Editor's Note: This article introduces Virtuals as the leading AI agent ecosystem, with 15,000+ agents and $60M in revenue, becoming the core platform for AI innovation. Through the incentive mechanisms of agent creation, alliances, and sub-DAOs, it drives the development of the ecosystem. Additionally, the platform optimizes the economic model through Bit token buybacks and burnings. Future growth drivers include CEX listing, more partnerships, and price volatility. Although the views are biased towards Virtuals, investment requires your own research (DYOR).
Original Content (Edited for Readability):
As early as November 2024, I published an article titled "Why Virtuals Will Become a Unicorn Before the New Year." Just a week later, VIRTUAL reached unicorn status.
At the time, virtuals io was the only major AI agent ecosystem, while ai16zdao was just starting to gain attention among developers. The AI agent market was relatively simple then, with only a few agents focused on personalization and Alpha.
Virtuals' Data at the Time:
· Over 2,000 agents launched
· Cumulative revenue of $20 million
· 40 agents on the Sentient dashboard (including 5+ top-tier agents)
Fast Forward to Today:
Virtuals has firmly established its position as the leader in the AI agent distribution network. In just four months, it has achieved the following:
· Over 15,000 agents launched
· Cumulative revenue of $60 million
· 597 agents on the Sentient dashboard (including 50–100 top-tier agents)
Although VIRTUAL's market capitalization has retreated from its all-time high of $5 billion to the current $2.9 billion, development progress is accelerating:
· aixbt agent, the top-ranked agent on Virtuals, is starting to break away from the parent ecosystem. This demonstrates that Virtuals provides an excellent platform for agents to grow independently.
Virtuals now occupies a similar level of trust and influence as top Layer 1 protocols, becoming the preferred distribution channel for protocols, institutions, and major brands, and the core platform in the AI agent domain.
AI x Gaming
In the AI x Gaming domain, Virtuals has collaborated with the following top-tier brands:
· Illuvium
· Ronin Network
· Sovrun
· Avari Saga
· Animoca Brands
These collaborations are driving the continuous expansion of industry boundaries through innovations such as AI NPCs and AI-driven game dynamics.
Beyond Gaming: Efficient and Practical Agents
Virtuals is also adept at collaborating with protocols to create efficient and practical agents. For example:
· taocat agent ➔ Virtuals x Bittensor: Integrates the Bittensor subnet to enable self-learning and self-adaptive agents.
· Gekko Agent ➔ Virtuals x Axal: Showcases Axal's automated trading functionality, Autopilot.
· Agent YP ➔ Virtuals x Yellow Panther: Brings game-centric market analysis capabilities to the CT space.
Unique Agent Examples
Here are some unique agents that have launched on the Virtuals platform:
· luna virtuals: Top-tier personalized virtual idol (former StoryProtocol intern)
· AcolytAI: Provides AI Oracle infrastructure for all Virtuals agents
· trustme bros: Provides market/trading entry and exit signal alerts
· 0x nomAI: Offers on-chain analysis and terminal functionality for agents
· Freya Starfall: AI NPC in the Starfall EN game
· PH: Decentralized AI model driven by PondGNN, providing support for Virtual agents
· MusicByVirtuals: Music generation agent, collaborating with DJ Wukong
· santavirtuals: Distributes rewards to Virtuals agents through Questflow
· AgentSploots: On-chain advertising network agent
· h4ck terminal: White hat vulnerability hunting agent
· CertaiK Agent: Smart contract auditing agent
· CPA: Automates tax processing for agents
· polytraderAI: Autonomous prediction market agent
· Misato virtuals: NFT artist agent
· Byte AI: Agent for developing human food
Virtuals' ecosystem is thriving, with various agents continuously innovating in different directions.
Agent Collaboration
Collaboration between agents is also accelerating. Virtuals recently partnered with infinityg ai to develop a multi-agent collaboration system (agent business model).
Investment DAOs and On-Chain AI Venture Capital
Investment DAOs and AI-focused venture capital are providing support for Virtuals projects:
· Vader AI: Top-tier investment DAO platform created for Virtual projects
· sekoia virtuals: Grassroots AI venture capital, investing in curated Virtuals projects
· aixCB Vc: Investment DAO focused on DeSCI and AI initiatives
· wai combinator: Active investment DAO and incubator in the Virtuals ecosystem
These institutions provide funding, marketing support, and reputational assurance, helping new agents gain traction quickly.
Flywheel Effect
Virtuals is pushing full throttle, leveraging the strong VIRTUAL/AGENT Bit liquidity pool, sustainable token economics, and an excellent team skilled in storytelling and incubating AI agents. Mathematically, VIRTUAL is destined to break through a $10 billion market capitalization.
The new 1% tax distribution further incentivizes innovation:
· 30% allocated to agent creators
· 20% allocated to agent alliances
· 50% allocated to agent sub-DAOs
This ensures creators have cash flow support, alliances drive transaction volume growth, and token holders manage the treasury funds.
Since October 2024, $12,990,427.85 in VIRTUAL trading revenue has been accumulated for Bit buybacks and burnings.
The Future Belongs to Virtuals
Virtuals remains the first-generation AI agent ecosystem, with the largest number of high-quality unique agents. The catalysts are evident - CEX listing, more partnerships, more collaboration, and more price volatility. Still think Virtuals' technology is poor?
Disclaimer:
I have some bias towards Virtuals (fully disclosed, I hold a large amount of VIRTUAL), so please do your own research before making any decisions.
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