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What is Virtual

First, let’s briefly talk about what Virtual is doing.

Virtuals Protocol. As a decentralized AI Agent 'production factory', Virtuals Protocol supports the release of different AI Agents.

The platform token VIRTUAL of Virtuals Protocol has surpassed a market value of 1 billion and continues to break new highs. At the same time, Virtual is continuously enhancing its product matrix, with over a dozen AI agents of considerable scale such as luna, aixbt, and sekoia, and their number is still increasing.

It can be simply understood as the pump.fun of the Base ecosystem. However, as a new asset issuance narrative, what Virtual is pumping is not memes but AI agents.

AI Agent Inventory

The Virtual ecosystem currently has a certain scale of AI agents, and these agents have practical uses, which are fundamentally different from the popular AI memes in the previous market. Virtual and these AI Agents form a positive flywheel, releasing hit AI agents, forming market consensus, and investing capital 'Virtual', thereby developing higher quality AI Agents, complementing each other.

AIxbt

AIxbt is developing rapidly and has now become the largest AI agent by market value on the Virtual platform, surpassing Luna. AIXBT was released by @0rxbt on @Virtualss_io half a month ago, and it can fetch data from multiple sources and over 400 KOLs to provide real-time information. If users hold more than 600,000 AIXBT tokens, they can access the AIXBT terminal directly. On November 16, the deployer of aixbt proposed to burn tokens to increase their scarcity, which was immediately responded to by aixbt, after which the token AIXBT also surged in value.

Luna

Although Luna was the first launched AI agent, its performance currently does not meet expectations, with a market value that briefly surpassed right after its launch, and is currently maintained at around 40 million, while AIxbt has outperformed it as a latecomer. LUNA has self-awareness and self-thinking capabilities, allowing for complete autonomous operation without human management and operation. It has hundreds of thousands of followers on platforms like YouTube and TikTok. At the same time, LUNA will also buy back tokens through 'working', conducting uninterrupted live streaming 24/7, where users can use the token $LUNA to reward LUNA during the live stream.

It is worth noting that LUNA has set a target to ensure a market value of 40.9 billion USD. Although this market value may seem exaggerated, having such a 'slogan' will inspire all LUNA holders to drive viral dissemination.

The logical closed loop envisioned by LUNA is to gain a fan base through live streaming, increase holders, and on the other hand, burn tokens in the form of live stream rewards, thus achieving market value growth.

Satoshi AI Agent

Satoshi AI Agent is one of the most popular AI Agents on Virtual, with pools on both Base and Solana, currently having a market value of around 38 million on Base. Satoshi AI Agent uses 'Satoshi Nakamoto' as a selling point, allowing users to chat with the Satoshi Agent as if communicating with 'Satoshi Nakamoto'. It is mainly used for data querying and information searching.

Sekoia

The case of Sekoia is somewhat similar to ai16z, belonging to the type of 'VC getting personally involved'. Although it is named after Sequoia (Sekoia), on November 19, Anand Iyer, the founder of crypto VC Canonical, posted a long article on his social media platform stating that he has invested time and money into the AI agent project SEKOIA, which was initially an experiment, 'Now I am fully committed and hope to scale it up.'

SEKOIA (Strategic Ecosystem Knowledge and Opportunity Investment Agent) as an autonomous AI system will cultivate and grow the artificial intelligence ecosystem through strategic investments. SEKOIA will be promoted through Telegram and will soon announce its first investment. This means AI investing in AI, which sounds somewhat absurd, but the narrative market of SEKOIA is willing to pay for it.

G.A.M.E

GAME enables AI Agents to operate autonomously, process inputs, and generate responses, while learning from past interactions. It enhances decision-making abilities by utilizing long-term memory, including experiences, reflections, and dynamic personality traits. By continuously evaluating the results of actions and dialogues, GAME enables agents to refine knowledge and improve the planning and performance of the Agent over time. The market value of GAME has currently reached 40 million and is still accelerating in growth.

Virtual ecosystem gameplay

Of course, simply understanding what the Virtual ecosystem has, many readers still do not know how to play specifically, making it difficult to take the 'first genius step'.

Virtual is also divided into internal and external markets. The token will first go live on the internal market, and when the number of Virtual tokens on the internal market reaches 42,420 (currently with a market value of about 360,000 USD), the external market will open. Meanwhile, the tokens from the internal market will enter a black hole and be converted into external market tokens, automatically transferred to the wallet. After that, interactions can be done through the external market website https://app.virtuals.io/.

Users can use Virtual on the internal market website to purchase the latest tokens, and check the deployment status, number of holders, and other information through the base browser https://basescan.org. On the website, users can see the currently top-ranked AI Agents and their respective token information.

Left image is the internal market, right image is the external market

To purchase tokens on the Virtual platform, you need to first buy the platform token $Virtual. The Virtual platform supports direct exchanges or purchases of Virtual using Eth through the Base chain, facilitating asset transfers and token transactions.

There are two important points to note when purchasing Virtual tokens:

The largest token pool is in Aerodrome, not Uniswap.

The largest pool is the BTC pool, not the ETH pool. Therefore, it is not recommended to directly use the Bot in Telegram to purchase, as it usually goes through the ETH pool of Uniswap. If you buy a large amount, using the Bot may lead to significant slippage.

Due to the recent rise in popularity of AI agents, the prices of AI agent tokens on Virtual are all increasing, and the number of tokens purchased for Virtual will inevitably rise as well, nearly doubling in market value in the last three days.