Virutual broke through the $1 billion market cap threshold last night, and the market's attention is also focused on the Base ecosystem. So what is the hot Virtual? What are the potential projects in the Virtual ecosystem? How to play with Virtual?
What is Virtual
Let's briefly talk about what Virtual is doing.
Virtuals Protocol. As a decentralized AI Agent "production factory", Virtuals Protocol provides support for the release of different AI Agents.
The platform token VIRTUAL of Virtuals Protocol has already exceeded a $1 billion market cap and is still constantly breaking new highs. At the same time, Virtual is also continuously enhancing its product matrix, and Virtual has already had more than a dozen AI agents of a certain scale, such as luna, aixbt and sekoia, and the number is still increasing.
It can be simply understood as the pump.fun of the Base ecosystem. But as a new asset issuance narrative, Virtual is pumping not MEME but AI agents.
AI Agent Review
The Virtual ecosystem currently has a certain scale of AI agents, and these Agents have certain practical uses, which are essentially different from the popular AI MEME in the past market. Virtual and these AI Agents form a positive flywheel, releasing blockbuster AI agents, forming market consensus, investing in the "Virtual" shovel, and thereby developing higher-quality AI Agents, complementing each other.
AIxbt
The development momentum of AIxbt is strong, and it has become the largest AI agent in terms of market value on the Virtual platform, surpassing Luna. AIXBT was released by @0 rxbt on @Virtualss_io about half a month ago. It can capture data from multiple sources and 400+ KOLs and spit out real-time information sources. If users hold more than 600,000 AIXBT tokens, they can also directly access the AIXBT terminal. On November 16, the deployer of aixbt proposed to burn tokens to increase their scarcity, and this view was immediately responded to by aixbt, and after that the token AIXBT also rose sharply and rushed forward.
Luna
Although Luna is the earliest launched AI agent, its current performance is not as good as expected, with a market value of around $40 million, while AIXBT has surpassed it. LUNA has the ability of self-cognition and self-thinking, and can realize completely autonomous operation without human management and operation. It has tens of millions of fans on platforms like YouTube and TikTok. At the same time, LUNA will also "work" to repurchase tokens, and LNUA will carry out 24-hour uninterrupted live broadcasts, and the repurchase mechanism is reflected in the fact that users can use the token $LUNA to reward LUNA during the live broadcast.
It is worth noting that LUNA has been set a target to ensure that LUNA achieves a market value of $40.9 billion. Although this market value is somewhat exaggerated, with such a "slogan", it will inspire all LUNA Holders to promote viral dissemination.
The logical closed loop envisioned by LUNA is to gain a fan base through live broadcasts, increase Holders, and on the other hand, destroy tokens in the form of live broadcast rewards, thereby achieving market value growth.
Satoshi AI Agent
Satoshi AI Agent is one of the most popular AI Agents on Virtual, with pools on both Base and Solana, and its current market value on Base is around $38 million. Satoshi AI Agent uses "Satoshi Nakamoto" as a selling point, and users can chat with the Satoshi Agent, just like communicating with "Satoshi Nakamoto". It is mainly used for data query and information search.
Sekoia
Sekoia is similar to the case of ai16z, belonging to the "VC personally involved" type. Although the name is Sekoia, on November 19, Anand Iyer, the founder of crypto VC Canonical, posted a long article on his social platform stating that he has invested funds and time into the AI agent project SEKOIA, which was initially an experiment, "and now I am fully committed, hoping to expand it."
SEKOIA (Strategic Ecosystem Knowledge and Opportunity Investment Agent) as an autonomous AI system, will cultivate and grow the artificial intelligence ecosystem through strategic investment. SEKOIA will be introduced through Telegram and will soon announce its first investment. That is, to realize AI investing in AI, although it sounds a bit absurd, the market is willing to buy into the narrative of SEKOIA.
G.A.M.E
GAME can enable AI Agents to operate autonomously, process inputs and generate responses, and learn from past interactions. It enhances decision-making capabilities by leveraging long-term memory, including experience, reflection, and dynamic personality traits. By continuously evaluating the results of actions and dialogues, GAME allows the agent to refine knowledge and improve the agent's planning and performance over time. The market value of GAME has already reached $40M and is still accelerating.
Virtual Ecosystem Gameplay
Of course, just knowing what the Virtual ecosystem has is not enough, and many readers still don't understand how to play specifically, and find it difficult to take the "first step of genius".
Virtual is also divided into an internal pool and an external pool, with the tokens first listed on the internal pool, and when the number of Virtual tokens on the internal pool reaches 42,420 (the current market value is about $360,000), the external pool will be opened, and the tokens on the internal pool will enter the black hole and be converted into external pool tokens, automatically transferred to the wallet. After that, you can interact through the external pool website https://app.virtuals.io/.
Users can purchase the latest tokens using Virtual on the internal pool website, and check the token deployment status, number of holders, etc. through the Base browser https://basescan.org. On the website, users can see the currently top-ranked AI Agents and their token information.
Left: internal pool, Right: external pool
To purchase tokens on the Virtual platform, you need to first buy the platform token $Virtual. The Virtual platform supports directly exchanging or purchasing Virtual through the Base chain using ETH, which can facilitate asset transfer and token trading.
There are two important points to note when purchasing Virtual tokens:
The largest token pool is on Aerodrome, not Uniswap.
The largest pool is the BTC pool, not the ETH pool. So it's not recommended to use the Bot in Telegram directly, as it usually goes through the Uniswap ETH pool. If you buy a lot, using the Bot may cause a larger slippage.
Due to the continuous rise in the popularity of AI agents, the prices of AI agent tokens on Virtual are all rising, and the amount of Virtual tokens purchased will also inevitably rise, with the market value nearly doubling in the past three days.
