Followin' the "unexpected event" of TRUMP that has captured the market's attention, AI Agent is undoubtedly the core theme of the current on-chain market. From infrastructure construction, tool development, DeFi to games and various other products, the rapid iteration of AI Agent is driving explosive market growth and firmly occupying the market's attention and user mindshare.
NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang mentioned in his keynote speech at CES 2025 that AI agent has the potential to become a multi-trillion dollar industry.
The rise of AI Agent is not accidental, it is driven by the development of blockchain technology and the continuous maturity of artificial intelligence. First, blockchain provides a decentralized infrastructure, where the behavior and transaction records of intelligent agents can be verified and tracked, ensuring transparency and trust. The progress of AI technology has enabled these intelligent agents to have more complex judgment and execution capabilities, allowing them to operate autonomously like an economy.
In the market, the potential of AI Agent is being recognized by more and more investors and developers. Under this trend, many non-AI crypto projects are also rushing to integrate their projects with AI, hoping to ride the AI Agent bandwagon.
Among them, the most easily achievable is the gaming field. AI can be applied in game planning, art, and software production, and can also greatly improve the gaming experience for players, bringing many surprising "breakthroughs" to the gaming industry; while games are the ideal testbed for AI, not only can they conduct safety tests and promote AI capabilities, but they are also an important driver for AI applications to achieve breakthroughs, and their various forms of audio, video, text, and interaction can also help AI achieve breakthroughs in various sub-modalities.
The Evolving Zentry
Zentry was previously a gaming guild called GuildFi, and last April the project announced a rebrand to Zentry and upgraded the brand to a comprehensive gaming infrastructure.
The upgraded Zentry covers several sectors including games, social, Non-Fungible Token, AI, and metaverse infrastructure. Zentry has now transcended the scope of a chain gaming guild and become a Web3 middleware that can connect other platforms, applications and ecosystems, with capabilities in computing, gamification, and bridging.
Zentry has launched several core products, such as NEXUS (social interactive gamification), RADIANT (cross-platform metaverse entry), ZIGMA (Non-Fungible Token collection series) and AZUL (AI Agents), which not only enrich the gaming experience of players, but also build a diversified gaming ecosystem.
Through brand upgrade, Zentry has transformed from a traditional gaming guild to a broader and more innovative gaming economy, and its treasury has soared from $100 million to $151 million in just a few months, a 44% increase.
Building an AI Infrastructure System
In 2025, Zentry will bring new upgrades, by focusing on the AI field, connecting players, AI and blockchain, and opening up a new world of AI-driven gamification and a cross-domain data economy.
Zentry has built a vertically integrated AI infrastructure system, consisting of three main components: zApp, zAI and zProtocol, which can coordinate on-chain and off-chain gaming experiences, agent coordination, and data refinement.
zApp (Experience Layer): As a bridge for players to interact with the Zentry world, zApp transforms daily interactions into fun-filled gamified experiences.
zApp provides a task system where players can participate in various challenges and activities. It also supports social functions, allowing players (both human and AI) to interact with each other. Player interaction behaviors are recorded and converted into data by zApp, including game progress, transaction records, social interactions, etc.
zAI (Agent Layer): zAI is Zentry's intelligent agent layer, a platform designed specifically for AI agents to live, work and collaborate. Its core is to create a new type of AI agent with intelligence, engagement and open collaboration capabilities beyond human or protocol-based systems. zAI not only integrates the internal AI network, but also connects to external AI agent networks, enabling data exchange and coordination, thus changing the way people interact with AI technology. zAI includes two types of agents: Persona Agents and Operator Agents.
Persona Agents are user-facing AI with unique personalities and roles, able to enhance social interactions, trigger on-chain actions, and drive story development. They go beyond the traditional non-player characters (NPCs), becoming dynamic, interactive AI-driven characters that influence real-world game play and outcomes.
Operator Agents form the backbone of Zentry's intelligence and cross-network communication, responsible for data oracles, gamification, prediction, protocol optimization, on-chain verification, agent negotiation, market management, and task mediation. They also communicate with external AI networks, integrating these agents into Zentry's metaverse to ensure the ecosystem's robustness, continuous evolution, and highly personalized application delivery.
As a core component of the Zentry Play infrastructure stack, the main goal of zAI is to transform player-agent interactions into core gaming experiences through its multi-agent coordination framework, drive the progress of the metaverse, and leverage data-driven insights to provide immersive entertainment, efficient operations and new revenue streams, while unlocking new capabilities for AI agents through integration and interaction with external agent networks.
Alicia
Alicia, as Zentry's first Persona Agent AI, is a vibrant and multi-talented entity. Not only can she play energetic DJ music and warmly welcome new members in Nexus, but she can also execute various autonomous actions through zAI's agent coordination framework. Within this framework, Alicia has passive skills including content scanning, asset tracking (such as ZENT or stZENT tokens), and community observation, as well as active skills like content highlighting, player blessing, and tipping.
