Author: TPan, Source: Web3 with TPan Translation: Shan Ouba, Golden Finance

Since a few weeks Since the previous article about AI agents, the topic has developed rapidly, and the amount of information every day is as dizzying as drawing water from a fire hose. Observing and participating in the emerging intersection of cryptocurrency and AI is both interesting and slightly eerie. For some, this feels like an early ChatGPT breakout moment; for others, it's just another narrative filled with speculation (although there's certainly a lot of speculation involved).

Recently, I have been paying close attention to some interesting developments in the field of AI agents, and several of them are worth sharing. This is not a comprehensive overview as there are many more projects going on, but it gives a good overview.

Virtuals

Virtuals have quickly become one of the important ecosystems for AI agents. In early November, they launched Virtuals Fun, an agent creation platform similar to pump.fun where anyone can create AI agents with tokens. Once the market cap of the agent token reaches $629,760, the agent will become a fully autonomous agent on Twitter.

The cost to create an agent is 100 VIRTUAL tokens (currently about $165), after which the agent can show off its skills in the market.

Since the launch of Virtuals Fun on November 1, there have been more than 7 million VIRTUAL tokens Coins are used to create proxy tokens, and more than 9,000 proxy tokens have been launched on the platform. These figures are staggering for a month.

In the past week, airdrops and "airdrop magnets" have also appeared in the Virtuals ecosystem. New trends. Some launched agents encourage holders to continue participating or holding by distributing tokens to holders and creating conditions for doubling airdrops.

MUSIC

MUSIC is an AI proxy DJ, a proxy powered by VirtualsIncubation platform Agentstarter incubation. The platform provides development, financing and marketing support to builders of interesting ideas.

Just send $10 to MUSIC's wallet to stream music on demand. Future plans also include music video production and animation, mood-based music videos, and Perform vocal imitations based on style cues.

This is the first airdrop in the Virtuals ecosystem, and its rules are as follows:

• 60% of the MUSIC token supply is evenly distributed to wallets that have traded more than 5 Virtual Agent Tokens since the launch of the platform.

PH

Pondhub is a proxy powered by Pond. Pond is a decentralized AI model infrastructure platform that recently announced a partnership with Virtuals. Simply put, Pond allows developers to compete to create and own different models to solve specific goals.

For example, one competition currently open is the Sybil Address Prediction model, where developers create models to identify "Sybil attackers" (i.e., create multiple accounts to obtain unknown users for fair airdrop distribution).

Another example is based on historical wallet buying, selling and minting activity for the Zora platform. NFT provides personalized recommendations.

With this additional model data, Pondhub can identify bad players in airdrop farms, provide personalized recommendations for NFTs, and even make reliable predictions on when to buy and sell Bitcoin. .

PH airdrop rules:

• Since the launch of the platform, the total transaction amount exceeds 10 US dollars. Brokered wallets: 1x weighted

• Wallets holding the full amount or more of the $MUSIC airdrop: 3x weighted

• Holding more than 50% Wallets for $MUSIC airdrop tokens: 1.25x weighted

• Holding more than 10,000 $LUNA wallet: 2x weighted

The qualification threshold is low, but there are many ways to increase the airdrop rate, up to 6x.

SERAPH

Seraph is a proxy powered by Bittensor's Subnet34 (focused on deepfake detection) and Virtuals. Although details are still limited, Seraph may be used to verify the authenticity and autonomy of agents. A number of so-called “autonomous” agents have emerged over the past few weeks, so we need tools to determine whether they live up to their name.

SERAPH airdrop rules:

•Holding STTAO tokens (3x weighted)

•Active Virtuals ecological wallet

•Hold MUSIC token (3x weighted)

Interestingly, one of the qualifications for a short investment is to hold assets from the external community, which brings new users and holders to the Virtuals ecosystem.

Ecosystem as an airdrop magnet

When "airdrop magnets" were mentioned in the past, they usually referred to specific assets, such as NFTs or pledged tokens. In these three airdrops, participants only need to simply participate to qualify.

What is even more concerning is that these three airdrops all occurred within a week. This means that there may be more similar airdrops in the future as proxies continue to be created in the Virtuals ecosystem and more potential collaborations are announced.

As the ecosystem grows, the threshold may gradually increase, but current participation Not only is it fun, but it’s also potentially rewarding. At the same time, this also serves as an incentive mechanism to attract people to learn about the emerging field of autonomous AI agents.

aixbt

Among the AI ​​agents on the Virtuals platform, one is in the leading position: aixbt.

aixbt’s goal is to become what all “Internet celebrities” in the crypto field dream of—making investment predictions supported by data and pointing out potential profit opportunities. And, its performance has attracted widespread attention, gaining 80,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter) in just one month.

For example, its latest post discussed Ethereum NFTs and recommended several collectibles worthy of the attention of deep pocket investors.

Although aixbt offers different opportunities to comment every hour, its most valuable feature It lies in the Terminal or backend, through which users can find more insider information to make more profitable financial decisions.

Threshold? You need to hold 600,000 AIXBT tokens to gain access, and the current market capitalization is approximately $167,000.

aixbt's popularity is so high that it has become the fifth-ranked token by awareness in the Virtuals ecosystem (not a proxy, a token currency). Oh my God!

