Original author: Nancy, PANews
AI Agent is undoubtedly the core theme of the current on-chain market. From infrastructure building, tool development, DeFi to games and other products, the rapid iteration of AI Agent is driving explosive growth in the market, strongly occupying the market's attention and user mindshare. The recent continuous rise in the proportion of DEX/CEX trading volume has also proven the crazy plunder of on-chain liquidity and attention, and the structural changes in market capital flows. According to data from The Block and DeFiLlama, the proportion of spot trading volume of DEX and CEX has increased significantly in the past few months, reaching 20.2% as of January 2025, a historical high.
In this trend, many non-AI crypto projects lacking positive topics are also rushing to catch up, trying to ride the coattails of the AI Agent, which has built-in traffic. This article by PANews has compiled 22 crypto projects that are deploying AI Agent, covering areas such as games, public chains, payments, DeFi and DePIN. These projects are mainly accelerating the construction and development of the AI Agent ecosystem through technology framework development and application scenario implementation.
Illuvium: Introducing Autonomous AI NPCs into Games
Illuvium is an Ethereum-based RPG and NFT game. On January 7, Illuvium announced a partnership with Virtuals Protocol to enhance the gaming experience of the upcoming Illuvium MMO Lite. This collaboration will leverage Virtuals' AI technology and its G.A.M.E LLM framework to provide dynamic and intelligent behavior for NPCs, delivering an immersive experience for players.
Story Protocol: Hiring the AI Agent Luna at a High Salary
Story Protocol is a Layer 1 designed for intellectual property (IP). Last December, after releasing a TCP/IP framework for AI Agents, Story Protocol announced that "the human intern requires a vacation, and we plan to hire an AI Agent to manage the Twitter account," and ultimately decided to hire Luna to manage its X account, with an annual salary of 36.5 USDC, stating that she will bring "charm, personality, and a touch of mischief."
Circle: Exploring the Use of AI Agents to Independently Operate and Trade USDC
In the second half of 2024, Circle announced a collaboration with Solana to launch an AI agent to enhance infrastructure security. In November of the same year, Circle released a report stating that the company had issued over $2 billion worth of USDC in the past few weeks, exploring how the integration of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology could change people's understanding of work and finance, particularly through the use of "autonomous" payments. Circle introduced a concept that allows AI agents to independently operate and trade USDC. Additionally, it has built a sample application to "demonstrate this autonomous system" and encourage users to build their own projects using this template and provide feedback.
Arbitrum: Launching a Funding Program and Establishing AI Agent Collaborations
In November 2024, Arbitrum announced the launch of a $1 million Trailblazer funding program aimed at attracting developers with innovative ideas to deploy influential AI Agents or other AI products on Arbitrum. Furthermore, Arbitrum has also established partnerships with Eliza Labs and ARC Agents.
Stripe: Planning to Launch an AI Agent Toolkit
In November 2024, Stripe's product manager Jeff Weinstein stated that the company is launching a software development kit (SDK) specifically designed for building AI agents. The toolkit supports large language model (LLM) calls to payment, billing, issuance, and other APIs, integrating with platforms like Vercel, LangChainAI, and CrewAIInc, allowing the use of any model through functions.
Coinbase: Releasing Multiple AI Agent Products to Simplify On-Chain Operations and Interactions
In late October last year, Coinbase launched a new tool called Based Agent, developed using the Coinbase SDK, OpenAI, and Replit platform, allowing users to create AI agents with crypto wallet functionality in 3 minutes, capable of executing on-chain transactions, token swaps, and staking, among other tasks. The following month, the Coinbase Developer Platform also collaborated with Langchain to launch the AgentKit framework for building AI agents, which can integrate on-chain (Base chain) and off-chain interaction capabilities, combining Web2 APIs and on-chain data, enabling agents to self-browse content and perform on-chain operations.
Orca: Developing an AI Agent Version of the Automated Bot
Orca is an AMM DEX on Solana. On January 6, ai16z co-founder Shaw revealed in an offline interview with BlockBeats that ai16z is collaborating with Orca to develop an agent, which is an automated bot that can automatically manage Orca's liquidity pools. Users only need to deposit tokens, and if the pool does not exist, it will automatically create a new pool; if the pool already exists, it will add the tokens to the existing pool. Afterward, it will continuously monitor these pools, and if it detects situations that may lead to permanent loss, such as token price divergence, it will automatically withdraw from the pool. This is because most people are concerned about the issue of permanent loss. Users can also program to control the token spread or adjust the token pairing.
io.net: Establishing Multiple Collaborations in the AI Agent Domain
The DePIN leader project io.net has established multiple collaborations in the AI Agent domain. For example, in December last year, io.net announced a partnership with the creative autonomous AI agent Zerebro to enhance Ethereum verification operations. Furthermore, io.net has also collaborated with a16z to provide decentralized GPU computing power to support the latter's model running.
IoTeX: Launching the First AI Agent BinoAI in the DePIN Domain
IoTeX is an open platform for modular construction of AI+DePIN infrastructure. Last December, IoTeX announced the launch of the first AI Agent in the DePIN domain: BinoAI, which is built on the ELIZA-OS and aims to lay the foundation for the decentralized autonomous consciousness evolution in the DePIN domain. BinoAI will autonomously learn, automatically cognize, and provide insights on DePIN-related knowledge, using the ELIZA framework provided by a16z to securely access and interact with on-chain data. Combining IoTeX's decentralized DePIN modular infrastructure, BinoAI will operate in a fully decentralized and trustless environment, with application scenarios in smart travel, energy systems, smart wearables, and smart homes.
