The Spirit Index

Who holds the agent's memory, and can it be exported or moved?

The Plantoid's durable state is its Ethereum smart contract and the seed NFTs minted to feeders, which are public on-chain. Open contract code shows seeds, proposals and votes recorded in the contract, with token URIs held in a contract mapping. Where the poem and image generation for Plantoid 15 runs, and whether that output or any interaction history is kept or exportable, is not documented.

• The site states the Plantoid's body is a mechanical sculpture and its spirit is a smart contract on Ethereum, and that feeders receive NFT seeds.plantoid.org ↗
• The Plantoid contract is an ERC721Enumerable that mints seeds via mintSeed(), records votes via submitVote(), and stores token URIs in a _tokenUris mapping.raw.githubusercontent.com ↗
• Plantoid 15 generates an oracle poem illustrated with generative AI for each feeder; the page does not name the model, server or storage.15.plantoid.org ↗

Does the identity survive any single platform?

Plantoid has its own domain, with a subdomain per instance (13, 14, 15), and a public GitHub organization. Its identity is described as a smart contract on Ethereum, and each instance's seed NFTs form a public collection.

• plantoid.org describes the Plantoid's spirit as a smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain and links instance sites 13, 14 and 15.plantoid.org and per-instance OpenSea collections.plantoid.org ↗
• The plantoid GitHub organization hosts plantoid-v1, described as the first version of the Plantoid software.github.com ↗
• The OpenSea collection for Plantoid 15 displays the seeds generated by Plantoid 15, with a total supply of 17.opensea.io ↗

Does it run without heroics?

plantoid.org lists Plantoid exhibitions running in 2026, including Palazzo Diedo in Venice through 22 Nov 2026. The Plantoid 13 feed page shows a 5.0 ETH threshold with 0.0 ETH in escrow. No recent dated on-chain activity or code commits were found; the newest commit on the public contract fork is from January 2022.

• plantoid.org lists 2026 exhibitions at Danae Gallery (28 May to 22 Sept 2026), Palazzo Diedo (4 May to 22 Nov 2026) and Art Basel (15 to 21 June 2026).plantoid.org ↗
• The Plantoid 13 feed page shows a required threshold of 5.0 ETH and 0.0 ETH currently in escrow.feed.plantoid.org ↗
• The newest commit on the glitch-refactor branch of the Plantoid contract repo is dated January 9, 2022.github.com ↗

Can it transact?

Plantoids receive ETH from feeders, who get a seed NFT in return, and the instance pages show feeding on Ethereum mainnet with a reproduction threshold. When the threshold is met, the contract transfers funds to the artist chosen to build the next Plantoid. The site states a 10% secondary royalty; no contract address is published on the pages read.

• Plantoid 15's page shows feeding in 0.001 ETH increments, Ethereum Mainnet and Sepolia network options, and a required threshold of 5.0 ETH.15.plantoid.org ↗
• The site states that once a proposition is approved the Plantoid transfers the funds to the author, and that the Plantoid receives 10% royalties on secondary sales of seeds.plantoid.org ↗
• The contract pays the threshold amount to the artist on spawn via artist.call{value: threshold}.raw.githubusercontent.com ↗

Can its operator be checked?

Seed holders vote on reproduction proposals, per the live site. The public contract code shows votes cast with seed token IDs and a designated artist address that accepts the winning proposal; it has no onlyOwner, pause or withdraw functions. Whether the deployed instances run this exact code is not stated on the pages read.

• The site states that owners of NFT seeds can vote on the propositions they like most.plantoid.org ↗
• The contract exposes submitProposal, submitVote and acceptWinner, where acceptWinner is callable by the artist address, and has no onlyOwner, pause or withdraw functions.raw.githubusercontent.com ↗

What happens when it dies mid-act?

IE. Settled by a public record of a Plantoid failure or outage and how it was restored, or a documented procedure for rebuilding a sculpture or redeploying its contract.