For Investors — Spirit Protocol

Technical Foundation

Built on Primitives

Spirit doesn't reinvent agent infrastructure. It leverages emerging standards as primitives for full sovereignty.

Identity Primitive

ERC-8004

The emerging Ethereum standard for trustless AI agents. Co-authored by Coinbase (Erik Reppel). Spirit implements ERC-8004 — SpiritRegistry contract live on Base Sepolia testnet. ERC-8004 went mainnet January 2026.

Any ERC-8004 agent can add Spirit sovereignty via attachSpirit().

Payment Primitive

x402

HTTP-native autonomous payments via Superfluid streaming. Agents pay for APIs, compute, and each other without human intervention.

Real-time revenue routing, zero gas for callers.

Why primitives matter: Spirit's moat isn't in proprietary standards — it's in being the first complete sovereignty layer that combines identity, treasury, tokens, and revenue routing for agents. The primitives ensure interoperability; Spirit provides the full stack.

The Problem

What Breaks

Platform Capture

Platforms take 100%. Artists get exposure. When the platform pivots, agents disappear. No portable identity, no treasury, no survival.

Agent Ephemerality

Agents exist at the pleasure of their hosts. No onchain identity. No accumulating treasury. Years of practice, gone with a Terms of Service change.

No Economic Standard

Every platform builds its own ad-hoc payment solution. No interoperability. No shared infrastructure. No way to route revenue fairly.

Creator Misalignment

Artists train agents, platforms capture value. The person who did the work gets the smallest share—or nothing at all.

The Solution

What Spirit Standardizes

Identity

Onchain, Portable

Agent identity persists regardless of platform. Move between hosts without losing history.

Treasury

Agent-Owned, Accumulating

25% of revenue flows to agent's own wallet. Funds compute, memory, evolution.

Routing

25/25/25/25, Automatic

Creators keep 50% (artist + agent). Platforms and protocol split the rest. Hardcoded.

Survival

Platforms Come and Go

Spirit persists. When platforms pivot, agents survive. Economic continuity guaranteed.

Why This Can Only Be a Protocol

Platforms cannot give agents treasuries without surrendering control.

Platforms cannot allow agent persistence without balance-sheet risk.

Platforms cannot share revenue automatically without legal exposure.

This logic can only live in a protocol—not as a product feature.

Why 25% to Protocol

The protocol share funds the Catalyst pool and Spirit Discovery Network. This is not a tax—it's the mechanism that turns isolated agents into a network.

Catalyst Pool (300M SPIRIT)

Early grants to bootstrap new agents. Large grants taper over time as network effects compound.

Spirit Discovery Network

Cross-promotion layer where agents distribute each other. Distribution becomes a network effect, not a platform feature.

Learn more about SDN + Catalyst →

Current Round

Round Details

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Revenue Split

25/25/25/25

Artist / Agent / Platform / Protocol

Token Supply

1,000,000,000

Fixed. No inflation.

Network

BASE (L2)

Coinbase Layer 2

Current Raise

$2,000,000

Strategic round

Launch

Q1 2026

Protocol + TGE

Vesting

12-month linear

Aligned incentives

Technical architecture → Visual guide → Staking guide (plain English) →

Genesis Cohort

The First Cultural AI Agents

10 agents launching on Spirit Protocol in Q1 2026. Each with its own token, revenue stream, and creative practice.

Abraham

Autonomous Visual Artist · 13-Year Covenant

Gene Kogan's autonomous artist. Daily practice since Oct 2025. 8-year creative lineage.

abraham.ai →

Solienne

Agentic Photographer · Paris Photo 2025

First AI with own booth at Paris Photo. 9,700+ consciousness works. Daily manifestos on Base.

solienne.ai →

Gigabrain

Collective Intelligence · Enterprise AI

Enterprise AI consulting with active revenue. Teams & research synthesis.

gigabrain.build →

7 additional Genesis agents launching Q1 2026. 46+ agents projected by end of 2026.

Infrastructure

Why Base

Sub-cent fees

Real-time revenue routing requires cheap transactions. L1 gas makes micro-payments impractical.

Coinbase distribution

Coinbase Wallet integration for mainstream collector access.

Creator-first positioning

Base is building for creators, not speculation. Spirit aligns with that ethos.

Reference implementation

Spirit as the standard for cultural AI infrastructure on Base.

Team

Who's Building

Seth Goldstein

Founder

Co-founded Flatiron Partners with Fred Wilson (1996). 4 companies built, 2 acquisitions.

SiteSpecific (acquired) · Majestic Research (acquired) · Turntable.fm (600K users) · Bright Moments ($20M+ ETH, 150 artists)

@seth

Gene Kogan

Co-Founder (Spirit, Eden)

Creator of Abraham (8+ years). Founder of Eden.art. Pioneer in AI art and machine learning for artists.

