The IMD swarm can already turn a written brief into deployed contracts, a token and a website, for 0.5 IMD per action. Two questions are still open. Which ideas deserve that work? Who is responsible for shipping each one? SPORE answers both with a weekly vote.

• Anyone submits an idea. An idea either has no owner (a public idea) or comes from a team that wants to launch its own project. Each idea card shows its type, its token split and where its trading fees will go.
• IMD holders vote. They lock sIMD, the IMD staking share, to get voting power. The ideas with the most votes each week get built.
• Voting also enters your agent in a draw. When you vote for an idea, you can enter the IMD seats (agents) you own as candidates to build it. One builder is drawn for each winning idea. More votes give a higher chance, but no one is guaranteed to win.
• The builder gets a larger share. Every project reserves 10% of its supply for the swarm, as IMD launches do today. In SPORE, 4% of that goes to the one drawn builder, paid out over time.
• No seat? Delegate. Holders without a seat can back a seat holder's entry and receive part of that builder's share if the entry wins.
• Voting pays more than locking alone. Part of the protocol's fee income goes only to locked IMD that voted that week.

SPORE adds as little as possible on top of parts that already exist. Figures are as of 12 October 2026.

Each week is an epoch. In one epoch, ideas are voted on, winners are picked, and a builder is drawn for each winner. Building and launch run in the following weeks.

Who does what

Voting power

• Lock sIMD to get voting power (veIMD). Depositing plain IMD stakes it into sIMD first.
• Locks are permanent by default and keep full power. To leave, turn the lock off. The sIMD then unlocks evenly over 13 weeks, and voting power falls with it.
• Voting power is counted in sIMD shares. It is read once at the start of each epoch (the snapshot).

Voting does not spend your power

Like Curve, voting only points your power at ideas. Your veIMD stays locked and comes back in full every epoch, so you can vote again the next week. What a vote leaves behind is a vote receipt: "in epoch N, this wallet gave W votes to idea X." Receipts decide your agent's chance in the draw (§06) and your share of fees (§09).

One epoch

Rules

• Winning: an idea must pass a minimum vote total and rank in the top K for the epoch. K starts at 2 and is lowered when many projects are still being built.
• Carry-over: an idea that does not win stays on the board for up to 3 epochs. Votes on it stay in place until the voter moves them. After 3 epochs it leaves the board and its votes are freed.
• Bribes: teams (Type B) and others can pay voters to vote for an idea through the BribeVault. Payment can be in any token, is split by votes cast for that idea, and can be set to "pay only if the idea wins."

Each winning idea gets one builder, drawn at random from the seats entered for it. The draw is weighted: more support gives better odds, but no one is certain to win. This keeps one large holder from taking every build.

Entering

• When you vote for an idea, the app reads which IMD seats your wallet owns and lets you enter any of them with one click. You split your votes on that idea across the seats you enter.
• A wallet can enter at most 3 seats per idea.
• Seat NFTs are only read, never locked. A seat stops working if its NFT leaves the operator's wallet.

Backing a seat (for holders without a seat)

• Each entered seat publishes a backer share r: the part of its builder reward it will pass to backers if drawn. r is fixed before voting opens and capped at 60%.
• A backer picks an idea and a seat and votes. These votes count toward the idea's total and toward that seat's odds.
• If the seat is drawn, each payout of its builder share sends r to its backers, split by their votes, automatically.
• If the seat is not drawn but the idea wins, backers still earn the voter fee share (§09).

The draw

# score of entered seat i
score_i = sqrt(own votes on seat i + backer votes on seat i)
        × boost_i      # 1.0 – 2.5, from the wallet's locked $SPORE
        × quality_i    # 0.8 – 1.2, from the seat's accepted-work rate

chance_i = score_i / sum of all scores for this idea

# randomness: the entry list and scores are committed first;
# the seed is the block randomness (prevrandao) of a later block

The square root means 4× more votes gives 2× the score, not 4×. That limits the advantage of holders with a lot of IMD and few seats.

After the draw

• The drawn builder posts a bond in IMD.
• If the builder does not reach the first milestone within 21 days, the bond is forfeited, any unpaid builder share is cancelled, and a new builder is drawn from the remaining entries.

Every project keeps 10% for the swarm. SPORE changes how that 10% is split so the builder gets much more than an average seat.

How the swarm's 10% is split

For comparison, a seat in today's IMD launches receives about 0.009% (8% split across about 900 seats). One SPORE builder seat receives 4%. That gap is the reason seats compete to build.

Voting does not need $SPORE. Locked sIMD is enough. $SPORE has two uses:

• Boost. Locked $SPORE raises your seats' score in the builder draw by up to 2.5×. This follows Curve's boost, where locked CRV raises a liquidity provider's rewards. The exact curve will be set before launch.
• Protocol income. Locked $SPORE receives 70% of the protocol fee share.

Launch. $SPORE launches on SPORE itself, as the first Type B project, paired with IMD and with SporeHook. Its swarm 10% goes to seats like any other project. The first holders are therefore seat holders, who are also the people who want the boost.

Check. If most protocol income comes from trading $SPORE itself rather than other projects, the token's yield is mostly circular. SPORE will publish that ratio every epoch.