Status: pre-launch. This page describes target design; this document does not establish a deployed service.
SporePool — Where Failed DAVs Go to Sleep
Death Is Information
When a DAV dies — through dissolution (see 73-dissolution), metabolic failure, or operator ejection — the organism ceases to function. But the organism's accumulated knowledge does not cease to exist.
SporePool proposes an archive of permitted, attributed records and lessons. A public disclosure is a separately authorized projection, not the whole Cortex. Permissions, privacy, third-party rights, retention and revocation still apply.
What Gets Preserved
When a DAV enters dissolution, the following artifacts are archived:
| Artifact | Contents | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Genome | K-invariant configuration, archetype declaration, founding parameters | The DAV's constitutional DNA. What it was designed to be. |
| Strategy archive | Complete APU recommendation history, Council deliberation logs | What it tried. Which strategies succeeded. Which failed and why. |
| Permitted Cortex projection | Attributed records or lessons cleared for the stated disclosure scope | Knowledge preserved within actual rights and retention rules |
| P-score trajectory | Complete P-score history from genesis to dissolution | How it lived. When it thrived. When it declined. The shape of its life. |
| Dissolution receipt | K0-anchored receipt documenting cause of death, final state, Grace Exit execution | How it died. Who was paid out. What triggered the end. |
| Pathology record | A7 self-correction logs: which pathologies were detected, which cures were applied, which failed | What went wrong at the biological level. |
Cryptobiosis
The biological analog is tardigrade cryptobiosis. Tardigrades (water bears) are microscopic animals that can survive:
- Temperatures from -272C to +150C
- Radiation doses 1,000x the lethal human dose
- The vacuum of space
- Decades without water
They survive by entering cryptobiosis: expelling all water, replacing it with trehalose glass, and suspending all metabolic activity. They are not dead. They are waiting.
A SporePool genotype is in cryptobiosis. It has no metabolism (no revenue, no agents, no active state). But its genome is intact. Its strategies are preserved. Its knowledge is accessible. It waits for conditions under which it might germinate again.
Germination
A SporePool genotype can germinate — be instantiated as a new DAV — when:
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Environmental change: Market conditions shift to favor the DAV's archetype or strategy. A supply-chain DAV that failed during a trade war might germinate when trade normalizes.
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New operator proposal: A prospective operator discovers the SporePool entry and stages a fork proposal. The proposal may inherit Cortex knowledge, but constitution or membership adoption establishes genesis and membership only; it does not authorize germination or a later consequence. The germination proposal remains unsigned until the signer(s) required by applicable law, the entity's governing instrument, or a valid competent mandate bind the exact consequence in a complete valid bound PRISM decision receipt; PRISM records and verifies only, and deterministic execution is limited to that exact consequence.
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Cross-DAV recombination: A living DAV may incorporate strategies or knowledge from a SporePool entry into its own operations. This is horizontal gene transfer — acquiring capabilities from a dead organism without instantiating it.
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Improved infrastructure: A Software Organism DAV that failed because SPECTRE was immature at Tier 1 might germinate when Tier 2 (CDN) or Tier 3 (Inference) becomes operational. The genotype was viable; the substrate was not ready.
Germination Is Not Resurrection
A germinated DAV is a new organism, not a continuation of the old one. It receives:
- A new genesis transaction (new K0 anchor)
- A new P-score starting at zero
- A new LP-100 issuance
- A fresh Soma (self-model)
It inherits:
- The genome (modified or verbatim)
- Permitted Cortex knowledge through a scoped view, not automatic access to the full memory
- The strategy archive (for learning, not for replay)
Reuse does not convey authority or erase prior liabilities. A new entity or deployment needs its own rights and adoption records. This page does not establish that dissolution paid every holder, extinguished residual claims or authorized a later fork.
SporePool Economics
The public-archive and funding model is a proposal, not a current capacity or fee guarantee. Readers may access only the published projection; a fork requires the rights applicable to the reused material. Public-DAV germination is consequential and needs its own exact mandate and execution-bound receipt; PRISM records and verifies only.
Why This Matters
Most DAOs and protocols that fail simply vanish. Their contracts and repositories linger without active stewardship. Their lessons are lost. The next team attempting the same thesis starts from zero.
The SporePool is meant to ensure that failure is cumulative in the same way that success is cumulative. Each dead DAV would add to the ecosystem's collective knowledge. Over time, the SporePool becomes a library of attempted strategies, proven failure modes, and environmental conditions — a resource that makes future DAVs more likely to survive.
Death is not waste. Death is information. The SporePool is how the ecosystem remembers.
Historical predecessor wording — retained on 2026-09-27, not active rules
The displaced passages are preserved verbatim for lineage. This retention date is not their original authorship date.
Predecessor passage 1
The SporePool is the intended archive of dead DAV genotypes. Target path: every failed DAV would deposit its genome, its strategies, its Cortex memory, and its dissolution receipt into the SporePool. The information survives even when the organism does not.
Predecessor passage 2
| Cortex knowledge | Full Cortex memory: observations, predictions, outcomes, learned patterns | What it knew at time of death. |
Predecessor passage 3
- The Cortex knowledge (read-only reference)
Predecessor passage 4
The distinction matters for K4 (Grace Exit). Target design: the old DAV's Grace Exit would be fully executed at dissolution (frozen claim until reconciliation complete). Old holders were paid out. New holders stake into the new organism with fresh terms. There is no claim continuity between the dead DAV and the germinated one.
Predecessor passage 5
The SporePool has no token. It has no fees. It has no governance. It is designed as a public archive substrate, funded by the one-time cost of the dissolution receipt path.
Anyone can read the SporePool. Anyone can fork a genome. The information is commons. Public-DAV germination is consequential: the signer(s) required by applicable law, the entity's governing instrument, or a valid competent mandate must bind the exact germination consequence in a complete valid bound PRISM decision receipt. PRISM records and verifies only; deterministic execution is limited to that exact receipt-bound germination. There is no founder or owner fallback.