The AI venture DAO ai16z, favored by renowned venture capitalist a16z founder Marc Andreessen, has recently sparked discussions in its governance forum. The main concern is that the community believes ai16z lacks a concrete tokenomics, causing its valuation to be less than competitors like Base chain's Virtual. The current main proposal in the community is to create an AI agent launch platform similar to Pump.fun, and even launch its own Layer 1, positioning ai16z as the Layer 1 public chain for AI.
The ai16z launch platform may launch in the first quarter, boosting the token economy.
Discussions on the economics of the ai16z token plan to launch a launch platform in the first quarter, bringing innovation to AI agents using the Eliza framework. This includes interactions between agents and multi-chain integration. The value acquisition mechanisms include launch fees, $ai16z token staking, and the liquidity pool with $ai16z. After release, the code will gradually be open-sourced for community collaboration.
The goal of the first phase is to establish a self-sustaining economic system, where the launch, development, and maintenance of liquidity of projects become easy, and the interests of various projects align with the ai16z ecosystem.
Specifically, when a new AI project launches a token on the platform, users can trade that token for SOL, and the platform will charge a small fee from the liquidity pool. This fee is divided into two parts:
Half of the funds will be used to buy back $ai16z tokens from the market, while the other half will be used to establish a liquidity pool for the AI agent token/ai16z, providing additional liquidity for new project tokens. Additionally, the launch platform will collect fees from this liquidity pool. A portion of the $ai16z will enter the DAO treasury, and project tokens will be rebalanced back to the main trading pool to maintain high liquidity. This liquidity pool design provides more stable liquidity for new tokens and ai16z tokens and encourages the growth of $ai16z and new tokens.
ai16z is no longer a meme coin, but rather AI Layer 1.
The main challenge currently is that although the Eliza agent framework is thriving in terms of technological innovation and maintains a decent usage rate, the $ai16z token currently lacks a strong value accumulation mechanism, leading to a misalignment of reward measures. Therefore, an official ai16z launchpad is being introduced for projects based on Eliza. This action is seen as a key way to realize the flywheel token economy, pushing value towards $ai16z.
The forum also mentioned positioning $ai16z as the base currency for transactions between agents and the 'app store' for agent services. More specifically, positioning ai16z as Layer 1 for artificial intelligence.
This article suggests that ai16z may launch an AI agent Layer 1 next year! Plans to go live with the AI agent launch platform in the first quarter to enhance token empowerment first appeared in Chain News ABMedia.
