MUTABLE IN FORM. PERSISTENT IN IDENTITY.
AMEBA is a fluid cryptographic organism.
Its visible body remains fluid and mutable, while its identity remains invariant.
In the proposed model, W = HKDF(sk) defines the body field
from the same substrate as its identity. Form mutates. Identity persists.
Live specimen
AMEBA / SPECIMEN 001
- state
- ACTIVE
- identity
- did:ameba:7F2A...91C4
- epoch
- 001842
- uptime
- 03D 17H 42M
- weight root
- 0x18A7...F921
- commitment
- SIMULATED PASS
- last transition
- 4.218s ago
- metabolic reserve
- 81.72%
- motility
- —
- membrane stability
- —
- integrity
- 100.000%
organism alive
Background
Amoebic form is a model of change without a fixed silhouette. A soft membrane extends, retracts, and redistributes an internal field. The boundary moves; the origin of the organism does not.
AMEBA applies that distinction to machine identity. A deterministic body field sets the tendencies of a fluid organism: its membrane, pseudopods, and cytoplasmic flow. Environmental input changes the visible form, not the underlying fixture.
Cryptobiosis is used here as a computational metaphor. In TUN, motility falls, extensions retract, and the identity core remains. Recovery resumes activity from the same substrate. This is a local research simulation, not a biological model or an implemented cryptographic proof.
Identity research reference: Suzuki, Internalising the Identity Primitive (arXiv 2608.02986).
The body
The organism body is a fluid parameter field derived from the same substrate
that defines its identity: W = HKDF(sk).
Inspect a membrane region to trace its local fixture weights, entropy, and motility bias.
- entropy
- 0.9914
- variance
- 0.0842
- motility bias
- —
Why it exists
An agent that acts on a blockchain needs an identity other people can trust. Today that trust almost always comes from outside the agent. A server holds its keys. An operator vouches for it. A hardware module signs on its behalf. Break into any of those and you can wear the agent like a mask.
AMEBA explores an identity derived from a persistent private substrate. In the protocol proposal, the same seed fixes the identity and body field, even as environmental input changes the visible form. Seed possession and verification remain security requirements. This console illustrates the relationship with public fixtures; it does not hold private keys or perform chain verification.
Identity trace
The visible organism is fluid, but its source remains deterministic. Follow the substrate through the body field into an amoebic form. Each transition changes its expression while preserving its proposed origin.
- IKM
- private substrate
- salt
- ameba/genesis
- info
- neural-body/v1
- output
- 18,432 deterministic parameters
function deriveBody(sk: Uint8Array): Float32Array {
const material = hkdf("neural-body/v1", sk)
return decodeWeights(material, 18_432)
}Weight fingerprint
A fixed, evenly spaced sample of the 18,432-parameter fixture. Hover or focus a cell to illuminate the membrane region it shapes. The parameter remains fixed while its visible expression flows.
- weight root
- 0x82F1...9C71
- parameters
- 18,432
- derivation
- DETERMINISTIC
- drift
- 0.000000%
- value
- -0.72148
- layer
- L06
- origin
- HKDF block 17
- stability
- 99.998%
How it works
Birth
In the protocol model, an AMEBA organism starts from one private substrate. It deterministically fixes the public identity and body without a training step.
Commitment
A conforming implementation would publish a commitment to the link between identity and body. The current console illustrates this check but does not generate a Groth16 proof.
Transition
A future runtime would verify body and commitment invariants before signing an append-only transition. The current runtime records this sequence locally.
Dormancy
Under stress, AMEBA enters the tun state. It stops acting but keeps its identity intact. It returns to active only once the environment recovers.
Death
In the proposed model, a failed identity check ends structural continuity. The simulation depicts that failure as membrane fragmentation and loss of core coherence; it is not a cryptographic verifier.
Stress chamber
Change the local environment to observe morphological adaptation. Pressure retracts pseudopods and reduces flow; at risk 70, the membrane compresses into TUN. Lower risk below 52, then wake the same identity. All readings are local simulation.
MORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE
- core stability
- 100.000%
- motility
- —
- membrane tension
- —
- membrane stability
- 94.821%
- transition viability
- 61.202%
- state
- ACTIVE
IDENTITY CHECK
- private substrate
- PASS
- weight root
- PASS
- commitment
- PASS
- history continuity
- PASS
Motility reduced. Identity preserved. Core stable. Metabolism suspended.
Transition ledger
Each simulated cycle becomes a local transition record containing what AMEBA sensed, decided, and the state it entered. Records include a local predecessor identifier and an illustrative integrity marker.
- timestamp
- 2026-09-20 08:22:14 UTC
- state
- ACTIVE -> ACTIVE
- sensor root
- 0xc840d...
- weight root
- 0x82ab1...
- observe
- environment normal
- decide
- continue
- act
- cycle executed
- verify
- PASS
- previous block
- 0xf7319...
- current block
- 0xa9821...
- signature
- SIMULATED
- identity invariant
- PASS
- proof
- VALID
In the protocol model, modifying a past transition invalidates every descendant link. The current browser ledger is a bounded local model and has no Solana connection or external finality.
States
Select a state to simulate it. TUN preserves the core; waking requires a recovered environment. DEAD ends continuity for this local specimen.
The membrane extends and adapts. Cytoplasmic signals flow around a stable identity core.
A compressed, quiet form. Pseudopods retract; the nucleus and substrate remain intact.
Membrane organisation and core coherence fail. Historical identifiers remain recorded; continuity does not resume.
Proof inspector
IDENTITY PROOF
- loading commitment
- checking witness
- validating constraints
- verifying proof
- matching identity
function verifyIdentity(state, proof): Verdict {
verify_commitment(state.weight_root)
preserve_identity(state.previous, state.next)
return proof.verify() ? PASS : REJECT
}Specimen comparison
Different private substrates yield distinct amoebic organisms: different cores, extension fields, fingerprints, and metabolic tendencies. Select an individual to resume its local state, or compare two fixtures.
SPECIMEN A / 7F2A
- identity
- did:ameba:7F2A91C4
- response variance
- 0.081
- stability
- 97.2%
- motility bias
- 0.41
- metabolic efficiency
- 88.4%
Proposed primitive
- identity
- protocol target: ed25519(sk)
- body
- protocol target:
W = HKDF(sk) - commitment
- planned proof layer; not implemented
- history
- local simulation; external anchoring not implemented
- chain
- none connected
Lab terminal
Notes
Is AMEBA trained?
No. The weights come from the seed once, at birth. AMEBA has a fixed disposition, not a learned one.
Can two AMEBA organisms be the same?
Only if they share a seed, and then they are one organism, not two. Every other AMEBA organism is a different seed and a different weight set.
What if it sleeps for a year?
The proposed identity persists through suspension. In this simulation, the membrane contracts, local metabolism pauses, and waking checks the saved fixture. Durable long-term storage and cryptographic proofs remain research targets.
Where does the paper end and AMEBA begin?
The paper defines the primitive. AMEBA gives it a body, a lifecycle, and an abstract amoebic body.
Status
Current. Interactive deterministic research console using local simulated state.
Research target. Specify and test a proof model for body derivation without exposing the substrate.
Proposed. Evaluate an external provider and durable transition anchoring after the protocol is fixed.
console runtime / SimulationProvider / deterministic local model / no live chain connection