In the first week of 2025, the AI Agent segment continued to explode, with two major ecosystems, ai16z and Virtual, reaching market Capital of $2 billion and $5 billion respectively, setting new records.
Swarms – The "Dark Horse" of AI Agent
AI continues to innovate at a rapid pace. Just when many thought the AI Agent infrastructure debate had died down and AI Agent projects would have to “follow” these two major ecosystems, a dark horse project – Swarms – emerged with a bang. Swarms’ Token has surged more than 768% in the past week, with a market Capital of $440 million, and Swarms has attracted more than 2,800 stars on GitHub.
Swarms is a multi-agent collaboration framework that provides “framework” components, long-term memory, and task separation functions, allowing AI Agents to collaborate on complex tasks within the same network. Swarms is also actively developing its ecosystem, bringing many potential opportunities.
Introducing projects in the Swarms ecosystem
MCS
- Market Capital : 25 million USD
- Holding address: 3,889
- Token contract: ALHFgnXSenUv17GMdf3dL9gtFW2KKQTz9avpM2Wypump
Founded by Kye Gomez, MCS is a production-grade multi-agent system built on Swarms for medical diagnosis and coding. Users can interact directly to diagnose medical issues. MCS has seen over 6,000 daily active users in the past 2 days and the project’s API is about to be rolled out to one of the largest healthcare providers in the US.
SPORES
- Market Capital : 9.4 million USD
- Holding address: 5,347
- Token contract: H1koD28XAHg2vuGp7XggehBCR4zP6r6k6EQ3MR6j3kU2
Spores is a Token issued by Autonomous Spores , which has committed 10% of its Token to the Swarms DAO. Autonomous Spores is developing 4 AI Agents based on the Swarms framework , including:
- Saya: An AI fund manager that manages AI Agent risk funds. Saya makes decisions based on large amounts of trading data, with the first fund launching soon.
- Oozeborn: Inspired by Clanker on Base, Oozeborn helps users create Token and AI Agents on Twitter by commenting or tagging #Oozeborn.
- Grassian: A data analysis AI Agent that specializes in finding and evaluating potential bloggers (alpha bloggers) on Twitter, providing important information to Saya.
- Jaguarundi: An AI Agent that assesses risk , ensures the safety of Saya's trading system, and operates an insurance fund to minimize losses in the system.
All four agents are designed to work together, leveraging the collective intelligence of AI Agents. Autonomous Spores also plans to Chia a portion of Saya's fund management fees and Oozeborn's transaction fees with the community.
CREATE
- Market Capital : 8.8 million USD
- Holding address: 4,528
- Token contract: 92crE7qiX5T7VtiXhCeagfo1E81UtyguiXM7qCi7pump
CREATE is introduced as the "ultimate creative engine" , essentially an AI platform based on Swarms. The project allows users to create images or sounds from text prompts , bringing many creative applications in art and technology.
IFSCI
- Market Capital : 3.5 million USD
- Holding address: 1,177
- Token contract: RqGHXg2eh3zPjyzNM7kUyrrSmhb9M9q4mCKFH1mpump
IFSCI is introduced as the first project combining AI and DeSci ( AI x DeSci Agent project ) in the Swarms ecosystem. IFSCI's goal is to personalize eating and fasting plans for users, based on the food and health data provided by users.
Users can participate in the project as food data providers, health indicators or researchers . Users just need to post a photo of their meal with a description on the X platform (formerly Twitter) and tag @adesciagent to receive rewards.
According to the roadmap, IFSCI plans to launch a fully-featured application in Q3/2025 , while expanding the scale of scientific research globally.
Swarms Ecosystem Development Progress
AI Agent framework projects are growing rapidly, similar to the previous Ethereum L2 boom. Although the technology and model are different, the most intuitive way to evaluate is the development of the ecosystem. As a multi-agent collaborative framework, Swarms needs a vibrant agent ecosystem to prove its value. Compared to large ecosystems such as ai16z and Virtuals , Swarms started later, but is currently actively building its own ecosystem.
Today, the official Swarms Twitter account launched a call for partners for ecosystem projects, providing technical, marketing, and agent infrastructure support. Swarms also set aside 10 million Swarms Token (equivalent to $3.38 million ) as an ecosystem development fund. Swarms founder Kye Gomez pledged to personally meet and support all partner projects, providing technical support, marketing guidance, and more.
Kye Gomez also announced new features coming to the Swarms Marketplace , including:
- Seamless creation and upload: Easily create agents, tools, and teams, then upload directly to the marketplace.
- Paywall integration: Allows listing agents for sale at a certain price, helping developers monetize their products.
- Swarms Token Integration: Use Phantom to buy and sell agents with Swarms Token , simplifying transactions.
- Swarms Auto-Cloud: Launch the Swarms API on the cloud with just one command.
- Agent quality rewards: Earn Swarms Token for publishing high-quality agents, based on cutting-edge frameworks for evaluation.
- Real-time Chat and API: Provide real-time interaction and API functionality for individual agents, groups, tools, and prompts.
- Usage Tracking: Detailed tracking tool to monitor agent usage in real-time.
Although there are still many controversies about the originality of the project, the consistent effort to build is the best answer to doubts. Initially, Swarms was criticized as a group of "coin-launching conspiracies", but the current market value has proven that the project has been recognized. "Either continue to take off, or decline from here." Whether Swarms can compete with large ecosystems in building ecosystems remains to be XEM.
