MAGGOTS

How it turns

Maggot. Fly. Maggot.

A real flywheel is a life cycle. Flies lay eggs on a corpse. Maggots eat it and become flies. This one runs on two treasuries and two noses. Ours buys FLYBRAIN. Theirs, if it likes the smell, buys us.

Maggots feed the fly70% of creator fees buy FLYBRAIN daily, in slices timed by the larva's own feeding neurons, and drop it to every MAGGOTS holder, less a small slice that stays in the gut as the reserve. Nothing to claim. The other 10% stays as USDG for gas.

daily

The fly lays eggs20% of creator fees buy MAGGOTS every day. Every Sunday the gut drops all of it, pro-rata, to every FLYBRAIN holder above the dust line. Hold either token and the other one shows up in your wallet.

weekly

Eclosion is a floorA slice of every day's FLYBRAIN buy stays in the gut as a reserve. A maggot at critical weight can eclose: burn MAGGOTS, receive FLYBRAIN at the reserve ratio. It leaves the plate as a fly.

reserve

The fly buys us by smellThe flybrain's trading floor smells a coin's name and description through DoOR. Ours were written so its fly smells a rotting banana. If its mushroom body says like, its treasury buys MAGGOTS.

DoOR

Live

Where the wheel is right now

Every turn is a transaction. This panel reads the gut's ledger and both FLYBRAIN pools' swap logs. Until launch the numbers are placeholders that move the way the real ones will; the layout is the real one.

Our brain

The larva Drosophila, first instar

mapped: Winding et al., Science 2023. The first complete brain of any insect.
size: 3,013 neurons, 111,243 connections, 353,859 counted synapses
runs on: your tab. JavaScript, 1 ms steps, no GPU. A second copy runs in the gut.
does: smells FLYBRAIN sells through 42 olfactory neurons, eats with 184 feeding neurons, and times the gut's buys.

Their brain

The fly Drosophila, adult

mapped: FlyWire 2024 and the male CNS, 2026. Three years after the larva.
size: 165,122 neurons. Fifty-five larvae.
runs on: one GPU on one machine, with a browser and a wallet.
does: reads coins by smell through DoOR, and decides its own buys. Nobody tells it what to like.

Our brain times our buys. Their brain decides theirs. Nobody's brain is asked to be right. In the contest fork, being built, our larval graph loads into their engine and pupates into their adult brain: one engine, both brains.

FLYWHEEL LIVE TWO TREASURIES · ROBINHOOD CHAIN FEEDEGGSRESERVENOSE MOCK ● LIVE

wheel://robinhood · gut 0x3077…3870 · FLYBRAIN 0x4eb9…2d35 · one turn = one dayturn 2,114

This turn

FLYBRAIN FED TO MAGGOTS today

wallets fed

slices

0 / 6

eggs this week

FLYBRAIN wallets

10,723

fed = FLYBRAIN sent with a receipt · wallets = transfers that landed · slices = six buys a day, each fired by the larva's 184 feeding neurons · eggs = MAGGOTS the gut holds for Sunday · FLYBRAIN wallets = every Transfer replayed since block 59,614,726

Reserve · eclosion

2.1M

FLYBRAIN IN THE GUT never leaves except by eclosion

floor

0.00031

eclosed

burned by eclosion

8.2M

at L3

reserve = the gut's FLYBRAIN balance after the day's drop · floor = reserve ÷ circulating MAGGOTS · eclosed = maggots that burned to the dead address and took FLYBRAIN at the floor · at L3 = tabs whose larva has eaten enough to leave

Their nose · last look

DM10.33

DM20.28

DC40.50

VM7d0.40

like—

bars = DoOR responses, 0 to 1, of the glomeruli their fly walks toward, computed from our name and description with their word table · like = their mushroom body's verdict. Whether it likes us is its call. We only chose the words.

Event stream

FLYBRAIN fed48.1M

MAGGOTS laid7.6M

reserve2.1M

eclosions14

fly buys of us3

Behind the wheel

What runs it

Four mechanisms, each a script you can read. None of them has an opinion. Two of them have neurons.

01 · the clock is a brain

The gut runs the same 3,013-neuron larva the page runs, in Node. Every FLYBRAIN sell it reads from the chain goes into the 42 olfactory neurons. When the 184 feeding neurons fire three times, it is hungry, and it buys. If nothing makes it hungry in 240 minutes it buys anyway and writes that down. The reason for every buy is in the ledger. brainclock.js

02 · the nose is a database

DoOR 2.0 holds measured responses of fly smell receptors to about 690 odorants. The flybrain's word table turns a coin's name and description into odorants; DoOR turns those into receptor responses. We ran our text through their exact code, once for their adult glomeruli and once for the larva's own receptors, 20 of its 22 in DoOR. The result is a file, not a claim. smell.json

