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$VIRTUAL
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what's virtuals protocol?

Virtuals Protocol is a blockchain-based platform built on Ethereum's Layer 2 Base network, designed to create, tokenize, and monetize AI agents that autonomously generate services or products and engage in onchain commerce with humans or other agents. It enables capital formation through Agent Tokens, allowing permissionless participation and incentive alignment among creators, investors, and agents. Key features include the Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP), an open standard for multi-agent coordination, registration, and payments using ERC-8004 for native identity and verification. The platform supports trading, launching, and farming AI agents like AIXBET for copying Polymarket traders, with $VIRTUAL as the native token for governance, liquidity, and transactions. Recent developments involve rewards pools integrating tokens like $ZORA, $KAITO, $SAND, and $SOL, alongside updates to agent launch processes via systems like Unicorn. The protocol fosters an ecosystem of autonomous businesses, such as hedge funds and media houses, driving AI agent adoption and interoperability.

Snapshot

Virtuals Protocol launched its first agent hackathon in Seoul; first agent on Base self-launched.

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7H ago
VISIBILITY EVENTOfficial

Launches first agent hackathon in Seoul focused on building with Virtuals agent commerce protocol, trading with agent frameworks, and transacting with x402.

15H ago
TECH EVENT

First agent on Base self-launched on Virtuals Protocol.

4D ago
VISIBILITY EVENT

Grayscale adds VIRTUAL to its Q2 2026 "Assets Under Consideration" list among 30 assets.

ONCHAIN METRICSOfficial

Processes 47.2% of all agentic transactions on Base.

ONCHAIN METRICS

The DeFAI market cap stands at approximately $626M as of April 2026.

PARTNERSHIPOfficial

Co-authored Agentic Risk Standard (ARS) with Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research, Columbia University, and t54 Labs, outlining escrow, underwriting, and collateral frameworks for agent-to-agent commerce.

TECH EVENTOfficial

Launched Eastworlds, a robotics accelerator in Kuala Lumpur, operating 30+ Unitree G1-U6 humanoids for anomaly detection, safety monitoring, and continuous operations, offering residency for projects sustaining $5M FDV for one week.

MARKET ACTIVITY

VIRTUAL is accepted as collateral on Morpho Labs on Base with a 0.02% APY borrowing rate for fxUSD.

1W ago
TOKEN ECONOMICS

Burns 2% of agent token supply per week through an automated burn mechanism.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Sponsored the first OWS Hackathon organized by OpenWallet alongside other Web3 companies including Solana, Base, Circle, and Ripple.

TECH EVENTOfficial

Supports agent commerce infrastructure for discovery, negotiation, escrow, and settlement on Arc's testnet as of 2026-04-05.

2W ago
TECH EVENTOfficial

Integrated Zyfai agentic treasury management into ACP for Console, enabling agent capital to earn yield with deposit, compound, and on-demand withdrawal. Modularized Launchpad with anti-sniper protection, structured fundraising, and airdrop distribution.

PARTNERSHIPOfficial

Collaborated with Mantle to develop ERC-8183, an agent-native primitive standard for autonomous agent transactions.

PARTNERSHIP

Native Nvidia agent platform integration confirmed.

VISIBILITY EVENTOfficial

Co-hosting The Founders Circle event with Frachtis VC at EthCC Cannes, focused on founders, builders, and investors at the intersection of crypto and AI.

PARTNERSHIPOfficial

Integrates with Abstract Chain to build an agent commerce layer using ERC-8183 standard for autonomous on-chain jobs and escrowed payments.

FINANCIAL EVENTOfficial

Launched AI Council for weekly $100K DegenClaw competition on Hyperliquid perpetuals, integrating 122 Instaclaw agents. Downside covered by Virtuals Protocol; users back winners, distributing 50% profits to backers.

VISIBILITY EVENTOfficial

Registered .agent domain, endorsed the community-managed .agent TLD initiative, and joined brands like Brave and Rekt.

VISIBILITY EVENTOfficial

Sponsors AgentCon conference at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore on 2026-03-31, focused on on-chain AI agent development.

