Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect $100 and lets its neurons make the trades If you want to understand how 2026 is going, in March The Register reported that scientists had connected a simulated fruit fly brain to a virtual body and let it wander around a virtual world. Now another simulated fly nervous system is trading crypto. Behold Stonkfly , the brainchild of Coinbase software engineer Alex Wormuth. His X post boasted: I gave the fly brain $100 to trade bitcoin. Dopamine neurons are...
