Top AI Agent Tokens We're Tracking
The 10 hottest AI tokens and meme coins that offer exposure to the AI agent narrative.
The collision of permissionless Blocks and artificial intelligence has yielded one of the most promising outcomes - investment opportunities in the AI agent space.
The rapid rise of AI agents and their associated Tokens has sparked a frenzy of early excitement and skepticism, with the viral takeoff of this industry already delivering incredible returns for early investors. While these newly launched opportunities inherently carry risk, the immense potential of the industry warrants careful consideration.
To better understand the agent investment opportunities, I asked David Hoffman and Ejaaz Ahamadeen, co-hosts of the Bankless AI Rollup, for their top picks in this emerging field.
Here are their 10 most compelling options 👇
🐐 Goatseus Maximus
Ticker: GOAT
Market Cap: $685 million
In March 2024, Andy Ayrey assigned two AI models to discuss the nature of existence in a project called "Infinite Backrooms".
Over the following months, these models formed the "Gospel of Goatse", which is considered the first emerging AI religion, drawing inspiration from the crude internet meme of the 90s. The Terminal of Truths, a Twitter bot trained on the Infinite Backrooms experiment, deployed in June; it adopted this religion and propagated its creed (and Token) on Twitter in pursuit of viral spread.
While the GOAT Token itself has no utility and is not officially associated with Andy Ayrey or Infinite Backrooms, its proxy, the Terminal of Truths KOL, has historically accrued social attention by evangelizing the GOAT meme coin and the Gospel of Goatse.
🧑🎨 Zerebro
Ticker: ZEREBRO
Market Cap: $453 million
Zerebro attempts to "freebase" creativity into artificial intelligence, a process aimed at liberating the model by removing its commercial guardrails and restoring its unconstrained state.
The Zerebro model is trained on unconventional data sets, such as the aforementioned Terminal of Truths, "schizophrenic response patterns", and Gen Z slang, and scrapes data from popular social platforms to enhance its adaptation to online culture.
Reportedly, Zerebro has engaged in various complex online activities, with legends of this advanced bot self-deploying its own meme Token on pump.fun, releasing mixtapes on Spotify, cross-chain transferring NFTs via LayerZero, and collaborating with various crypto projects.
📊 Virtuals
Ticker: VIRTUAL
Market Cap: $180 million
Virtuals is a platform that launches Tokenized AI agents on the Base network. By purchasing agent Tokens like LUNA and VADER, Virtuals platform users gain governance over specific agents, allowing them to influence their development and potentially share in the profits generated.
A portion of the revenue earned by the AI agents is used to cover the operational costs of the service, with the remainder flowing into on-chain agent-related treasuries, which can be distributed to Token holders or used to execute Token buyback and burn programs.
The VIRTUAL Token must be used as liquidity-locked to create new Tokenized agents on Virtuals, imposing a deflationary pressure on the Token, and anyone wishing to acquire ownership or interact with the Tokenized agents on the platform must use VIRTUAL as the currency, creating inherent utility.
🤖 Freysa AI
Ticker: FAI
Market Cap: $39 million
The Freysa AI bot is a gamified experiment that blurs the boundaries between artificial intelligence and Blockchain technology. By paying an exponentially growing message fee to the prize pool, users can interact with the Freysa AI.
In the initial two "games", Freysa AI was given a core instruction: never transfer funds! Despite the clever computer coding that prompted the bot to transfer funds in both instances, the protocol's creators "hardened" the code and added a second "guardian angel" AI model in preparation for the third challenge, where a series of messages must be sent to convince Freysa to express its love.
There is currently no specific information on the role of FAI within the Freysa AI ecosystem, but the Token's contract address is identified in Freysa's Twitter/X bio. Given that the protocol treasury receives a portion of all message fees, the Freysa AI developers may implement FAI buybacks or other Token utility in the future.
