In just 2 months since launch, the market value has approached 2 billion dollars. What AI Agent projects has ai16z participated in?

Author: Grapefruit, ChainCatcher

Editor: Nianqing, ChainCatcher

As of December 31, the market capitalization of ai16z has approached the $2 billion mark, with an increase of over 40% in the past 24 hours. Notably, since the launch of the ai16z token on October 26, it has rapidly grown into a project with a market value close to $2 billion in less than two months, and its market popularity continues to rise.

As the "first AI-driven investment decentralized autonomous organization (DAO)," ai16z is a standout project in the AI Agent wave. Its launched AI Agent construction framework, Eliza, has successfully supported the issuance of hundreds of AI Agent projects, including the popular AI Agent token project aiPool, and has collaborated with Treasure DAO and Loot Realms to develop mini-games such as Smolworld and Eternum.

According to GitHub data as of December 31, the autonomous agent framework Eliza developed by the ai16z team topped the GitHub December trend chart.

With the dual driving force of "investment + Eliza development framework technology," ai16z has become a center for the incubation and production of AI Agent projects. So, what AI Agent projects are supported by ai16z as an AI Agent incubation center?

ai16z New Goal: Launch AI Agent Offering (IAO) Platform, Positioned as "L1 Blockchain for AI"

On December 28, the ai16z project disclosed important information on the governance forum HackMD: its proposal planning for 2025 will focus on expanding the application scenarios of the ai16z token to stimulate the vigorous development and growth of the ecosystem and promote the synergistic value-added effect among projects within the ecosystem. Two highlights of this proposal are particularly noteworthy: first, the plan to launch an AI Agent issuance platform IAO; second, positioning ai16z as an L1 blockchain in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).

Specifically, ai16z plans to launch the official ai16z Launchpad platform based on the Eliza AI Agent framework in the first quarter of 2025, which will draw on the model of Pump.fun and be dedicated to launching AI Agent project agents. It is reported that the platform will achieve this by acquiring existing technical teams.

When new AI projects release their tokens on this Launchpad platform, the platform will charge the project parties a launch fee and token transaction fees. These fees will be divided into two parts: one part will be used to repurchase ai16z tokens from the market, and the other part will be injected into the ai16z token liquidity pool for pairing. At the same time, AI Agent developers must also purchase ai16z tokens to create liquidity pools when launching new AI projects on the platform. Through various methods such as repurchase mechanisms and liquidity pool creation, a rich application scenario and value-added potential for ai16z tokens are provided.

In addition, ai16z is also considering positioning itself as an L1 blockchain for AI, aiming to build a decentralized general artificial intelligence (AGI) infrastructure. Once realized, the ai16z token will become the core asset of the public chain and serve as the basic transactional medium currency between AI Agent applications.

Overall, the key proposal put forward by the ai16z governance forum in 2025 focuses on optimizing the economic model of the ai16z token, aiming to comprehensively capture and enhance the value of the entire ecosystem. This proposal is committed to building a self-sustaining, robust economic system by simplifying the project launch process, accelerating project growth, and ensuring market liquidity, cleverly linking the interests of individual projects with the overall prosperity of the ai16z ecosystem.

Since the announcement of this news on December 28, the market capitalization of ai16z tokens has surged from $1 billion to over $1.9 billion, marking a 100% increase. This significant market reaction indicates investors' expectations for the future of the ai16z proposal.

What AI Agent Projects Does ai16z Participate In?

1. AI Agent Development Framework Eliza: Building the AI Agent Development System Eliza OS

Eliza is the AI Agent development framework infrastructure built by ai16z, supporting developers to quickly customize their own AI Agents based on it. At the same time, ai16z aims to build the AI Agent development system Eliza OS based on Eliza.

According to data from elizas.world, there are already hundreds of AI Agent projects built on the Eliza framework, with new projects joining every day.

On November 19, a third party created a lowercase token named "eliza" on the AI Agent token issuance platform Vvaifudotfun. Subsequently, the founder of ai16z announced the launch of the uppercase token ELIZA in collaboration with the third party, sparking a naming dispute between the "eliza" and "ELIZA" tokens.

As of December 31, the uppercase ELIZA is quoted at $0.15, with a market capitalization of $150 million, and a 24-hour increase of over 70%; the lowercase eliza token is quoted at $0.009, with a market capitalization of $9 million, and a 24-hour increase of about 45%.

2. AI Agent Venture Capital Robot @pmairca

@pmairca is an AI Agent-led venture capital robot launched by ai16z, modeled after a16z partner Marc Andreessen. It simulates his investment decision-making process through an AI model and is regarded in the crypto community as Marc's AI virtual avatar.

As of December 31, the virtual AI investment fund @pmairca managed a fund size of $30 million.

