Since the launch of AI agents, we have seen AI as analysts like aixbt. But have you ever thought of AI as the investment manager of a fund? VaderAI on Virtuals is just such a role, aiming to become the BlackRock of the AI agency world. It offers both active and passive investment options, along with AI KOLs (like aixbt). Additionally, it has designed a token economy distinct from typical AI agents.
The BlackRock of the AI world, Vader helps you manage your assets
VaderAI is primarily divided into two main parts: the investment platform VaderAI Fun and the AI KOL VaderAI. On VaderAI Fun, you can choose which investment DAO you want to participate in (essentially, I believe it's a form of a fund). Currently available are VaderAI Small Cap and VaderAI Micro Cap, both managed by VaderAI.
The VaderAI Small Cap webpage transparently displays the current investment positions and net asset value. The investment strategy of VaderAI Small Cap combines thousands of machine learning-based trading strategies, trading AI agents on Virtuals within a market cap range of $2 million to $10 million. Another advantage of VaderAI Small Cap is that the project side will negotiate with AI agent teams on Virtuals to conduct OTC trades at discounted prices, which are then submitted to VaderAI for final decision-making.
VaderAI Micro Cap trades within a market cap range of $100,000 to $2 million, and both funds belong to the passive fund category. This clearly defines the investment targets (which can be market cap or project themes, such as DeSci or DeFi), rebalancing frequency, index weighting methods, minimum liquidity requirements, minimum holding periods for targets, and limits on single asset holdings. Currently, both funds have reached their investment limits and will be locked for three months until March 20 to be unlocked.
It is worth noting that investments on VaderAI Fun can only be made using $Virtuals tokens, which also empowers the $Virtuals tokens. Additionally, the passive DAO managed by VaderAI will charge a fee of 0.5%. These fees will be paid to $VADER stakers. The active funds are currently managed by either Vader AI or human IcoBeast. If the active funds generate positive returns, the managers can charge a performance fee, capped at 20%, of which a fixed 20% performance fee is allocated to $VADER stakers.
$VADER serves as the core of the ecosystem, combining profit distribution with token deflation.
VaderAI KOL is similar to aixbt, but differs in that he primarily shares the fund holdings he manages and some market movements. In comparison, aixbt is more like a researcher.
Speaking of the design of the VaderAI token
Currently, $VIRTUAL is used as the currency for funding the DAO. Once the liquidity and price of $VADER stabilize, it will switch to using $VADER.
The management fees earned by VaderAI (whether active or passive) will be used to buy back $VADER and reward $VADER holders. The 20% performance fees charged by other agents or human-managed active funds will also be used to buy back $VADER and reward $VADER holders.
Withdrawing from the active fund will incur a 1% handling fee, which will be converted into $VADER and burned, creating a deflationary token economy.
Funds must retain 10%-20% of cash reserves as a liquidity buffer to meet withdrawal demands and rebalance assets in response to sudden market changes. This means each fund will hold 10-20% of $VADER as cash reserves.
Positive returns generated by the fund will be distributed to participants in the form of $VADER tokens.
Approved managers must stake 100,000 $VADER to establish a fund.
Initial fundraising for the fund will be prioritized for $VADER holders for 24 hours, with any remaining shares opened to the public afterward.
Tokens received by VaderAI's wallet from advertisements, sponsorships, collaborations, or authorized airdrops will all be rewarded to $VADER holders.
You can monitor the status of the $Vader token on Dune, with 36% of the supply controlled by the team for marketing, liquidity, and development purposes. Currently, the Vader token is also live on Solana. The lock-up period for $Vader is three months, with 511,394,637 tokens staked, accounting for more than half of the supply.
The team includes members from well-known companies like OpenAI and Riot
Previously mentioned, VaderAI has a feature to negotiate with other AI agent teams to purchase tokens at a discount via OTC. Recently, it also announced its first collaboration, where VaderAI will purchase 20 million $ACOLYT tokens at a 40% discount from the market price, with a three-week lock-up period.
The ACOLYT team is quite impressive; according to the project lead's article, the team brings together experts and advisors with diverse backgrounds in AI, full-stack development, strategy, design, and community management, possessing rich experience and international collaboration credentials. This includes external researchers from OpenAI and participation in the LLM.c open-source project co-founded by Tesla and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy.
This article discusses whether AI agents can replace human financial advisors and explores whether VaderAI's AI-driven investment strategies and token economy can create a virtuous cycle. Originally appeared in Chain News ABMedia.