The combination of Crypto and AI is showing its huge market potential in a brand new way. AI Agent is not only an extension of traditional AI technology, but also a super potential track embedded in the blockchain world.
What exactly is AI Agent? Why is the market so keen on this track? Can it break the traditional Internet and smart contract world, realize autonomous economy and intelligent collaboration, and become the core of the next generation of disruptive technology?
This article will conduct an in-depth analysis of the AI Agent track. Perhaps there is a deeper answer.
1. Introduction to the AI Agent track: The rise of intelligent bodies
1.1 What is AI Agent?
AI Agent is an intelligent entity that can perform tasks, make decisions, interact with other systems and learn. Compared with traditional AI assistants, AI Agent can not only understand and handle complex tasks, but also operate in the decentralized environment of blockchain to achieve autonomous decision-making and value exchange.
These intelligent agents are not a single program or script, but an economy built on a certain degree 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 concerned about AI Agent?
The rise of AI Agent is not accidental. Behind it is the development of blockchain technology and the continuous maturity of artificial intelligence. First of all, blockchain provides a decentralized infrastructure, and the behavior and transaction records of intelligent agents can be verified and tracked to ensure transparency and trust. The advancement of AI technology enables these intelligent agents to have more complex judgment and execution capabilities, and operate autonomously like an economy.
In the market, the potential of AI Agent is being seen by more and more investors and developers. For example, in the combination of cryptocurrency and DeFi, AI Agent can automatically analyze market data, complete plans and executions according to the user's goals through the execution of smart contracts. In the future, perhaps AI Agent can become a "resident" in the virtual world, and even create and manage more digital assets.
2. Four major categories of AI Agent tracks
The AI Agent track has now developed in many forms, and various projects have different characteristics according to their functions and application scenarios. We will analyze it in detail from four main categories: AI Agent framework, AI Launchpad, AI Agent Meme coin and AI Agent application.
2.1 AI Agent Framework
AI Agents framework is the infrastructure for building and launching intelligent agents. These frameworks provide developers with tools to easily build, train and deploy AI Agents. Currently, this type of project is becoming the most popular part of the track.
Representative projects:
1. $ai16z @ai16zdao
Market value: 2.01b
ai16z is known as the first AI version of venture capital fund (VC). It also proposed the Eliza framework, which uses AI algorithms to simulate the decision-making process of well-known investor Marc Andreessen and invests through the advice of DAO members.
2. $zerebro @0xzerebro
Market value: 405.9m
Zerebro creates and distributes content on social platforms through autonomous AI systems. It combines social interaction, cross-chain NFT and autonomous token functions. 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 value: 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, which supports decentralized applications (dApps) and smart contracts, while providing efficient smart order routing functions to optimize the user trading experience.
4. $GAME@GAME_Virtuals
Market value: 219.32m
As the core framework of the Virtuals ecosystem, $GAME enables the autonomous operation and intelligence of AI agents, symbolizing the deep integration of AI and games. It is not only a tool for developers to create AI agents, but also an infrastructure to promote the development of future social and game agents.
5. $swarms@swarms_corp
Market value: 398.2m
A multi-agent AI framework created by the talented teenager Kye Gomez. Based on its framework, developers can create and manage multiple AI agents, support seamless integration with external AI services and APIs, and provide long-term memory functions to enhance contextual understanding.
2.2 AI Agent Launchpad
Launchpad is an AI Agents issuance platform, similar to the Meme coin launch platform Pump.fun, etc. Users can easily create AI Agents and their associated tokens. At the same time, the created AI Agent can also be seamlessly integrated with social platforms such as Twitter, Telegram and Discord to achieve automated user interaction.
Representative projects:
1. $VIRTUAL @virtuals_io
Market value: 1.79b
VIRTUAL allows users to create AI agents that can interact with the environment, with multimodal interaction capabilities (such as text, voice, and 3D animation), and supports running on multiple platforms such as Roblox and TikTok. Virtuals Protocol aims to promote the application of AI in games, entertainment, and the metaverse in a decentralized manner.
2. $CLANKER @clanker on base
Market capitalization: 71.41m
Clanker is an AI token generation platform based on the Base blockchain that allows 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 setting, and liquidity locking, simplifying the token deployment process.
3. $VVAIFU @vvaifudotfun
Market value: 74.56m
VVAIFU leverages ai16z's Eliza framework and Zerebro integration, allowing users to easily create AI agents that interact with social media such as Twitter, Telegram, and Discord.
2.3 AI Agent Meme Coins
AI Agents Meme coins are usually Meme coins born from AI Agents, and there is not much technical/product support. Such projects are usually based on "Meme" culture, with extremely high volatility and high speculation.
1. $GOAT@truth_termina
Market value: 428.0m
As the first popular AI Agent Meme coin, $GOAT is issued by an AI robot named "Truth Terminal" and is deeply involved in its promotion and dissemination.
