20 quadrillion and counting

ANTS

No boss. No plan on paper. Just millions of tiny workers following each other's trail. Now the colony is on Solana.

No one in charge

The queen doesn't give orders.

She lays eggs. That's it. Nobody tells the workers what to do, yet the whole colony runs like a city.

The language

They talk with scent.

An ant that finds food leaves a scent trail on its way home. Others follow it and add their own. Good trails get stronger. Bad ones fade.

The first farmers

Farming for 50 million years.

Leafcutter ants cut leaves, carry them home and use them to grow a fungus garden they eat. They were farming long before humans.

The engineers

Bridges made of ants.

Army ants hook onto each other to build living bridges across gaps, so the rest of the colony can walk straight over.

Everywhere

20 quadrillion of them.

A 2022 study counted at least 20 quadrillion ants on Earth. Together they outweigh all wild birds and mammals combined.

the colony

The shortest path

Two roads. The colony picks the faster one.

Ants on the short path get back sooner and leave more scent, so more ants follow it. Nobody decides. The trail does.

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At first, they split evenly.

Try it yourself

Feed the colony.

Tap anywhere to drop food. Scouts wander until one finds it, then the scent trails do the rest. Watch the paths form on their own.

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Strength test

How strong is an ant?

Ants can carry many times their own body weight. Press and hold to stack food on her back. Let go before she drops it.

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One colony

6,000 km. One family.

An Argentine ant supercolony stretches about 6,000 km along the coasts of Portugal, Spain, France and Italy. Millions of nests, cooperating instead of fighting.

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How to hold like a colony

Colony rules.

No boss

Nobody gives orders. Everyone just does their part.

Follow the trail

The best path wins because more ants walk it.

Carry your weight

Ants can lift many times their own body weight.

Build together

Alone an ant is tiny. Together they build cities.

A very old team

From the age of dinosaurs to the chain.

years ago

100M+

Ants in amber

Ants are already marching next to the dinosaurs, frozen in amber.

years ago

~50M

The first farmers

Ants start growing fungus gardens, long before humans plant anything.

algorithm

1992

Computers copy ants

Marco Dorigo turns ant trails into "ant colony optimization", a way for computers to find short routes.

study

2022

The big count

Scientists estimate at least 20 quadrillion ants on Earth.

$ANTS

Now

The colony on Solana

No boss, no plan on paper. Just holders following the trail.

You

Join the colony

Every ant counts. That is the whole point.

No boss. No plan on paper. Just millions of tiny workers following each other's trail. That's how a colony builds a city. That's how $ANTS builds one too.

Right now

The colony is still marching.

While you read this, quadrillions of ants are working, and Solana keeps making blocks. One more ant joins the trail for every block.

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one ant joins for every Solana block