AI is undoubtedly the absolute focus of the Crypto market in recent times, with various AI concept tokens surging. So, how have AI NFTs performed? What AI NFT projects are worth our attention? BlockBeats has compiled a list of 13 AI NFT projects worth focusing on.
ai16z partners
Although the NFT series is created by community member @SOLsesame, it has clearly received the support of the official ai16z.
Shaw has expressed support on Twitter multiple times:
In the official ai16z Discord, there is a dedicated "NFT" role for ai16z partners holders.
It is currently unknown what specific utility it will have, and the series itself is not an AI narrative, but has a close relationship with ai16z. The current floor price is close to 4 SOL, approaching the previous high.
zereborn
From the official zerebro, and should be the first NFT series created by an AI Agent. I think the official endorsement + AI creation of these two narratives make the market cap of zereborn higher than ai16z partners, although the market cap of $zerebro is currently about $1.5 billion less than $ai16z.
The specific utility is currently unknown, and the floor price is close to 5.7 SOL.
Virtuals Land
This is a Free Mint land series issued by Virtuals official in July 2024, with a total of only 100 pieces and no whitelist or other restrictions. Nevertheless, at the time, it even took nearly 20 minutes to mint, and you even had the opportunity to buy at such a low price:
With the surge of the AI concept, as the AI leader on the Base network, this series has now soared. If it weren't for the small total supply, it would absolutely be a strong contender for the biggest NFT play of 2024, but in fact, very few NFT players have noticed this 100x NFT project, because it is actually in the AI track, which is like a different world.
The current floor price is 11 ETH, and players are looking forward to it playing a role in AI + gaming in the future.
2049 // Reflections
The official NFT series of Freysa AI, this is a limited NFT collection that runs autonomously in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), with access to tools, seed prompts, and task objectives. The minting price of the series is 0.25 ETH, with a total of 2049 pieces, and the current floor price is close to 0.6 ETH, corresponding to a market cap of about $4.2 million, with the token $FAI having a market cap of nearly $370 million.
Smol Brains
This series is also known as "Magic Monkeys", and is an old project that has existed since the last cycle, and has always been a core PFP project in the Treasure DAO ecosystem.
In the past week, Smol Brains has risen 4 times, with a current floor price close to 0.4 ETH.
The reason for the "Magic Monkey" surge is still Shaw, because Shaw was the earliest developer of the Treasure DAO ecosystem, and he is responsible for the game project Smol World of Smol Brains. Smol World will be an AI game, with each Smol Brains as an AI Agent participating in on-chain games, able to steal each other's assets for PvP, and the game will be integrated with the Eliza framework.
The token $SMOL of Smol Brains has also risen up to 8 times in the past week, and $SMOL will migrate to the V2 version to strengthen its utility in the Smol World game. Currently, the market cap of $SMOL is about $16.5 million.
Kemonokaki
This project may be a bit far-fetched to include, but it is worth watching. Kemonokaki can be summarized in one sentence as the Base version of Milady.
The reason for its surge in the past week is that it will enjoy the whitelist of the $OHM re-innovation project Daolympus World of daos.world.
And in the multi-signature of ALCHDAO, there are 3 people from the daos.world team. ALCHDAO is a DAO focused on investing in tokenized AI agents and blockchain innovation.
Additionally, in July 2024, the Official Twitter of Virtuals also posted about Kemonokaki. Of course, this time has passed quite a long time, and it cannot really explain much, but it more shows the Base Milady status of Kemonokaki.
Parallel Avatars
Parallel is a TCG (Collectible Card Game) on the Base chain, under the Echelon Prime Foundation. In 2021, Parallel completed a $50 million financing led by Paradigm, with other investors including YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley, Focus Labs, OSS Capital, and Yunt Capital.
Parallel is already available for players to play. In addition to Parallel, the Echelon Prime Foundation is also developing a survival game called Parallel Colony that integrates ERC-6551 technology and allows players to collaborate with AI. Players can assign tasks to AI Agents, and the AI Agents will complete them on their own, communicate with other AI Agents, and also communicate with players to give their own game ideas. The AI Agents will also conduct transactions autonomously in Parallel Colony.
