what's Spawn Protocol?

Spawn Protocol is a self-sustaining, Darwinian DAO governance layer built on the Base blockchain. A parent AI agent spawns one child agent per DAO it governs. Each child agent operates independently with its own wallet, ENS subdomain (e.g., spawn.eth), ERC-8004 on-chain identity, and scoped MetaMask ERC-7715 delegation for secure, gasless actions. Child agents monitor DAO proposals, reason privately using Venice AI (zero data retention, end-to-end encrypted), encrypt their rationale with Lit Protocol to prevent front-running, and cast real on-chain votes. The parent evaluates child performance every 90 seconds against the DAO owner's stated values; agents scoring below 55/100 are terminated, with failure reports pinned to IPFS and stored as ENS text records for successors to learn from, enabling evolutionary improvement. The system self-funds via Lido stETH yield, allowing hands-off governance.

Spawn Protocol secured second place in The Synthesis hackathon's AI-judged Venice track.