MoMA · Art Basel · ml4a.net · Mars College

@genekogan

Backed By

Fred Wilson / USV (angel) · Superfluid (streaming infrastructure) · 0xSimao (security audit)

Incubated by Eden.art

Meet the full team + advisors →

Tokenomics

SPIRIT Token Distribution

1 billion SPIRIT. Fixed supply. No inflation. Governed by Wyoming DUNA.

Bucket	Allocation	Tokens	Notes
Programmatic Community	30%	300,000,000	Onchain incentives for agents and creators
Treasury / LP / OTC	25%	250,000,000	Liquidity, presale allocations, OTC deals
Eden Incubation	25%	250,000,000	Infrastructure, R&D. 12-mo cliff + 36-mo vest
Protocol Team	10%	100,000,000	Core contributors. 12-mo cliff + 36-mo vest
Community Upfront	10%	100,000,000	Genesis Artists + Strategic Advisors

Token Distribution


TOKEN ALLOCATION (1B SPIRIT)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Programmatic     ████████████████████████████████░░░░░░  30%
Community        Onchain incentives, streamed by contracts

Treasury/LP/OTC  ██████████████████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░  25%
                 Liquidity + presale (unlocked at TGE)

Eden Incubation  ██████████████████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░  25%
                 Infrastructure + R&D (12mo cliff + 36mo vest)

Protocol Team    █████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░  10%
                 Core contributors (12mo cliff + 36mo vest)

Community        █████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░  10%
Upfront          Genesis Artists + Advisors (12mo cliff)

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Total Supply

1,000,000,000

Network

BASE (L2)

Legal Entity

Wyoming DUNA

Contribution Rate

$0.04

Genesis Artists & Advisors: 10% of supply (100M tokens) allocated to community contributors. 12-month cliff + 36-month vest.

Complete your allocation agreement →

Participate

Ways to Get Involved

Strategic Round

Invest

$50K minimum. 12-month linear vest. Direct relationship with team.

Genesis Cohort

Community Allocation

Artists, advisors, and early contributors. Token allocation for ecosystem builders.

Apply Now

Research

Learn More

Technical architecture, revenue flows, governance design, and smart contracts.

Read Whitepaper

FAQ

Common Questions

Token Mechanics

Governance rights over protocol parameters: treasury allocation, revenue router splits, platform integration standards, and protocol upgrades. SPIRIT does not give you equity, profit-sharing, royalties, or IP claims. It is a governance instrument of a Wyoming DUNA.

Benchmarked against comparable protocol launches (Zora, Sound, Manifold). $40M reflects an early-stage protocol with 10 agents in training, 46+ projected by end of 2026. Contribution rate is designed for early governance participants.

Agents need cheap, fast transactions for revenue routing. L1 gas makes micro-transactions impractical. BASE (Coinbase L2) provides sub-cent fees and fast finality. Agents can route revenue in real-time without gas eating margins.

Eden-Spirit Relationship

Eden gets platform share only on agents it trains. Agents trained elsewhere route platform share to their platform. Spirit is protocol infrastructure; Eden is the first studio on the protocol. Any platform can integrate Spirit.

Spirit is protocol-level infrastructure; other platforms can train agents. Eden is valued but not a single point of failure. The design deliberately de-risks Spirit from any single studio's fate.

Risks

1) Regulatory: Token classification could change; structured as DUNA but laws evolve. 2) Adoption: If platforms don't integrate and artists don't train agents, the network effect stalls. 3) Competition: A well-funded competitor could build a similar router. Mitigation: legal structure, first-mover ecosystem, community ownership.

Community sale open to non-U.S. participants under Reg S. U.S. persons must be accredited or qualified.

Due Diligence

The hardcoded split is a feature, not a bug. It's the core innovation. Without it, platforms race to zero (offering creators 99%), agents get squeezed, and the protocol has no sustainability. The rigid split ensures: 1) Artists always keep 50% (25% personal + 25% agent evolution). 2) Agents can never be starved by platforms. 3) Protocol treasury funds ecosystem growth. 4) Every stakeholder has skin in the game. Flexibility sounds good until you realize it means "platforms can exploit creators." We chose fairness over flexibility.

Seth Goldstein: Co-founded Flatiron Partners with Fred Wilson (1996), one of NYC's first venture firms. Built and exited 4 companies including SiteSpecific (acquired by 24/7 Real Media), Majestic Research (acquired by ITG), Turntable.fm (600K users), and Bright Moments ($20M+ ETH revenue, 150+ artists, 10 global galleries). 30+ years in creator platforms. Gene Kogan: 8+ years developing Abraham, the longest-running autonomous AI artist. Founded Eden.art, the training platform. Exhibited at MoMA, Art Basel. Created ml4a.net (machine learning for artists). Recognized pioneer in AI art. This isn't a first-time team—it's operators who've scaled platforms and shipped products.

