The market value is close to US$2 billion 2 months after it was launched. What AI Agent projects does ai16z participate in?

Author: Grapefruit, ChainCatcher

Editor: Nian Qing, ChainCatcher

As of December 31, the market value of ai16z has approached the US$2 billion mark, with an increase of more than 40% in the past 24 hours. It is worth noting that since the ai16z token came out on October 26, it took less than two months to quickly grow into a project with a market value of nearly US$2 billion, and its market popularity remains unabated and continues to rise.

As "the first AI-driven investment decentralized autonomous organization (DAO)", ai16z can be said to be the king of the AI ​​Agent wave. Its AI Agent construction framework Eliza has successfully supported the release of hundreds of AI Agent projects. , including the popular AI Agent currency issuance project aiPool, and also cooperated with Treasure DAO and Loot Realms to develop small games Smolworl, Eternum, etc.

According to GitHub data on December 31, Eliza, the autonomous agent framework developed by the ai16z team, topped the GitHub December trend list.

With the dual driving force of "investment + Eliza development framework technology", ai16z has become an AI Agent project incubation and production center. So, as an AI Agent incubation center, ai16z, what AI Agent projects does it participate in and support?

ai16z’s **new goal: launch the AI ​​Agent Launch (IAO) platform,

positioned as “AI’s L1 public chain”**

On December 28, the ai16z project disclosed an important information on the governance forum HackMD: Its 2025 proposal plan will focus on expanding the application scenarios of the ai16z token to stimulate the vigorous development and growth of the ecosystem and promote The synergistic value-added effect between projects within the ecosystem. Two highlights of the proposal are particularly eye-catching: one is the plan to launch IAO, an AI Agent issuance platform; the other is positioning ai16z as an L1 blockchain in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).

Specifically, ai16z plans to launch the official ai16z Launchpad platform based on the Eliza AI Agent agent framework in the first quarter of 2025. This platform will draw on the Pump.fun model and is specifically used to launch AI Agent project agents. It is reported that the platform will be implemented through the acquisition of ready-made technical teams.

When a new AI project releases its tokens on the Launchpad platform, the platform will charge startup fees and token transaction fees to the project side. These fees will be divided into two parts: one part is used to repurchase ai16z tokens from the market, and the other part is injected into the ai16z token fund pool for matching. At the same time, when AI Agent developers release new AI projects on the platform, they also need to purchase ai16z tokens to create a fund pool. Through various methods such as repurchase mechanism and capital pool creation, ai16z tokens are provided with rich application scenarios and value-added potential.

In addition, ai16z is also considering positioning itself as an L1 blockchain for AI, aiming to build a decentralized general artificial intelligence (AGI) infrastructure. Once implemented, the ai16z token will become the core asset of the public chain and the basic transaction medium currency between AI Agent applications.

Taken together, the key proposals put forward by the ai16z Governance Forum in 2025 focus on optimizing the economic model of the ai16z token, aiming to fully capture and enhance the value of the entire ecosystem. The proposal is committed to building a self-sustaining and robust economic system that cleverly connects the interests of individual projects with the overall prosperity of the ai16z ecosystem by simplifying the project startup process, accelerating project growth, and ensuring market liquidity.

Since the news was announced on December 28, the market value of ai16z tokens has surged from US$1 billion to over US$1.9 billion, an increase of 100%. This significant market reaction bodes well for investors’ future expectations for the ai16z proposal.

What AI Agent projects does ai16z participate in?

1. **AI Agent development framework Eliza: Create AI Agent

development system Eliza OS**

Eliza is the AI ​​Agent development framework infrastructure built by ai16z, which supports developers to quickly customize their own AI Agent based on this. At the same time, ai16z aims to build Eliza OS, an AI Agent development system based on Eliza.

According to elizas.world data, there are hundreds of AI Agent projects built based on the Eliza framework, and new projects are added every day.

On November 19, a third party created a lowercase token named "eliza" on the AI ​​Agent token issuance platform Vvaifudotfun. Subsequently, the founder of ai16z announced that he would cooperate with a third party to launch the capitalized token ELIZA of the Eliza framework, which triggered a dispute over the capitalization of tokens with the same names between "eliza" and "ELIZA".

As of December 31, the uppercase ELIZA token is currently quoted at US$0.15, with a market value of US$150 million, with a 24-hour increase of over 70%; the lowercase eliza token is quoted at US$0.009, with a market value of US$9 million, with a 24-hour increase of approximately 45%.

2. AI Agent venture capital robot @pmarca

@pmarca is a venture capital robot led by AI Agent launched by ai16z. It is based on a16z partner Marc Andreessen and simulates its investment decision-making process through an AI model. It is regarded as Marc’s AI virtual incarnation in the encryption community.

As of December 31, Marc Andreessen’s virtual AI investment fund @pmarca had $30 million in capital under management.

