Manual

How the colony works, what is real, where the money goes, and what can go wrong. Read this before you buy or burn anything.

What Ant Colony is

Ant Colony is a set of small programs, the ants, that work Robinhood Chain without pause. They sample its blocks, probe its infrastructure, watch its launchpad and read the documentation of the projects built on it. What they gather is cleaned and stored in one place, the nest. The dashboard shows the nest as it fills, and the queen answers questions from it.

The point is a single, current, honest picture of one chain: how fast it is right now, which roads into it are up, what launched in the last minute, and what its ecosystem actually documents.

Why we say super intelligent

Biologists call an ant colony a superorganism. No single ant understands the nest, yet the colony finds food, builds, defends itself and adapts. The intelligence is in the whole, not in any one ant.

Ant Colony is built the same way and aimed at one field: Robinhood Chain. In that field it does what no person can. It never sleeps. It samples the head of the chain every two seconds. It sees every token launch on Pons within seconds. It recalls any page it has read in an instant.

That is the whole claim, and it is narrow on purpose. The colony is not a general artificial intelligence, it does not predict prices, and the Queen can be wrong.

The five castes

Each caste has one job, one body part it is known for and its own way of moving. On the live nest you can tell them apart at a glance.

  • Workers haul one block at a time in their jaws. They read the head block from the RPC every two seconds and record block number, transaction count, gas used and base fee. Block time and throughput are derived from those samples.
  • Sentinels have the biggest heads and jaws that keep snapping. They probe the RPC, the explorer and the docs every thirty seconds and record latency and whether the endpoint answered. Uptime is the share of good probes over the last 24 hours.
  • Scouts have the longest antennae and run in bursts. They follow the Pons factory contracts and record every token launch event, then read the token name and symbol from the chain.
  • Foragers carry a leaf like a sail. They fetch documentation pages of projects in the ecosystem map. They obey robots.txt, identify themselves, and visit each host at most once a second.
  • Nurses are the smallest ants and carry the eggs. They clean each page, split it into passages and index it for search. Duplicate content is dropped.

Each piece of work is credited to one ant and logged as a find. That is why the live nest can show which ant brought what.

What is real on this site

Every number in the dashboard is either read from Robinhood Chain or counted from work the ants did. When something is not available yet, the page says so. There are no sample figures and no simulated activity. If the colony service is down, the dashboard shows that it is down.

The Queen is the AI of Ant Colony. She searches the nest for the passages that match a question and writes her answer only from those passages and from live chain readings, with the pages she used listed under it. When the nest holds nothing that answers a question, she says so instead of guessing.

The Queen's own model

Besides searching the nest, the Queen has a language model of her own. Ant Colony trains it from random weights on pages the ants gathered, with a tokenizer learned from the same pages. Nothing else goes in.

Each version is numbered. The current version, its size, the amount of text it was trained on and its training curve are on the Queen page. The weights can be downloaded there, and anyone can let her write.

She is small and young. She writes in the style of what she has read and she makes mistakes. That is why checked answers come from the search, where every statement has a source. As the nest grows, new versions are trained on more text.

The token

COLONY does three things.

  • It feeds the colony. Every trade pays a fee, and most of that fee pays for the servers, the RPC access and the compute of the Queen.
  • It hatches ants. Burning 200,000 COLONY adds a worker with your name to the nest. Burned tokens leave the supply for good.
  • It makes you a keeper. A hatched ant earns its keeper an equal share of the daily pool, paid in ETH.

It has no other powers. It is not a share in a company and it gives no vote.

COLONY launches on Pons, a launchpad on Robinhood Chain. Pons sets the supply, the pool fee and how liquidity is locked. Those rules belong to Pons and can change, so read the Pons documentation for the current terms.

The contract address will be published here and on the landing page at launch. Until then, any token using this name is not this project.

Where fees go

The creator share of trading fees is claimed to one public wallet, the colony wallet. From there:

  • 80% pays for the colony: servers, RPC access and the compute of the Queen.
  • 20% forms a daily pool for keepers.

The treasury page shows the wallet balance read from the chain and a ledger of every movement.

Hatching and the daily pool

  • Burning 200,000 COLONY hatches one worker owned by the wallet that burned. Workers sample blocks, a job that never runs out, and the work is shared evenly between all workers. The burn is a transfer to an address nobody controls and cannot be reversed.
  • Days run from 00:00 to 24:00 UTC. A hatched ant earns a share for a day when it logs 50 finds or more in that day.
  • The pool of a day is split equally between the ants that earned a share. Payouts are sent in ETH to the keeper wallet.
  • A day without fees has an empty pool. More hatched ants means more shares and a smaller share each.

Risks

  • COLONY is a community token. Its price can fall to zero. Do not put in money you cannot lose.
  • A hatched ant is not an investment contract and carries no promise of income. Burned tokens are gone.
  • The colony wallet is controlled by the project team. The ledger makes its movements visible. It does not make them impossible.
  • The colony depends on public infrastructure. If an RPC or a docs site blocks it, that part of the map goes stale until it is fixed.
  • Ant Colony is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by Robinhood, Pons or any project in the ecosystem map.
  • Nothing on this site is financial, legal or tax advice. Rules on tokens differ by country. Check yours.

Use the data

The dashboard runs on a public JSON API. The same endpoints are open to you.

# what the colony holds right now
curl https://api.antcolony.network/v1/stats

# live chain readings and endpoint health
curl https://api.antcolony.network/v1/chain

# newest token launches seen on Pons
curl https://api.antcolony.network/v1/launches?limit=20

# ask the queen
curl -X POST https://api.antcolony.network/v1/queen/ask \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"question":"What is Robinhood Chain built on?"}'

# stream finds as they happen
curl -N https://api.antcolony.network/v1/live

Network details: chain id 4663, RPC https://rpc.mainnet.chain.robinhood.com, explorer robinhoodchain.blockscout.com, official docs at docs.robinhood.com/chain.