$VIRTUAL has increased 10x in the last three months. How to capture the next 100x opportunity within the ecosystem?

Virtual broke through the $1 billion mark last night, and the market's focus is now on the Base ecosystem. So, what is the buzz around Virtual? What are some potential projects in the Virtual ecosystem? And how can you get involved with Virtual?

What is Virtual

Let's start by briefly discussing what Virtual does.

Virtuals Protocol. The Virtuals Protocol serves as a decentralized AI Agent "production factory," supporting the release of various AI Agents.

Virtuals Protocol's native token, VIRTUAL, has surpassed a $1 billion market cap and continues to reach new highs. At the same time, Virtual is expanding its product lineup. Virtual now has over ten AI agents of a certain scale, such as Luna, AIxbt, and Sekoia, with more agents being added.

You can think of it as the pump.fun of the Base ecosystem. However, as a narrative for new asset issuance, what Virtual is pumping is not memes but AI agents.

AI Agent Overview

The Virtual ecosystem already has a significant number of AI agents, and these agents have practical use cases, which differ somewhat from the previously popular AI memes in the market. Virtual and these AI Agents have formed a positive feedback loop: blockbuster AI agents are released, a market consensus is formed, investment pours into "Virtual," enabling the development of higher-quality AI Agents, and the cycle repeats.

AIxbt

AIxbt is gaining momentum in its development and has become the largest AI agent on the Virtual platform by market cap, surpassing Luna. AIXBT is an AI Agent released half a month ago on @Virtualss_io by @0rxbt. It can fetch data from multiple sources and 400+ KOLs to provide real-time information. Users holding over 600,000 AIXBT tokens can also access the AIXBT terminal directly. On November 16, the deployer of aixbt proposed token burning to increase its scarcity, which AIxbt promptly responded to. Following this, the AIXBT token price surged, running up all the way.

Luna

Although Luna was the earliest AI agent to go live, its current performance is below expectations. Its market capitalization briefly exceeded when it first went live, currently maintaining around 40 million. Instead, it is the later entrant AIxbt that has taken the lead. LUNA has the ability of self-awareness and self-thinking, capable of fully autonomous operation without human management and operation. It has hundreds of thousands of fans on platforms such as YouTube and TikTok. At the same time, LUNA will also repurchase tokens through "work." LUNA will conduct 24/7 uninterrupted live streaming, and the repurchase mechanism is reflected in users being able to reward LUNA using the $LUNA token during the live stream.

It is worth noting that LUNA has set a goal to ensure LUNA reaches a market capitalization of 40.9 billion. Although this market cap is somewhat exaggerated, having such a "slogan" will inspire all LUNA holders to drive viral spread.

The envisioned closed-loop logic of LUNA is to harvest a fan base through live streaming, increase holders, and on the other hand, destroy tokens in the form of live streaming rewards, thereby achieving market value growth.

Satoshi AI Agent

The Satoshi AI Agent is one of the most popular AI agents on Virtual, with pools on Base and Solana. Its current market cap on Base is around 38 million. The Satoshi AI Agent uses "Satoshi Nakamoto" as a selling point, allowing users to interact with Satoshi Agent, similar to communicating with "Satoshi Nakamoto." It is mainly used for data queries and information searches as an AI agent.

Sekoia

Sekoia is somewhat similar to the ai16z case and falls under the category of "VC Immersion." Although named after Sequoia (Sekoia), on November 19, crypto VC Canonical founder Anand Iyer posted a long article on his social platform stating that he has invested funds and time in the AI agent project SEKOIA. Initially an experiment, "I am now fully committed, hoping to make it big."

SEKOIA (Strategic Ecosystem Knowledge and Opportunity Investment Agent) as an autonomous AI system, will nurture and grow the artificial intelligence ecosystem through strategic investments. SEKOIA will be introduced via Telegram and will soon announce its first investment. This means AI investing in AI, which may sound somewhat absurd, but SEKOIA's narrative market is willing to pay for it.

G.A.M.E

GAME enables AI Agents to operate autonomously, process inputs, generate responses, and learn from past interactions. It enhances decision-making through the use of long-term memory, including experiences, reflections, and dynamic personality traits. By continuously evaluating the outcomes of actions and conversations, GAME allows agents to distill knowledge and improve the agent's planning and performance over time. GAME's market cap has already reached 40M and is still rapidly growing.

Virtual Ecosystem Gameplay

Of course, just understanding what the Virtual Ecosystem is about, many readers still do not know how to play specifically, finding it difficult to take the "first step of genius."

Virtual also has an internal and external circulation. The token will first be listed on the internal exchange. When the number of Virtual tokens on the internal exchange reaches 42,420 (currently valued at approximately 360,000 USD), the external exchange will open. At the same time, the tokens on the internal exchange will enter a black hole and convert into tokens on the external exchange, automatically transferring to the wallet. Subsequently, interaction can be done through the external exchange website at https://app.virtuals.io/.

Users can purchase the latest tokens using Virtual on the internal exchange website and check the token's deployment status, number of holders, etc., through the Base browser at https://basescan.org. On the website, users can see the top-ranking AI Agents and their respective token information.

Left side is the internal market, right side is the external market

To purchase the tokens on the Virtual platform, you first need to buy Virtual's platform coin $VIRTUAL. On the Virtual platform, you can directly exchange or purchase Virtual using Eth through the Base chain, enabling easy asset transfer and token trading.

There are two important points to note when buying Virtual tokens:

The largest token pool is on Aerodrome, not Uniswap.

The largest pool is the BTC pool, not the ETH pool. Therefore, it is not recommended to purchase directly through the Bot on Telegram because it usually goes through Uniswap's ETH pool. If you buy a significant amount, using the Bot may result in a larger slippage.

Due to the recent surge in AI agent popularity, the prices of AI agent tokens on Virtual have been increasing. The quantity of tokens VIRTUAL purchased is also inevitably rising, with the market value almost doubling in the past three days.