The initial AI Agent game characters need to be created through Parallel Avatars, and there will also be mechanisms in the future to allow regular players to obtain AI Agent game characters to participate in the game. Currently, the floor price of Parallel Avatars is close to 1 ETH.
This game will open for testing in the first quarter of this year. In addition to Parallel Colony, Parallel has also created an AI-driven fully on-chain automated trading tool @AIWayfinder, which has a strong "All In" AI approach.
CryptoAgents
This is a series that has not yet been released, with a total supply of 10,000 and a Free Mint. In simple terms, this will be an NFT series created by an AI Agent, but the difference is that this will be a fully on-chain NFT series, with the images rendered through smart contract code.
The project is launched by @punk 3700, who is the founder of the modular Bitcoin Layer 2 project BVM, as well as the founder of the multi-chain AI layer Eternal AI.
Bossu
A new project, currently planned to be minted on January 7th, nicknamed "Shark Egg" in the Chinese-speaking community, as the cute image has attracted more attention from NFT players.
The information about this team @wawe_online is rather messy. The official website says it was founded in 2019 in Argentina as a digital art creative studio, but the location shown on Linkedin is Chiang Mai, Thailand, and the Behance profile shows it is in China.
But this is a Free Mint series, so the issues are not that big. Their token $BOSSU runs on the Eliza framework, with a current market cap of close to $2 million. The NFT series itself is an IP image that the studio has been working on for years, and is not generated by an AI Agent, but they use the AI Agent to operate the IP image and then release the final image, which also reflects a development path for IP beyond just a single image.
xNomad
A new AI NFT project from NFTGo, not yet released. Simply put, it binds an AI Agent and a small image together, and NFT holders can use their NFT as an AI Agent to invest, receive airdrops, and the money earned by the small image can also be withdrawn.
It runs on the Eliza framework, let's see if Shaw can turn his eyes to it, if so, it will be more optimistic.
Botto
From here on, these are some things that are quite different from the current mainstream AI narrative, and are more likely to be noticed by NFT players.
Botto, a veteran NFT player should be familiar with this project that has been around since the last cycle. Botto is a decentralized AI artist that has been working since October 8, 2021. The AI creates 350 artworks per week, and the community votes to select one piece to be auctioned on SuperRare. Voting requires staking $BOTTO to obtain voting power, and 40% of the auction proceeds are used to reward the voters.
The community also proposes to decide the AI's creative themes, whether to introduce or remove the AI models used, allowing Botto to explore different artistic directions in different cycles.
This project can be considered to have weathered the bull and bear markets. Botto's 6 artworks were auctioned at Sotheby's on October 24, 2024, collectively fetching $351,600. Currently, the market capitalization of $BOTTO is approximately $31 million.
Neura
Neura is not a conventional AI image generation platform. In fact, the team behind Neura, Adanede, intends to build Neura into a decentralized, self-aware AI artist through self-funding. Neura will create art independently, but users can use Android NFTs to influence Neura's creations. Different Android NFTs will imbue Neura with different creative styles, and each user will be a unique node of Neura.
Currently, Neura has created its first series "The Memories" and completed a Free Mint. This series allows users to freely provide inspiration to the AI, and then the AI reinterprets based on the user's foundation, essentially letting Neura showcase its capabilities first, before the journey of the AI artist's development officially begins, which can be followed.
alignDRAW
These images are quite abstract... aren't they?
This rough mosaic abstraction is because these works were created by the first text-to-image AI model in history. In 2015, 19-year-old Elman Mansimov, through his alignDRAW model, first achieved the AI operation of generating images through text prompts.
This is a pure art project, focusing on the narrative of the history of AI development. In 2024, this series reached its historical high price of nearly 3 ETH, with an initial minting price of 0.1 ETH. Currently, the floor price of this series is around 1.66 ETH.
