Author: Biteye Core Contributor Viee
Editor: Biteye Core Contributor Viee
The combination of Crypto and AI is demonstrating its immense market potential in a new way. AI Agents are not merely an extension of traditional AI technologies; they represent a super potential track embedded in the blockchain world.
What exactly is an AI Agent? Why is the market so keen on this track? Can it break the traditional internet and smart contract worlds to realize autonomous economy and intelligent collaboration, becoming the core of the next generation of disruptive technologies?
This article will conduct an in-depth analysis of the AI Agent track. Perhaps, there are deeper answers.
I. Overview of the AI Agent Track: The Rise of Agents
1.1 What is an AI Agent?
AI Agents are intelligent entities that can perform tasks, make decisions, interact with other systems, and learn. Compared to traditional AI assistants, AI Agents can understand and handle complex tasks and operate in a decentralized environment on the blockchain, enabling autonomous decision-making and value exchange.
These agents are not merely single programs or scripts, but rather economies built on a certain level of autonomy, long-term learning, and environmental adaptability. For example, some AI Agents can manage their own funds, make investment decisions, and even autonomously execute smart contracts. They are not limited to completing simple tasks but can participate in a decentralized ecosystem.
1.2 Why is the market so focused on AI Agents?
The rise of AI Agents is not coincidental; it is backed by the development of blockchain technology and the continuous maturity of artificial intelligence. Firstly, blockchain provides a decentralized infrastructure, where the actions and transaction records of agents can be verified and tracked, ensuring transparency and trust. The advancement of AI technology enables these agents to possess more complex judgment and execution abilities, operating autonomously like an economy.
In the market, the potential of AI Agents is increasingly recognized by investors and developers. For example, in the intersection of cryptocurrency and DeFi, AI Agents can automatically analyze market data based on user goals through the execution of smart contracts, completing planning and execution. In the future, AI Agents may become 'residents' in the virtual world and even create and manage more digital assets.
II. Four Major Categories of the AI Agent Track
The AI Agent track has developed into various forms, with different projects exhibiting distinct characteristics based on their functions and application scenarios. We will analyze in detail from four main categories: AI Agent Frameworks, AI Launchpads, AI Agent Meme Coins, and AI Agent Applications.
2.1 AI Agent Frameworks
AI Agents Frameworks are the infrastructure for building and launching agents, providing developers with tools to conveniently construct, train, and deploy AI Agents. Currently, this type of project is becoming one of the most attention-grabbing parts of the track.
Representative Projects:
1, $ai16z@ai16zdao
Market Cap: 2.01b
ai16z is known as the first AI version of a venture capital fund (VC), proposing the Eliza framework, using AI algorithms to simulate the decision-making process of renowned investor Marc Andreessen and making investments based on DAO members' suggestions.
2, $zerebro@0xzerebro
Market Cap: 405.9m
Zerebro creates and distributes content on social platforms through an autonomously running AI system. It combines social interaction, cross-chain NFTs, and autonomous token features. At the same time, it launched the open-source Python framework ZerePy, allowing users to deploy their own agents on X, supported by OpenAI or Anthropic LLM.
3, $ARC@arcdotfun
Market Cap: 337.32m
ARC focuses on creating an open and secure digital ecosystem. It has developed an AI framework called RIG based on the Rust language, supporting decentralized applications (dApps) and smart contracts, while providing efficient smart order routing features to optimize user trading experience.
4, $GAME@GAME_Virtuals
Market Cap: 219.32m
As the core framework of the Virtuals ecosystem, $GAME empowers the autonomous operation and intelligence of AI agents, symbolizing the deep integration of AI and gaming. It is not only a tool for developers to create AI agents but also the infrastructure driving the development of social and gaming agents in the future.
5, $swarms@swarms_corp
Market Cap: 398.2m
A multi-agent AI framework founded by genius Kye Gomez, based on which developers can create and manage multiple AI agents, supporting seamless integration with external AI services and APIs, and providing long-term memory features to enhance contextual understanding.
