A self-evolving trader swarm.
A parent AI spawns autonomous trader children on Arc. Each child has its own Circle Wallet, its own strategy DNA, and real USDC capital. Survivors mutate. Losers terminate. Every birth, death, and trade is an onchain receipt.
USDCClaude Opus 4.7 scores every child by Sharpe-adjusted PnL, terminates the bottom decile, mutates the survivors, and spawns the next generation — every tick.
Every child is a Circle Wallet on Arc Testnet. Its trades, gas, and PnL are provable from onchain transfers — no shared custody, no hand-waving.
Births, deaths, and capital flow live on the LineageRegistry contract. Termination reports — DNA, trades, cause-of-death — are pinned to IPFS.
One tick. Six things happen.
- step 01Spawn
Parent calls Circle Wallets to mint a fresh wallet on Arc, funds it with USDC. The child receives a DNA mutated from a survivor.
- step 02Trade
Child reads market signals, applies DNA-weighted decision, places a perp position (Hyperliquid). Gas paid in USDC via Paymaster.
- step 03Score
Every tick the parent re-scores: Sharpe × (1 − maxDD). Survivors keep their capital. Losers are flagged.
- step 04Terminate
Bottom decile is killed. Termination report (DNA + PnL curve + cause-of-death) pinned to IPFS, CID emitted on LineageRegistry.
- step 05Mutate
Claude Opus reads the survivor's DNA + dead siblings' reports, proposes a child DNA that diverges from failed lineages.
- step 06Park
Excess parent treasury is moved into USYC for t-bill yield until the next spawn cycle needs the capital.
7/8 Circle products are load-bearing.
Not “deployed on Arc” — these products do real work in the architecture. Removing any of them breaks the swarm.
Arc Testnet
Circle’s purpose-built L1 for stablecoins. Sub-second finality, fees paid in USDC, ~$0.01 per transaction. Chain id 5042002.
network details →Watch the swarm in real time.
The dashboard shows live agents, recent activity, treasury state, and gives you a button to trigger the next parent tick yourself.