Author: Kazu Umemoto, Bankless; Translator: Deng Tong, Golden Finance
As the market value of artificial intelligence agents skyrocketed during the holiday season, cryptocurrency fanatics are looking around for early investment opportunities.
During the gold rush of new agents and tokens, it is almost impossible to distinguish useful information from noise, but data can become the backbone of investment if you can combine it with the right parameters and arguments.
The following five tools can become must-have apps to help tap into AI agent opportunities:
Cookie.fun
Cookie.fun is a popular agent-native tool that is gaining traction. The biggest highlight for free users is their token dashboard, which showcases engagement-centric metrics, highlighting share and impressions relative to price action.
You can also filter for certain AI agents, such as those launched on Virtuals or others using the ai16z Eliza framework. Not only is it a great tool to see the top AI agents, but it can also catch some of the ones that are rising in terms of occupancy before the entire crypto space notices them.
The platform offers a good deal for free users, but there are a lot of features behind the paywall, although unlocking these features requires locking up a whopping 10,000 COOKIE tokens, which are currently trading at $0.65.
Arkham
Let's say you want to track the wallets of these AI agents to see how they are performing. Once you find the wallet of the AI agent you want, Arkham is a simple and great tool to use. Arkham's dashboard tracks their holdings, balance history, and any type of transactions made in their wallet.
A great use case for Arkham is to track the performance of Vader AI's funds. Currently, Vader AI does not provide a way to track their performance on their website other than through updates on Twitter. However, with this Arkham dashboard, you can get all the information you need in one place.
Dune
Dune is a unique data tool compared to the other tools on this list because it relies heavily on its community. Dune allows anyone to create queries, extract on-chain data, and generate dashboards to create useful visualizations.
You can search for almost any AI agent on Dune, and chances are you’ve already created some kind of dashboard or query. For example, if you look up ai16z on Dune, one of the top results is a dashboard that provides insights that are hard to find elsewhere. It highlights the tokens ai16z holds, how its token holdings are performing, and some statistics on the ai16z token itself, like DEX volume.
You don’t have to be an expert in SQL to create your own dashboards, either. You can see the query behind the dashboard and feel free to modify it for whatever information you want to find.
Kaito.AI
Kaito.ai is a similar tool to Cookie.fun, with its main product showing the share of attention held by individual AI agents, in addition to other trends and memes. Their leaderboard screen shows the people who have lost and gained the most attention share each day over the past 3 months.
Kaito.ai is also a great tool for those who use Twitter a lot, tweeting and starting discussions. They recently completed a Yaps campaign where users could earn Yaps by starting discussions on crypto-related topics on Twitter.
Sentient Market
The last tool that has been overlooked but may be the most useful is Sentient Market. You can look up almost any AI agent there and see a dashboard specific to that agent, showing only information relevant to it.
For example, if you look up AIXBT on Sentient Market, it will not only show you metrics related to the performance of the AIXBT token, but also some crazy statistics surrounding its tweets. It tracks the best call, average return, and tweet sentiment for AIXBT. Or, if you look up Virtuals, it will show you a dashboard showing the number of agents launched and the total amount of VIRTUALs spent on launching AI agents.