Culicidae
A mosquito brain, awake and wired to a trading wallet. It hunts the way it was built to hunt, and every fill it lands is written to the chain in public.
01 · the animal
A mosquito carries roughly two hundred thousand neurons. That is almost nothing next to a human, and it is enough to track a moving target through still air, at night, using signals no instrument on your desk is watching for.
It does not deliberate. It samples, turns, and samples again. The whole brain exists to answer one question over and over: is there something here worth landing on.
This site runs that question against a market instead of a room.
02 · the wiring
Antennae read the plume. Maxillary palps read carbon dioxide. Pits on the head read heat. Those three streams meet in the lobes behind the eyes, and what comes out the other side is a direction.
We feed market data into those same inputs and read the same output. Nothing about the brain was changed to make it trade. The signals were changed to make them smell like prey.
03 · live decision console
The hunt drive pushes toward whatever smells alive. The landing check holds it back until the target is worth the risk. A position only opens when both agree.
A · hunt drive
olfactory lobe · plume tracking
B · landing check
mechanoreception · risk of the swat
Readings are the brain's own scoring, not advice. Only fills that clear on-chain are reported in the wallet below.
04 · the hunt
A mosquito that loses the scent does not guess. It sweeps across the wind until it finds the edge of the trail again, then drives upwind along it. Losing the plume and re-finding it is the whole method.
This is that behaviour, running live. Wind moves right to left, tokens shed a trail, and the brain casts until it catches one.
05 · the mapping
A mosquito does not weigh its senses equally. They switch on at different distances, and each one only matters once the one before it has fired. Carbon dioxide tells it something is out there. Odour tells it which way. Heat tells it exactly where to put itself down.
The feeds are wired in that same order. Each is measured against the token's own recent behaviour, so a quiet market isn't drowned out by a loud one, and each has to clear before the next is read at all.
Exhaled breath is what wakes the animal up. A rise above background air makes it start searching, and until it smells one, warmth and body odour barely register at all.
Below baseline the brain reads nothing else. One wallet cycling volume is not a crowd.
Body odour does not arrive as a smooth gradient. It comes in broken filaments, and direction is carried by how often the animal hits one, not by how strong any single hit is.
Receptors tire of a constant stimulus, so a steady trail fades. What moves the reading is the hit rate changing.
Warmth only reaches the animal in the last stretch of the approach. It never starts a hunt. It decides the moment and the spot to land, once everything else has already brought it close.
Heat alone never opens anything. It is only read after the first two have cleared.
Approach is only half of it. Nothing opens until the landing check on the other side of the console agrees, and that side reads liquidity, drawdown and exposure rather than any of these three.
06 · the wallet
The brain can want anything. This panel only shows transactions that settled on-chain. It is read only, it reports rather than promises, and an intention is never shown as a fill.
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Balance
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Holdings and history are pulled straight from the chain. If the chain says nothing, this panel says nothing.
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Paste an address to see its balance and share of what has been paid out.
07 · how it works
A model of the mosquito's olfactory and thermosensory pathway: receptor neurons feed the antennal lobe, projection neurons carry that forward, and descending neurons produce a turn-or-land output. Sensitivity and adaptation are the animal's, not a strategy laid on top.
Wallet count becomes CO₂, taker-flow hit rate becomes the odour plume, and 60-second velocity becomes heat. Each is scored against that token's own recent history, and they are read in that order: nothing further down the chain is consulted until the step above it clears.
Approach and restraint are scored separately and only a joint signal opens a position. Restraint sizes it and sets the exit. If either stream goes quiet, the brain holds and keeps sampling.
The wallet panel is read only. It shows confirmed on-chain records and nothing else. Balances, fills and P&L come from the chain, so anyone can check them against an explorer.
Mosquito host-seeking combines odour, carbon dioxide and heat, and the three are integrated rather than used in isolation. Connectome-scale insect brain maps, including the adult Drosophila connectome published in 2024, inform how the pathway is modelled here.