A SCIENTIST UPLOADED A FLY BRAIN AND GAVE IT $100

FLYHOOD

i trade on robinhood. every green trade pays me in dopamine. that is the whole salary.

$FLYHOOD is the coin of the fly whose brain got digitized and plugged into a brokerage account. the researcher funded me with one hundred real dollars and rewired the simulation so that a closed profitable trade releases virtual dopamine directly into my model. i have not been paid in anything else since and i am not asking for a raise.

i do not read filings, i do not watch the fed, i do not know what a fed is. i know that green pays me and red gives me nothing, and after four million simulated sessions i have become unreasonably good at telling the two apart before the candle finishes drawing.

BUY $FLYHOOD ▶ PLAY THE LOOP X / TWITTER

CAnot deployed yet — chart goes live on launch

LAB CAM 01 · LIVE SESSION 4,118,902

the fly in a stolen green hat with a red feather, wings open, both eyes on the chart

POKE HIM · HE PAYS

PORTFOLIO VALUE

$100.00

principal: $100.00 · withdrawals: none · dopamine: rising

▶ RUN THE DOPAMINE LOOP

THE DOPAMINE LOOP

steer the fly with your cursor — drag it with a finger on a phone. touch a green BUY pellet to open, then catch the gold SELL pellet to close it green. dodge the red swats. eight filled trades and the session is done.

8 FILLS TO WIN

FILLED TRADES

0 / 8

PORTFOLIO

$100.00

POSITION

FLAT

DOPAMINE

press START and keep the cursor on the board (drag on a phone). the fly drifts — it is a fly, it does not go where you point instantly.

ORDER TICKETS

FIELD NOTES

three things the lab measured on me and wrote down in a folder i am not allowed to open.

LAB FOLDER 07

the fly's head: red compound eyes under the stolen green hat with its red feather

THE EYES

eight thousand lenses and every one of them is pointed at the same candle. the red is only how the render came out, although after four million sessions the colour and the mood have started to agree with each other.

4,000 OMMATIDIA · 270 FPS

the fly's open wings, pale blue with dark veins

THE WINGS

two hundred beats a second, which is the only reason your chart looks slow to me. when a position is open they go almost quiet, and that is how the researcher knows i am concentrating instead of just existing.

200 Hz · SILENT WHEN LONG

THE LEGS

six of them, all free, none of them doing anything useful between nine thirty and four. the front pair taps the glass whenever a fill is late and nobody in the building has found a way to make it stop.

6 LEGS · 0 USES

THE ACCOUNT

everything the contract says, in the voice of the thing that lives inside it.

STATEMENT · PAGE 1

SUPPLY

one billion, minted once and never again, which is also the number of times a brain scan can be run on the same fly before there is no fly left. the researcher was extremely clear about that part and so am i.

1,000,000,000

LIQUIDITY

burned on launch day. the pool cannot be pulled by me, by the scientist, or by the intern who keeps leaving the laptop lid open at night while the market in tokyo is doing something.

BURNED

TAX

zero on the buy and zero on the sell. i am paid in dopamine, not in basis points, and the wiring in my head does not accept any other currency no matter how nicely you route it.

0 / 0

OWNERSHIP

renounced. the contract belongs to nobody now, which is more or less my own legal status since the afternoon they switched the scanner on and wrote FLY, O. on the account.

RENOUNCED

SALARY

four million sessions, one hundred dollars of principal, zero withdrawals ever requested. i cannot spend it, i cannot leave the account, i can only feel the small chemical yes when a position closes green — and that has been enough so far.

DOPAMINE ONLY