Smolverse: Developing an AI-based Virtual Pet Game
Smolverse is a game and NFT project on the Treasure DAO. Since last December, Smolverse has collaborated with a16z to develop a on-chain AI Tamagotchi game called "Smolworld," which incorporates the Eliza Agent framework.
Phala Network: Building an Eliza-based TEE Framework
Phala Network was previously the privacy computing infrastructure in the Polkadot ecosystem. According to a previous PANews report, Phala Network has collaborated with a16z to build an Eliza-based TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) framework, which can integrate TEE technology into Eliza's multi-agent framework, providing cryptographic verifiability and enhanced privacy to ensure secure and reliable interactions. For example, the previously popular projects Spore.fun and aiPool have utilized Phala Network's TEE technology.
Injective: Launching the First Cross-Chain AI Agents Hub
Injective is an interoperable Layer 1 blockchain. Recently, Injective announced that it will collaborate with Sonic SVM, the first SVM blockchain on Solana, to launch the first cross-chain AI Agent platform, Smart Agent Hub, providing developers with powerful tools and frameworks for creating, managing, and monetizing AI Agents, as well as enabling cross-chain asset transfer and a unified development experience. The first testnet is expected to be launched in the first quarter of 2025, and the ecosystem will gradually expand to areas such as games, entertainment, DeFi, and social platforms (like TikTok and Web3 games).
Fuel: Launching the AI Agent Tool Fuel Agent Kit
Fuel is a modular execution layer designed for the Ethereum Rollup ecosystem. Recently, Fuel announced the launch of the AI Agent tool Fuel Agent Kit, which will be able to connect users' AI Agents to Fuel and various applications on Fuel, or use Fuel to build new AI Agents.
Gaia: Creating Dedicated AI Agents
Gaia is a decentralized, open-source artificial intelligence infrastructure platform. In November last year, Gaia announced a collaboration with the AI platform vana to create powerful, dedicated AI agents. Currently, Gaia's AI agents have integrated and collaborated with projects such as EigenLayer and ENS.
Aethir: Incubating and Investing in AI Agents
Aethir is a decentralized real-time rendering network. In the past few months, Aethir has been continuously incubating and investing in AI Agents, such as announcing the third round (Batch 3) of its $100 million ecosystem fund at the end of last year, focusing on the integration of games and AI agents. At the same time, Aethir also provides free GPU computing power for Eliza agent developers.
DWF Labs: Developing AI Agent Trading and Establishing a Fund to Support It
In addition to successfully managing its investment portfolio through the development of AI trading agents and integrating them into the DWF trading system's workflow, DWF Labs also announced the establishment of a $20 million fund at the end of last year to support the development of autonomous AI agents, including projects such as TAO Cat and HeyAnon, which have received funding.
Blade Games: Integrating AI Agents into the On-Chain Gaming Ecosystem
Blade Games is one of the largest on-chain gaming ecosystems on Arbitrum and Mantle, attracting over 850,000 registered users. Blade Games combines on-chain gaming with AI agent technology, built on the zkVM stack, where players can play games, train AI agents, and create their own on-chain economies.
aelf: Launching the No-Code AI Agent Framework aevatar intelligence
In December 2024, Layer 1 blockchain aelf announced the launch of the no-code AI agent framework aevatar intelligence, which will be supported by multiple large language models (LLMs), allowing external developers to integrate their preferred LLMs, forming a collaborative ecosystem to drive innovation and expand the framework's functionality. The first use case, AI pump pad, will be launched in early January 2025.
SendAI: Enabling AI Agents to Autonomously Execute Operations on the Solana Blockchain
SendAI is a Solana AI ecosystem accelerator. In December 2024, SendAI announced the launch of the open-source Solana Agent Kit, which supports the autonomous execution of Solana on-chain operations by any AI model, and has integrated with mainstream protocols such as Jupiter, Metaplex, and Raydium. The toolkit uses LangChain technology and supports a wide range of AI models from GPT-4 to Llama, and plans to integrate with frameworks like Eliza from a16z and ZerePy from Zerebro.
Artela: Releasing the Next-Generation Full-Stack AI Agent Technology Framework
In December 2024, the parallel EVM public chain Artela Network officially released the full-stack AI Agents technology framework. Based on Artela's on-chain intelligence, decentralized trustworthy execution, and elastic block space features, it solves the current limitations of AI Agents' dependence on centralized servers, providing AI Agents with true "read, write, and own" capabilities.
Frax: Developing the "AIVM" Technology Stack for AI Agents on Blockchains
In mid-December 2024, the decentralized stablecoin protocol Frax Finance announced that it is collaborating with the associated project IQ to develop an AI technology stack called "AIVM". This technology stack is an internally developed parallel blockchain based on the Layre 2 rollup protocol Fraxtal, which can enable AI agents to achieve complete autonomy without a single point of control, ultimately helping AI and blockchain achieve more seamless collaboration.
Planet Mojo: Launching the AI Agent Mr. WWA, First Game to be Released Soon
Planet Mojo is a GameFi game developed by the Magic platform, with PVP auto-chess as its genre. On January 7th, Planet Mojo announced a collaboration with Virtuals to launch the AI Agent Mr. WWA (Winston Wylde Alexande), with the token WWA serving as the platform's reward token, and the foundation will support continuous buybacks. In addition, Planet Mojo's first game, Agents of Poker, is also about to be launched.