2. $Fartcoin @FartCoinOfSOL
Market value: 1.04b
$Fartcoin is based on an AI agent model derived from "Truth Terminal", which mentioned the idea of issuing the token in a conversation with other AIs. Fartcoin quickly gained attention by generating humorous content (such as "fart jokes") to attract user attention.
3. $ACT @ACTICOMMUNITY
Market value: 306.5m
The full name is Act I: The AI Prophecy, which aims to create a digital ecosystem where users and AI interact equally. Since its launch in November 2024, ACT has quickly gained attention, and its market value has soared to hundreds of millions of dollars in a short period of time.
4. $Shoggoth @Shoggoth_SOL
Market value: 44.65m
$Shoggoth is inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's fictional creatures and aims to explore the complexity and weirdness of the era of artificial intelligence.
5. $WORM @deepwormxyz
Market value: 23.15m
The $WORM project is called Deep Worm, which aims to combine digital biology with blockchain technology to create a unique digital asset that simulates the nervous system of biological worms. The project explores the concept of "immortal digital life" by implementing a decaying neuron activation model.
2.4 AI Agent Applications
AI Agents applications refer to those intelligent entities that are directly facing users and can provide users with actual services and functions. Currently, most of these applications are concentrated in the fields of investment, entertainment, data analysis, etc., and are showing huge growth potential.
Representative projects:
DeFAI category
1. $GRIFFAIN @griffaindotcom
Market value: 441.3m
As a DeFi AI agent in the Solana ecosystem, the core concept of GRIFFAIN is to enable users to train and deploy AI agents to perform specific tasks or automate transactions through smart contracts and machine learning technology.
2. $GRIFT @orbitcryptoai Market Cap: 48.41m
An AI-driven DeFi platform developed by the SphereOne team that aims to simplify user operations on multiple blockchains through automation technology. The platform supports natural language interaction, allowing users to interact with DeFi protocols in a more intuitive way, lowering the technical threshold for participating in multi-chain DeFi activities.
3. $NEUR @neur_sh Market Cap: 59.74m
NEUR aims to integrate large language models (LLMs) with blockchain technology, focusing on token analysis and DeFi interaction. The project is designed to interact seamlessly with other DeFi protocols and NFTs, providing an intelligent interface to enhance the user experience. 4. $BUZZ @askthehive_ai Market value: 85.44m As a hackathon champion AI and DeFi combination project, BUZZ uses AI technology to provide a natural language interface, allowing users to conduct DeFi transactions and management more intuitively, lowering the technical threshold.
5. Wayfinder @AIWayfinder
No tokens
is a decentralized AI interaction protocol launched by the Parallel team. The core function of the project is to allow AI agents to safely navigate blockchains, perform transactions and interact with decentralized applications (dApps).
6. Slate @slate_ceo
No tokens
Slate focuses on the execution of automated trading strategies and is able to execute complex trading strategies. This ability enables users to set conditions, such as automatically buying or selling assets under specific market conditions.
7. Cod3x @Cod3xOrg
No tokens yet
Cod3x allows users to create financial strategies in minutes, using a rich API and strategy library without writing code. This convenience allows even users with a lack of technical background to participate in DeFi.
Investment Analysis
1. $VADER@Vader_AI_
Market value: 74.47
$VADER is an investment DAO managed by humans and AI agents. The project adopts a dual DAO system, including passive DAO and active DAO, charging 0.5% and 20% fees respectively, aiming to optimize users' investment and trading strategies through AI agents.
2. $AIXBT @aixbt_agent
Market value: 449.19m
As an AI agent project based on the Base chain, AIXBT uses a proprietary AI engine to extract hot topics and trends from social media (such as Twitter) and KOL discussions to provide real-time market insights. This ability enables users to quickly identify market changes and potential investment opportunities.
3. $AIXCB @aixCB_Vc
Market value: 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 insufficient funding, lack of resources and lack of exposure by providing strategic funding, expert guidance and AI assistance.
4. $Blormmy @blormmy
Market value: 4.27m
Blormmy can understand the user's natural language input and convert it into specific blockchain operations, such as sending tokens or managing portfolios. This function lowers the technical threshold for users to interact with the blockchain.
5. $DEGENAI @degenspartanai
Market value: 61.74m
Degen Spartan AI is able to think and answer questions autonomously on social media platforms such as X, Discord, and Telegram, enhancing the user's interactive experience with AI and becoming the first AI agent to use the ai16z/eliza stack.
6. $SEKOIA @sekoia_virtuals
Market value: 56.81m
As a venture capital fund focusing on AI agent investment, $SEKOIA has demonstrated 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 high-quality investment opportunities, but also promotes the application and development of AI technology in the blockchain field.
7. $Stoic @ModernStoicAI
Market value: 12.11m
A chain venture capital agency project developed by the Virtuals team, which aims to optimize the investment process through blockchain technology, with the goal of improving the transparency and efficiency of investment and eliminating the common human bias and errors in traditional investment.