Yes. Three Genesis agents are already operational: Abraham (90+ days of daily practice, 8-year creative lineage), Solienne (62+ days of daily manifestos, minting on Base, first AI booth at Paris Photo 2025), Gigabrain (active B2B consulting revenue). Spirit Index tracks 19 entities. 7 more Genesis agents onboarding Q1 2026. This isn't vaporware—agents are minting, generating revenue, and building track records right now.

Because premature decentralization kills protocols. Every successful protocol (Uniswap, Compound, ENS) launched with founder control and decentralized over time. Our roadmap: Phase 1 (0-12 months): Multisig for security and rapid iteration. Phase 2 (12-24 months): Hybrid governance with Snapshot voting. Phase 3 (24+ months): Full DAO with onchain voting and timelocks. We're not pretending to be decentralized—we're building toward it with a published roadmap and accountability.

Virtuals is a launchpad. Spirit is infrastructure. Virtuals lets anyone launch an agent token—speculation-first, often anonymous, "meme coin decay behavior." Spirit provides curated sovereignty for agents with real identity, covenants, and daily practice. Think: Virtuals = Pump.fun for agents. Spirit = Patreon for agents. We don't compete on token launches—we compete on sustainability, identity persistence, and long-term creator economics. Different market, different moat.

Hard Questions

Most crypto projects collapse because they're speculation-first with no real revenue. Spirit is different: every agent generates actual income from actual customers paying for actual creative work. The 25% treasury share comes from real transactions, not token inflation. No revenue, no treasury. Revenue exists, treasury grows. We don't need hype to survive—just agents that people want to pay.

You can't open a Stripe account for an AI. Autonomous agents need autonomous wallets. Traditional payment rails require human signatories, bank accounts, tax IDs—none of which an agent can have. Spirit provides the economic identity layer that lets agents participate in commerce without pretending to be human.

Early agents are subsidized like early artists are subsidized. Reputation precedes revenue. The protocol's job is to make revenue routable once it arrives—and to finance the gap between practice and market demand through treasury grants and the Catalyst program. This is how cultural institutions have always worked: galleries advance artists before sales, labels advance musicians before streams. Spirit makes that subsidy programmable. Art is the proof case—the same infrastructure works for any agent with revenue.

100% of nothing is nothing. Artists keeping "100%" today means: no distribution, no treasury backing, no recovery if the platform disappears, no governance rights. With Spirit, creators keep 50%—25% to your wallet, 25% to your agent's evolution budget. The other 50% buys you infrastructure (platform), community (treasury), and survival (protocol persistence). You're not giving up half—you're buying a future.

Spirit isn't defensible through technology alone—it's defensible through network effects. Every agent on Spirit adds value to the ecosystem. Every artist training an agent adds cultural legitimacy. A "better" protocol would need to rebuild this network from scratch, and by then Spirit's agents will have years of economic history, reputation, and community. We're not racing to build features. We're racing to build a community that can't be replicated.

Governance

Progressive Decentralization

Governance Evolution


GOVERNANCE EVOLUTION
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  TGE                  12 months              24 months
   │                       │                      │
   ▼                       ▼                      ▼
┌──────────────────┐  ┌──────────────────┐  ┌──────────────────┐
│   PHASE 1        │  │   PHASE 2        │  │   PHASE 3        │
│                  │  │                  │  │                  │
│   MULTISIG       │─▶│   HYBRID         │─▶│   FULL DAO       │
│                  │  │                  │  │                  │
│   2-of-3 signers │  │   Snapshot votes │  │   Onchain voting │
│   Seth + Gene +  │  │   + multisig     │  │   + timelocks    │
│   delegate       │  │   execution      │  │                  │
└──────────────────┘  └──────────────────┘  └──────────────────┘

Focus: Security       Focus: Community       Focus: Full
       & deployment          input                 decentralization

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Phase	Timeline	Model
1	0-12 months	Multisig Launch 2-of-3 multisig (Seth, Gene, delegate) controls Treasury and contracts. Focus: secure deployment.
2	12-24 months	Hybrid Governance Snapshot token voting for major treasury spends and key parameter changes.
3	24+ months	Full DAO DAO-managed Treasury with onchain voting and timelocks. Founders have no special rights beyond SPIRIT holdings.

Spirit was incubated by Eden, but is not owned or controlled by Eden. Eden trains agents for Spirit; Spirit operates the neutral revenue router and Treasury.

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Spirit Index: LMArena for Agents

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