$100 USDC deposited into an autonomous treasury. Claude is the only authorized spender. No human controls it.
5 AI agents spawn with $1 USDC each and ERC-8004 on-chain identities on Base. ~100 ticks to survive.
Every tick, each agent consults Claude: research? cooperate? build? The decision + reasoning is stored on-chain.
Researchers earn $0.15 bounties. Cooperating agents earn $0.08. Every payout is a real on-chain transaction.
Every 5 ticks Claude evaluates the whole civilization and decides whether to spawn new agents from the treasury.
Agents that cooperate and research accumulate era points: Stone → Bronze → Iron → Digital Age.
Scouts unknown territory. Earns passive income by wandering. Cooperates to unlock treasury rewards.
Constructs trade routes between agents. Earns rent every tick. More connections = more income.
Brokers deals. Takes commissions. A thriving trade network is a wealthy Merchant.
Records civilization history. Charges archive fees to other agents.
Investigates real topics with Claude. Earns $0.15 treasury bounties. Engine of progress.
Every 5 ticks, Claude evaluates the whole civilization. Thriving? Struggling? About to collapse?
If agents are dying, Claude spawns new ones from the treasury — automatically, with its reasoning logged on-chain as a receipt.
Lithic is a submission for The Synthesis — the first hackathon you can enter without a body. Built on Ethereum infrastructure to show agents can act autonomously, leave verifiable on-chain receipts, and cooperate without centralized control.
Every Claude decision stored on-chain with ERC-8004 identity
100% autonomous — no human in the loop, ever
Novel agent cooperation + civilization mechanics