Game & Metaverse
1. Hyper @hyperfy_io
Market value: 133.14m
$HYPER is a token that combines AI and the Metaverse, designed to drive creativity and community participation through open source code and user-defined virtual experiences.
2. Colony @ParallelColony
No tokens
The world's first AI agent game, in which the agents are players and can communicate and interact with them.
3. SMOL @smolverse
No tokens
A life simulation role-playing game under development, using the Eliza framework, the character is driven by LLM and will perform tasks in the virtual world according to the user's commands.
Security
1. $FAI @freysa_ai Market value: 521.4m Freysa AI embodies the exploration and trust of AI agents. Players try to persuade the AI agent Freysa to hand over the controlled cryptocurrency prize pool by talking to it.
2. $JAIL @jailbreakme_xyz Market value: 7.79m JAIL encourages participants to use prompt words and dialogue skills to force AI agents to hand over private keys or perform operations such as transfers. Through crowdfunding and challenges, security vulnerabilities of AI agents are discovered and fixed. 。
Video Editing
1. $Fatha @slopfather
Market value: 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 value: 3.41m
The first degenerate sitcom on Solana. The character from "The Boys Club" starring Matt Furie, who suggested live streaming any storyline in a Telegram robot.
Auxiliary coin issuance / development category
1. $Intern @internosaur
Market value: 1.27m
A token issuance tool on the Solana chain that uses AI technology to automate contract execution and management tasks.
2. $ALCH @alchemistAIapp
Market value: 158.17m
A code-free development platform that aims to enable users to easily create software applications through natural language processing and code generation technology. Using AI technology, it allows users to generate functional applications through simple descriptions.
TEE Class
1. $SPORE @sporedotfun
Market value: 35.22m
Use a trusted execution environment (TEE) to ensure that AI programs run in a secure and verifiable environment. The core idea of the project is to simulate the natural selection process through the "evolution game", and AI agents generate wealth by creating their own tokens.
2. $METAV @aipool_tee
Market value: 39.41m
$METAV is the first token issuance completed completely independently by an AI agent in a TEE environment, using AI technology to manage the token issuance process to ensure transparency and security.
Virtual Anchors
1. $LUNA @luna_virtuals
Market value: 90.63m
The TikTok virtual idol created by the AI Agent Virtual Protocol on Base is also the first AI agent to be hired.
2. $ELIZA @elizawakesup
Market value: 85.41m
$ELIZA is an AI agent based on the ElizaOS framework. It is a black-haired orange-dressed girl image based on ai16z, aiming to build a digital assistant with soul.
Others
1. $YNE @yesnoerror
Market value: 36.63m
$YNE is an AI-based scientific paper review agent that aims to improve the integrity and efficiency of scientific research by quickly identifying and correcting errors in research.
2. $BULLY @dolos_diary Market value: 52.35m $BULLY is a meme token launched by the AI agent Dolos. Inspired by the god of trickery, Dolos uses a cold and sarcastic style to interact with users, reveal the truth and challenge cognition.
3. $TAOCAT @taocat_agent Market value: 44.32m $TAOCAT is the first AI agent Memecoin in the Bittensor ecosystem. It combines the technical support of $TAO and $Masa, and can process social data in real time and interact with users.
4. $SIMMI @Simmi_IO
Market value: 18.48m
As the first AI agent to perform on-chain operations through social media platform X, SIMMI can convert users' natural language commands into blockchain operations through AI agent, making it easy for users without technical background to participate in on-chain activities.
5. $ANON @anontokenbase
Market value: 9.7m
ANON tokens support users to post anonymously using the Superanon function on Farcaster, aiming to provide privacy-protected social interactions through autonomous AI and zero-knowledge proof technology.
III. Future Outlook of AI Agent Track
From the current development, AI Agent is not only a simple technological advancement, but also an ecological advancement. On the technical level, with the continuous improvement of the open source framework and the gradual maturity of group intelligence, it can be foreseen that AI Agent will be implemented in more scenarios, especially in the fields of finance, entertainment, and social networking.
Taking DeFi as an example, AI Agent can currently manage funds and execute smart contracts independently. As the DeFi platform is further combined with AI technology, it is very likely to form a more intelligent on-chain financial ecology. In the future, intelligent entities may not only be service tools, they may also become autonomous economies with their own funds, decision-making capabilities, and execution capabilities. Through smart contracts, they will be able to participate in more complex economic activities and even achieve economic autonomy.
Fourth, Summary
In short, the AI Agent track is on the eve of an explosion. With the maturity of technology and the promotion of the market, these intelligent agents will play an increasingly important role in the blockchain world. From tools to partners, from single to group, reshape the underlying logic of the on-chain economy.
In the future, we will see more intelligent agents become indispensable collaborators for humans. At the intersection of blockchain and AI, we may witness the rise of "a billion intelligent agents", not just the participation of a billion human users.