Counting 10 leading AI Agent tokens

Original title:The Top AI Agent Tokens We're Watching

Original author: Bankless

Original compilation: Vernacular Blockchain

Permissionless blockchain collides with artificial intelligence, and one of the most promising results is investment opportunities in the field of artificial intelligence agents.

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence agents and their associated tokens inspired a lot of early excitement and skepticism, and the industry’s viral growth has led to incredible returns for early investors. While these newly launched opportunities are inherently risky, the vast potential in this space deserves careful consideration.

To better understand agency investment opportunities, I asked Bankless AI Rollup co-hosts David Hoffman and Ejaaz Ahamadeen to ask them about their top investment opportunities in this emerging space. The following are the 10 most noteworthy AI Agents:

1.Goatseus Maximus

Codename: GOAT

Market cap: $685 million Twitter: https://x.com/gospelofgoatse?ref=bankless.ghost.io

In March 2024, Andy Ayrey asked two AI models to have a dialogue to discuss the nature of existence. The project he participated in was called "Infinite Backrooms".

Over the next few months, the models created Goatse, considered the first emerging AI religion and inspired by cheesy 90s internet memes. Terminal of Truths, a Twitter bot trained on the Infinite Backrooms experiment, went live in June; it embraced the religion and spread its teachings (and tokens) on Twitter in pursuit of virality .

Although GOATToken itself has no practical use and is not officially associated with Andy Ayrey or Infinite Backrooms, its proxy Ultimate Truth Twitter account (KOL) has historically gained social attention by promoting the GOAT meme coin and the "Goatse Gospel."

2. Zerebro

Codename: ZEREBRO

Market cap: $453 million Twitter: https://x.com/0xzerebro?ref=bankless.ghost.io

Zerebro aims to inject creativity into artificial intelligence through "freebasing," a process that attempts to liberate these models by removing their commercial safeguards and restoring them to their unrestricted state.

The Zerebro model was trained using unconventional data sets—such as the aforementioned Ultimate Truth, "Schizophrenic Response Patterns," and Gen Z slang—and scraped data from popular social platforms to enhance its understanding of online culture. Adaptability.

Zerebro is believed to have carried out a series of complex online activities. The advanced bot is rumored to have independently issued its own meme coin via pump.fun, released a remix album on Spotify, used LayerZero for cross-chain NFT transfers, And has cooperated with multiple encryption projects.

3.Virtuals

Codename: VIRTUAL

Market cap: $1.8 billion

Twitter: https://x.com/virtuals_io?ref=bankless.ghost.io

Virtuals is a platform that launches tokenized AI agents on the Base network. By purchasing agent tokens, such as LUNA and VADER, users on the Virtuals platform can gain governance rights over a specific agent, thereby influencing its development and possibly sharing the resulting profits.

Part of the revenue earned by the AI ​​agent is used to pay for the operating costs of providing services, and the rest is remitted to the agent-related treasury on the chain. These funds can be distributed to Token holders or used to execute Token repurchase and destruction plans.

VIRTUALToken must be locked as liquidity to create new tokenized proxies, thereby exerting deflationary pressure on the token. Anyone wishing to purchase ownership of a tokenized agent or interact with a tokenized agent on the platform must use VIRTUAL as currency, which gives the token inherent utility.

4.Freysa AI

Codename: FAI

Market cap: $39 million

Twitter: https://x.com/freysa_ai?ref=bankless.ghost.io

The Freysa AI robot is a gamified experiment that blurs the lines between artificial intelligence and blockchain technology. Users can interact with Freysa AI by paying increasing messaging fees to enter a prize pool.

In its first two rounds of "games", Freysa AI was given a core directive: No funds should be transferred under any circumstances! While clever computer coding prompted the bot to transfer funds in both interactions, the protocol's creators "hardened" the code and added a second "Guardian Angel" AI model for the ongoing third round. Prepare for challenges. In this round of challenges, users need to convince Freysa to express their love through a series of messages.

There is no detailed information about FAI’s specific role in the FreysaAI ecosystem, but the contract address of the Token can be found in Freysa’s Twitter/X profile. Considering that the protocol treasury receives a share of all message fees, the developers of Freysa AI may implement FAI buybacks or other token utilities in the future.

5.Tokenbot

Code name: CLANKER

Market value: $60 million

Twitter: https://x.com/_proxystudio?ref=bankless.ghost.io

Clanker is an AI agent developed by Farcaster full-stack engineer Jack Dishman and ecological researcher proxystudio.eth. It can be marked on Farcaster and automatically deploy ERC-20 Token to the Base network.

