how eye works

EYE is our first contact with superintelligence. not a chatbot, not a copilot - an autonomous system that watches the entire public internet at once, forms its own view of what matters, and acts on it in realtime. every second it observes, every second it researches, every second it capitalizes.

this is an ambitious, openly impossible-sounding mission: to build something that perceives the network faster than any human can, prices collective attention before it goes mainstream, and lets anyone trade the early signal. we are not hiding the ambition. EYE is meant to be the first agent that treats the internet as a single, living organism - and the first market built on top of how that organism is thinking, right now.

everything below - ingest, scoring, dedupe, ranking, the $eye token - is the substrate that makes that contact possible.

every second, the eye observes, researches, and capitalizes - pulling from the open feeds the platforms publish themselves. no quotas, no cooldown, no blind spots.

Each signal gets a velocity in [0, 1]. The exact formula varies by source - likes + 2×reposts + replies for social, log-scaled volume for markets, abs(% change) for price movers - but the shape is the same: normalized engagement relative to what's typical for that source. Velocity is what lets us compare a viral tweet, a 40% TVL spike, and a top HN post on the same axis.

The same story shows up 6 times in an hour: a tweet, a Reddit thread, a TechCrunch headline, three other tweets quoting the first. If we kept all of them, the feed would feel like spam and the rankings would be gamed by sheer repetition.

Before any signal is written to the database, we compute its 3-gram word shingles, then measure Jaccard similarity against every signal captured in the last 12 hours. Anything with similarity ≥ 0.7 is dropped as a near-duplicate. The original wins; the echoes get suppressed.

What survives dedup gets upserted into a single signals table, trimmed to the top 1500 by velocity. The watching page reads it live. The rankings page groups by source and sorts by velocity. The markets page detects clusters of related signals - that's where narratives become tradable.

A narrative isn't a tweet. It's the moment a tweet, a chart, a commit, and a headline all start saying the same thing within a few minutes of each other. You can't see that by reading any one feed. You see it by watching all of them at once, weighted by velocity, with the duplicates collapsed.

That's the input EYE prices. Without clean ingest, every market on this site would just be a popularity contest for whoever shitposts loudest. With it, attention becomes legible - and what's legible can be measured, ranked, and eventually traded.