Article reprinted from: Nancy
Author: Nancy, PANews
AI Agent is undoubtedly the core theme of the current on-chain market. From infrastructure construction, tool development, DeFi to games and other products, the rapid iteration of AI Agent is driving the explosive growth of the market, strongly occupying the market's attention and user minds. The recent increase in the proportion of DEX/CEX trading volume also proves the crazy plundering of on-chain liquidity and attention, and that market capital flows are undergoing structural changes. According to data from The Block and DeFiLlama, the proportion of spot trading volume between DEX and CEX has increased significantly in the past few months. As of January 2025, this proportion has reached 20.2%, a record high.
In this trend, many non-AI crypto projects lacking favorable topics are also racing to catch up, attempting to ride the coattails of AI agents, which come with inherent traffic. This article by PANews compiles 22 crypto projects that are laying out AI agents, covering various tracks such as gaming, public chains, payments, DeFi, and DePIN, mainly accelerating the construction and development of the AI agent ecosystem through technical framework development and application scenario deployment.
Illuvium: Introduces Autonomous AI NPCs for Gaming
Illuvium is an RPG and NFT game built on Ethereum. On January 7, Illuvium announced a partnership with Virtuals Protocol to enhance the gaming experience of the upcoming Illuvium MMO Lite. This collaboration will leverage Virtuals' AI technology and its G.A.M.E LLM framework to provide dynamic, intelligent behaviors for NPCs, offering immersion for players.
Story Protocol: High-Paying Hire of AI Agent Luna
Story Protocol is a Layer 1 designed specifically for intellectual property (IP). Last December, after releasing a TCP/IP framework between AI agents, Story Protocol announced, 'The human intern requested a break, planning to hire an AI agent to manage Twitter,' and ultimately decided to hire Luna to manage its X account with an annual salary of 36.5 USDC, stating that she would bring 'charm, personality, and a touch of mischief.'
Circle: Exploring AI Agent Using USDC for Independent Operation and Trading
In the second half of 2024, Circle announced a collaboration with Solana to launch AI agents to enhance infrastructure security. In November of the same year, Circle released a report stating that the company had issued over $2 billion worth of USDC in recent weeks, exploring how the combination of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology would change people's understanding of work and finance, especially through the use of 'autonomous' payments. Circle introduced a concept that allows AI agents to operate and trade independently using USDC. Additionally, it built a sample application to 'demonstrate this autonomous system' and encouraged users to use this template to build their own projects and provide feedback.
Arbitrum: Launches Grant Program and Establishes AI Agent Collaborations
In November 2024, Arbitrum announced the launch of a $1 million Trailblazer grant program aimed at attracting developers with innovative ideas to deploy impactful AI agents or other AI products based on Arbitrum. Additionally, Arbitrum has established partnerships with Eilza Labs and ARC Agents.
Stripe: Plans to Launch AI Agent Toolkit
In November 2024, Stripe's product head Jeff Weinstein stated that they are launching a software development kit (SDK) built specifically for AI agents. This toolkit supports API calls for payments, billing, issuance, etc., integrating with Vercel, LangChainAI, CrewAIInc, and allows the use of any model through functions.
Coinbase: Launches Multiple AI Agent Products to Simplify On-Chain Operations and Interactions
At the end of October last year, Coinbase launched a new tool called Based Agent, developed based on the Coinbase SDK, OpenAI, and Replit platforms, which allows users to create AI agents with crypto wallet capabilities in just 3 minutes, capable of executing on-chain transactions, token swaps, and staking among other tasks. The following month, the Coinbase developer platform also partnered with Langchain to launch the AgentKit framework for building AI agents, which can integrate on-chain (Base chain) and off-chain interaction functions, combining Web2 APIs and on-chain data to allow the Agent to self-browse content and perform on-chain operations.
Orca: Developing an Automated Robot Version of AI Agent
Orca is an AMM DEX on Solana. On January 6, ai16z co-founder Shaw revealed in an offline interview with BlockBeats that ai16z is collaborating with Orca to develop an agent, an automated bot that can automatically manage Orca's liquidity pools. Users only need to deposit tokens into it; if the pool doesn't exist, it will automatically create a new one; if the pool already exists, it will place the tokens into the existing pool. It will then continuously monitor these pools, and once it detects potential situations that could lead to permanent loss, such as token price discrepancies, it will automatically withdraw funds from the pool. Because the main concern for most people is the issue of permanent loss. Users can also program to control the price spread of tokens or adjust the way tokens are paired.
io.net: Establishes Multiple Collaborations in the AI Agent Field
The leading DePIN project io.net has established multiple collaborations in the AI Agent field. For example, in December last year, io.net announced a partnership with the creative autonomous AI agent Zerebro to enhance Ethereum verification operations. Not only that, but io.net also collaborated with ai16z to provide decentralized GPU computing power to support the latter's model operations.
IoTeX: Launches First AI Agent BinoAI in the DePIN Field
IoTeX is an open platform for modular construction of AI + DePIN infrastructure. Last December, IoTeX announced the launch of the first AI agent in the DePIN field: BinoAI, built on ELIZA-OS, aimed at establishing a decentralized autonomous consciousness evolution foundation for the DePIN field. BinoAI will autonomously learn through AI, automatically recognize and analyze insights related to DePIN knowledge, and based on ai16z's ELIZA framework, enabling BinoAI to securely access and interact with on-chain data. Combined with IoTeX's decentralized DePIN modular infrastructure, BinoAI will operate in a completely decentralized and trustless environment, with application scenarios in DePIN including smart travel, energy systems, smart wearables, and smart homes.
