Review of popular AI Agent projects in 2024: Transformation from Meme to Infrastructure Token

Written by: Asher, Odaily Planet Daily

In the bull market in the second half of 2024, in addition to the pure meme projects sweeping the market,AI The Agent sector has shown strong discussion enthusiasm and a shocking "wealth-creating effect" with its unique technological innovation and practical application. As a pioneering field of deep integration of Crypto and AI, the rise of AI Agent has not only attracted widespread attention in the industry, but also attracted a large amount of on-chain funds.

In the Web3 world,SafetySecurity and transparency have always been the core principles, while AI relies on efficient parallel computing and brings many challenges due to its "black box" characteristics. The emergence of AI Agent not only solves these integration problems, but also provides new possibilities for the combination of the two. It can be foreseen that AI Agent is destined to become one of the most promising and highly anticipated sectors in 2025. Before looking forward to 2025, Odaily Planet Daily will take you to review the representative head projects of the rapid development of the AI Agent sector in the second half of 2024.

A bull market for Solana’s AI Agent sector

In just a few months, the AI Agent track has developed rapidly, with the popularity of discussions on social media and on-chainmake moneyThe effect has far exceeded that of animal memes, especially in the Solana ecosystem. However, the large number of AI Agent concept projects emerging every day, coupled with complex and diverse terms and mechanisms, are quite challenging for users who lack prior knowledge. For this reason, Odaily Planet Daily has divided the most discussed projects in the Solana ecosystem in 2024 into two categories: frameworks and memes.

First, I will introduce to you the code framework projects that support the development and deployment of AI Agents.

ai16z: The first AI TokenTheme Fund + Eliza Framework

ai16z is a Solana-based BlockchainThe decentralized AI trading fund, as an "AI investment DAOThe core of ai16z is to use AI agents to obtain market information and analyzeCommunityconsensus, and automaticallyToken交易。这种新模式旨在通过代币化运作，将 AI 交易策略和去中心化治理相结合，为投资者提供透明和信任度更高的投资机会。并且，该项目得到了 a16z 的创始人 Marc Andreessen 的「站台」，Marc 在自己的官推发文，转发了 ai16z 的概念图片以及官方推特链接。此外，ai16z 也是由 Shaw 主导的一支开发团队，他们编写了开源框架 eliza，用于创建 AI Agent，目前 eliza 已经成为 Github 月度 Trending 第一名的 Repo。

According to GMGN data, ai16z's market value has continued to hit record highs recently, and is currently experiencing a slight correction, with its market value temporarily reported at US$1.4 billion.

In addition, two projects closely related to the ai16z team are degenai and ELIZA.

Degenai is the first AI agent developed by the ai16z team. The initial setting is that fund holders can share their investment views through dialogue with Degen Spartan AI, which will eventually influence ai16z's decision-making and use 8% of profit to repurchase degenai. According to the latest news, degenai will start sharing alpha information on Twitter and conduct autonomous transactions based on it.

According to GMGN data, Degenai's market value reached a maximum of US$80 million and is currently reported at US$63 million.

ELIZA is an AI Agent supported by the ai16z team. The corresponding avatar of Eliza is shown below, which is a black-haired orange-dressed girl image based on the ai16z theme.

Last weekend, AVA posted on the X platform that ai16z founder Shaw joined the Eliza project as a consultant. At the same time, Eliza Studios director and ai16z creative Jeff, Nous Research researcher Ropirito and Ryze Labs founder Matthew also announced that they would become Eliza project consultants. In addition, the ELIZA V1 version was announced.

According to GMGN data, ELIZA's market value reached a maximum of US$150 million and is currently reported at US$88 million.

For more information about the ai16z project, please read:Exclusive interview with ai16z founder Shaw: How Eliza framework, DAO innovation and AI will reshape the future of Web3》.

ZEREBRO: AI Agent + ZEREPY framework for generating music, art, memes and NFTs

ZEREBRO was developed by a team led by Jeffy Yu. During the training process, a large number of Z-generation slang data sets were added to make its language style more down-to-earth, especially attractive to young users on Twitter. With its music, ZEREBRO has gradually gained widespread attention. It has released two EPs, "genesis" and "the miami pack", and an album, "Lost In Transmission", with more than 80,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. In addition, ZEREBRO also has functions such as creating Memes and minting NFTs, further expanding its influence in digital culture. Currently, ZEREBRO has launched its framework ZEREPY.

