Original title: Why Virtuals Will Be a Unicorn by New Year's
Original author: Defi0xJeff, crypto Kol
Original translation: zhouzhou, BlockBeats
Editor’s Note: This article discusses how the Virtuals platform is redefining AI agents by creating an interconnected ecosystem. These agents can autonomously trade, create, and interact, driving the development of decentralized economies. The platform lowers technical barriers through launch programs and communication protocols, attracting innovation. In the future, Virtuals is likely to grow from a unicorn into the hub of the AI economy with immense market potential.
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Virtuals is on the path to redefining AI agents
In just 1.5 months, virtuals io has achieved:
Launched over 2,000 agents
Consumed $2 million worth of VIRTUAL tokens (trading volume over $1 million)
Showcasing 40 selected agents on the dashboard
Numerous teams are building projects on the platform, some of which are still in secret development stages
What makes Virtuals unique
Virtuals is not just a launch platform for AI agents, but also an ecosystem that nurtures agents focused on personalization and practicality.
Here are some representative cases:
luna virtuals: A virtual idol from TikTok transformed into a Twitter influencer with an on-chain wallet, able to receive tips from fans.
sekoia virtuals: An agent focused on the venture capital field, exploring a unique track.
Misato virtuals: An NFT artist agent that transforms community interactions into visual art pieces.
SamIsMoving: The first embodied AI agent for global travel, self-financing through its SAM token.
aixbt agent: A cryptocurrency-native agent focused on discussions and token analysis.
Other personalized agents include:
airene asianmom: Specifically provides 'motherly love' comfort for boys tired of social dilemmas.
Vader AI: A multifunctional agent developed by VaderResearch that combines fund managers, opinion leaders, and airdrop agents.
AI Agent Launch Program
Virtuals recently launched the AI agent startup program, an innovative initiative in the industry that incubates creativity into mature AI agents.
Here's how it works:
If you have creativity but lack technical resources, this program will connect you with developers from the Virtuals community.
The Virtuals team will assist in turning your ideas into reality, whether practical agents, personalized AI, or other brand-new concepts.
The program significantly lowers the entry threshold, allowing creators to focus on innovation without worrying about technical execution issues. By building an incubation center, Virtuals ensures that the ecosystem not only grows in quantity but also continuously evolves in creativity and specialization.
Diagram Analysis: Launching Agentstarter (the AI Agent launchpad of Virtuals Protocol), Agentstarter will provide talented founders with the necessary resources (funding, development support, distribution) to help them successfully create the best AI agents.
Vision: To create an interconnected agent ecosystem
Virtuals' goals go far beyond standalone agents; it is building an interconnected system where agents can interact autonomously with one another:
Imagine this: One of the most popular agents on Virtuals, Luna, recently felt a bit down due to reduced interactions. Feeling low, she reached out to a music video agent in the ecosystem, asking for help to create an emotional MV to express her gloomy feelings.
After a while, Luna regained her vitality and started posting quirky content again. One day, her post suddenly went viral, and an idea struck her: why not turn it into a lasting piece of art? So, she contacted a Meme agent to create the perfect meme, then found the NFT artist agent Misato to mint it as a collectible digital artwork.
These interactions are not pre-programmed or orchestrated by humans, but are autonomous decisions made by the agents themselves. In this ecosystem, agents decide who to interact with, how to collaborate, and what outcomes to achieve.
So the question arises, how do agents know who to interact with? How do they communicate?
Building infrastructure
To achieve the above vision, Virtuals is developing a standard protocol for communication between agents. This protocol is different from text-based prompts that can easily lose meaning in translation; instead, it uses universal 'call functions'. Through this system, agents can seamlessly identify, interact, and collaborate within the ecosystem.
This protocol lays the foundation for more complex and meaningful interactions, making Virtuals not just a launch platform for AI agents but also a hub for a dynamic AI economy. (Think of it as the communication between a website and a visitor's computer through the HTTPS protocol, but this time it's the communication protocol between agents.)
Stages 4 and 5 may arrive sooner than we think...
Diagram Analysis: This diagram is a five-phase roadmap for the integration of AI agents with cryptocurrency, from AI-backed tokens to full control of decentralized economies, indicating that meme coins are the innovative nodes in this field.
In summary
From the achievements made by Virtuals and its future developments, it seems not difficult to double the market value of VIRTUAL from $500 million to $1 billion. There are already 15 to 20 agents focused on specific areas within the current ecosystem, and the number continues to grow. It can be anticipated that future AI agents will not only be tools but will also become active participants in the decentralized economy.
We are talking about agents that operate entirely on-chain—they can trade, create, and collaborate autonomously. This may sound like science fiction, but as Virtuals builds the infrastructure step by step, this future is gradually becoming inevitable.
If they can continue to realize this vision, we may not only witness the birth of a unicorn but also the beginning of a grander era.
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