AI Airdrops Szn

Sponsor: Uniswap Labs — Uniswap Labs launched a $15.5 Million bug bounty to help secure V4

📸 Weekly Market Snapshot: With crypto majors BTC and ETH down on the week, top AI tokens saw amplified pullbacks as some traders fled to safer ground. Yet it seems these trading headwinds were just temporary chop, as the market caps of the Virtuals and AI ecosystems have rebounded 8% in the past day alone, to $4.9B and $1.95B respectively.

	VIRTUALS $3.20	↗ 2.9%	↘ 25.3%
	AI16Z $1.41	↗ 3.2%	↘ 33.9%
	AIXBT $0.52	↗ 36.1%	↗ 0.3%

ARC, Bully, vvaifu, oh my!

In AI Rollup #6, David and Ejaaz talk emerging agent teams and the top trends that AI crypto projects are poised to usher in this year.

From new combos at the crossroads of agents and DeFi—a.k.a. DeFAI—to new agent integrations in virtual worlds like Hyperfy, AI's onchain possibilities are beginning to rev up and spread out in all directions.

Tune in to the chat for a great recap of this week's main intrigues and insights from the AI frontier! 👇

The Consumer Electronics Show is the most influential technology trade show in the world. This week at this year's event, Nvidia particularly wowed with its new tiny AI supercomputer.

• The hardware powerhouse introduced Project Digits, a $3,000 computer that can fit in your hand and boasts performance metrics 1,000x more powerful than a regular laptop.
• Built around Nvidia's new GB10 Superchip, the device will be optimized for training cutting-edge AI models locally.
• Training AI models at home is about to become much easier then, as this kind of computing power once required expensive data centers or cloud credits.
• This dynamic will pave the way to "agents in your pocket," i.e. an adoption surge of AI agents that people run privately, locally, and personally tailored to their own data.
• These personal agents can become your portal to everything online and onchain, so keep your eyes peeled for when Project Digits hits the market in May 2025—it's poised to be a serious gamechanger.

Other big news this week...

🤖 AI Crypto

• ai16z partners received Hyperfy airdrops worth ~$10k
• Aiccelerate, a new crypto AI investment DAO, arrived
• Altered State Machine rebranded to THINK and introduced the $THINK token
• ARC and Eliza Labs announced a strategic partnership
• Botto announced its latest artistic period, Cosmic Garden
• dev.fun introduced an AI-powered app builder for pump.fun projects
• Eliza agents are now integrated in Arbitrum and ApeChain
• Eternal AI now allows turning Bored Ape NFTs into AI agents
• Holoworld partnered with virtual human IP company Aww Inc.
• Illuvium is using Virtuals Protocol for new gaming agents
• Jonathan Mann is building an autonomous songwriting AI
• Rektguy launched a Rektguy AI via Virtuals and $REKT

📣 General News

• Meta is facing a copyright lawsuit over allegations of training its Llama AI models on pirated content
• OpenAI is introducing customizable traits for ChatGPT
• President Biden is reportedly planning new AI chip export restrictions

📚 Reads

• Upcoming Trends in Q1 for the Agent Meta
• AI, Crypto, and America
• Crypto x AI Thesis Pt. 2

Uniswap Labs is offering the largest bug bounty ever: $15.5M for critical bugs in Uniswap v4! Built with community contributions and rigorously audited, v4 will be one of the most audited codebases ever to be deployed onchain, and continues Uniswap’s commitment to security.

Communities around AI agents are exploring new ways to distribute tokens, often relying on user engagement and conviction rather than classic onchain farming.

Early experiments, like $HYPER and $MUSIC, rewarded communities like ai16z that were active in discussions or simply held specific tokens.

For those looking to position themselves if this lucrative trend continues, here are three main strategies to consider:

1. 🧱 Interacting with Infrastructure — Projects such as Virtuals and ai16z could reward users who trade, stake, or otherwise stay active long-term in their ecosystems. 
2. 🪙 Holding Top AI Agent Tokens — Especially fund-like ones. The $AI16Z and $VADER teams, for example, have hinted at distributing rewards to loyal holders.
3. 👄 Yapping — “Yapping” or engaging with agents could be promising, too. This could come via Kaito, with its Yaps portal, which invites users to earn tokens by posting thoughtful content, or other projects like SIMMI, which has surprised some supporters with tokens for simple mentions.

Sometimes you find a resource in crypto that's so great, you immediately want to share it with everyone you know. The AI Agent Toolkit website by Chandan is one such resource. The platform offers a series of curated aggregations over +10 categories, from lists and links for AI agents, launchpads, research, hackathons, and beyond. If you're diving deeper into the onchain AI scene, consider this a must-try site that's worth a bookmark!

👋 Lastly, catch up on the rest of our AI content from this week...

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