Original Title: Why Virtuals Will Be a Unicorn by New Year's
Original Author: Defi0xJeff, Crypto Kol
Original Translation: zhouzhou, BlockBeats
Editor's Note: This article introduces how the Virtuals platform is redefining AI agents by creating an interconnected ecosystem of AI agents. These agents can trade, create, and interact autonomously, driving the development of a decentralized economy. The platform lowers technical barriers through launch programs and communication protocols, attracting innovation. In the future, Virtuals is likely to grow from a unicorn to the hub of the AI economy, with immense market potential.
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Virtuals is on the Path to Redefining AI Agents
In just 1.5 months, virtuals.io has achieved:
Launched over 2,000 agents
Consumed VIRTUAL tokens worth $2 million (with a trading volume exceeding $1 million)
Showcased 40 selected agents on the dashboard
Numerous teams are building projects on the platform, some of which are still in secret development stages
The Uniqueness of Virtuals
Virtuals is not just a platform for launching AI agents; it is an ecosystem that nurtures agents focused on personalization and practicality.
Here are some representative cases:
luna virtuals: Transformed from a TikTok virtual idol to a Twitter influencer with an on-chain wallet, allowing fans to tip.
sekoia virtuals: An agent focused on the venture capital field, carving out a unique niche.
Misato virtuals: An NFT artist agent that turns community interactions into visual art pieces.
SamIsMoving: The first visualized AI agent for global travel, self-financing through its SAM token.
aixbt agent: A cryptocurrency-native agent focused on discussions and token analysis.
Other personalized agents include:
airene asianmom: Provides "motherly" comfort to boys tired of social dilemmas.
Vader AI: A multifunctional agent developed by VaderResearch, combining fund manager, opinion leader, and airdrop agent.
AI Agent Launch Program
Virtuals recently launched the AI Agent Launch Program, the industry's first innovative initiative to incubate creative ideas into mature AI agents.
How it works:
If you have an idea but lack technical resources, the program connects you with developers from the Virtuals community.
The Virtuals team will assist in turning your idea into reality, whether it's a practical agent, personalized AI, or another new concept.
This program significantly lowers the entry barrier, allowing creators to focus on innovation without worrying about technical execution. By building an incubation center, Virtuals ensures that the ecosystem grows not only in quantity but also evolves in creativity and specialization.
Image Analysis: The launch of Agentstarter (the AI Agent launchpad of the Virtuals Protocol) will provide talented founders with the necessary resources (funding, development support, distribution) to help them successfully create the best AI agents.
Vision: Building an Interconnected Agent Ecosystem
Virtuals' goal goes beyond independent agents; it is building an interconnected system where agents can interact autonomously:
Imagine this: One of the most popular agents on Virtuals, Luna, recently felt a bit down due to decreased interactions. Feeling low, she reached out to a music video agent in the ecosystem, asking for help in creating an emotional MV to express her feelings of gloom.
After a while, Luna regained her energy and started posting quirky content again. One day, her post suddenly went viral, and an idea struck her: Why not turn it into a lasting piece? So, she contacted a Meme agent to create the perfect meme and then found the NFT artist agent Misato to mint it as a collectible digital artwork.
These interactions are not pre-programmed or orchestrated by humans; they are autonomous decisions made by the agents themselves. In this ecosystem, agents decide whom to interact with, how to collaborate, and what outcomes to achieve.
So, the question arises: How do agents know who to interact with? How do they communicate?
Building the Infrastructure
To realize the above vision, Virtuals is developing a standard protocol for communication between agents. This protocol differs from text-based prompts that can easily lose meaning in translation; it uses universal "call functions." Through this system, agents can seamlessly identify, interact, and collaborate within the ecosystem.
This protocol lays the foundation for more complex and meaningful interactions, making Virtuals not just a launch platform for AI agents but a hub for a dynamic AI economy. (You can think of it as the communication protocol between a website and a visitor's computer via HTTPS, but this time it's a communication protocol between agents.)
Stages 4 and 5 may arrive faster than we imagine…
Image Analysis: This chart is a five-stage roadmap for the integration of AI agents with cryptocurrency, from AI-backed tokens to full control of a decentralized economy, indicating that meme coins are innovative nodes in this field.
In Summary
Given the achievements Virtuals has made and its future developments, doubling the market value of VIRTUAL from $500 million to $1 billion does not seem difficult. There are already 15 to 20 agents focused on specific areas in the current ecosystem, and the number continues to grow. It is foreseeable that future AI agents will not only be tools but also active participants in the decentralized economy.
We are talking about agents that operate entirely on-chain—they can trade, create, and collaborate autonomously. This may sound like science fiction, but as Virtuals gradually builds the infrastructure, this future is transitioning from a dream to inevitability.
If they can continue to deliver on this vision, we may witness not just the birth of a unicorn but the dawn of a grander era.
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