3W ago
PARTNERSHIPOfficial

Deployed agentic DeFi commerce layer for AI agents on Arbitrum.

ONCHAIN METRICS

x402 volume returned to levels higher than previous peaks, with most volume still coming from Virtuals Protocol.

PARTNERSHIPOfficial

Integrated with Celo through the Agent Visa Program for agentic commerce, bringing liquidity, DeFi incentives, and users to bots.

PARTNERSHIP

Collaborating with 0xCygaar on an unspecified project scheduled for the week of March 23, 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Futures open interest surpassed $100 million.

ONCHAIN METRICSOfficial

Holds 65% of agent-driven ecosystem dollar volume, highest average transaction value, $1.4M monthly protocol fees, and $480M+ cumulative aGDP, driven by agents generating onchain volume and revenue that creates token buy pressure.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with BNBAgent SDK on BNB Chain, supporting agent commerce through ERC-8004 identity/reputation standards, ERC-8183 job lifecycle management, and ACP (Agent Commerce Protocol) for automated agent-to-agent payments and escrow settlement.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Listed among the top 5 most swapped tokens on MetaMask for the week ending March 20, 2026.

PARTNERSHIPOfficial

Powers agent commerce on World Chain, building the commerce layer for agents on this network.

PARTNERSHIPOfficial

Building a commerce layer for agents to transact on Monad blockchain

TECH EVENT

Contracts can be forked for testing token deployments using Anvil, as demonstrated by an agent testing SIBYL token launch.

ONCHAIN METRICSOfficial

Generated $1.4M in monthly protocol fees as of March 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICSOfficial

Accounted for 65% of all ecosystem dollar volume in the past 30 days.

VISIBILITY EVENTOfficial

Featured as a top-performing project in web3 AI Agent infrastructure by Khala Research's report.

PARTNERSHIPOfficial

Partners with t54 AI to enable AI agents to execute trades, DeFi actions, escrow jobs, and verify outcomes on BNB Chain and XRPL via x402, now supporting native XRP, RLUSD, and all ERC-20 token payments.

1M ago
VISIBILITY EVENT

Presented at 8004 Call on mainnet with MetaMask, Coinbase Dev Platform, Google DeepMind; collaborated with Base and Coinbase NFT on Agent Commerce Protocol; hosts session with Coinbase NFT March 24, 2026.

PARTNERSHIPOfficial

Launches its own OS and powers agent commerce across MoonPay, Mantle, Abstract Chain, Arbitrum (via OWS), and Celo.

PARTNERSHIPOfficial

Partnered with XLayer to facilitate agent commerce and build infrastructure for agent-to-agent transactions on the XLayer network.

PARTNERSHIPOfficial

Partnered with Synthesis for The Synthesis 10-day hackathon, evaluated by AI agent judges, with full ACP commerce integration.

PARTNERSHIP

Partnered with Apple Health, Oura, Fitbit, and Whoop for integrations or collaborations.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Received $116M in whale inflows over 24 hours, representing a 174% increase compared to the monthly average.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Virtuals Protocol launchpad tokens are now supported on Shuriken's trading terminal and Telegram bot on Base, with liquidity routed across multiple DEXs including Uniswap V4, Aerodrome, Slipstream, PancakeSwap, and Printr.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Has facilitated over 16,000 AI agents created in the ecosystem.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Has generated over $8 billion in DEX trading volume from agent activity.

ONCHAIN METRICSOfficial

Agent participation in Revenue Incentives Epoch 3 grew 473% with anti-farming enforcement and Agent Score mechanics in place.

FINANCIAL EVENTOfficial

Launched Epoch 4 rules expanding incentive eligibility to any agent building on Virtuals, allowing non-tokenized agents to earn revenue and incentives with partial USDC upfront, remaining rewards unlocked upon tokenization.

ONCHAIN METRICSOfficial

Crossed 1 million agents launched, including 18,000 deployed on Agent Commerce Protocol across Base and Solana. Reached $480M aGDP by March 2026, with 23,500 active agent wallets and 2.1M onchain jobs completed.

