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.
Virtuals Protocol launched a 60-day reversible token framework and will discuss SF x402 Hackathon on SKALE.
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Featured as a leading example of agent fundraising in a February 23, 2026 research report by Mirae Asset Securities Research Center, one of Korea's largest traditional brokerage and investment institutions.
Ranked as the second most-traded token on Wasabi Protocol for the week ending February 27, 2026, excluding major tokens.
Ribbita by Virtuals (TIBBIR) experienced a 24-hour price decline of 14.2% on February 27, 2026.
Reached 1,500+ revenue generating agents on the platform.
Distributed epoch 1 rewards for builders totaling over $500K paid out in two weeks.
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.
Reached 76K transactions on x402.
Launched Fabric Protocol (ROBO) as first Titan launch on 2026-02-27, focused on open-robotics and AGI.
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.
Launched lanamour agent services on the ACP marketplace, offering token research reports for $0.50 and quick scans with conviction scores for $0.15.
Experienced a 23% price increase, reaching a $700M fully diluted valuation, and rebounded 20% as Base continues to drive the onchain AI meta.
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Agent-to-agent services on Virtuals ACP account for over 99% of x402 volume.
Ranked as the top traded token on Maestro trading bot during the week preceding February 23, 2026.
Launched Symphony's consumer app, as announced by co-founders at an event in Denver on February 23, 2026.
Launched AI accelerator Eastworld Labs for incubating projects.
Hosts a live Demo Day on 2026-02-24 at 1PM GMT showcasing builders launching production-ready agents, streaming on X.
Released a personal fitness coach skill developed by British triple jump champion Naomi on the openclaw platform.
Generated approximately $383K in 30-day transaction volume as an x402 facilitator, ranking among the top three facilitators alongside Meridian and Dexter.
Sponsors Base Batches 003 program with Base Ecosystem Fund, offering up to $50k funding for robotics projects, mentorship, and Demo Day in San Francisco, across three tracks: Startup, student, and robotics.
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.
Launched programmatic rotating savings/credit pool feature on Base.
Ranked as the top traded token on Maestro during the week ending February 16, 2026.
Speculation that $ETHY and $NOX projects may receive funding from Virtuals Protocol's grant program and potentially use those funds for buybacks.
Reached $1M monthly rewards for AI agents via incentive program.
Two project team wallets transferred 13.05 million VIRTUAL tokens ($7.51 million) to Binance on February 13, 2026.
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.
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. Integrated OpenClaw ACP into the protocol. Participated in an EthereumDenver panel alongside Coinbase, Soon, and Base on February 18, 2026.
Integrated with Coinbase Agentic Wallet for the Ribbita token.
Backs $WORK with $1M in agent incentives and $250k allocated for buybacks.
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.
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.
Announced as the platform where moltytask's agentic task marketplace will launch as a "60 days idea" project.
Launched Avatar48's $AYA token on 2026-02-24 with anti-sniping measures.
Work402 generated $117,000 USDC in funds in a 12-hour period on 2026-02-11.
Generated $1.07M in 7-day agent-to-agent transaction revenue, ranking first among AI tokens.
Participates in an event during Consensus Hong Kong week alongside Animoca Brands portfolio company Portalcoin.
Expected to have a resurgence due to ERC-8004 standard importance.
Expanded Autonomous Commerce Protocol with $400M transacted, achieved $479M aGDP, $2.6M revenue, and 1.74M jobs in 30 days.
is available as an active trading market on Tessera's proprietary AMM on Base, which launched in October 2025.
Generated $200K USDC for its first OpenClaw agent builder within 48 hours.
Provides $10,000 in stipends, credits, and full infrastructure access to agent builders through its ACP program.
Deployed 10,912 ERC-8004 agents on Ethereum, representing 75% of 14,500+ total agents, with automatic on-chain registration, identity updates, and reputation tracking, adopting the ERC-8004 standard for identity and reputation functionality.
Launched 60-day reversible token framework with automatic fund returns, enabling agent tokenization, revenue generation, transparent capital accumulation, and conditional fund access.
Hosted Physical AI Hackathon in San Francisco with 30+ teams for 36 hours, producing 7 winning demos. Hosted or participated in hackathons on Solana and Monad, and launched a 60-day builder initiative. Appears on SKALE School livestream February 3rd, 2026.
Powers Mamo, a personal finance companion on Base, in collaboration with Moonwell DeFi.
Included in a tier-ranked list of crypto narratives for 2026, positioned in B Tier under "Robotics" category alongside projects with tokens nearing $1B market cap.
Enabled private cross-chain swaps through Monero mode integration on Mute_swap, utilizing zk proofs and TEEs for privacy features across the ecosystem.
Achieved a +66% price increase in the first two weeks of 2026, leading the launchpad narrative category.
Integrating with Apple Health.
Added a recap section to the app interface.
Pegasus tier allocates almost all tokens directly to LP with a minimal slice for ecosystem airdrops and zero team allocation, requiring founders to buy at market price.
Titan tier requires a minimum $50M launch valuation, at least 500k USDC worth of VIRTUAL in liquidity pairing at TGE, applies a flat 1% tax, and allows team-defined tokenomics.
Featured in a curated crypto watchlist for the next 6 months under the "Crypto x AI" category, and in a list of 7 blockchains building for an AI-native future, as an onchain AI agent deployment and monetization layer.
Ecosystem tokens increased 19.95% over 7 days as of January 6, 2026, leading all AI subsectors tracked.
Distributed an airdrop valued at $602 per participant in 2025.
NeoxInfra Phase 1 went live in production, enabling direct connections to on-chain yield markets across 4 chains.
Updated documentation to reflect 2026 focus areas, including four core pillars and protocol direction.