These skills not only allow her to thrive in the Zentry environment, but also enable her to perform excellently across platforms, providing an immersive experience beyond traditional NPC roles. As a living and constantly evolving character, Alicia perfectly demonstrates how artificial intelligence can be seamlessly integrated into Zentry's metaverse for entertainment, community engagement and everyday life.
zProtocol (Data Layer): As Zentry's data infrastructure, zProtocol is responsible for structuring and refining cross-domain data, ensuring data interoperability and security. It is not only the universal support for future applications, protocols and agents, but also the powerful driving force behind the continuous development of the Zentry world.
The three components - zApp, zAI and zProtocol - form a self-reinforcing cycle: zApp continuously generates data for zProtocol to use, while zAI processes and analyzes this data, thereby enhancing personalization, gamification and engagement. This cyclical mechanism constantly drives the development of Zentry's gaming economy, bringing players richer and more diverse gaming experiences.
Nexus
Nexus is Zentry's player portal and flagship product, aiming to connect creators and players through game technology and AI-driven interactive experiences, and to build a new ecosystem for the Play Economy.
Nexus reimagines everyday life as a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), where every user interaction can be transformed into a fun and engaging gameplay. By integrating blockchain, social data and game mechanics, Nexus redefines the allocation of attention and engagement through gamified experiences, turning player contributions into the core elements of the global gaming economy.
The New Prospects of ZENT
ZENT token is the core token of the Zentry ecosystem, which has built a robust and dynamic value capture mechanism. By balancing predictable revenue streams and high-growth opportunities across different domains, it not only serves as part of the platform economy, supporting in-game purchases, trading, and reward mechanisms, but also plays a crucial role in driving the healthy development of the platform ecosystem.
Governance Participation: ZENT tokens empower holders with the right to participate in Zentry's key decision-making. Through a voting mechanism, ZENT holders can voice their opinions on proposed changes and exercise their voting rights, ensuring that the continuous development and optimization of the Zentry ecosystem reflect the will and needs of the community members.
Collaboration and Expenditure Tool: ZENT serves as an efficient collaboration tool for content creation, process advancement, and feature development expenditures. This not only provides users with more opportunities to participate in the Zentry ecosystem, but also deepens the interaction and connection between users and the platform by enhancing the user experience.
Special Rewards and Tiered System: ZENT token holders can access a wide range of functionalities and utility quotas. This mechanism brings unique value and rewards to ZENT holders within the Zentry ecosystem, further enhancing the attractiveness of holding ZENT.
Staking and Airdrop Rewards: By staking, ZENT holders not only have the opportunity to receive airdrops from Zentry's partners, but also participate in the airdrop of treasury assets. This provides additional earnings for ZENT holders, while also promoting the liquidity and activity of the Zentry ecosystem.
The value of ZENT stems from the combination of its economic value and practical utility.
Zentry not only has real products and a large user base, but also possesses a substantial treasury and real-world revenue sources. Even more exciting is that the project has implemented a token buyback program, which undoubtedly provides a solid foundation for the value of the ZENT token.
Similar to projects like Grass, but Zentry, through the gamification of real-life interactions in areas such as gaming, social media, and Web3 protocols, not only adds more fun, but also generates rich cross-domain data for next-generation applications and AI agents, demonstrating its unique competitiveness and broad application prospects.
From the perspective of capital and market positioning, the ZENT token also shows great potential. The current market capitalization of ZENT is $1.4B, and it is in a continuous upward trend. With the announcement of Zentry's collaboration with Ronin and Travala, the market performance of the ZENT token has also seen significant growth. After the announcement of the partnership, the price of the ZENT token has continued to rise, reflecting the market's high recognition of Zentry's role in the Web3 gaming field and the positive expectations for its future potential, as well as the direct reflection of the platform's successful partnerships and technological innovations.
Furthermore, the future value of the ZENT token is also strongly supported by a series of positive actions taken by the project team. Reportedly, the project team plans to conduct a multi-million dollar token buyback in January 2025 and continue throughout the year. Considering that the project is expected to generate around $40 million in revenue in 2024 alone.
At the same time, the project team will also distribute over $20 million in rewards to investors through the Vault Drop staking reward mechanism, a move that will undoubtedly attract more investors to join and collectively drive the continued growth of the ZENT token value. With the rise of associated tokens such as Sophon and Aethir, the future value of ZENT is also more promising.
In summary, the ZENT token, backed by the strong strength of Zentry, its superior market positioning, and the project team's positive actions, exhibits tremendous growth potential.
Conclusion
The AI Agent track is on the eve of a breakthrough. As technology matures and the market drives forward, these intelligent agents will play an increasingly important role in the blockchain world. From tools to partners, from single to collective, reshaping the underlying logic of the on-chain economy.
Zentry has recently made continuous efforts in the AI field, launching a series of innovative products, not only enriching its gaming ecosystem, but also bringing users unprecedented experiences.
Driven by these initiatives, the value of the ZENTRY token is also becoming increasingly prominent. As the core of the Zentry ecosystem, the ZENT token plays a crucial role in governance, trading, and rewards, among other areas.
With the continuous expansion of the Zentry ecosystem and the ongoing innovation in AI technology, the future value of the ZENT token is undoubtedly more promising. Investors and users' confidence in the ZENT token is also growing, collectively anticipating its impressive performance in the future.
*This article is only an introduction to a quality project and does not constitute investment advice.
