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Grow events toward COIN·USD across 251 real trading days
Four routes grew on 2025-09-29; two of them (R1-COIN, R5-COIN) later regrew on 2026-01-05 after being pruned.
Routing protocol · Robinhood Chain
Most networks are wired once and frozenthis one keeps growing toward wherever COIN is trading.
MYCEL is a relay mesh that reshapes its own topology in real time. When demand for a route climbs, nearby relays grow direct connections toward it - the way mycelium extends toward a nutrient source. When demand cools, the unused connections are pruned. No one edits a config file either way.
- Chain
- Robinhood Chain · L2
- Token
- MYC
- Genesis route
- MYC / COIN·USD
- Live connections
- 16 (12 baseline + 4 grown)
- Sim window
- 251 trading days
- Status
- Concept · $MYC in development
- Grown this run
- 6
- Pruned this run
- 2
Genesis route is a reference simulation, not a deployed testnet:
sim/mycel-sim.js runs the six-state mechanism below against 251 real trading days of Coinbase (COIN) stock volume. Every number on this page is that script's literal output - see Reproduce this.How a route growssix states, one loop
| No. | State | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Sense | Every relay measures real traffic passing through its neighbors, block by block - like a nerve ending reading pressure, not a dashboard someone checks. |
| 02 | Grow | When a path carries sustained demand for three consecutive blocks, nearby relays spin up a new direct connection toward it instead of routing the long way around. |
| 03 | Reinforce | A connection that keeps carrying fast, low-latency traffic for 500+ blocks gets more bandwidth and more stake weight - automatically, without a vote. |
| 04 | Prune | A connection with no traffic for 5,000 consecutive blocks weakens and is retired, freeing capacity for wherever demand is growing next. |
| 05 | Reroute | If a live connection is cut - a node drops offline - traffic finds the next-strongest surviving path within a single block. No manual failover list. |
| 06 | Fossilize | The mesh's exact shape at every block height is recorded permanently, so anyone can see precisely how the network looked at any point in its history. |
The mesh, livegenesis route: MYC / COIN·USD
Live figuresoutput of sim/mycel-sim.js, seed 0x4d594331
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Reinforce events - a route earning higher stake weight
All four surviving routes reinforced together on 2026-02-04, after ~2.5 days of sustained elevated COIN volume.
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Prune events - a route retired for going quiet
R1-COIN and R5-COIN pruned on 2025-12-29 / 2025-12-30, after roughly 20 real trading days of below-average COIN volume.
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Real trading days simulated, Aug 29 2025 – Aug 28 2026
Daily close/high/low/volume for COIN, pulled from Yahoo Finance's public chart API - see sim/coin-daily.csv.
These are not testnet telemetry - they are the literal output of
sim/mycel-sim.js, a deterministic simulation seeded with a fixed value (0x4d594331) and run against real COIN market data. Run it yourself: node sim/mycel-sim.js. Full daily record: explorer.Growth schedulehow each state is triggered
| State | Trigger | What grows | What gets cut |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quiet | Baseline traffic only | Nothing new | Nothing yet |
| Surge | Sustained demand for 3+ consecutive blocks on one route | Direct shortcut connections toward the hot node | - |
| Reinforce | A grown connection stays fast for 500+ blocks | Bandwidth and stake weight on that connection | - |
| Prune | No traffic for 5,000 consecutive blocks | - | The connection is retired, capacity freed |
| Fossilize | Every block, automatically | A permanent record of the mesh's exact shape | Nothing - the history is kept forever |
Reproduce thisreal data, fixed seed, same output every run
Every figure on this page traces back to one script: sim/mycel-sim.js. It implements the six states above exactly as specified, samples demand once per real trading day from sim/coin-daily.csv (COIN daily close/high/low/volume, pulled from Yahoo Finance's public chart API - no key required), and runs on a fixed seed, so anyone who runs it gets this same dated event log back:
| Date | Route(s) | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | 2025-09-29 | R1-COIN, R2-COIN, R5-COIN, COIN-CHAIN - GROW. First sustained demand spike in the dataset (day 20, after the 20-day rolling-average warmup). |
| 02 | 2025-12-29 | R1-COIN - PRUNE, after roughly 20 real trading days of below-average COIN volume. |
| 03 | 2025-12-30 | R5-COIN - PRUNE, same quiet stretch. |
| 04 | 2026-01-05 | R1-COIN, R5-COIN - GROW again, once COIN volume climbed back above the rolling average. |
| 05 | 2026-02-04 | R1-COIN, R2-COIN, R5-COIN, COIN-CHAIN - REINFORCE, after roughly 2.5 consecutive days of sustained elevated volume. |
Safety checklistchecked 2026-08-29 · re-check anytime
| Check | Result | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Contract deployed | NONE | Nothing exists on any chain yet - there is no address to check, because there is nothing to check. |
| Token sale / presale | NONE | $MYC is in development, but no sale has happened or is planned on this site. Nobody can send this project money through anything here. |
| Wallet connect | ABSENT | Every page on this site is static HTML. Open the source - there is no wallet-connect code anywhere to find. |
| Liquidity pool | N/A | No token is deployed yet, so there is no liquidity to lock, drain, or lie about. |
| Ownership / mint function | N/A | No contract means no owner key and no mint function to renounce or abuse. |
| Source code | PUBLIC | The whole site, the simulation, and the raw market data it runs on: github.com/mycelrh/mycel. |
| Figures on this page | REPRODUCIBLE | Every number traces to sim/mycel-sim.js. Run it yourself, or check the hashes on verify.html. |
This is what "pre-launch concept" actually means here: nothing to buy, nothing to connect, nothing to rug. That will change if this ever becomes a real deployment - this checklist will change with it, and the changelog will say so.
Known failure modesflagged, not hidden
| Mark | Failure mode | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| F1 | Growth storm | A sudden, legitimate demand spike can trigger many connections to grow at once, briefly outpacing verification. |
| F2 | Starved region | A region with too little baseline traffic may never accumulate enough demand to grow proper connections on its own. |
| F3 | Fossil bloat | Recording the mesh's exact shape every block grows the permanent history faster than transaction data alone would. |
| F4 | Reinforcement loop | A popular route can attract so much reinforcement that it starves a quieter route still genuinely needed. |
| F5 | Cold start | A brand-new deployment has no historical traffic pattern, so its earliest growth decisions are noisier until enough blocks accumulate. |
- Spec ID
- MYC-0114-RH
- Genesis route
- MYC/COIN·USD
- Network
- Robinhood Chain (intended) · Concept
- Source
- github.com/mycelrh/mycel
- Doc rev
- 2026.08.29
This page describes a concept protocol for illustration only. It is not a live network, not an offer to sell any token or security, and does not involve wallet connection or deposits. Figures on this page are the literal output of
sim/mycel-sim.js run against real COIN market data - see explorer and verify. MYCEL is an independent concept project, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or built by Robinhood Markets, Inc.; "Robinhood Chain" is referenced only as the intended deployment target.