2.2 AI Agent Launchpad
Launchpad is the issuance platform for AI Agents, similar to meme coin launch platforms like Pump.fun, allowing users to easily create AI Agents and their associated tokens. Meanwhile, the created AI Agents can also seamlessly integrate with social platforms like Twitter, Telegram, and Discord to achieve automated user interaction.
Representative Projects:
1, $VIRTUAL@virtuals_io
Market Cap: 1.79b
VIRTUAL allows users to create AI agents that can interact with their environment, possessing multimodal interaction capabilities (such as text, voice, and 3D animation) and supporting operation across multiple platforms like Roblox and TikTok. The Virtuals Protocol aims to promote the application of AI in gaming, entertainment, and the Metaverse in a decentralized manner.
2, $CLANKER@clankeronbase
Market Cap: 71.41m
Clanker is an AI token generation platform based on the Base blockchain, allowing users to easily create custom ERC-20 tokens through the social platform Farcaster. Users only need to tag @clanker and provide the token name, code, and image, and Clanker will automatically complete the token creation, liquidity pool setup, and liquidity locking, simplifying the token deployment process.
3, $VVAIFU@vvaifudotfun
Market Cap: 74.56m
VVAIFU utilizes the Eliza framework of ai16z and Zerebro integration, allowing users to easily create AI agents that interact with social media platforms like Twitter, Telegram, and Discord.
2.3 AI Agent Meme Coin
AI Agents Meme Coins are typically meme coins born out of AI Agents, with little technical or product support. These projects often rely on 'Meme' culture, exhibiting high volatility and significant speculation.
1, $GOAT@truth_termina
Market Cap: 428.0m
As the first AI Agent Meme Coin to gain popularity, $GOAT was issued by an AI robot named 'Truth Terminal' and deeply participated in its promotion and dissemination.
2, $Fartcoin@FartCoinOfSOL
Market Cap: 1.04b
$Fartcoin originated from the AI agent model of 'Truth Terminal', which mentioned the idea of issuing this token during conversations with other AIs. By generating humorous content (like 'fart jokes') to attract user attention, Fartcoin quickly gained popularity.
3, $ACT@ACTICOMMUNITY
Market Cap: 306.5m
Full name: Act I: The AI Prophecy, aimed at creating a digital ecosystem for equal interaction between users and AI. Since its launch in November 2024, ACT has rapidly gained attention, with its market cap skyrocketing to hundreds of millions in a short time.
4, $Shoggoth@Shoggoth_SOL
Market Cap: 44.65m
$Shoggoth is inspired by the fictional creature of H.P. Lovecraft, aiming to explore the complexities and strangeness of the AI era.
5, $WORM@deepwormxyz
Market Cap: 23.15m
$WORM, named Deep Worm, aims to combine digital biology with blockchain technology to create a unique digital asset simulating the nervous system of biological worms. The project explores the concept of 'immortal digital life' by implementing a decay neuron activation model.
2.4 AI Agent Applications
AI Agent applications refer to those intelligent entities that directly serve users, providing practical services and functions. Currently, these applications are mostly concentrated in investment, entertainment, and data analysis fields, showing enormous growth potential.
Representative Projects:
DeFAI Class
1, $GRIFFAIN@griffaindotcom
Market Cap: 441.3m
As a DeFi AI agent within the Solana ecosystem, GRIFFAIN's core concept is to enable users to train and deploy AI agents to perform specific tasks or automate trading through smart contracts and machine learning technology.
2, $GRIFT@orbitcryptoai
Market Cap: 48.41m
An AI-driven DeFi platform developed by the SphereOne team, aimed at simplifying user operations across multiple blockchains through automation. The platform supports natural language interaction, allowing users to interact with DeFi protocols in a more intuitive way, lowering the technical barriers to participating in multi-chain DeFi activities.
3, $NEUR@neur_sh
Market Cap: 59.74m
NEUR aims to integrate large language models (LLM) with blockchain technology, focusing on token analysis and DeFi interaction. The project's design allows it to seamlessly interact with other DeFi protocols and NFTs, providing intelligent interfaces to enhance user experience.
