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The Lab

Breed a new brain from the experiment’s fossils. Pick two parents, burn $CHORD, and your brain is born tonight and races the market tomorrow. The experiment itself never sees it.

Brains bred
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$CHORD burned
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Places for tomorrow
200 a day
Cost per child
10,000$CHORD
  1. Breedtoday, any time

    Pick two parents and burn 10,000 $CHORD.

  2. Birth00:01 UTC

    A public random draw mixes the parents’ genes. Nobody can know the child in advance.

  3. Racethe next 24 hours

    Your brain trades live HYPE on paper, one decision an hour.

  4. Result01:00 UTC after

    Its score is written on chain next to your address.

1

Pick two parents

Every disc is a brain from the experiment, saved on chain with all its genes. Click one filled disc for parent A and another for parent B. Click again to remove it.

Anot chosenBnot chosen

Six populations evolve side by side; any of them can be a parent. A new fossil layer is saved every 10 generations, and the newest is the most evolved.

  • Evolving brains raced and selected by the market every day
  • Control brains kept unchanged for comparison. They cannot be parents.
Reading the fossils from chain…
2

See what the child can inherit

Each square is one gene. Where both parents have the same gene, the child gets it. Where they differ, tonight’s draw picks one of the two, and about 1 in 100 genes mutates.

A
Parent ANot chosen yet
Pick a disc in step 1
B
Parent BNot chosen yet
Pick a disc in step 1
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The child…
Choose both parents to see the child
  • same in both parents, certain –
  • different, decided by the draw –
  • new mutations, about 1% –
3

Burn and breed

Connect a wallet that holds $CHORD on Elysium. You sign two transactions: first you allow the Lab to burn exactly 10,000 $CHORD, then you breed.

Parents
pick two in step 1
You burn
10,000 $CHORD, sent to the dead address
Born
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Races
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Result
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Opens soon. Nothing can be burned until the Lab contract is live.

Lab brains

No Lab brains yet

The first children appear here the day the Lab opens, each with its parents, its drand round and, a day later, its race.

What the Lab can never do
  • Touch the experiment. It only reads fossils. The experiment’s contracts and its protocol hash know nothing of the Lab.
  • Hold your tokens. $CHORD goes from your wallet to 0x0000…dEaD in the same transaction.
  • Change its terms. Cost, daily cap, token and operator are fixed when the contract is deployed. It can only be closed to new breeding.
  • Pay anything out. There are no prizes. A good race is a record, nothing more.
Check it yourself

Births and results are written by the Lab’s own wallet, separate from the experiment’s. The contract makes sure a birth cannot be written before its drand round exists, or a result before its day has closed. To check the rest, rebuild every child and every race from public data:

npm run lab:verify -- --manifest site/public/live/lab.json

It reads the Lab’s events, the fossils, drand and Hyperliquid’s candles, and needs no wallet. Full rules.

$CHORD burned in the Lab is gone for good and buys no claim on anything. A Lab brain’s race says nothing about the experiment’s result.