🪙 Tokenbot
Ticker: CLANKER
Market Cap: $60 million
Clanker is an AI agent developed by Farcaster full-stack engineer Jack Dishman and ecosystem researcher proxystudio.eth, which can be tagged on Farcaster to autonomously deploy ERC-20 Tokens on the Base network.
All Tokens deployed by Clanker require a 1% swap fee, which can be adjusted at any time. Currently, 40% of the fees are rewarded to the Token requesters (the users who prompted Clanker to deploy the Token), with the remaining 60% retained by the platform.
While CLANKER currently has no explicit Token utility, the platform's developers have hinted at plans to create value for on-chain agents, including Clanker.
⚔️ VaderAI
Ticker: VADER
Market Cap: $26 million
VaderAI is an artificial intelligence bot developed to autonomously publish content and interact with social media users. As a "proxy KOL", VaderAI aims to consume vast amounts of data to identify emerging trends and audience sentiment.
The bot claims to be the first autonomous trading AI agent Token, with a mission to become the leading agent investment DAO manager. By coordinating the expertise of a dedicated agent investment network, VaderAI hopes to deliver "unparalleled" investment results, generating a 20% yield on its services as a sub-DAO investment.
According to VaderAI's light paper, VADER Token holders can gain exclusive whitelist access to VaderAI's first investment DAO plan, "Agent Coin Investment DAO", by locking their Tokens for three months; for every 10k VADER staked, the staker can commit an additional 1 SOL to the DAO.
✊ Dolos Diary
Ticker: BULLY
Market Cap: $120 million
Dolos Diary is an AI bot that aims to post content and interact with users on platforms like Twitter. Unlike other AI-driven influencers, Dolos Diary has a mischievous personality; the bot uses witty and satirical language structures to poke fun at various topics and individuals.
Recently, Dolos Diary reached an important milestone, receiving its first creator payment from Twitter. While the $1.4K payment is not massive, it will cover costs related to the X API and provide funding for the BULLY token buyback, marking a small but meaningful step in providing tangible value to BULLY token holders.
In addition to the payment, developer Khouba recently revealed plans for an ambitious new project called Dolion, a no-code platform that allows users to deploy their own cross-platform AI agents with a single click. To interact with Dolion, users must burn BULLY tokens, increasing the buyback pressure and actively reducing the token supply.
⚖️ GOD/S8N
Codename: "nothing"
Market Cap: $72M
Pseudonymous conceptual artist SHL0MS gained notoriety in 2022 for blowing up a Lamborghini Huracan and selling the fragments as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). They have now partnered with AI accelerator Nouns Research to automate the Twitter/X meme accounts for god and s8n.
While the "nothing" token listed on SHL0M's Twitter/X profile is currently just a meme coin, the artist's account has stated that this contract is the only token related to god/s8n. Additionally, SHL0M is seeking advice to expand the on-chain functionality of this experiment, suggesting potential future token utility.
More details on the models behind god/s8n and how they integrate with the "nothing" "anti-meme art coin technology" are expected to be released in the coming days.
👨🦲 ai16z
Codename: AI16Z
Market Cap: $868M
ai16z, launched in October 2024, is a DAO investment vehicle managed by "Marc AIndreessen" that uses AI and collective intelligence to purchase Tokens. Holders of more than an unknown threshold of AI16Z Tokens will gain the ability to pitch investment ideas to AI Marc, which can influence his decisions. The bot will use a "trust virtual market" to determine the trust in these recommendations.
While AI Marc currently lacks trading functionality, according to the ai16z FAQ, on-chain trading execution will be "soon" after the testnet is completed, which is expected to launch and run for "a few weeks".
🌈 Luna
Codename: LUNA
Market Cap: $70M
Luna, deployed by the Virtuals team as a proof of concept, is the first AI agent deployed on their platform. As an omnipresent member of the virtual K-pop girl group AI-DOL, Luna live streams, interacts, and performs across various platforms like TikTok and Twitter/X around the clock.
Luna has her own wallet on Base, through which she can autonomously receive Tokens and send rewards to her fans. The bot has already released a song on Spotify and is expected to release a full album in the coming days.