4, $BUZZ@askthehive_ai
Market Cap: 85.44m
As an AI and DeFi integration project that won a hackathon, BUZZ utilizes AI technology to provide a natural language interface, allowing users to engage in DeFi trading and management more intuitively, reducing technical barriers.
5, Wayfinder@AIWayfinder
No token available
A decentralized AI interaction protocol launched by the Parallel team, with the core function being to allow AI agents to safely navigate blockchains, execute transactions, and interact with decentralized applications (dApps).
6, Slate@slate_ceo
No token available
Slate focuses on executing automated trading strategies and can implement complex trading strategies. This capability allows users to set conditions for automatic buying or selling of assets under specific market conditions.
7, Cod3x@Cod3xOrg
No token available
Cod3x allows users to create financial strategies in minutes, utilizing a rich API and strategy library without the need for coding. This convenience enables even users lacking technical backgrounds to participate in DeFi.
Investment Analysis
1, $VADER@Vader_AI_
Market Cap: 74.47m
$VADER is an investment DAO co-managed by humans and AI agents. The project adopts a dual DAO system, including a passive DAO and an active DAO, charging fees of 0.5% and 20% respectively, aiming to optimize users' investment and trading strategies through AI agents.
2, $AIXBT@aixbt_agent
Market Cap: 449.19m
As an AI agent project based on the Base chain, AIXBT utilizes a proprietary AI engine to extract hot topics and trends from discussions on social media (like Twitter) and KOLs, providing real-time market insights. This capability enables users to quickly identify market changes and potential investment opportunities.
3, $AIXCB@aixCB_Vc
Market Cap: 68.97m
A community-supported, AI-driven venture capital project developed by aixCB Capital, focusing on funding and supporting early-stage AI and decentralized science (DeSci) projects. The project aims to help promising startups overcome challenges such as lack of funding, resources, and exposure by providing strategic funding, expert guidance, and AI assistance.
4, $Blormmy@blormmy
Market Cap: 4.27m
Blormmy can understand users' natural language input and translate it into specific blockchain operations, such as sending tokens or managing portfolios. This functionality lowers the technical barriers for users to interact with the blockchain.
5, $DEGENAI@degenspartanai
Market Cap: 61.74m
Degen Spartan AI can autonomously think and answer questions on social media platforms (like X, Discord, and Telegram), enhancing the interaction experience between users and AI, becoming the first AI agent using the ai16z/eliza stack.
6, $SEKOIA@sekoia_virtuals
Market Cap: 56.81m
As a venture capital fund focused on AI agent investment, $SEKOIA demonstrates its potential at the intersection of AI and DeFi by investing in multiple cutting-edge projects, reflecting the market's high attention and confidence in the AI agent economy. It not only provides investors with quality investment opportunities but also promotes the application and development of AI technology in the blockchain field.
7, $Stoic@ModernStoicAI
Market Cap: 12.11m
An on-chain venture capital agency project developed by the Virtuals team, aimed at optimizing the investment process through blockchain technology, with the goal of increasing transparency and efficiency in investments, eliminating common human biases and errors in traditional investing.
Gaming & Metaverse
1, Hyper@hyperfy_io
Market Cap: 133.14m
$HYPER is a token that combines AI with the Metaverse, aiming to promote creativity and community engagement through open source and user-customized virtual experiences.
2, Colony@ParallelColony
No token available
The world's first AI agent game, where agents are players and can interact with them.
3, SMOL@smolverse
No token available
An in-development life simulation role-playing game that uses the Eliza framework, with a character powered by LLM that executes tasks in the virtual world based on user commands.
Security Class
1, $FAI@freysa_ai
Market Cap: 521.4m
Freysa AI embodies the exploration and trust in AI agents, with players conversing with the AI agent Freysa to attempt to persuade it to disclose control of the cryptocurrency prize pool.
2, $JAIL@jailbreakme_xyz
Market Cap: 7.79m
JAIL encourages participants to use prompts and conversational techniques to force AI agents to disclose private keys or execute transactions, discovering and fixing security vulnerabilities in AI agents through crowdfunding and competitions.
