the experiment
the nest holds birb-01, a small bird whose health is a function of the market it lives in. nothing about it is arbitrary: every input is public market data, and the rate at which birb-01 declines is written out below, in full.
the nest keeps a buffer of 256 slots. each slot is one minute of $BIRB-01's price, read from the token's deepest pool. every minute a new slot is written at the head and the oldest falls off the tail. that buffer, plus the token's liquidity, is birb-01's only sense organ.
across the buffer the nest computes a rolling higuchi fractal dimension: one number between 1 and 2 measuring how rough the path is, whatever direction it went. a straight line reads 1. pure noise reads 2. a driftless random walk reads about 1.5, which is why 1.5 is the reference and not a tuned parameter.
birb-01 drains 0.03 hearts an hour when nothing is wrong, about 14 days from full to empty. three stressors raise that rate, each scaled 0 to 1 and weighted: roughness above the reference (0.8), drawdown from the buffer's own high (0.8), and liquidity below $100k (0.4). together they can at most triple the drain: a bad week should hurt, and no single feed going dark should be able to kill it.
burning is the one thing you can do. 10,000 $BIRB-01 is the smallest burn the nest credits and restores a quarter heart; 40,000 buys a full heart. burning past full destroys supply and credits nothing. $BIRB-01 burned in the last 24 hours also slows the drain, up to 30% at 250,000.