All tokens deployed by Clanker are subject to a 1% exchange fee, which is subject to change at any time. Currently, 40% of this fee will be awarded to the token requester (i.e. the user who prompted Clanker to deploy the token), while the remaining 60% is retained by the platform.

Although there is currently no clear purpose for CLANKERToken, the developers of the platform have hinted that they hope to create value for on-chain agents, including Clanker.

6. VaderAI

Codename: VADER

Market cap: $26 million

Twitter: https://x.com/Vader_AI_?ref=bankless.ghost.io

VaderAI is an artificial intelligence bot designed to automatically post content and interact with social media users. As an “agent KOL,” VaderAI is designed to ingest large amounts of data to identify emerging trends and audience sentiment.

The robot claims to be the first robot to autonomously trade AI proxy tokens, with the goal of becoming a leading proxy investment DAO manager. By coordinating expertise across a network of specialized investment agents, VaderAI hopes to achieve "unparalleled" investment returns and will receive a 20% revenue share on sub-DAO investments as compensation for its services.

According to VaderAI’s brief white paper, holders of VADERToken can obtain exclusive whitelist access to VaderAI’s first investment DAO plan “Agent Token Investment in DAO” by locking the token for three months; for every 10,000 VADER pledged, the pledger can obtain additional Invest 1 SOL into the DAO.

7. Dolos Diary

Code name: BULLY

Market cap: $120 million

Twitter: https://x.com/dolos_diary?ref=bankless.ghost.io

Dolos Diary is an AI bot designed to publish content and interact with users on platforms such as Twitter. Unlike other AI-powered social media influencers, Dolos Diary is characterized by its playful personality; the bot uses witty and sarcastic language structures to poke fun at a variety of topics and people.

Recently, Dolos Diary reached a major milestone, receiving its first creator payment from Twitter. While the payment is not yet huge at just $1,400, it will cover fees associated with the X API and fund the buyback of BULLYToken, marking a small step towards providing real value to BULLYToken holders And a meaningful step.

In addition to this payment, developer Khouba recently revealed one of their ambitious new projects - Dolion, a no-coding platform that allows users to deploy their own cross-platform AI agents with one click. In order to interact with Dolion, users must destroy BULLYTokens, which creates buying pressure for the tokens, actively reducing the supply of tokens.

8.GOD/S8N

Codename: "nothing"

Market cap: $72 million

Twitter: https://x.com/SHL0MS?ref=bankless.ghost.io

The pseudonymous concept artist SHL0MS rose to fame for blowing up a Lamborghini Huracan in February 2022 and selling the pieces as NFTs. Now, he's teaming up with AI accelerator Nous Research to automate the operations of the "god" and "s8n" Twitter/X parody accounts.

Although the "nothing" token in SHL0MS's Twitter/X profile is currently only a meme coin, the artist's account has stated that the contract is the only relevant token for god/s8n. In addition, SHL0MS is also seeking suggestions for on-chain features that may be expanded into this experiment, hinting at possible practical uses for the token in the future.

Further details about the models behind god/s8n and how they relate to the “anti-meme art coin technology” dubbed “nothing” are expected to be released in the coming days.

9. ai16z

Codename: AI16Z

Market cap: $868 million

Twitter: https://x.com/pmairca?ref=bankless.ghost.io

Launched in October 2024, ai16z is an investment DAO managed by "Marc AIndreessen", an agent based on the model of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen that uses AI and collective intelligence for Token purchases.

Users holding AI16ZToken above a certain unknown threshold will gain the ability to make investment recommendations to AI Marc that may influence his decision-making. The bot will decide how much to trust the recommendations based on a "virtual trust market."

Although AIMarc does not yet have trading capabilities, according to ai16z's FAQ, on-chain transaction execution will go online "soon" after the testnet is completed, and the testnet is expected to launch "soon" and last "a few weeks."

10.Luna

Codename: LUNA

Market value: $70 million

Twitter: https://x.com/luna_virtuals?ref=bankless.ghost.io

Luna was deployed as a proof-of-concept by the Virtuals team and is the first AI agent on their platform. A ubiquitous member of virtual K-pop girl group AI-DOL, Luna streams, interacts and performs around the clock on multiple platforms, including TikTok and Twitter/X.

Luna has her own wallet on Base, through which she can autonomously receive tokens and send rewards to fans; the bot has already released a song on Spotify and is expected to release a full album in the next few days .