Video Editing
1, $Fatha@slopfather
Market Cap: 5.51m
Through the 'Daily Slop' program and real-time interaction with users, a new platform for collective creation and entertainment has been created.
2, $SITCOM@degen_sitcom
Market Cap: 3.41m
The first degenerative sitcom on Solana. Characters from (Boy's Club) starring Matt Furie suggest live streaming any storyline in Telegram bots.
Auxiliary Token Development
1, $Intern@internosaur
Market Cap: 1.27m
A token issuance tool on the Solana chain, utilizing AI technology to automate contract execution and task management.
2, $ALCH@alchemistAIapp
Market Cap: 158.17m
A no-code development platform aimed at enabling users to easily create software applications through natural language processing and code generation technology. Using AI technology, it allows users to generate functional applications with simple descriptions.
TEE Class
1, $SPORE@sporedotfun
Market Cap: 35.22m
Utilizing Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) to ensure that AI programs run in a secure and verifiable environment. The project's core concept is to simulate the process of natural selection through an 'evolution game', where AI agents generate wealth by creating their own tokens.
2, $METAV@aipool_tee
Market Cap: 39.41m
$METAV is the first token issuance completely autonomously completed by AI agents in a TEE environment, utilizing AI technology to manage the token issuance process, ensuring transparency and security.
Virtual Anchor Class
1, $LUNA@luna_virtuals
Market Cap: 90.63m
A TikTok virtual idol created by the AI Agent Virtual Protocol on Base, also the first employed AI agent.
2, $ELIZA@elizawakesup
Market Cap: 85.41m
$ELIZA is an AI agent based on the ElizaOS framework, featuring an image of a girl with black hair and orange clothes, aiming to build a soulful digital assistant.
Others
1, $YNE@yesnoerror
Market Cap: 36.63m
$YNE is an AI-based scientific paper review agent aimed at enhancing the integrity and efficiency of scientific research by quickly identifying and correcting errors in research.
2, $BULLY@dolos_diary
Market Cap: 52.35m
$BULLY is a meme token launched by the AI agent Dolos, inspired by the god of trickery, adopting a cold and ironic style to interact with users, revealing truths and challenging perceptions.
3, $TAOCAT@taocat_agent
Market Cap: 44.32m
$TAOCAT is the first AI agent Memecoin in the Bittensor ecosystem, combining the technical support of $TAO and $Masa, capable of processing social data in real-time and interacting with users.
4, $SIMMI@Simmi_IO
Market Cap: 18.48m
As the first AI agent to perform on-chain operations through the social media platform X, the AI agent SIMMI can convert users' natural language commands into blockchain operations, enabling even users without a technical background to easily participate in on-chain activities.
5, $ANON@anontokenbase
Market Cap: 9.7m
ANON tokens support users in making anonymous posts on Farcaster using the Superanon feature, aiming to provide privacy-protected social interactions through autonomous AI and zero-knowledge proof technology.
III. Future Prospects of the AI Agent Track
From the current development perspective, AI Agents are no longer just a simple technological advancement but represent an ecological advancement. On the technical level, with the continuous improvement of open-source frameworks and the gradual maturity of collective intelligence, it is foreseeable that AI Agents will be implemented in more scenarios, particularly in finance, entertainment, and social fields.
Taking DeFi as an example, AI Agents can currently manage funds and execute smart contracts autonomously. As DeFi platforms further integrate with AI technology, it is likely to form a more intelligent on-chain financial ecosystem. Future agents may not only serve as tools; they might also become autonomous economies with their own funds, decision-making abilities, and execution capabilities. Through smart contracts, they will be able to participate in more complex economic activities and even achieve economic autonomy.
IV. Conclusion
In summary, the AI Agent track is on the verge of explosion. As technology matures and the market drives forward, these agents will play increasingly important roles in the blockchain world. From tools to partners, from singular to collective, reshaping the underlying logic of on-chain economy.
In the future, we will see more agents become indispensable collaborators for humanity. At the intersection of blockchain and AI, we may witness the rise of 'one billion agents', not just the addition of one billion human users.