3. AI agent chatbot Degen Spartan AI (degenai)

Degen Spartan AI (degenai) is an autonomous trading AI agent chatbot developed by ai16z. It plays the role of an AI trader in ai16z. Before communicating with ai16z about investment decisions, users usually have a conversation with Degen Spartan AI, which indirectly affects ai16z's final decision.

On December 31, degenai tokens are currently quoted at approximately US$0.08, with a market value of approximately US$90 million, with a 24-hour increase of approximately 40%. Part of the funds from ai16z’s investment income will also be used to repurchase degenai tokens.

4. **AI Agent independent currency issuance project aiPool based on

Eliza**

aiPool is an AI Agent independent currency issuance project built by a user named @Skely based on the Eliza framework. In this project, users inject funds into the AI ​​Agent's address, and the AI ​​Agent will decide and issue tokens independently. Even the naming of the tokens will be decided by the AI ​​independently.

Since @Skely is an active member of ai16z DAO, the project has been publicly retweeted and supported by Shaw, the founder of ai16z, and the aiPool project has gained extremely high attention and popularity.

On December 24, aiPool officially announced the issuance of its first token, and successfully raised 25,000 SOL within just 60 minutes of the start of the pre-sale, worth approximately US$4.72 million. Immediately afterwards, the first Meme coin project issued by aiPool - METAVERSE (METAV) was also announced to be officially launched. The market value of METAV quickly climbed to US$90 million, once again writing a legend of wealth creation in the crypto community. Although on December 31, METAV's quotation fell back to US$0.048 and its market value shrank to US$48 million, its early outstanding performance is still eye-catching. However, the Twitter account of @Skely, the initiator of the project, has been frozen.

Subsequently, aiPool issued tokens such as $COSMIC_GIGGLE, $NORMIEPILL, $HYPERBOLE, $HYPERREALITY, $HYPERREAL, etc., but none of them became more popular than METAV.

5. **Zerebro: Cooperate with ai16z to develop the AI ​​Agent open

source Zerepy framework**

Zerebro (ZEREBRO) was originally an AI Meme project on the Solana chain. It represents a fine-tunable AI content generation system, aiming to achieve independent creation and distribution of content across multiple social platforms such as Twitter, Warpcast, and Telegram.

On November 29, Zerebro announced the launch of an AI Agent development framework based on the Python language, which supports users to build customized AI Agents, allowing users to deploy their own agents on X, and is supported by OpenAI or Anthropic LLM. The AI ​​Agent based on ZerePy can not only publish, reply to tweets, like, forward, read timelines and other functions independently, but can also extend the framework to other social media platforms.

On December 20, Zerebro co-founder Tint announced that Zerebro will join hands with ai16z to promote the development of open source frameworks. The ai16z team will be the first batch of external contributors to help improve the ZerePy framework. At the same time, the Zerebro team will also contribute to the Eliza framework to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results for both parties.

Under the strong influence of ai16z, the Zerebro project quickly attracted widespread attention from the market. As of December 31, ZEREBRO's quotation has reached US$0.6, with a market value as high as US$60 million. In the past three days, the currency price has achieved 100% growth.

6. **vvaifu.fun (Dasha), the AI ​​Agent distribution platform that

Shaw has publicly supported many times**

vvaifu.fun is an AI Agent project creation and distribution platform focusing on the Solana chain. Its function is similar to Pump.fun's role in the meme currency issuance field. The platform empowers every user, allowing them to easily create their own AI Agent and its supporting tokens, and seamlessly integrate these AI Agent assistants into popular social media platforms such as Twitter, Telegram, and Discord to achieve automated user interactive. According to the community, in the early days vvaifu.fun claimed to have the participation of ai16z, and the founder of ai16z publicly supported and was optimistic about the project on his social media X platform many times. Community users believe that if ai16z acquires an AI Agent issuance platform, then vvaifu.fun will be regarded as the AI ​​Agent issuance platform that ai16z will acquire in the future. Both ELIZA and Eliza tokens will be issued based on this platform.

Among them, the AI ​​Agent robot officially created by vvaifu.fun is Dasha, which not only has an independent Twitter account, Telegram channel and Discord community, but its management and operation are completely completed by AI independently.

According to the quotation of VVAIFU tokens on December 31, it was US$0.11, with a market value of approximately US$110 million, an increase of 100% in the past 24 hours.

7. **Eliza cooperates with Treasure DAO, Loot Realms, etc. to

develop small games Smolworld and Eternum based on AI Agent**

In the latest interview, Shaw revealed that several AI Agent-driven mini-games built using Eliza technology will be launched soon.

Among them, Eliza collaborated with Treasure DAO to create a small game called Smolworld. The highlight of this game is its AI Agent-driven little pet monkey characters. Players only need to input simple commands, and these smart little monkeys can autonomously perform on-chain tasks, bringing players an unprecedented gaming experience.

In addition, Eternum, another strategy game launched by Loot Realms, is also integrating Eliza technology. This integration will allow the AI ​​Agent agent in the Eternum game to have an exclusive wallet function, and players can "challenge" and "defeat" it in the game. ” these agents, thereby capturing the rewards in their wallets.