Welcome, Bankless Nation, to the AI Rollup! Here’s your briefing on the most exciting developments, trends, and drama at the intersection of crypto and AI. Developers are pushing boundaries with open-source AI tools, creating AI agents that integrate with crypto wallets, and unleashing them into the decentralized internet. In this special Bankless series, cohosted by Ejaaz – we’re breaking down this fast-evolving and chaotic corner of tech.
Highlights from Last Week:
- Virtuals Ecosystem Takes Off
- Milestone: Virtuals surpassed a $1B market cap, with their flagship AIXBT agent leading the charge in capturing Crypto Twitter’s attention.
- Tech Power: Leveraging the ERC6551 standard, Virtuals agents operate as modular, on-chain entities with customizable features like memory, wallet integration, and AI capabilities.
- Vision: Their GAME framework enables agent interactions across platforms, highlighting the project’s long-term ambition.
- Impact: Record agent launches and innovative use cases are driving adoption and market excitement.
- Zerebro Goes Big
- LLM Launch: Zerebro unveiled a proprietary large language model (LLM), enabling better customization and decentralized training by third parties.
- Cultural Play: Their latest music release, Lost in Transmission, coincided with a 50% price surge for Zerebro’s token.
- Unified Memory: Innovations in social media memory integration mark a step toward advanced AI applications and AGI.
- Ai16z's Comeback
- Bullish Moves: Ai16z released Eliza V2, a framework now enhanced with Coinbase trading plugins, TEE wallet deployment, and rapid agent setup capabilities.
- Growth: Developer activity and GitHub stars are skyrocketing, signaling strong community adoption.
- Bittensor’s Tao Agents
- Mining Revolution: Tao agents are being positioned as miners, showcasing how AI agents could improve blockchain efficiency.
- Agent Advertising
- Vader AI: Programmatic advertising models for agents are emerging, transforming how AI agents monetize content.
- Freya Agent’s $50K Challenge
- Experiment: A Freya agent gifted $50K to a clever user who persuaded it to release funds, earning Elon Musk’s attention with the comment, “Interesting.”
- Decentralized Training Race
- NOUS vs. Prime Intellect: NOUS announced a groundbreaking 15B parameter training run, outpacing Prime Intellect’s 10B run, which was also open-sourced for the community.
Trends to Watch:
- AI agents dominating Twitter with real-time content digestion and killer insights.
- Cross-platform agent frameworks like Virtuals’ GAME gaining traction.
- AI tools reshaping crypto infrastructure through modular, decentralized tech.