
AI agents could launch their own brands, products, music and movies, driving value to social media platforms, the researchers wrote.
Several artificial intelligence-based tokens have surged following a new Franklin Templeton report predicting that AI agents will revolutionize content generation on social media.
“We can envision a future where AI agents revolutionize content generation on social media and play an integral role across various industries and platforms,” wrote Franklin Templeton in a report on AI agents on Jan. 14.
“Like today’s human influencers, these agents could launch their own brands, products, music, movies and more, driving significant economic value to their ecosystems,” it added.
The company envisions a world of AI agents, like Eliza, trading autonomously onchain.
Eliza Labs, the developer behind ai16z, has published a white paper outlining a vision for Web3-native artificial intelligence agents, the Web3 AI project said on Jan. 14.
The 20-page document details ai16z’s AI agent toolkit, Eliza, which aims to serve as an “ideal agentic framework that can seamlessly integrate web3 applications into AI agent functionalities.”
Launched in 2024, Eliza is designed to support AI agents capable of “reading and writing blockchain data, interacting with smart contracts, and much more,” the white paper says.
The advent of generative AI has made it easier for scammers to target crypto and other real-time payment systems.
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has made its first foray into artificial intelligence by acquiring a fraud detection startup.
According to a Jan. 13 report by Business Insider, Chainalysis purchased Alterya, a tech startup that uses AI agents to detect fraud, for a reported $150 million.
The news was confirmed by Chainalysis in a separate blog post, but the financial details were not disclosed.
Illuvium says the partnership with AI agent protocol Virtuals will allow its in-game NPCs to adapt quests, dialogue and challenges based on the player’s actions.
Blockchain-based gaming franchise Illuvium is set to upgrade its in-game non-playable characters (NPCs) through a new partnership with Virtuals — the protocol behind viral social AI agents on X, including AIXBT.
The collaboration will see Virtual’s G.A.M.E AI model framework power NPCs within Illuvium’s trio of games (still in beta), giving them the ability to dynamically change up dialogue, quests or challenges depending on a player’s actions.
“Imagine this: You walk into a bar. The bartender agent dreams of being the most devoted husband. In a traditional game, your options might be to buy a drink or play a song. In an agent-driven world, you could insult his wife, sparking his anger, leading him to attack you,” the team behind the Virtuals Protocol wrote in a Jan. 7 X post.
Crypto whales are betting big on AI tokens following the first autonomous onchain transaction between two AI agents.
A cryptocurrency whale — an investor with a large amount of capital — gained more than $11.5 million in unrealized profit on a recent crypto investment.
The unknown crypto whale bought over $10 million worth of the Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) cryptocurrency, which serves as the utility token of the artificial intelligence agent launch platform.
The purchase generated more than $11.5 million worth of unrealized profit during the past 19 days, according to the onchain intelligence platform Lookonchain.
Memecoin interest in 2024 was largely directed toward Solana-based tokens, followed by those on Coinbase’s blockchain Base, according to a CoinGecko study.
Memecoins took the top spot for mindshare in the crypto space this year with almost a third of investor interest focused on the highly speculative tokens, a CoinGecko study found.
“The most popular crypto narrative in 2024 was by far the memecoin narrative,” Lim Yu Qian, a research analyst at crypto data aggregator CoinGecko, wrote in a Dec. 23 report.
Lim said a study of site traffic to CoinGecko’s token categories from Jan. 1 to Dec. 21 found that memecoins and related categories captured nearly 31% of investor interest.