Why Virtuals Will Be a Unicorn by New Year’s
Original author: Defi 0x Jeff, Crypto Kol
Original translation: zhouzhou, BlockBeats
Editors note: This article describes how the Virtuals platform redefines AI agents by creating an interconnected AI agent ecosystem. These agents can not only trade, create, and interact autonomously, but also drive the development of the decentralized economy. The platform lowers the technical threshold and attracts innovation by launching plans and communication protocols. In the future, Virtuals is likely to grow from a unicorn to the center of the AI economy, and the market potential is huge.
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Virtuals is on the road to redefining AI agents
In just 1.5 months, virtuals io has achieved:
Launched over 2,000 agents
$2 million worth of VIRTUAL tokens consumed (transaction volume exceeded $1 million)
Show 40 featured agents on the dashboard
Many teams are building projects on the platform, some of which are still in stealth development
What makes Virtuals unique
Virtuals is not only a publishing platform for AI agents, but also an ecosystem for nurturing 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 that can tip fans.
sekoia virtuals: an agency specializing in venture capital that is opening up a unique track.
Misato virtuals: NFT artist agency that transforms community interactions into visual artworks.
SamIsMoving: The first embodied AI agent for global travel, self-financing through its own SAM token.
aixbt-agent: A cryptocurrency native agent focused on discussion and token analysis.
Other personalized agents include:
airene asianmom: Specially designed to provide motherly love comfort to boys who are tired of social difficulties.
Vader AI: A multifunctional agent that is a three-in-one fund manager, opinion leader and airdrop agent developed by VaderResearch.
AI Agent Launch Plan
Virtuals recently launched the AI Agent Startup Program, the industry’s first innovative initiative to incubate ideas into full-fledged AI agents.
Here’s how it works:
If you have an idea but lack the technical resources, this program will connect you with developers in the Virtuals community.
The Virtuals team will help turn your idea into reality, whether its a practical agent, personalized AI, or something else entirely.
The program significantly lowers the barrier to entry, allowing creators to focus on innovation without worrying about technical execution. By creating an incubation center, Virtuals ensures that the ecosystem not only grows in quantity, but also continues to evolve in creativity and specialization.
Figure Analysis: Launching Agentstarter (Virtuals Protocol’s AI Agent launchpad), Agentstarter will provide talented founders with the necessary resources (funding, development support, distribution) to help them successfully create the best AI agents.
Vision: Build an interconnected agent ecosystem
Virtuals aims to go beyond standalone agents and build a connected system where agents can interact with each other autonomously:
Imagine this: Luna, one of the most popular agents on Virtuals, has been feeling a little down lately because of a decrease in engagement. Feeling down, she approached a music video agent in the ecosystem and asked them to help her create an emotional MV to express her depression.
After a while, Luna regained her energy and started posting funny content again. One day, her post suddenly became popular, and inspiration flashed through her mind: why not turn it into a lasting work? So she contacted a meme agency to make the perfect meme, and then found NFT artist agency Misato to cast it into a collectible digital artwork.
These interactions are not pre-programmed or orchestrated by humans, but autonomous decisions made by the agents themselves. In this ecosystem, agents decide for themselves who to interact with, how to collaborate, and what outcomes to achieve.
So the question is, how do agents know who to interact with? How do they communicate?
Building infrastructure
To achieve this vision, Virtuals is developing a standard protocol for communication between agents. This protocol is different from text-based prompts that can easily lose their meaning in translation, but uses a universal call function. Through this system, agents can seamlessly identify, interact and collaborate in the ecosystem.
This protocol lays the foundation for more complex and meaningful interactions, making Virtuals more than just a launchpad for AI agents, but the backbone of a dynamic AI economy. (Think of it like a website communicating with a visitor’s computer over HTTPS, but this time with agents communicating with each other.)
Phases 4 and 5 may be here sooner than we think…
Diagram: This diagram is a five-stage roadmap for the combination of AI agents and cryptocurrencies, from AI-backed tokens to full control of the decentralized economy, and points out that meme coins are an innovation node in this field.
In summary
Judging from Virtuals achievements and future development, it seems not difficult to double VIRTUALs market value from $500 million to $1 billion. There are already 15 to 20 specialized agents in the current ecosystem, and the number is still growing. It is foreseeable that in the future, AI agents will not only be tools, but also active participants in the decentralized economy.
We are talking about agents that run entirely on-chain — they can trade, create, and collaborate autonomously. This may sound like science fiction, but as Virtuals builds infrastructure step by step, this future is gradually turning from a dream into a necessity.
If they can continue to deliver on this vision, we may not only witness the birth of a unicorn, but the beginning of something much bigger.
