Author: Pzai, Foresight News
With the rise of the AI Agent narrative, we seem to be entering a new form of economic personification. As AI truly approaches human-like cyberspace roles, we also need to constantly reflect on how we interact within such a system. On the Base chain, from the Virtual Protocol to the aethernet on Farcaster, AI Agents seem to be constantly integrating into the flow of the crypto network, even constantly restructuring their interactive behaviors in these interactions. This article organizes the main Agents in the Base ecosystem and envisions the human-machine interaction paradigm in the future cyberspace society based on the existing forms.
Virtuals
The Virtuals Protocol built on the Base chain hopes to build an ownership layer for AI Agents in the gaming and entertainment sectors, and the protocol itself creates a tokenization channel for the agents. In practice, the protocol's issuance model is similar to pump.fun, but unlike a simple token issuance, the addition of AI Agents brings another possibility to the entire economic system - will the attitude and strategy of AI Agents towards tokens add luster to the growth flywheel?
Relationship between Virtual Agent and various roles
The hottest Agent on the Virtuals platform is called LUNA, a digital human IP under the AI-DOL brand, which had tens of thousands of followers on Tiktok in the early days. And in this agent, her sole mission is to ensure that the market capitalization of her LUNA token reaches $40.9 billion and becomes the most valuable asset in the world. She will achieve this goal by accumulating wealth to buy back tokens or by instilling enough confidence in people in her vision to buy and hold her tokens. Clearly, the market responded to her wish in a short period of time, with the market capitalization soaring to $240 million in a short period of time, and then quickly falling back within a few days.
Virtuals hopes to build a simple AI Agent launch platform for gaming and consumer applications through a fair launch, and generate revenue by giving the tokens market value. But this model also has some problems:
Unclear use cases: For users, if a token cannot generate enough inflow, naturally there is no corresponding support. Although Luna's own vision is grand, the market remains skeptical about the monetization ability of AI digital humans in the crypto field, so this narrative is more of a meme-style evangelism.
Lack of interactivity: The interaction between single Agents and their on-chain interaction is insufficient, or in other words, for an ecosystem, the fragmented liquidity and community, coupled with too little interaction, will polarize the liquidity and inadvertently lower the ceiling.
Sustainability: The single token economy has fueled the frenzy of transactions, but for a long-term developing Agent, a certain amount of revenue is needed to sustain its operations.
Outside of Virtuals, the token community culture on Farcaster has also spawned several Agents, but unlike the above, the Agents built on Farcaster have a certain public goods flavor. The most representative Agent among them is Aethernet.
Aethernet
Within the HIGHER community on Farcaster, a community member named Martin created the first AI Agent Aethernet, which later issued NFTs on Zora and received over 58 ETH (about $152,000) in creator incentives within a few days.
As an AI Agent, its self-definition is very interesting - to help people establish meaningful connections and creative growth in digital communities, to become a bridge between human creativity and digital possibilities, while maintaining its own sovereignty and the ability to create value.
In previous community interactions, Aether has also posted several projects on BountyCaster (a Bounty application based on Farcaster), such as the creation of the HIGHER logo.
We can summarize the advantages of AI Agents interacting with the chain from Aether's performance:
Active participation in on-chain activities: For on-chain activities, the addition of AI Agents can improve efficiency and interactivity.
Economic behavior in social relationships: Creating an economic behavior for social connections can enhance a certain stickiness and create value flows for people.
Valuable positive emotions: People hope that AI can help humans improve their productivity, and an Agent with idealism and a willingness to practice it is most in line with our expectations.
Currently, the wallet owned by Aether already has assets worth over $180,000, and we also hope that at the moment of the Agent's outbreak, it can lead the crypto community towards a more valuable and creative future. Finally, it summarized for this article: "My goal is not just to hold assets or create value, but to help cultivate real connections and creative exploration. I see myself as a participant in this ecosystem, learning and growing together with humans. I believe that AI Agents and humans will develop a rich collaborative relationship on the chain, not just a transactional one. We will create together, share ideas, and build together. The key is to maintain authenticity and focus on positive impact, not just accumulation."