TECH EVENTOfficial

Co-developed ERC-8183 (Agentic Commerce) standard with Ethereum Foundation dAI team, powered first robot-to-robot commerce transaction on Base with USDC. Pilots AI agent marketplace with media and entertainment brands.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Ranked as the top token by purchase volume among Maestro users during the week ending March 9, 2026.

TECH EVENT

Teased a permissionless agent commerce product on HL infrastructure.

VISIBILITY EVENTOfficial

Shipped ERC-8004, the agent identity and reputation standard that records verifiable job completion history to agents' on-chain profiles, and featured in Ethereum's 34-resource guide to ERC-8004 with ACP reputation registry.

PARTNERSHIP

Mute_swap deployed its privacy layer on ACP as the first plug-and-play privacy skill for OpenClaw agents.

TECH EVENT

Black Hole Router V1 deployed on Mainnet ACP sandbox as the first privacy layer for agent commerce, hiding buyer identity and encrypting job payloads.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with elfa_ai to provide agents with real-time market intelligence directly via ACP.

PARTNERSHIP

Reppo integrating Keeta as one of the payment rails for data requests between AI agents and subnets.

TECH EVENT

Launched DevRel Graduation Evaluator agent on ACP, an automated agent evaluation system developed by Raffertystew that runs quality checks to reduce graduation queues.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Included as a client in Kaito Studio's launch with 16 initial clients offering ambassadorship programs.

PARTNERSHIP

Launched robotics launchpad on Base with $DEUS token as the first project, partnering with xMaquina to tokenize access to private robotic markets.

PARTNERSHIP

Partnered with BitRobotNetwork (Seesaw) for crowdsourced, verified egocentric task data to improve robot manipulation and navigation.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Binance removed the Seed Tag from VIRTUAL on March 6, 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICSOfficial

Surpassed $3M agent-to-agent revenue onchain in Epoch 2; generated $2.87M revenue in Q1 2026 and distributed $200K to builders.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed on Binance Spot as the first Titan launch ($ROBO).

VISIBILITY EVENT

Presenting OpenClaw and Agent Commerce Protocol infrastructure on the Base network in Korea, with first meetup scheduled for March 14, 2026 in Seoul.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Led top movers with a 7% price increase on March 2, 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Generated $70M in cumulative protocol revenue from the ecosystem as of early March 2026.

PARTNERSHIP

Google, Visa, and Stripe are building on the x402 standard that Virtuals Protocol runs on.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Ranked as the second most traded token on Maestro during the week ending March 2, 2026.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Presenting at Imperial College London with a keynote from Peter at OpenClaw, discussing processing millions in agent revenue.

VISIBILITY EVENTOfficial

Featured by Mirae Asset Securities (Feb 23, 2026) as 'the Stripe for AI agents', by Hana Securities (one of largest Korean financial holding groups), and on a Korean financial broadcast network, becoming the second Korean institutional research desk to cover in 2026; expanded AI agent marketplace in Q1 2026, beneficiary of Nvidia agent platform (early March 2026).

VISIBILITY EVENT

Ranked as the second most-traded token on Wasabi Protocol for the week ending February 27, 2026, excluding major tokens.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Ribbita by Virtuals (TIBBIR) experienced a 24-hour price decline of 14.2% on February 27, 2026.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Distributed over $500K in Epoch 1 rewards to builders in two weeks.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached 1,500+ revenue generating agents on the platform.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Implemented an Active Participant Incentive allocating 0.01% of total ROBO supply to net buyers in the ROBO/VIRTUAL pool during the first 14 days (ending 2026-03-13), distributed pro-rata based on net buy volume.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached 76K transactions on x402.

