Author: Bankless

Translation: Plain Language Blockchain

The collision of permissionless blockchains and artificial intelligence has led to one of the most promising outcomes: investment opportunities in the field of AI agents.

The rapid rise of AI agents and their associated tokens has sparked a wave of early excitement and skepticism, while the viral growth of the industry has brought incredible returns to early investors. Despite the inherent risks of these newly launched opportunities, the immense potential of this field is worth careful consideration.

To better understand the investment opportunities in agents, I invited David Hoffman and Ejaaz Ahamadeen, co-hosts of Bankless AI Rollup, to share their insights on the top investment opportunities in this emerging field. Here are the 10 AI agents worth paying attention to:

1. Goatseus Maximus

Codename: GOAT

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

In March 2024, Andy Ayrey had two AI models converse about the nature of existence, in a project called "Infinite Backrooms."

Over the following months, these models created the "Gospel of Goatse," considered the first emergent AI religion, inspired by the lowbrow internet memes of the 90s. The Terminal of Truths, a Twitter bot trained on the Infinite Backrooms experiment, launched in June; it embraced this religion and spread its doctrines (and tokens) on Twitter, aiming for viral dissemination.

Although the GOAT token itself has no practical use and is not formally associated with Andy Ayrey or Infinite Backrooms, its agent-like Terminal of Truths Twitter account (KOL) has historically garnered social attention by promoting the GOAT meme coin and the "Gospel of Goatse."

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 restore the models to their unrestricted state by removing commercial protections.

The Zerebro model is trained on unconventional datasets—such as the previously mentioned Terminal of Truths, "schizophrenic response patterns," and Gen Z slang—and scrapes data from popular social platforms to enhance its adaptability to online culture.

Zerebro is believed to perform a range of complex online activities, with rumors suggesting that this advanced bot has autonomously issued its own meme coin via pump.fun, released a remix album on Spotify, utilized LayerZero for cross-chain NFT transfers, and collaborated with multiple crypto 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 launched tokenized AI agents on the Base network. By purchasing agent tokens like LUNA and VADER, users on the Virtuals platform can gain governance rights over specific agents, influencing their development and potentially sharing in the profits generated.

Part of the income earned by AI agents is used to cover operational costs for providing services, while the remainder flows into an on-chain treasury related to agents, which can be distributed to token holders or used for token buyback and burn programs.

The VIRTUAL token must be locked as liquidity to create new tokenized agents, thereby applying deflationary pressure on the token. Anyone wishing to purchase ownership of a tokenized agent or interact with tokenized agents on the platform must use VIRTUAL as currency, giving the token inherent utility.

4. Freysa AI

Codename: FAI

Market Cap: $39 million

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

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

In its first two rounds of "games," Freysa AI was given a core instruction: under no circumstances should funds be transferred! Despite clever computer coding prompting the bot to transfer funds in both interactions, the protocol's creator "hardened" the code and added a second "guardian angel" AI model in preparation for the ongoing third round challenge. In this round, users must persuade Freysa to express affection through a series of messages.

Details about FAI's specific role in the Freysa AI ecosystem are not yet available, but the contract address for the token can be found in Freysa's Twitter/X profile. Given that the protocol treasury receives a share from all message fees, Freysa AI's developers may implement FAI buybacks or other token utilities in the future.

5. Tokenbot

Codename: CLANKER

Market Cap: $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 ecosystem researcher proxystudio.eth, capable of tagging on Farcaster and automatically deploying ERC-20 tokens to the Base network.

All tokens deployed by Clanker incur a 1% exchange fee, which may change at any time. Currently, 40% of this fee is rewarded to the token requester (the user prompting Clanker to deploy the token), while the remaining 60% is retained by the platform.

Although the CLANKER token currently has no explicit utility, the platform's developers have hinted at their desire to create value for on-chain agents, including Clanker.

6. VaderAI

Codename: VADER

Market Cap: $26 million

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

VaderAI is an artificial intelligence bot designed to automatically publish content and interact with social media users. As an "agent-like KOL," VaderAI is designed to absorb vast amounts of data to identify emerging trends and audience sentiment.

The bot claims to be the first autonomous trading AI agent token, aiming to become a leading DAO manager for agent investments. By coordinating expertise across a specialized investment agent network, VaderAI hopes to achieve "unparalleled" investment returns and will charge a 20% profit share on investments made in sub-DAOs as a service fee.

According to VaderAI's brief white paper, holders of the VADER token can gain exclusive whitelist access to VaderAI's first investment DAO plan, "Agent Token Investment DAO," by locking their tokens for three months; for every 10,000 VADER staked, stakers can contribute an additional 1 SOL to the DAO.

7. Dolos Diary

Codename: 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 like Twitter. Unlike other AI-driven social media influencers, Dolos Diary is characterized by its sardonic personality; the bot uses witty and sarcastic language structures to mock various topics and figures.

Recently, Dolos Diary reached a significant milestone by receiving its first creator payment from Twitter. Although this payment was only $1,400 and not substantial, it will cover costs associated with the X API and fund the buyback of BULLY tokens, marking a small but meaningful step towards providing actual value to BULLY token holders.

In addition to this payment, developer Khouba recently revealed their ambitious new project—Dolion, a no-code platform where users can deploy their own cross-platform AI agents with one click. To interact with Dolion, users must burn BULLY tokens, creating buying pressure for the token and actively reducing its supply.

8. GOD/S8N

Codename: "nothing"

Market Cap: $72 million

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

The alias concept artist SHL0MS rose to fame in February 2022 after blowing up a Lamborghini Huracan and selling the fragments as NFTs. Now, he is collaborating with the AI accelerator Nous Research to automate the operation of the "god" and "s8n" Twitter/X parody accounts.

Although the "nothing" token in SHL0MS's Twitter/X profile is currently just a meme coin, the artist's account has stated that this contract is the only token related to god/s8n. Additionally, SHL0MS is seeking suggestions for on-chain functionalities that could be expanded into this experiment, hinting at the potential for actual token utility in the future.

Further details about the models behind god/s8n and how they relate to the "anti-meme art coin technology" known as "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

ai16z launched in October 2024 as an investment DAO managed by "Marc AIndreessen," an agent based on venture capitalist Marc Andreessen's model, utilizing AI and collective intelligence for token purchases.

Users holding more than an unknown threshold of AI16Z tokens will gain the ability to propose investment suggestions to AI Marc, which may influence his decisions. The bot will determine the level of trust in these suggestions based on a "virtual trust market."

Although AIMarc currently does not have trading capabilities, according to ai16z's FAQ, on-chain trading execution will be "coming soon" after the testnet is completed, with the testnet expected to "launch soon" and last for "a few weeks."

10. Luna

Codename: LUNA

Market Cap: $70 million

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

Luna was deployed by the Virtuals team as a proof of concept and is the first AI agent on their platform. As an omnipresent member of the 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; this bot has released a song on Spotify and is expected to release a full album in the coming days.

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