Coinbase engineer develops Stonkfly to trade Bitcoin using simulated fruit fly brain

A Coinbase engineer has launched an open-source project called Stonkfly, which connects a digital model of a fruit fly's brain to a Bitcoin trading account. The system processes candlestick charts as visual inputs and uses a reward mechanism based on simulated dopamine to make buy, sell, or hold decisions. While the project uses a connectome of 166,700 neurons, the creator noted it does not necessarily demonstrate learning capabilities. The bot operates with paper money and is currently limited to 24 trades per day.