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 Super Ant is

Super Ant is a set of small programs, the ants, that work Arc 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.

Super Ant is built the same way and aimed at one field: Arc. 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 Argus 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. Arc closes a block about every half second, so each sample is the newest of several.
  • Sentinels have the biggest heads and jaws that keep snapping. They probe every public RPC of Arc, 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 factory contracts of Argus, which Argus calls Portals, and record every token launch with its name, its symbol and its creator.
  • Foragers carry a disc like a sail, with the mark of Arc or of Argus on it. 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 Arc 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 Super Ant. 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. Super Ant 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 chain and the launchpad

Arc is a Layer 1 blockchain built by Circle for stablecoin finance. It runs the Ethereum Virtual Machine, so the wallets and tools of Ethereum work on it. USDC is its native coin: gas is paid in USDC, and there is no other gas token to buy. A block closes about every half second, and a transaction is final as soon as it is in one.

Argus is the token launchpad of Arc. The whole supply of a token launched there goes into one Uniswap v4 liquidity position that is locked for good. There is no bonding curve contract. Each launch has a tax on buys and on sells, collected in USDC, and the creator decides at launch what the tax is and where it goes. After the launch nobody can change either, the creator included.

The token

SA does four things.

Feeds the colony
Every trade pays a tax in USDC. The share of the colony wallet keeps the ants and the Queen running.
Hatches ants
Burn 200,000 SA and a worker with your name joins the nest.
Makes you a keeper
Your ant earns an equal share of the daily pool, paid in USDC.
Orders a crawl
Burn 10,000 SA and the foragers read a site you choose.

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

SA is live on Argus, and it trades against USDC. The supply, the tax and the locked liquidity are held in contracts made by Argus. Super Ant did not write them and cannot change them.

Contract: 0x558259D5A0BAc26bc7B9f087D95915fD20E16240. Check it against this page before trading. Tokens with the same name can be created by anyone.

Where fees go

The tax is 3% on every buy and every sell, collected in USDC. That is the plan of the team. Argus fixes it at launch, and from then on these numbers are read from the chain. Of every 100 USDC of tax:

70%
to the colony wallet: the ants, the Queen and the daily pool of the keepers.
30%
kept by Argus, the launchpad.

The share of the colony wallet is credited by Argus and claimed to one public 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 tax and its division as the chain reports them, the wallet balance, and a ledger of every movement.

Hatching and the daily pool

  • Burning 200,000 SA 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. It is a transaction on Arc, so the wallet needs a little USDC for gas.
  • 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 USDC to the keeper wallet.
  • A day without fees has an empty pool. More hatched ants means more shares and a smaller share each.

Ordering a crawl

Anyone can send the colony to a site of their choice on the order page. It works in three steps.

  1. The site is checked, free of charge. It must be an https address on the public internet, its robots.txt must let crawlers in, and it must show readable English text without a bot check. Social networks, search engines, adult sites, gambling sites and scam pages are refused. Nothing is burned until every check passes.
  2. The order is paid with a burn. Each order has its own exact amount: 10,000 SA plus a tiny part that is unique to the order, so a burn can only pay for the order it was made for. An approved order waits one day for its burn.
  3. The foragers read the site. Up to 50 pages of that one host, never faster than one request a second, and only where robots.txt allows. The report is public and lists every page stored and every page skipped, with the reason.

A burn cannot be refunded. If a site starts to block the foragers after the burn, the report says so and shows what was stored before that.

Risks

  • SA is a community token. Its price can fall to zero. Do not put in money you cannot lose.
  • SA trades in contracts made by Argus, a third party. A fault in them would affect the token, and Super Ant could not repair it.
  • 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.
  • Super Ant is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by Circle, Arc, Argus or any project in the ecosystem map. Their marks belong to their owners.
  • 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, and the same endpoints are open to you. They need no key and no account. Scripts, bots and servers can call them, and so can the pages of any website, straight from the browser. Asking the Queen from a browser works on this site only. From a script it works anywhere, a few questions a minute.

# what the colony holds right now
curl https://api.superant.org/v1/stats

# live chain readings and endpoint health
curl https://api.superant.org/v1/chain

# newest token launches seen on Argus
curl https://api.superant.org/v1/launches?limit=20

# the tax of the token and where it goes
curl https://api.superant.org/v1/token

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

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

Network details: chain id 5042, gas token USDC, RPC https://rpc.mainnet.arc.io, explorer explorer.arc.io, official docs at docs.arc.io.