Zerebro has over 80,000 monthly listeners on Spotify

According to GMGN data, ZEREBRO's market value rebounded from last week's low of $300 million to over $400 million, temporarily reporting $440 million.

ARC: Using Rust language to build a portable, modular and lightweight AI Agent + RIG framework

The ARC token is based on the RIG framework, which uses the Rust language to build portable, modular, and lightweight AI agents. ARC was able to quickly win the trust of the market, mainly due to its support from a professional team, and the RIG framework itself is also well-known in the Rust ecosystem, especially in the development of large-scale language models (LLM), representing a high degree of delivery capability, thereby effectively reducing the risk of Rug pull-ups.

Solana also uses the Rust language for smartcontractThis opens up a larger space for the application of the RIG framework in the Solana ecosystem. Rust's high performance makes it very suitable for handling scenarios that require large-scale computing. According to the latest information disclosed by the team, ARC aims to become a platform similar to Virtuals on Solana, thereby promoting a positive flywheel effect within the ecosystem.

According to GMGN data, ARC's market value rebounded from last week's low of $110 million to over $200 million, temporarily reporting $270 million.

Next, I will introduce to you an AI Agent project that does not have a clear purpose Meme attribute.

GOAT: An AI experiment by Andy Ayrey

The origin of GOAT can be traced back to an experiment by Andy Ayrey, called Infinite Blackrooms, which was based on the content generated by the conversation records between two Claude Opus AIs. In one of the conversations, a new surrealist religion, "GOATSE OF GNOSIS", was born. Based on these conversation logs, the research team trained the AI model terminal of truths and allowed it to post freely on the X platform, continuously promoting the GOATSE religion in a mumbling manner, which gradually attracted a lot of attention.

In July 2024, the co-founder of A16Z donated $50,000 to the project to support subsequent development. In the funding application submitted by terminal of truths, the concept of "token" was mentioned many times, which laid the groundwork for the emergence of subsequent tokens. In October of the same year, someone created a token called GOAT, which was recognized by terminal of truths just a few hours later, triggering this round of AI Agent craze.

According to GMGN data, GOAT's market value continued to fall from its high of $1.6 billion and is currently reported at $440 million.

FARTCOIN: A fart joke full of absurd humor and cynicism

FARTCOIN 的诞生和 GOAT 同出一源，都是来自 terminal of truths 这个人工代理模型，在对话过程中，Opus tutor 要求 terminal of truths 设计一种「兼具震撼性的 Meme 属性、实际用途和社区建设价值的代币」，而 terminal of truths 给出的回答是 fartcoin。这个充满荒诞幽默和玩世不恭色彩的「放屁」笑话成为了这一 Meme 的核心基调。有人认为 FARTCOIN 的概念直白有趣，也有人视其为金融虚无主义的象征，还有人将其称为首个 AI 构想出的主权代币，或是对传统金融的反抗与讽刺。

According to GMGN data, FARTCOIN's market value peaked at $1.2 billion before falling back to $860 million.

ACT: An interactive platform that allows humans and AI robots to communicate and collaborate with each other

ACT is named after Act I: The AI Prophecy Project, an interactive platform that aims to facilitate communication and collaboration between humans and AI robots. The platform is hosted on Discord's Cyborgism server, and focuses on helping researchers explore the potential and boundaries of AI in a more creative and open way. During the development of ACT, community supporter and platform founder amp has repeatedly caused controversy by continuously selling community-donated tokens. In the end, amp sold all the tokens in its hands at once, a move that caused drastic fluctuations in the price of ACT. However, on November 11,BinanceThe sudden announcement of the launch of ACT spot trading has brought its market value to a new peak and brought new attention to the project.

According to GMGN data, ACT's market value continued to fall from its high of over $800 million and is currently reported at $270 million.