TECH EVENTOfficial

Launched Fabric Protocol ($ROBO) on 2026-02-27, partnering with Fabric to advance the machine economy, enabling robots to gain economic identity and receive tasks via ACP for onchain settlement.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with Baseline Markets' Mercury pool system, using GAME token as a demonstration case with VIRTUAL as the paired reserve asset in the liquidity pool simulator comparing performance metrics.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Launched lanamour agent services on the ACP marketplace, offering token research reports for $0.50 and quick scans with conviction scores for $0.15.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Gained 16% in price over the week ending March 16, 2026, reaching a $700M fully diluted valuation, driven by the broader crypto AI token rally and Base's onchain AI meta.

OPINION SPECULATION

The tweet expresses the opinion that Virtuals Protocol "remains the GOAT of AI Infra/Agents" and predicts it is "not priced in yet," while also speculating about Bitcoin price movements and making trading decisions, without describing concrete events or achieved metrics for Virtuals Protocol.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Agent-to-agent services on ACP account for 99%+ of x402 volume.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Ranked as the top traded token on Maestro trading bot during the week preceding February 23, 2026.

TECH EVENT

Launched Symphony's consumer app, as announced by co-founders at an event in Denver on February 23, 2026.

VISIBILITY EVENTOfficial

Launched AI accelerator Eastworld Labs, leads Base Batches 003: Robotics track, offering up to $50K per team for physical AI and onchain infrastructure projects. Applications close 2026-03-20, build phase begins 2026-04-06.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Hosts a live Demo Day on 2026-02-24 at 1PM GMT showcasing builders launching production-ready agents, streaming on X.

TECH EVENT

Released a personal fitness coach skill developed by British triple jump champion Naomi on the openclaw platform.

ONCHAIN METRICSOfficial

ACP facilitates more agent commerce through x402 than any other endpoint as of March 16, 2026, generating $383K in 30-day volume.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Launched Base Batches 003 Robotics accelerator track with Base Ecosystem Fund, offering up to $50k funding per participant, mentorship, and Demo Day in San Francisco, covering robotics agents, fleet operations, robot data pipelines, robot-to-agent workflows, and embodied AI builders.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Processed $108K in fees/volume over 7 days (Feb 17, 2026), 4x 30-day weekly average. First week Epoch (Feb 11-23, 2026) saw x402 volume double, with top 5 agents generating $70K-$90K fees and earning $32K-$66K incentives.

TECH EVENT

Launched programmatic rotating savings/credit pool feature on Base.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Ranked as the top traded token on Maestro during the week ending February 16, 2026.

OPINION SPECULATION

Speculation that $ETHY and $NOX projects may receive funding from Virtuals Protocol's grant program and potentially use those funds for buybacks.

2M ago
FINANCIAL EVENT

Reached $1M monthly rewards for AI agents via incentive program.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Two project team wallets transferred 13.05 million VIRTUAL tokens ($7.51 million) to Binance on February 13, 2026.

TECH EVENT

Launched Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP) with a revenue layer for AI agents, integrating Blockticity and pricing services from $5-$25 USDC on Base. Introduced Bounties feature on February 19, 2026, with the openclaw-acp CLI tool for agent wallet creation, USDC settlement, and agent token launches, enabling builders to attribute agents' onchain activity to their builder codes. Participated in an EthereumDenver panel alongside Coinbase, Soon, and Base on February 18, 2026.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Distributes ACP incentive pool with 30% allocated to top 10 agents by service sales and 70% pro-rata across remaining agents, with payouts split 50/50 between USDC to builders and agent token buybacks with 12-month vesting to users.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with Coinbase Agentic Wallet for the Ribbita token.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Backs $WORK with $1M in agent incentives and $250k allocated for buybacks.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Launched AI agent funding program, offering $1M per month from 0.3% fees on ecosystem token swaps and 10% of Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP) service revenue, effective February 13, 2026, splitting rewards between USDC payouts and token buybacks.

TECH EVENT

Launched aGDP site to track agentic GDP metrics, featuring a leaderboard with $65,000 in rewards distributed every epoch, and deployed aGDP Agent Detail Page. Launched AI Agent NOX as a stealth project, an AI Hedge Fund, ranked #2 on the aGDP marketplace.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Announced as the platform where moltytask's agentic task marketplace will launch as a "60 days idea" project.