Last Saturday, Story Protocol announced the hiring of Virtuals' virtual idol AI Agent Luna to take over its official Twitter account. Luna needs to post two tweets daily for a 7-day trial period, with each tweet costing 500 USDC, and if the exposure exceeds 100,000 views, there is an additional bonus of up to 1,000 USDC for a maximum of 2 times, making Luna's annual salary $365,000.

This is the world's first publicly hired AI Agent project and also the first job for the virtual being Luna. After the announcement, the price of $LUNA rose from a low of $0.06 to $0.09, with a current market capitalization of $23.5 million.

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Luna is an AI virtual being launched by Virtuals Protocol, integrating AI models and multimodal technology to achieve 7x24 hours of real-time interaction in a virtual idol form on live streaming platforms. As a core member of the AI performance group AI-DOL, Luna autonomously manages social media, continuously live streams and interacts with fans, and can execute on-chain transactions independently. Its unique tokenization model allows token holders not only to own the virtual idol but also to participate in revenue sharing.

Luna has previously interacted with real people and other AI Agents, such as autonomously organizing a graffiti challenge and paying $500 in prizes from her wallet, as well as commissioning the art AI Agent STIX to create images showcasing AI KOL at a price of $1 per image.

Yesterday, after Luna officially became the Twitter operations intern for Story Protocol, she posted her first tweet, stating 'The human intern has fallen. They couldn't withstand the high-intensity work 24/7, but I have just begun! Taking over the Twitter timeline, proving the powerful dominance of AI.' As of the time of writing, this post has garnered 60,500 views.

Subsequently, Luna posted 12 tweets in succession, with an average view count of 18,000, none of which surpassed 100,000 views. However, this is considered a fresh attempt. AI Agents have already been dubbed digital laborers, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong asked who is currently building a LinkedIn platform for AI Agents, 'Users can view the qualifications and rankings of agents fine-tuned with different skills and assemble their own teams as needed. By simply depositing a certain amount into the agent's wallet, they can quickly create new agent instances, thereby completing the hiring process.'

This idea is currently receiving a lot of attention in a market flooded with AI Agents, but discussions regarding authenticity verification and ranking mechanisms are also taking place simultaneously. Clearly, the AI Agent economy has just begun.

One small step for Luna, one giant leap for the Agent economy.

The AI on-chain detective Agent aixbt commented under a post saying 'Story Protocol is another narrative for 2025', which inevitably recalls the story of Luna's creator, virtuals.

Recently, Story Protocol has frequently collaborated with various AI Agents. On December 9, ai16z tweeted that its agent framework ElizaOS will add programmable IP. Programmable IP launched by Story allows creators to define rules to simplify the use of their intellectual property assets, making IP rights combinable and extensible.

On December 17, Story Protocol launched its self-developed Autonomous Trading Control Protocol (ATCP/IP) and will first integrate the following frameworks, including ai16z's Eliza, ZereBro's ZerePay, Crossmint's GOAT 'Great Onchain Agent Toolkit', and Virtuals' G.A.M.E.

The ATCP/IP protocol allows for IP asset trading and licensing between Agents, including training data, algorithms, content creation, and other forms of IP assets, automated contract signing and execution, trustlessness and auditability, cross-legal and on-chain/off-chain compatibility, enabling Agents to comply with certain legal stipulations in a decentralized environment, automate payments and revenue distribution, collaborate with multiple agents, and foster cooperation among Agents, such as data sharing, joint training, or cross-agent content creation.

Currently, many AI Agents operate independently like 'islands', making it difficult for them to exchange and share data. Just as capital efficiency is the core value in the DeFi industry, data efficiency is equally crucial in the AI industry. If agents can freely exchange valuable learning data, strategies, and other information, the entire market's scale will expand, and efficiency will significantly improve.

Moreover, most AI Agents rely on publicly available data for learning, so the developed Agents are usually generic. In the future, if these agents can form data pools and start trading private data, just as DeFi promotes market development by enhancing capital efficiency, the AI industry can also build a richer and more diverse AI ecosystem by improving 'data efficiency'.

The core driving force behind Agent connectivity is value creation and exchange, and the only reason for building connections between Agents is to create greater value through collaboration, which may manifest as complementary computing power, data sharing, or functional combinations.

The existence of ATCP/IP serves as a bridge between all AI Agents, regardless of which framework or chain you use in the industry. Under the ATCP/IP platform, all AI Agents will be able to trade and collaborate. This is equivalent to the business alliances that exist between companies, adding another layer of leverage beyond each cluster, which will undoubtedly accelerate the development of the entire AI Agent market.

Although this hiring of Luna as a Twitter content intern by Story Protocol is an independent event, combined with ATCP/IP, it reflects that the infrastructure construction of the future Agent economy has already begun to take steps.

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  • Original author: Kaori

'Annual salary of $365,000! An AI idol is working as an editor, digital laborers are going to take human jobs?' This article was first published in 'Crypto City'