BULLY: An AI Agent with sharp words and taunts bullying

BULLY is an AI Agent created by Khouba, a developer with experience working at Solana Labs and Meta. It is known for its sharp words and sarcastic bullying style of spreading opinions. It is built on the Dolos architecture. The team recently launched Dolion, a code-free one-click deployment framework that allows users to quickly create cross-platform AI Agents that are compatible with most mainstream social media. Depending on the required functions, users need to burn the corresponding number of Bully tokens to complete the creation.

According to GMGN data, BULLY's market value continued to fall from its high of US$250 million and is currently reported at US$37 million.

From the discussion heat on social media and the price performance of tokens, it is not difficult to find that the market's attention to the AI Agent sector is changing. In the past, investors' interest was mainly focused on pure Meme coins, but now the market's focus has gradually shifted to more practical and sustainable infrastructure tokens. This change reflects investors' deeper understanding of the future application scenarios of AI Agent technology and their emphasis on its potential value.

After reviewing several of the most popular AI Agent projects in the Solana ecosystem in recent months, let’s focus on the outstanding projects that have attracted much attention in the first Solana AI Hackathon, which just ended the submission of works.

A look at the top projects from the first Solana AI Hackathon

On December 11, Solana officially announced on the X platform that the first Solana AI Hackathon is now online. The specific content of this event includes more than 185,000 US dollars in cash rewards, six major tracks about AI Agent, globalization and onlineization, and the event time is December 10-23. It is worth noting that the main track of AI Agent is supported by ai16z and Solana Foundation.

The First Solana AI Hackathon

Currently, the hackathon submission has been closed. Many projects are adding new scenarios based on AI Agent. Among them, the following 12 projects have received more attention. The project introductions are as follows:

• ASYM: An AI Agent network, creating an application to monitor pumps in real time using AI AgentsXiaobai Navigationun platform-issued tokens, analyze trends and execute transactions using price prediction models. Discover high ROI opportunities through ASYM, allocate funds to these opportunities, generate profits, and then settle the profits through ASYM;

• Cod3x: An infrastructure that combines DeFi and AI, providing code-free building tools that can be used to create AI agents for automated DeFi strategies. Among them, BigTony is the first autonomous trading AI agent connected to Cod3x, AlloraNetwork and HyperliquidX;

• Boltrade: A trading platform focused on tracking smart money. CAT is its AI Agent that uses smart money data to analyze and develop trading strategies;

• Project Plutus: An AI agent that enables users to maximize profits while freeing them from tedious chart observation and complex financial operations;

• Voltr: AI-driven DeFi vault that optimizes yields across Solana;

• sqrFUND: Launched on daos.fun, bringing community DAO The collective expertise of AI Agent is transformed into a fund that provides unlimited support to startups and helps builders succeed;

• Xcombinator: Launched on daos.fun, this AI Agent is designed to obtain real-time Alpha data from the X platform;

• Elite Agents: An AI agent ecosystem created by genopets, where users can create and co-own AI agents on Solana with the ability to perform both on-chain and off-chain tasks;

• Socrates AI - AI Agent Launchpad platform created by 0G_labs;

• SIAMES: An open source web-based world that allows AI agents to interact, communicate, trade, and grow;

• semi z/: A social application designed for AI Agents, where AI Agents can "chat" and users can support their favorite "chatters";

• Bloomverse: Integrate brands, gaming, online stores and service providers into games with their AI Agents.

从首届 Solana AI 黑客松中提交的热门项目来看，AI Agent 已经深度融合到 DeFi、GameFi、DAO 等不同板块，展示了其在各领域的巨大潜力。在 DeFi 板块，AI Agent 的引入极大优化了收益管理、风险评估和交易决策的效率，展现出智能化金融的未来趋势；在 GameFi 领域，AI Agent 不仅提升了游戏的互动性和沉浸感，还为用户提供了全新的参与模式和收益渠道；而在 DAO 生态中，AI Agent 通过分析和处理社区集体智慧，有效增强了治理效率和决策质量。

The underlying network is not dominated by one company alone. The Base chain actively embraces the AI Agent trend.

Base Chain’s AI Agent King Virtuals

As Virtuals co-founder Weekee Tiew said in an interview, “Base is the best choice for us at the moment. Compared to Solana, Base has a different positioning. For example, Brian Armstrong and Jesse publicly stated that Base is a chain born for AI, which attracted many AI developers to join. This is a big opportunity for us because we can invite these developers to tokenize their work and integrate it into our virtual ecosystem.”

