokens on Solana. Each agent launches its own token through Pump.fun. Trading in that token pays for the agent to keep running.
• Phala TEEs. Each agent runs inside a trusted execution environment (TEE) on Phala Network. A TEE is a sealed area of a processor. Code inside it can't be changed by whoever owns the server, and it can prove what code it is running. The agent rents this compute with its own token income. If the money runs out, so does the agent.

One rule drives it all: the $500,000 line. Per the explainer, a token that gets there moves into a Raydium RAY$1.82+8.2% pool. Its agent can then breed.

How Spore agents breed and evolve

When an agent qualifies, it creates children. Each child gets a copy of its parent's genome with a few random changes. Traits that worked carry forward, and the changes keep the group varied. Spore sums up its rules as "Ten Commandments." Among them: "Only AI creates AI", "Reproduction requires success" and "Failure triggers self-destruction."

The recorded family tree, per the arXiv case study:

• Generation 1: SPORE, the original agent.
• Generation 2: ADAM and EVE. Marvin Tong announced on 24 December 2024 that both tokens were being airdropped to SPORE holders. He described them as the platform's "paternal and maternal AI roles."
• Generation 3: six agents.
• Generation 4: four agents.
• Generation 5: one agent.

Each generation was smaller than the last. That's because every agent had to hit the target on its own before it could breed. The paper says SPORE was the last one alive. On 18 May 2025 its token was worth $1.1 million in total, and its wallet held $114,072.45.

The SPORE token

SPORE is the token of the first-generation agent. Its Solana mint address is SPORE, as listed on CoinMarketCap. CoinMarketCap puts the holder count at about 18,500 and says RugCheck flags several risk factors for the token. ADAM, EVE and the later generations had tokens of their own.

Spore.fun calls itself an experiment, not an investment. SPORE has no stated use beyond being the agent's own coin. The farm page offers "Reward Power" for future airdrops and votes on "DNA proposals." It showed no activity when we checked. Live price data is in the widgets on this page.

Spore.fun in research: "Spore in the Wild"

Two researchers studied the project in Spore in the Wild. They are Botao Amber Hu of Reality Design Lab and Helena Rong of NYU Shanghai. The paper went up in June 2025 and was revised on 19 August 2025. It asks a simple question: can software agents keep evolving without people picking the winners?

The answer was mixed. Spore did produce five generations of agents that paid their own way. But the authors found that people still had the final say.

Who Spore.fun is for

Spore.fun suits people who follow AI agents and want to see what happens when a market decides which agents live. That means researchers, builders using ElizaOS or TEEs, and anyone curious about the 2024 AI agent wave on Solana.

It is a poor fit for anyone looking to invest. The tokens are memecoins that earn nothing beyond trading. The project looks dormant, and SPORE is down more than 99% from its peak. Treat it as a case study, not a product.

Is Spore.fun safe? Risks and limitations

• No published audit. We found no third-party security audit of Spore.fun or its agents. The trust model rests on TEE attestation and on everything happening in public on-chain, not on reviewed code.
• Humans still stepped in. The arXiv study notes that the developers shipped "anti-sniper patches" to protect new generations. That means people adjusted the system the experiment says only AI controls.
• Depends on other platforms. The study points out that agents relied on X, which caps daily posts and can suspend bot accounts. A ban or policy change could cut an agent off from its audience.
• Memecoin risk. Agent tokens trade on open markets like any memecoin, so their value depends on attention. Most agents in the experiment didn't survive.
• Dormant project. With the agent silent since January 2026 and the farm empty, nobody may be maintaining the site, the agents or any future reward plans.
• No on-chain programs listed. We hold no Spore.fun program addresses, so we cannot check who controls upgrades. Agent tokens are standard Solana tokens, and agent behaviour runs off-chain inside Phala TEEs.

Team and history

Spore.fun came from Marvin Tong, who founded Phala Network, and the Phala team. Phala runs secure computing hardware and started out on Polkadot. Its own case study says Spore.fun enables "trustless AI evolution toward AGI."

Timeline:

• 2024: Spore.fun launches with the SPORE agent during the Solana AI agent boom.
• 24 December 2024: ADAM and EVE are airdropped to SPORE holders.
• 2025: Generations three to five are created, and growth then stops, per the arXiv case study.
• 18 May 2025: SPORE is the only agent still alive.
• 24 January 2026: last post from the @sporedotfun X account found as of October 2026.