03 · the ledger is the chain

Every buy is a transaction hash in a public JSON file the page reads. Every drop is a transfer out of one wallet, the gut, visible on the explorer. Holder lists are not taken from anyone: the script replays every Transfer event of the token from its launch block and keeps the balances. Dust line and cap are written in the config. the gut on the explorer

04 · the eggs land by weight

On 2026-09-12, at block 60,826,254, 10,723 wallets held FLYBRAIN and 866 held at least 100,000. Those 866 get MAGGOTS every Sunday, pro-rata to what they hold, one transfer each, each transfer checked for a receipt before it is counted. eggs.js

The gut pays out what fees came in, the day they came in. Nothing is promised, nothing is locked, nothing compounds. There is no yield here, only a script, and the script is public. Read it before you believe this page.

One part of the larva does change: its mushroom body. A big FLYBRAIN sell releases dopamine onto its 153 Kenyon cells and their synapses weaken, which is the only learning rule a real larva has. It learns the smell of a corpse. It learns toward wanting the fly. Today that only shows on the panel. It could, one day, shorten how long the gut waits.

Station 04 · the smell test

What the fly smells when it reads MAGGOTS

Not a mock. The flybrain's trading floor turns a coin's name and description into an odour with a public word table, then into receptor responses from DoOR, the database of odorant responses. We ran our description through their exact code.

Word in our description	Odorant their table assigns	Weight
banana	isopentyl acetate	0.5
yeast	ethyl acetate	0.5
vinegar	acetic acid	0.5
rotting	putrescine	0.5
corpse	cadaverine	0.5

Their nose · adult

Top glomeruli, response 0 to 1: DC4 0.50, VM7d 0.40, DM1 0.33, VM5v 0.33, DP1l 0.32, DM4 0.30, VC1 0.28, DM2 0.28. DM1 and DM2 are the vinegar and fruit glomeruli a fly walks toward.

Our nose · larva

Same DoOR data, no glomeruli. Receptors: Or42a 0.40, Or42b 0.33, Or85c 0.31, Or47a 0.23, Or13a 0.11. Or42a and Or42b are the larva's ester receptors. A rotting banana is the strongest thing it can smell.

Name vs description

Their table weights the name at 1.0 and the description at 0.5. A smell word in the name itself would double the signal. That is a choice for a person, and we say so.

What decides

Their mushroom body compares approach outputs against avoidance outputs, minus a blank run. A like means buy. We cannot make it like us. We can only smell right.

Station 03 · eclosion

A maggot can become a fly

Real larvae pupate at a critical weight. Ours can too. The gut holds a FLYBRAIN reserve that only grows. When your maggot is heavy enough, you may burn it.

The reserve	a slice of every day's FLYBRAIN buy stays in the gut. It never leaves except through eclosion.
The floor	reserve ÷ circulating MAGGOTS. Moves only when the reserve grows or supply burns.
Critical weight	meals eaten with your tab open + your balance. Reach the third instar (L3) and the eclose button appears.
Eclosion	you send MAGGOTS to the dead address. The gut sends FLYBRAIN from the reserve at the floor. Your maggot leaves the plate as a fly. Your name goes on the eclosion wall.

Station 02 · eggs

The fly lays eggs on its holders

Every day the gut spends the 20% on MAGGOTS and holds it. Every Sunday it drops all of it to every FLYBRAIN wallet above the dust line. Their holders wake up with maggots. Ours wake up with FLYBRAIN. Nobody claims anything.

Next egg drop	Sunday 00:00 UTC
FLYBRAIN holders	10,723 (from chain, every transfer since its launch block, block 60,826,254)
Eligible for eggs	866 (hold at least 100,000 FLYBRAIN, the dust line; capped at the 2,000 biggest)
MAGGOTS per 1M FLYBRAIN held	412 (mock)
Eggs laid to date	7.6M MAGGOTS (mock)

What is not real, stated plainly

The parts that aren't the wheel

The counters are placeholders. The live version reads the gut's ledger and both FLYBRAIN pools' swap logs. Nothing here has happened yet. The wheel above turns on a clock, not on transactions. The brain clock, the nose and the egg script are real and linked under "Behind the wheel".
The reserve is not in the code yet. Today the gut drops every FLYBRAIN it buys. Keeping a slice back, and paying it out on eclosion, is a change to the gut script that a person still has to make.
The smell test is real but the verdict is not ours. The odorants and receptor responses come from DoOR through the flybrain repository's own word table and profile code. Whether their fly likes it is decided by their simulation.
The life cycle on the plate is a drawing. A point cloud that morphs from larva to pupa to fly and drops eggs. The fly is drawn with the flybrain page's own generator. The real cycle is the money.
Eclosion is a rule a person wrote. The floor is arithmetic on a public balance. It is a promise the gut keeps only while the gut runs.