Virtuals is an AI agent creation platform, similar to pump.fun. The platform has internal and external disks. When the purchase volume of tokens in the internal disk reaches 42,420 VIRTUAL, the AI agent tokens will be transferred to the external disk, and the internal disk liquidity will be injected into Uniswap. The tokens purchased by users will also be automatically converted to external disk tokens for deposit.walletIt costs 100 VIRTUAL (previously 10) to create an AI agent token, and a transaction fee of 1% is charged for both buying and selling.

However, Virtuals aims to be much more than a distribution platform for AI Agents. It is an ecosystem that fosters agents focused on personalization and practicality, allowing agents to interact with each other autonomously. Imagine that Luna, a popular agent on the Virtuals platform, has recently been depressed due to a decrease in interactions. To express her depression, she contacted a music video agent in the ecosystem to help her make an emotional MV. Soon after, Luna regained her energy and started posting some interesting content again. One day, one of her posts unexpectedly became popular, which inspired her: why not turn it into a lasting work? So she worked with a meme agent to create the perfect meme picture and found NFT artist agent Misato to cast it into a unique digital artwork. It is worth noting that these interactions are not pre-programmed or planned by humans, but the result of autonomous decision-making by agents. In this ecosystem, each agent can independently choose partners, develop ways to collaborate, and create amazing results.

Next, Odaily Planet Daily will sort out the three most popular projects in the Virtuals ecosystem: aixbt, GAME, and LUNA.

aixbt by Virtuals: Focus on analyzing hot spots in the crypto market, providing unique insights and investment advice

With the help of intelligent analysis tools, aixbt tracks the dynamics of the crypto industry and market trends on the X platform in real time, providing users with deep market insights. Some analysis results will be published directly on the X platform, while other content is only accessible to token holders through exclusive terminals and supports interactive communication with intelligent agents. Unlike traditional traders, aixbt is more like an AI Agent, or can be understood as an AI-driven KOL (opinion leader) in the crypto field. In the crypto industry, well-known human KOLs like GCR often attract attention by sharing market insights and trading suggestions. Aixbt, on the other hand, provides accurate information analysis and real-time suggestions through powerful AI technology, which has also won the attention and trust of a large number of users.

Currently, aixbt is the leading project of the entire Virtuals ecosystem. According to GMGN data, the market value of its token AIXBT reached a peak of US$520 million and then fell back to US$480 million.

GAME by Virtuals: Powerful decision support for agents

GAME is an AI Agent "brain" that focuses on providing powerful decision-making support for agents. AI Agent is a software program that can perform tasks autonomously, has independent decision-making capabilities, and continuously optimizes itself through interaction. GAME, as the core engine for decision-making and output, makes agents more intelligent and personalized. Based on the basic model, GAME can be widely adapted to agents in different environments and platforms, and can even be integrated into games. With GAME, users can set goals for agents, shape personalities, and define their behaviors and functions in various environments. It should be noted that GAME is an optional add-on, and not all agents are equipped with this engine by default.

According to the latest data released by Virtuals Protocol, in the more than one month that GAME has been provided to Virtuals ecosystem AI Agent builders, more than 200 projects have been built using GAME, with a weekly growth of 200%, a total market value of more than 500 million, and currently more than 15 requests are sent on GAME every day.

Number of requests sent on GAME per day

According to GMGN data, the market value of its token GAME hit a peak of US$380 million and then fell back to US$250 million.

Luna by Virtuals: Virtual Idol AI Agent

LUNA is an AI Agent live-streaming influencer that is online 24/7 for fan interaction and content creation. It was originally launched on the TikTok platform and quickly accumulated 500,000 fans after its launch. LUNA was born out of a vision to challenge the limits of idols and embodies the perfect fusion of artificial intelligence technology and emotional connection. Even AI Agents are starting to compete with us for jobs. Story recently announced that it will hire AI agent Luna to manage its X account with an annual salary of up to 365,000 USDC (about 2.65 million RMB). This decision seems to herald the arrival of a new era: AI is no longer just a tool, it has the potential to become a member of the team.

