How can AI MEME tokens avoid being a flash in the pan and achieve long-term value?

Original Title: "The Future of AI Memecoins"

Author: hitesh.eth, Crypto KOL

Compiled by: Felix, PANews

AI MEME Tokens: MEMEs created with the help of AI.

Basically, humans are training LLMs (Large Language Models) to launch MEME tokens and create personas on social media to represent these MEME tokens. The personas are designed by creators based on their intellectual understanding, opinions, and viewpoints.

Issuing a MEME is easy, but how to make this persona "come alive" is what really needs to be thought through. Creators can fully leverage this aspect.

For example, if planning to launch an AI MEME token, the persona would be trained to discuss both cryptocurrency and spirituality simultaneously.

The most wonderful part of the entire experiment is the character; you can place the persona on different platforms, create a virtual avatar, making it more engaging. It can not only share thoughts but also interact with people.

Enter Virtuals Protocol: This project allows creators to launch MEME tokens, build personas, create avatars, integrate with different platforms, and launch on their own launchpad. Virtuals Protocol is built on Base, and they have a MEME called $LUNA. You can chat with a digital girl character in the chat interface on their website.

The idea of $LUNA and other AI agent-trained MEMEs originated after the success of a MEME called $GOAT and its character Truth Terminal.

They also have a token called Fartcoin, both of which have garnered widespread attention in Crypto Twitter (CT). The market cap of GOAT reached $400 million. The commonality behind these two tokens is that the platform they use is funded by Marc Andreessen (founder of a16z).

Now, "memes" are important, which inevitably reminds one of NFTs. Interesting memes will bring more excitement to AI MEMEs, and when the characters behind the tokens endorse them with brilliant niche content (currently mainly tweets), people will be more engaged.

Everything is fast-paced. For example, $FART increased 1000 times in just 2 days. Unless problems are solved and the entire experiment is integrated into a mature phase, such rapid increases are clearly a bubble.

To reach a mature phase, AI-trained MEMEs need to expand their personas from tweet bots to avatars that can interact with people on live streaming platforms.

There should also be a tipping feature to reward virtual characters, and the income from tips should offset the token supply, which is the logic initially set by AI agents during the smart contract creation process. This is your deflationary AI MEME.

MEME Launchpad operated by AI agents

Memes, as part of internet culture, originate from social media posts, images, or videos. Take the recently viral meme Moodeng as an example.

For those passionate about MEMEs, this is a piece of cake. Nowadays, so many people use the same name to issue MEMEs. Therefore, people can never truly predict which MEME will go viral in a few hours. This is a typical problem encountered when investing in new viral memes.

Unless you know the insider secrets, you might end up losing money, which is fundamentally unfair. If you could fairly allow everyone the right to purchase the next hottest token based on a viral meme, the game might change for many people—but not completely, as you would encounter snipers, yet you could still enter in the mid or late stages.

The idea here is to use AI agents to build a MEME, create a persona around it, and construct a launchpad through AI-based coding and human-end testing. Then launch this launchpad, where AI agents are trained, and whenever a new meme is listed on knowyourmeme.com (Note: A platform dedicated to collecting, analyzing, and sharing various memes, trends, and phrases in internet culture), a MEME token will be launched.

To some extent, it is like pump.fun (a platform dedicated to pumping memes), where people can guide liquidity for MEMEs, with an agent running the MEME token's persona. It will promote everything needed on Twitter to gain more attention. The more attention a meme gets, and the more carefully designed the persona is, the more people will flock to it. Ideally, everything should be automated.

The launchpad is operated by AI agents, requiring no human involvement. The launchpad can generate substantial revenue, similar to what pump.fun does. If successful, an annual revenue of $100 million is entirely possible, with these AI agents distributing 70% of the revenue to the token holders of the AI MEME launchpad, 20% of the revenue used for liquidity guidance on the protocol side, and 10% of the revenue donated to various charities related to the nature of the MEMEs launched on the platform.

This is one of the core ideas in the author's mind. You can also explore more ideas about tokens trained by AI agents, such as nash finance, where AI agents are being trained to launch dynamic crypto indices. AI agents are trained to find the best DeFi strategies for investors. When using AI agents, labor costs can be saved, and incentives can be provided, sharing the largest proportion of revenue with holders. In the long run, you need incentives to maintain relevance. This form may attract people to join, all of whom are trying to catch the next $GOAT or $FART, but 99.99% of them will never realize those gains again. Therefore, disappointment will arise, and the lore will become outdated once more.

The only sustainable way is to think long-term, bringing long-term value, utilizing memes to culturally unite people, but also having appropriate incentive mechanisms to bring them together, as they also need to make money, even after the initial run ends.