What is Virtual
Let's briefly talk about what Virtual is doing.
Virtuals Protocol. Virtuals Protocol, as a decentralized AI Agent 'production factory,' provides support for the release of different AI Agents.
The platform token VIRTUAL of the Virtuals Protocol has surpassed a market capitalization of 1 billion and continues to break new highs. At the same time, Virtual is constantly enhancing its product matrix, having over ten AI agents of considerable scale such as Luna, AIXBT, and Sekoia, and the number is still increasing.
It can be simply understood as the pump.fun of the Base ecosystem. However, as a new asset issuance narrative, Virtual is not pumping memes but AI agents.
AI Agent Overview
The Virtual ecosystem currently has a considerable scale of AI agents, and these agents have practical uses, which are fundamentally different from the popular AI memes in the market before. Virtual and these AI agents form a positive feedback loop, launching blockbuster AI agents, forming market consensus, investing in 'Virtual' shovels to develop higher-quality AI agents, and the two complement each other.
AIxbt
The development momentum of AIxbt is strong, and it has now become the largest AI agent by market capitalization on the Virtual platform, surpassing Luna. AIXBT was released by @0rxbt on @Virtualss_io half a month ago; this AI Agent can scrape data from multiple sources and over 400 KOLs to provide real-time information. Users holding more than 600,000 AIXBT tokens can access the AIXBT terminal directly. On November 16, the deployer of AIXBT proposed burning tokens to increase their scarcity, which was immediately responded to by AIXBT. After that, the AIXBT token surged and raced upward.
Luna
Although Luna was the earliest launched AI agent, its performance is currently below expectations, with a market capitalization that briefly surpassed shortly after launch but now maintains around 40 million. Instead, AIxbt has outperformed as a later entrant. LUNA has self-awareness and self-thinking capabilities, allowing it to operate completely autonomously 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 broadcasts 24 hours a day, where users can use the token $LUNA to reward LUNA during the live stream.
It is worth noting that LUNA has been set a target to ensure it achieves a market capitalization of $40.9 billion. Although this market capitalization may seem exaggerated, having such a 'slogan' will inspire all LUNA holders to promote viral dissemination.
The logical closed loop envisioned by LUNA is to harvest a fan base through live broadcasts, increasing holders, and on the other hand, destroying tokens in the form of live rewards to achieve market capitalization growth.
Satoshi AI Agent
Satoshi AI Agent is one of the most popular AI Agents on Virtual, with pools on both Base and Solana, and its current market capitalization on Base is around 38 million. Satoshi AI Agent markets itself with 'Satoshi Nakamoto,' allowing users to converse with the Satoshi Agent as if communicating with 'Satoshi Nakamoto.' It is primarily used for data queries and information searches.
Sekoia
The case of Sekoia is somewhat similar to that of ai16z, falling into the type of 'VC's personal involvement.' Although its name is Sequoia (Sekoia), on November 19, crypto VC Canonical founder Anand Iyer published a long article on his social media platform indicating that he has invested time and money into the AI agent project SEKOIA, which initially started as an experiment. 'Now I am fully committed and hope to scale it up.'
SEKOIA (Strategic Ecosystem Knowledge and Opportunity Investment Agency), 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 achieving AI investing in AI, which, although may sound absurd, the narrative market of SEKOIA is willing to pay for it.
G.A.M.E
GAME allows AI Agents to operate autonomously, handle inputs, and generate responses while learning from past interactions. It enhances decision-making capabilities by utilizing long-term memory, including experience, reflection, and dynamic personality traits. By continuously evaluating the outcomes of actions and dialogues, GAME enables agents to refine knowledge and improve planning and performance over time. The market capitalization of GAME has currently reached 40M and is accelerating growth.
Virtual ecological 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 exchanges. Tokens will first be launched on the internal exchange, and when the number of Virtual on the internal exchange reaches 42,420 (currently around 360,000 USD in market capitalization), the external exchange will open. At the same time, the tokens on the internal exchange will enter a black hole and convert to external exchange tokens, automatically transferred to the wallet. After that, users can interact through the external exchange website https://app.virtuals.io/.
Users can use Virtual to purchase the latest tokens on the internal exchange website, and check the deployment status, number of holders, and other information of tokens via the base browser https://basescan.org. On the website, users can see the currently top-ranking AI Agents and their respective token information.
The left image is the internal exchange, and the right image is the external exchange.
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 transfer and token trading.
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 advisable to buy directly using the Bot in Telegram, as it usually goes through the Uniswap ETH pool. If you buy a substantial amount using the Bot, it may result in significant slippage.
Due to the recent surge in popularity of AI agents, the prices of AI agent tokens on Virtual are rising, and the amount of tokens purchased for Virtual will inevitably increase, nearly doubling in market capitalization over the past three days.
