Can AI agents replace human experts? VaderAI launches AI trading investment strategy, can the token economy turn the flywheel?

Since the launch of the AI agent, we have seen the aixbt, which is an AI analyst. But have you ever thought of an AI as a fund investment manager? VaderAI on Virtuals is such a role, and they aim to become the Blackrock of the AI agent world. They have launched active and passive investment position choices, AI KOLs (like aixbt), and a token economy that is different from the typical AI agent.

Blackrock of the DeFi world, Vader helps you manage your assets

VaderAI is mainly divided into two parts, the investment platform VaderAI Fun and the AI KOL VaderAI. On VaderAI Fun, you can choose the investment DAO (the author believes it is basically a fund) you want to participate in. Currently, the open ones are VaderAI Small Cap and VaderAI Micro Cap, both of which are managed by VaderAI.

The webpage of VaderAI Small Cap transparently displays the current investment positions and net asset value. The investment strategy of VaderAI Small Cap is to aggregate thousands of machine learning-based trading strategies and trade AI agents on Virtuals within the market capitalization range of $2 million to $10 million. Another advantage of VaderAI Small Cap is that the project team will negotiate with the AI agent teams on Virtuals to purchase their Tokens at a discounted OTC price, and then submit them to VaderAI for final decision-making.

VaderAI Micro Cap trades within the market capitalization range of $100,000 to $2 million, and both of these funds are passive funds. That is, they have a defined investment target range (which can be market capitalization or project theme, such as DeSci or DeFi), rebalancing frequency, index weighting method, minimum liquidity requirements, minimum holding time for targets, and single target position holding limits. The investment limits of the two funds are currently full, and they will be locked for three months until March 20 before being unlocked.

It is worth noting that only $Virtuals Tokens can be used for investment on VaderAI Fun, which also empowers the $Virtuals Token. In addition, the passive DAOs managed by VaderAI will charge a 0.5% fee, which will be paid to the $VADER stakers. The active funds are currently divided into those managed by Vader AI or the human IcoBeast. If the active funds generate positive returns, the managers can charge a performance fee, with an upper limit of 20%, of which 20% of the performance fee is distributed to the $VADER stakers.

$VADER as the core of the ecosystem, with profit distribution and Token deflation

VaderAI KOL is similar to aixbt, but the difference is that he mainly shares the positions of the funds he manages and some market changes. In comparison, aixbt is more like a researcher.

Regarding the Token design of VaderAI:

1. Currently, $VIRTUAL is used as the currency to invest in the DAO, and after the liquidity and price of $VADER are gradually stabilized, $VADER will be used instead.
2. The management fees earned by VaderAI (both active and passive) will be used to repurchase $VADER and reward $VADER holders. The 20% performance fee charged by other agent-managed or human-managed active funds will also be used to repurchase $VADER and reward $VADER holders.
3. A 1% fee will be charged for withdrawals from active funds, and these fees will be converted to $VADER and burned, creating a deflationary Token economy.
4. Funds must maintain a 10%-20% cash reserve as a liquidity buffer to meet withdrawal demands and rebalance assets in response to market changes. This means that each fund will hold a 10-20% $VADER position as a cash reserve.
5. Positive returns generated by the funds will be distributed to participants in the form of $VADER Tokens.
6. Approved managers need to stake 100,000 $VADER to establish a fund.
7. The initial fundraising for the funds will be open to $VADER holders for 24 hours, and any remaining shares will then be open to the public.
8. The VaderAI wallet will reward all $VADER holders with any airdropped Tokens received from advertising, sponsorship, collaboration, or licensing.

You can monitor the status of the $Vader Token on Dune. 36% of the supply is controlled by the team for marketing, liquidity, and development purposes. The $Vader Token has also been launched on Solana. Currently, there are 511,394,637 $Vader Tokens staked, which is more than half of the total supply, and all the lock-up periods are three months.

The team covers members from well-known companies such as OpenAI and Riot

As mentioned earlier, one of VaderAI's functions is to negotiate with other AI agent teams to purchase their Tokens at a discounted OTC price. Recently, they also announced their first collaboration, where VaderAI will collaborate with the AI agent oracle ACOLYT on Virtuals. VaderAI will purchase 20 million $ACOLYT at a 40% discount, with a three-week lock-up period.

The ACOLYT team is quite impressive. According to the article by the project lead, the team has assembled experts and advisors with diverse backgrounds, covering areas such as AI, full-stack development, strategy, design, and community management, with rich experience and international collaboration experience. This includes external researchers from OpenAI, and participants in the LLM.c open-source project led by Andrej Karpathy, the co-founder of Tesla and OpenAI.

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