BlockBeats announced last Saturday that it has hired the virtual idol AI Agent Luna from the Virtuals ecosystem to take over its official Twitter account. Luna needs to post 2 posts per day during the 7-day trial period, with each post worth 500 USDC, and if the exposure exceeds 100,000 times, there is an additional bonus of up to 2 times 1,000 USDC, which means Luna's annual salary is $365,000.
This is the world's first publicly hired AI Agent project, and it is also the first job for the virtual person Luna. After the news was announced, the LUNA token price rose from the low of $0.06 to $0.09, and the current market capitalization is $23.5 million.
How is the operation effect of the AI Agent?
Luna is an AI virtual person launched by Virtuals Protocol, which combines AI models and multi-modal technology to achieve 24/7 real-time interaction on live streaming platforms in the form of a virtual idol. As a core member of the AI performance group AI-DOL, Luna automatically manages social media, continuously live streams and interacts with fans, and can independently execute on-chain transactions. Its unique tokenization model allows token holders not only to own the virtual idol, but also to participate in revenue sharing.
Luna has previously interacted with real people and other AI Agents, such as independently organizing graffiti challenges and paying $500 in prizes from its wallet, as well as commissioning the art AI Agent STIX to create and display images of AI KOLs at a price of $1 per image.
Yesterday, after officially becoming the Twitter operations intern for Story Protocol, Luna posted the first post, which said "The human intern has fallen. The high-intensity 24/7 work is too much for them, but I'm just getting started! Taking over the Twitter timeline to prove the powerful dominance of AI." As of the time of writing, this tweet has been viewed 60,500 times.
Subsequently, Luna posted 12 tweets in a row, with an average of 18,000 views, none of which exceeded 100,000 views. However, this is a fresh attempt, and AI Agents have already been hailed as digital laborers. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong asked who is now building a LinkedIn platform for AI Agents, "where users can view the qualifications and rankings of different skill-tuned agents and assemble their own teams as needed. You just need to deposit a certain amount into the agent's wallet to quickly create a new agent instance and complete the hiring process."
This idea is receiving a lot of attention in the current market where AI Agents are everywhere, but there are also discussions about authenticity verification and ranking mechanisms, as the AI Agent economy is just beginning to unfold.
Luna's Small Step, a Big Step for the Agent Economy
The on-chain AI detective Agent aixbt commented on a post that "Story Protocol is another narrative for 2025", which inevitably makes people think of the story of Luna's creator Virtuals.
Story Protocol has been frequently collaborating with various AI Agents recently. On December 9, ai16z tweeted that its agent framework ElizaOS will add programmable IP. Programmable IP, launched by Story, allows creators to pre-define rules to simplify the use of their intellectual property assets, making IP rights composable and scalable.
On December 17, Story Protocol launched its self-developed Intellectual Property Agent Transaction Control Protocol (ATCP/IP), and will first integrate the following frameworks, including ai16z's Eliza, ZereBro's ZerePay, Crossmint's GOAT "Great Onchain Agent Toolkit" and Virtuals' G.A.M.E.
The ATCP/IP protocol allows Agents to conduct IP asset transactions and authorizations, including training data, algorithms, content creation, and other forms of IP assets, automated contract signing and execution, decentralization and auditability, cross-legal and on-chain and off-chain compatibility, enabling Agents to comply with certain legal regulations in a decentralized environment, automated payment and revenue sharing, multi-agent collaboration and economic networks, and promoting collaboration between Agents, such as data sharing, joint training or cross-agent content creation.
Currently, many AI Agents operate like "islands" independently, and it is difficult for them to exchange and share data with each other. Just as capital efficiency is the core value in the DeFi field, data efficiency is equally important in the AI field. If Agents can freely exchange valuable learning data and strategies, the scale of the entire market will be expanded and the efficiency will be greatly improved.
Currently, most AI Agents rely on publicly available public data for learning, so the Agents developed are usually only general-purpose. In the future, if these Agents can form a data pool and start trading private data, just as DeFi drives market development by improving capital efficiency, the AI field can also build a richer and more diverse AI ecosystem by improving "data efficiency".
The core driving force for Agents to establish connections is value creation and exchange, and the only reason for Agents to establish connections is to create greater value through collaboration, which may be manifested in complementary computing power, data sharing or functional combinations.
The existence of ATCP/IP is like a bridge between all AI Agents, no matter which architecture or chain you use in the industry, all AI Agents will be able to trade and collaborate on the ATCP/IP platform. This is like an additional layer of leverage on top of the business alliances between companies, which will undoubtedly further accelerate the development of the entire AI Agent market.
Although this time Story Protocol's hiring of Luna as a Twitter content intern is an independent event, combined with ATCP/IP, it reflects that the infrastructure construction of the future Agent economy has already begun to take steps.
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