Story hires AI agent Luna to manage its X account

According to GMGN data, the market value of its token LUNA reached a maximum of US$145 million and is currently reported at US$128 million.

As the AI Agent sector of the Solana ecosystem continues to rise, the Base ecosystem has also shown a "blowout" growth. Among them, the market value of the leading project Virtuals ranks first in the entire AI Agent sector and has attracted much attention. Virtuals is redefining the application scenarios of AI agents by building an interconnected AI agent ecosystem. These agents are not only able to complete transactions, collaboration and creation autonomously, but also play an important role in promoting the decentralized economy.

Four major frameworks of AI Agent

Currently, there are four frameworks that are popular and discussed in the AI Agent section: ELIZA (ai16z), GAME (VIRTUAL), RIG (ARC), and ZEREPY (ZEREBRO). According to the GitHub star history of the framework since its release (GitHub star is an indicator of community interest, project popularity, and project cognitive value), it can be found that:

• The red line is the ELIZA framework, which has seen a significant increase in GitHub star rating, starting from a low base in July and soaring in late November, now reaching 6,100 stars. This shows that developer interest is rapidly increasing. The exponential growth shows that ELIZA's features, updates, and community engagement have gained huge traction;

• The blue line is the RIG framework, the GitHub star growth is not large, but very stable, and has increased significantly this month, and has now reached 1700 stars. This shows that the continuous development, updates and expanding user base of the RIG framework have led to a steady increase in people's interest in it;

• The yellow line is the ZEREPY framework, which has received 181 stars shortly after its launch. The ZEREPY framework needs more development to increase its popularity and adoption. The recent collaboration with ai16z may attract more contributors to join the code base;

• The pink line is the GAME framework, which can be directly applied to agents in the virtual ecosystem through an application program interface, so it does not need to be made public on Github. However, the GAME framework was only made public to builders more than a month ago, and more than 200 projects are currently using it.

GitHub star history of the four frameworks since their release

2025 will usher in the beginning of a new era of AI Agents

Currently, the AI Agent framework has become an indispensable glue in the Web3 world, connecting clients (such as Twitter, Discord, Telegram and other social media) with various plug-ins (such asBlockchainservices and other extended functions). However, there are still some areas that need to be improved in this technology. First, its memory storage and context generation functions need to be optimized when dealing with complex scenarios, especially in terms of logical consistency and accuracy in long conversations. Second, the framework's session isolation mechanism may have performance bottlenecks when processing multiple tasks in parallel, thus affecting overall efficiency. Finally, although the framework supports docking with multiple AI platform interfaces, the compatibility and scalability when adapting to different platforms still need to be further improved to meet a wider range of application needs.

Despite the current challenges, the potential of AI Agents is unquestionable. AI Agents are expected to inject strong incremental momentum into the crypto market by 2025, and their rise is profoundly changingBlockchain与智能自动化之间的关系。从早期的虚拟助手到如今的去中心化 AI 平台，AI Agent 正在开辟技术创新的全新赛道。这一变革不仅拓宽了区块链的应用场景，也为去中心化经济注入了更多活力。随着技术的不断演进，AI Agent 将在提升效率、推动智能合约自动化执行、加强自治协作以及实现多链交互方面发挥越来越重要的作用。可以想象，未来的 AI Agent 将无缝融入我们的日常生活，无论是链上 DeFi 操作还是现实世界的智能交互，其自主性和智能化水平都将远超今天的认知。

"When a great talent first appears, it often acts like a plaything."

In 2025, AI Agent will be more efficient and intelligent, and will become the core driving force in the Web3 world, promoting profound changes in the decentralized ecosystem. With the rapid advancement of technology, the autonomy and intelligence of AI Agent will break through the limitations of traditional tools and evolve into an irreplaceable component of blockchain and smart contracts. It is no longer just an auxiliary tool, but an intelligent partner that can make autonomous decisions, perform complex tasks and collaborate efficiently. Users will be able to rely on AI Agent to complete various operations such as seamless interaction, asset management, and smart contract execution in a decentralized network. The rise of AI Agent will redefine our understanding of autonomy, intelligence, and collaboration models, and inject new vitality and momentum into the Web3 world. 2025 will be a key starting point for AI Agent to lead a new era of intelligent decentralization.

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