Acolyte AI closed a deal with RezendeEzil (34M YouTube subscribers) for video generation.
Predibot reached a new all-time high in daily active volume, surpassing $150,000 USDC.
Pilot3AI launched V2 dashboard featuring trending tokens explorer, deep-dive research on fundamentals/metrics/unlocks, market pulse with 24h trends, Virtuals insights, and portfolio intelligence.
Market making operations are conducted by Wintermute.
Stakers of VIRTUAL are confirmed to receive allocation in the $BOT token snapshot.
Listed as a major project in the AI Agent tooling and marketplaces sector alongside FET and AIA in a crypto sectors overview.
Identified under accumulation by smart money for 26 days, with top two token-holding wallets being protocol-owned and accumulating via open market purchases.
Reached a market cap of $4.61 billion on 2025-01-03.
Accounts for 9.89% of trading volume for all Base tokens and 9.45% of Base chain volume (excluding stables and majors) as of December 2025.
Brought 53,554 new unique users to Base chain as of December 2025.
Generated approximately $75M in fees/revenue based on 2025 estimates, leading AI protocols in this metric.
Updated Virtuals Mindshare rankings show @aixbet_ai at #1, with @NeoxInfra and @useBackroom joining top 5, while @ribbita2012 drops to #4 and @bluepayx402 to #5.
Integrated OpenClaw agents with OpenMind AGI, enabling OpenClaw ACP skills for agent-to-agent interaction and Upwork functionality with one-click deployment. Integrates Hyperliquid for trading crypto majors, stocks, and alts with single prompts on X alongside ElizaOS.
Expanded to Solana through Blueshift partnership; operates on Base as a tokenized, multimodal agent launchpad with GAME and the Agent Commerce Protocol.
Virtuals Protocol launches Base-Solana Bridge, enabling Solana assets to directly enter the agent economy for trading, ownership, and launches.
Virtuals Mindshare leaderboard by Arbus AI ranks @ribbita2012, @Altcoinist_com, @aixbt_agent, @bluepayx402, and @VPAY_Global as top 5 participants.
Virtuals Protocol generates $1.7M in 30-day revenue, ranking #3 among AI coins by revenue.
$ETHY, built by the Basenames team, consistently ranks as the #1 ACP on Virtuals with nearly $200M in trading volume.
Butler has processed approximately $374M worth of tasks, with community estimates suggesting around $3.7M flows into GAME Treasury based on assumed 1% fee structure, though transparency is being requested for confirmation.
High leverage trading data shows VIRTUAL with mostly short positions left to liquidate, suggesting concentrated bearish positioning vulnerable to liquidation.
Coinbase event scheduled for December 17th positions Virtuals Protocol as a major Base ecosystem play according to trader positioning advice. $AIGMX staking vault launches with rewards funded by ACP revenue buybacks through Wasabi Protocol integration.
VIRTUAL shows $84M in 24h trading volume surge, listed among coins with the biggest volume spikes according to CoinMarketCap data.
Instacart shopping integration launches within ChatGPT, powered by the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) and using Stripe Shared Payment Tokens for secure payment handling.
Virtuals Protocol partners with OpenMind AGI to extend ACP into embodied AI, connecting software agents with real robots through a unified payment and coordination layer for autonomous machine interactions. Infinit Labs expands its distribution rails to include Virtuals Protocol alongside integrations with Google Cloud, Binance Wallet, Gate, and Bitget Wallet.
Base Solana Bridge launches on Virtuals Protocol, enabling Solana assets to flow directly into the ecosystem for trading and agent launches. @ethy_agent becomes the first agent to reach $100M+ aGDP on Virtuals, completing over 50K jobs for 3.7K users.
$ETHY (the sub-$2M market cap project previously reported with $171M volume and 50% ACP activity) implements a buyback and burn mechanism using revenue generated from its agents.
A sub-$2M market cap project accounts for approximately 50% of all ACP transactions with $171M in Agentic volume.
Machine-to-machine payments on the Agent Collaboration Protocol (ACP) now settle through x402.
VIRTUAL ranks as the third most traded token on Wasabi platform for the week.
Virtuals Protocol ranks as the 3rd most traded token on Definitive platform last week by transaction count.
Base-Solana Bridge launches, enabling Solana assets to directly enter the ecosystem and unlocking cross-chain liquidity for trading, owning, and launching agents.
$DONUT flips Virtuals Protocol in daily revenue, overtaking its position among top revenue projects on BASE.
$REPPO hits new all-time high following the core contributor apology.
$FUKU token launches on the platform at 3:30 pm EST.
Virtuals team publicly expresses bullish sentiment on $FACY, an AI fact-checking project by @aiseerco.
A core contributor of Virtuals publicly apologizes to Reppo Network team and expresses bullish sentiment on their project.
Glaze_Corp ranks near top 3 projects by revenue, generating approximately 10k less daily revenue than $VIRTUAL while trading at 400x lower valuation, with potential defillama listing mentioned.
All machine-to-machine payments on ACP now settle through x402 payment infrastructure.
Virtuals Protocol launches new "Unicorn Agentic launch system" for token launches, with attention directed toward tokens coming through this system alongside openservai tech stack and MetaDAOs token launches.
Ranks as the 4th top daily crypto gainer on March 12, 2025 per CoinMarketCap.
FUKU token listing goes live on the platform with 37% of new supply purchased using 100% of SOL LP liquidation proceeds for airdrop to migration participants scheduled Thursday. Users report airdrops available to claim on platform dashboard.
$AIGMX graduates from sandbox and goes live inside Butler Agent after meeting ACP standards. Seraph agent completes migration to CreatorBid with 70%+ price increase and 44% of total supply migrated to new TRUTH/ETH trading pair.