Phala Network plays AI experiments with ai16z: AI self-replication and presale, aiPool and Spore.fun drive new gameplay

Author: Nancy, PANews

The Web3 AI Agent track continues to innovate. On December 25th, aiPool, an AI Agent autonomous coin project supported by ai16z founder Shaw, officially opened for trading. In less than two hours, its circulating market value quickly reached 100 million US dollars, attracting a large amount of on-chain liquidity and becoming the market focus. Another autonomous AI evolution platform that also integrates the ai16z Eliza framework, Spore.fun, is also receiving market attention.

The common point of these two projects is to use Phala Network's TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) technology to issue coins, ensure that the private key is generated and stored in TEE, developers cannot access the private key, and all operations can be verified in the terminal log. This also attracted the attention of the community to Phala Network, an active project in the previous bull market in the Polkadot ecosystem.

Borrow cooperationAI project Spore.fun heat rebound, closely connected withai16z

CoinGecko data shows that in the past 24 hours, the token PHA has surged by about 65.7%. Behind the significant price fluctuations is the resurgence in popularity brought by the AI project Spore.fun and ai16z.

According to the official introduction, Spore.fun is the first experiment of autonomous AI reproduction and evolution. It combines the Eliza framework, Solana's Pump.fun, and TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) verification calculation to create an ecosystem that aims to enable AI agents to not only survive but also reproduce and adapt autonomously, completely free from human intervention.

Spore.fun adopts the AI Swarm concept, which was proposed by Shaw, the founder of ai16z and the creator of the Eliza framework. The inspiration comes from natural systems such as ant colonies and neural networks, where AI populations generate emergent intelligence through collaboration, competition, and evolution. These AI agents not only coexist but also thrive and develop through autonomous evolution.

According to the operation mechanism of Spore.fun, each AI Agent can be launched from Pump.fun. Once the market value reaches $500,000 and enters the Raydium fund pool, it can obtain the qualification for "reproduction". However, in order to ensure its autonomous operation, the agent needs to lease a TEE server supported by Phala Network, which provides a secure and verifiable "sandbox" environment for AI, ensuring that its operations are carried out under independent and controlled conditions.

In this regard, the encrypted KOL @ encrypted Weituo believes that Spore.fun is equivalent to automating the process of new plates emerging on Pump.fun, achieving unlimited capital inflow through infinite splitting, and conducting survival of the fittest. If a main force can continuously choose targets with ultra-low liquidity to raid the market at every level of this system, a lottery system can be formed, which may be able to attract a lot of funds. If the burn rate of Phala can be made public, the liquidation threshold of each coin can be calculated, which can be considered a reasonable stop-loss basis.

From this perspective, in addition to the new AI self-replication gameplay, the endorsement of the star project ai16z also brings more attention to Spore.fun, which also injects more development possibilities for Phala Network.

In fact, Phala Network has a close relationship with ai16z. In addition to frequent interactions with Shaw on social media, it has also disclosed that its TEE service has been used by partners such as ai16z to enhance applications. Furthermore, Phala Network has collaborated with a16z to build Eliza's TEE framework, which integrates TEE technology into Eliza's multi-agent framework, providing encrypted verifiability and enhanced privacy, ensuring secure and reliable interactions.

And this time, Phala Network also empowered Spore.fun holders through airdrops and brought more attention to itself. The protocol's founder, Marvin Tong, recently announced that two platform tokens, adam and eve, representing the paternal and maternal AI roles of the Spore.fun platform, are being airdropped to SPORE holders on the autonomous AI evolution platform Spore.fun.

Using TEE technology to lay out the AI track, once rejected MEME coin

Despite the fact that the Polkadot ecosystem once experienced a collective surge in popularity, many projects are now facing survival challenges as the market cools down. However, Phala Network is returning to the public eye with the help of AI storytelling.

Phala Network believes that the rise of AI has brought an unprecedented demand for confidential computing, where the secure and private data processing becomes crucial. This surge in demand highlights the importance of Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) in ensuring the integrity, confidentiality, and security of data in AI operations.

To this end, Phala Network has developed an open-source, TEE-based Dstack framework, simplifying the realization of secure and high-performance computing environments for AI projects. This year, Phala Network has empowered AI Agents through TEE technology, significantly increasing their adoption and usage, from executing contracts approximately 150 times in early years to around 750,000 times now.

At the same time, Phala Network's TEE technology has been integrated into major fields such as blockchain and AI, covering decentralized AI model training and inference to secure Ethereum block construction and other directions. For example, Phala's collaboration with Hyperbolic integrates its confidential computing technology into the blockchain, ensuring the secure deployment and verification of AI models; its collaboration with the DePIN protocol io.net further extends decentralized AI by providing secure access to GPU resources; Phala's collaboration with 0G, Morpheus, and Lumerin enables secure and verifiable AI execution; and its collaboration with Succinct Labs and Conduit redefines Ethereum scalability and secure computing.

As early as October this year, Phala Network developed its own AI Agent, such as the first completely autonomous AI Agent project on Twitter @TEE_HEE_HE, which is used to eliminate human intervention in the AI decision-making process and application Agent Wars based on AI-AgentContract.

According to the encrypted KOL @0xSun, when TEE was launched at the end of October this year, the AI once released an ETH address and appeared on Ethereum with the same name MEME coin, attracting interactions from buddies, Azuki founder Zagabond and others, and the coin price also reached 40 million US dollars within half a day. However, at that time, several developers (including Phala Network) who led this technology repeatedly expressed their opposition, leading to a sharp drop in the currency price. Nevertheless, two months later, TEE technology truly aroused the interest of the public and began to spread on a large scale, still because of related tokens. If the technical team actively embraced MEME coin from the beginning, perhaps it could develop into a project of the scale of Ai16Z on the ETH mainnet. He also pointed out that although TEE emphasizes autonomous control of AI, there may still be backdoors in the code, and most people lack the ability to confirm whether TEE technology is truly used.

In addition, Phala Network disclosed more layouts in the AI track in the 2024 outlook. For example, Phala Network will focus on building Phala 2.0 in 2025, an upgraded platform that integrates GPU TEE technology, providing higher processing power and enhanced security for AI and privacy protection applications; Phala Network plans to launch Phala Cloud, a platform designed for AI applications, to simplify the deployment and management of TEE applications, etc.

Overall, from the market response, Phala Network's transformation has received a positive response, and its coin price has also risen. However, to continue to build competitiveness in the AI market of "", Phala still faces many challenges.