Smolverse: Develops AI Electronic Pet Game Based on Eliza
Smolverse is a game and NFT project on Treasure DAO. Since last December, Smolverse has collaborated with ai16z to develop an on-chain AI Tamagotchi game called 'Smolworld', which integrates the Eliza agent framework.
Phala Network: Builds TEE Framework Based on Eliza
Phala Network was once the privacy computing infrastructure of the Polkadot ecosystem. According to previous reports from PANews, Phala Network has collaborated with a16z to build Eliza's TEE framework, integrating TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) technology into Eliza's multi-agent framework, providing cryptographic verifiability and enhanced privacy, thereby ensuring secure and reliable interactions. For instance, previous popular projects like Spore.fun and aiPool utilized Phala Network's TEE technology.
Injective: Launches the First Cross-Chain AI Agents Hub
Injective is an interoperable Layer 1 blockchain. Recently, Injective announced a collaboration with Sonic SVM, the first SVM blockchain on Solana, to launch the first cross-chain AI agent platform Smart Agent Hub, providing developers with powerful tools and frameworks to create, manage, and monetize AI agents, as well as achieve cross-chain asset transfers and a unified development experience. The first testnet is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2025, with the ecosystem gradually expanding into areas such as gaming, entertainment, DeFi, and social platforms (like TikTok and Web3 games).
Fuel: Launches AI Agent Toolkit Fuel Agent Kit
Fuel is a modular execution layer designed specifically for the Ethereum Rollup ecosystem. Recently, Fuel announced the launch of the AI agent tool Fuel Agent Kit, which will connect users' AI agents to various applications on Fuel and Fuel or build new AI agents using Fuel.
Gaia: Creates Dedicated AI Agents
Gaia is a decentralized open-source artificial intelligence infrastructure platform. In November last year, Gaia announced its collaboration with AI platform vana to create powerful, dedicated AI agents. Currently, Gaia's AI agents have integrated cooperation with projects such as EigenLayer and ENS.
Aethir: Incubates and Invests in AI Agents
Aethir is a decentralized real-time rendering network. In recent months, Aethir has continuously incubated and invested in AI Agents, such as announcing its $100 million ecological fund's third round (Batch 3) at the end of last year to support projects focused on the combination of gaming and AI agents. Meanwhile, Aethir also provides free GPU computing power for Eliza agent developers.
DWF Labs: Develops AI Agent Trading and Establishes Fund for Support
DWF Labs has not only successfully managed portfolios autonomously through the development of AI trading agents, which have been integrated into the DWF trading system's workflow, but also announced the establishment of a $20 million fund at the end of last year to support autonomous AI agent development, including projects like TAO Cat and HeyAnon that have received funding.
Blade Games: Integrates AI Agent into On-Chain Gaming Ecosystem
Blade Games is one of the largest on-chain gaming ecosystems on Arbitrum and Mantle, attracting over 850,000 registered users. Blade Games combines on-chain gaming with AI agent technology, built on the zkVM stack, allowing players to play games, train AI agents, and create their own on-chain economy on this platform.
aelf: Launches No-Code AI Agent Framework aevatar intelligence
In December 2024, Layer 1 blockchain aelf announced the launch of the no-code AI agent framework aevatar intelligence, which will be supported by multiple large language models (LLM), allowing external developers to integrate their preferred LLM to form a collaborative ecosystem that drives innovation and expands framework functionality, with the first use case AI pump pad set to launch in early January 2025.
SendAI: Enables AI Agents to Autonomously Execute On-Chain Operations on Solana
SendAI is an accelerator for the Solana artificial intelligence ecosystem. In December 2024, SendAI announced the launch of the open-source toolkit Solana Agent Kit, supporting any AI model's autonomous execution of on-chain operations on the Solana chain, integrated with mainstream protocols such as Jupiter, Metaplex, and Raydium. This toolkit uses LangChain technology and supports various AI models from GPT-4 to Llama, with plans to integrate with ai16z's Eliza, Zerebro's ZerePy, and other frameworks.
Artela: Releases Next-Gen Full-Chain AI Agent Technology Framework
In December 2024, the parallel EVM public chain Artela Network officially launched a full-chain AI Agents technology framework, based on characteristics such as smart, decentralized trustworthy execution, and elastic block space on the Artela chain, addressing the current pain point of AI agents relying on centralized servers for autonomy, and providing AI agents with the true ability to 'read, write, and own'.
Frax: Develops Technology Stack 'AIVM' for AI Agents on Blockchain
In mid-December 2024, the decentralized stablecoin protocol Frax Finance announced its collaboration with the associated project IQ to develop an AI technology stack called 'AIVM'. This technology stack is based on the internal parallel blockchain developed under the Layre2 rollup protocol Fraxtal, enabling AI agents to achieve complete autonomy without a single point of control, ultimately helping AI and blockchain to achieve more seamless collaboration.
Planet Mojo: Launches AI Agent Mr. WWA, First Game Coming Soon
Planet Mojo is a GameFi game developed on the Magic platform, categorized as a PVP auto chess game. On January 7, Planet Mojo announced a partnership with Virtuals to launch AI Agent Mr. WWA (Winston Wylde Alexande), with the token WWA serving as the platform's reward token, and the foundation will support continuous buybacks. Moreover, Planet Mojo's first game Agents of Poker is set to go live soon.