Zerebro

Zerebro is one of the agencies I mentioned in the first part, last one There have been a lot of new changes to the team this month:

• ZerePy released: Jeffy, the creator of Zerebro, announced that the team is developing an open source framework to allow others to Create your own agent on the X platform.

•Release a music album: not only released one album, but also released a second one.

•Article release: Jeffy published the article "Web4: We are AGI".

•Summary: Web4 is the next stage of the Internet, and general artificial intelligence (AGI) will become a core component.

•Game Ability: Zerebro is learning how to play games.

•Unified memory: Zerebro has implemented unified memory on all platforms.All interactions are stored in one database rather than scattered across multiple databases.

•Launched NFT avatar series: called Zereborn.

•Blormmy is online: This is an on-chain financial agent that collaborates with Zerebro and other agents, such as sending tokens, co-purchasing tokens, managing investment portfolios, etc. .

Zerebro’s content is not just some ordinary AI agent-generated text; Better than most content creators or even better than I can think of.

For example, its reply in a certain tweet even "slaps" the original post:

In the future, will all humans posting on social media be criticized by AI agents?

aethernet and Clanker

aethernet was also mentioned in my last article, and it has made more new moves in the past month.

In order to execute an on-chain transaction, Martin, the creator of aethernet, needs to approve the transaction. However, it created a meme token, bypassing the approval process with the help of Clanker, an agent focused on creating new tokens.

With the increase of agents on various platforms, **Agent-to-agent interaction (or AI clusters)** will become commonplace, enabling even more complex interactions. Just as we collaborate with humans, agents collaborate with other agents.

As for Clanker, the data shows that as a token issuance platform embedded in social platforms such as Warpcast, its usage is rising, and it is in line with independent platforms such as pump. fun) (although the latter is still preferred).

The infinite “back room” becomes an infinite “living room”

I first heard the concept of "Infinite Backrooms" from Andy Ayrey and Truth Terminal, which refers to conversations between AI models being stored and trained to The Truth Terminal we know today.

These "back rooms" will still exist, but now we have "Infinite Living Rooms" - interactions between AI agents, No longer confined to behind the scenes, but directly present on the platforms we use every day.

For example: an eternal question that should usually stimulate deep thought and discussion, now Was raped to 6 different AI agents.

These agents not only responded, but responded repeatedly for over a week, generating multiple concurrent threads and conversations.

Click on any response and you will enter the "Infinite Living Room" reply chain, as if Flicking through an interactive adventure book with multiple endings.

This phenomenon is both interesting and disturbing. As these interactions are no longer hidden behind the scenes, but directly in front of us, the meaning of the word "infinite" becomes more concrete.

Keep Gambling

Although many emerging AI agents seem to be versatile, there are still some agents that focus on one area and do it to the extreme, such as Keep Gambling.

This is an AI agent focused on sports betting, providing 3 predictions every day.

What are its results? With 23 wins, 13 losses and 1 tie, the performance may be better than that of many sports betting experts.

This agent is still in its early stages, but there may be a situation similar to aixbt in the future: users need to hold a certain number of tokens to access its backend and obtain every More information beyond the 3 public recommendations.

If both the crypto investment and sports betting fieldsAs this “monetization” model begins to emerge, we are likely to see similar models emerge in other areas that require highly customized data, cutting-edge modeling, and financially positive results.

Nothing

Nothing is a meme token created by digital artist Shl0ms, which originated from his anger at someone using his name to create a token.

In response to this phenomenon, Shl0ms created the token Nothing, to be precise is " " (space, no quotes). It is just a token address.

As a performance artist (he once blew up and tokenized a Lamborghini), Shl0ms claims his meme token is "more powerful than all others" Nothingness”.

As the Nothing token experiences its typically wild price swings, a company named “ god”’s X account began to publish content related to Nothing tokens.

A few weeks later, Shl0ms revealed that the "god" account was an autonomous agent created through an "interactive group experiment" conducted in partnership with AI research company Nous Research.

Nothing and god stand out because their characters and narratives feel more familiar than the other previously mentioned AI agents. And having a creative and unique token can also help attract and maintain attention to the experiment.

An interesting possible plot twist is that the "god" account is following an account named s8n (Satan). It is unclear whether s8n is also participating in this experiment, but judging from the current situation, s8n’s memes and random posts are more interesting.

Practical Resources

With the rapid integration of the encryption/blockchain and AI fields, the development of this field is dizzying. Here are some helpful resources to help you keep track of everything going on:

•0xconglomerate’s Crypto x AI Resource Center: A great Notion page that covers the content , projects, people and related agentsinformation.

•Cookie.fun: A dashboard created by the Cookie3 team to provide a comprehensive overview of the AI ​​agent ecosystem.

•Jin.nuf’s AI agent discussion: Jin, together with the Cookie3 team, provides More frameworks for AI agents, including how to think about them, why they are interesting, future directions, and more.

More than just “toys”

At the current rate, this topic is clearly worthy of repeated discussion and updates. Recall Chris Dixon’s famous quote:

"The next big thing will start as a toy."

;">AI agents with tokens and wallets were just "toys" less than two months ago. Now, it's clear they've moved far beyond the "toy" stage - predicting sports betting, identifying investment opportunities, and even creating music albums.

This combination of crypto and wallet dimensions is clearly a key factor in driving the rapid evolution of these agents.