Author: Kazu Umemoto, Bankless; Compiled by: Deng Tong, Jinse Finance
With the market capitalization of AI agents skyrocketing during the holiday season, cryptocurrency enthusiasts are searching everywhere for early investment opportunities.
During the gold rush of new agents and tokens, it is almost impossible to distinguish useful information from noise, but if you can combine data with the right parameters and arguments, the data can become a pillar of investment.
The following five tools can become essential applications to help explore opportunities for AI agents:
Cookie.fun
Cookie.fun is a popular agent-native tool that is gaining attention. For free users, the biggest highlight is their token dashboard, which showcases engagement-focused metrics that highlight market share and impressions relative to price action.
You can also filter certain AI agents, such as those launched on Virtuals or other agents using the ai16z Eliza framework. It is not only a great tool to view top AI agents, but it can also capture some agents that are rising in market share before they are noticed in the broader crypto space.
The platform offers perks for free users, but there are many features behind the paywall, although unlocking these features requires locking up to 10,000 COOKIE tokens, currently trading at $0.65.
Arkham
Suppose you want to track the wallets of these AI agents to understand how they are performing. Once you find the desired AI agent's wallet, Arkham is a simple yet excellent tool. Arkham's dashboard tracks their holdings, balance history, and any type of transaction made in the wallet.
A great use case for Arkham is tracking the fund performance of Vader AI. Currently, Vader AI does not provide a way to track its performance on its website, other than updates on Twitter. However, with this Arkham dashboard, you can get all the information you need in one place.
Dune
Compared to other tools on this list, Dune is a unique data tool because it heavily relies on its community. Anyone can create queries through Dune, extract on-chain data, and generate dashboards to create useful visualizations.
You can search for almost any AI agent on Dune, and there is likely already a dashboard or query created. For example, if you search for ai16z on Dune, one of the hottest results is a dashboard that provides insights that are hard to find elsewhere. It highlights the tokens held by ai16z, how their token holdings are performing, and some statistics about the ai16z token itself, such as DEX trading volume.
You don't need to be an SQL expert to create your own dashboard. You can see the queries behind the dashboard and feel free to modify it based on any information you want to find.
Kaito.AI
Kaito.ai is a tool similar to Cookie.fun, whose main product, in addition to showing other trends and memes, displays the attention share occupied by individual AI agents. Their leaderboard screen shows the individuals with the most significant daily increases and decreases in attention share over the past three months.
For those who frequently use Twitter, tweet, and initiate discussions, Kaito.ai is also a great tool. They recently completed the Yaps campaign where users could earn Yaps by initiating crypto-related topic discussions on Twitter.
Sentient Market
The last tool, which has been overlooked but may be the most useful, is Sentient Market. There, you can look up almost any AI agent and see a dashboard specific to that agent that only displays information relevant to it.
For example, if you look up AIXBT on Sentient Market, it will not only show you metrics related to AIXBT token performance but also some crazy statistics around its tweets. It tracks AIXBT's best calls, average returns, and tweet sentiment. Or, if you are looking for Virtuals, it will display a dashboard showing the number of agents launched and the total amount spent on launching AI agents in VIRTUAL.