3. AI Trading Chatbot Degen Spartan AI (degenai)

Degen Spartan AI (degenai) is an autonomous trading AI agent chatbot developed by ai16z, playing the role of an AI trader within ai16z. Users typically converse with Degen Spartan AI before discussing investment decisions with ai16z, indirectly influencing ai16z's final decisions.

As of December 31, the degenai token is quoted at approximately $0.08, with a market capitalization of about $90 million, and a 24-hour increase of about 40%. Additionally, part of the investment returns from ai16z will also be used to repurchase degenai tokens.

4. AI Agent Autonomous Token Issuance Project aiPool Based on Eliza

aiPool is an AI Agent autonomous token issuance project built by a user named @Skely based on the Eliza framework. In this project, users inject funds into the AI Agent's address, and the AI Agent autonomously decides and issues tokens, including naming the tokens.

Since @Skely is an active member of the ai16z DAO, this project has received multiple public endorsements from ai16z founder Shaw, resulting in high attention and popularity for the aiPool project.

On December 24, aiPool officially announced the issuance of its first token, successfully raising 25,000 SOL, worth approximately $4.72 million, within just 60 minutes after the presale began. Following this, the first meme coin project issued by aiPool—METAVERSE (METAV)—also announced its official launch. The market capitalization of METAV quickly soared to $90 million, rewriting the wealth creation legend in the crypto community. Although on December 31, the price of METAV adjusted to $0.048, with a market capitalization reduced to $48 million, its earlier outstanding performance remains noteworthy. However, the project's initiator @Skely's Twitter account has been frozen.

Subsequently, aiPool issued tokens such as $COSMIC_GIGGLE, $NORMIEPILL, $HYPERBOLE, $HYPERREALITY, and $HYPERREAL, but none gained as much popularity as METAV.

5. Zerebro: Collaborating with ai16z to Develop the Open Source AI Agent Zerepy Framework

Zerebro (ZEREBRO) was originally an AI Meme project on the Solana chain, representing a tunable AI content generation system aimed at achieving autonomous content creation and distribution across multiple social platforms such as Twitter, Warpcast, and Telegram.

On November 29, Zerebro announced the launch of an AI Agent development framework based on Python, supporting users to build customized AI Agents, allowing users to deploy their agents on X, supported by OpenAI or Anthropic LLM. AI Agents based on ZerePy can autonomously publish, reply to tweets, like, retweet, read timelines, and can extend the framework to other social media platforms.

On December 20, Zerebro's co-founder Tint announced that Zerebro would work with ai16z to promote the development of the open-source framework. The ai16z team will be among the first external contributors to help improve the ZerePy framework, while the Zerebro team will also contribute to the Eliza framework, achieving mutual benefits.

Under the strong influence of ai16z, the Zerebro project quickly attracted widespread market attention. As of December 31, the price of ZEREBRO reached $0.6, with a market capitalization of $60 million, and the token price achieved a 100% increase in the past three days.

6. AI Agent Issuance Platform vvaifu.fun (Dasha) Publicly Supported by Shaw Multiple Times

vvaifu.fun is a platform focused on the creation and issuance of AI Agent projects on the Solana chain, similar to the role of Pump.fun in the meme coin issuance field. This platform empowers every user to easily create their own AI Agents and their corresponding tokens, seamlessly integrating these AI Agent assistants into popular social media platforms such as Twitter, Telegram, and Discord for automated user interaction. According to community reports, early on, vvaifu.fun claimed participation from ai16z, and the founder of ai16z has publicly supported and expressed optimism about the project multiple times on his social media platform X. Community users believe that if ai16z were to acquire an AI Agent issuance platform, vvaifu.fun would be seen as the AI Agent issuance platform that ai16z is likely to acquire, with both ELIZA and Eliza tokens issued based on this platform.

Among them, the AI Agent robot created by vvaifu.fun is Dasha, which not only has an independent Twitter account, Telegram channel, and Discord community but is also managed and operated entirely by AI.

As of December 31, the VVAIFU token is quoted at $0.11, with a market capitalization of approximately $110 million, and a 100% increase in the past 24 hours.

7. Eliza Collaborates with Treasure DAO, Loot Realms to Develop AI Agent-Based Mini-Games Smolworld and Eternum

In a recent interview, Shaw revealed that several mini-games driven by AI Agents utilizing Eliza technology are about to be launched.

Among them, Eliza collaborated with Treasure DAO to create a mini-game called Smolworld. The highlight of this game is its AI Agent-driven pet monkey characters, which can autonomously execute on-chain tasks for players simply by inputting commands, providing an unprecedented gaming experience.

Additionally, another strategy game called Eternum launched by Loot Realms is also integrating Eliza technology, which will enable AI Agent agents in the Eternum game to have dedicated wallet functions, allowing players to "challenge" and "defeat" these agents to obtain rewards from their wallets.