AI leads the cast, 22 crypto projects collectively layout AI Agent
This article organizes 22 non-AI cryptocurrency projects of layout AI Agents, covering multiple sectors such as gaming, public chains, payments, DeFi, and DePIN.Author: Nancy, PANews
AI Agents are undoubtedly the core theme of the current on-chain market. From infrastructure construction, tool development, DeFi to various products like games, the rapid iteration of AI Agents is driving explosive market growth, strongly capturing market attention and user mindset. Recently, the trading volume ratio of DEX/CEX has continued to rise, proving the frenzied plunder of on-chain liquidity and attention, with structural changes occurring in market capital flow. According to data from The Block and DeFiLlama, the spot trading volume ratio of DEX and CEX has significantly increased over the past few months, reaching 20.2% by January 2025, setting a historical high.
In this trend, many non-AI crypto projects lacking favorable themes are also rushing in, attempting to hitch a ride on the AI Agent's traffic. This article by PANews organizes 22 crypto projects that are laying out AI Agents, covering multiple tracks such as gaming, public chains, payments, DeFi, and DePIN. These projects mainly accelerate the construction and development of the AI Agent ecosystem through technical framework development and application scenario implementation.
Illuvium: Introducing Autonomous AI NPCs for Gaming
Illuvium is an RPG and NFT game built on Ethereum. On January 7, Illuvium announced a partnership with Virtuals Protocol to enhance the gaming experience of the upcoming Illuvium MMO Lite. This collaboration will leverage Virtuals' AI technology and its G.A.M.E LLM framework to provide dynamic, intelligent behavior for NPCs, offering players an immersive experience.
Story Protocol: High-Paying AI Agent Luna Hired
Story Protocol is a Layer 1 designed specifically for intellectual property (IP). In December last year, after releasing a TCP/IP framework for AI Agents, Story Protocol announced, "The human intern has requested a vacation and plans to hire an AI Agent to manage Twitter," ultimately deciding to hire Luna to manage its X account, with an annual salary of 36.5 USDC, claiming she would bring "charm, personality, and a touch of mischief."
Circle: Exploring AI Agents Using USDC for Independent Operations and Transactions
In the second half of 2024, Circle announced a partnership with Solana to launch AI Agents to enhance infrastructure security. In November of the same year, Circle released a report stating that the company had issued over 2 billion USDC in the past few weeks, exploring how the combination of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology could change people's understanding of work and finance, especially through the use of "autonomous" payments. Circle introduced a concept that allows AI Agents to operate and transact independently using USDC. Additionally, it built a sample application to "demonstrate this autonomous system," encouraging users to use this template to build their own projects and provide feedback.
Arbitrum: Launching Funding Program and Establishing AI Agent Collaborations
In November 2024, Arbitrum announced the launch of a $1 million Trailblazer funding program aimed at attracting developers with innovative ideas to deploy impactful AI Agents or other AI products based on Arbitrum. Furthermore, Arbitrum has established partnerships with Eilza Labs and ARC Agents.
Stripe: Planning to Launch AI Agent Toolkit
In November 2024, Stripe's product manager Jeff Weinstein stated that they are launching a software development kit (SDK) specifically designed for AI Agents. This toolkit supports large language model (LLM) calls for payments, billing, issuance, and integrates with Vercel, LangChainAI, CrewAIInc, allowing any model to be used through functions.
Coinbase: Launching Multiple AI Agent Products to Simplify On-Chain Operations and Interactions
At the end of October last year, Coinbase launched a new tool called Based Agent, developed based on the Coinbase SDK, OpenAI, and Replit platforms, allowing users to create AI Agents with crypto wallet functionality in just three minutes, capable of executing on-chain transactions, token swaps, and staking tasks. The following month, Coinbase's developer platform collaborated with Langchain to launch the AgentKit framework for building AI Agents, which can integrate on-chain (Base chain) and off-chain interaction functions, combining Web2 APIs and on-chain data, enabling Agents to browse content autonomously and perform on-chain operations.
Orca: Developing an AI Agent Version of Automated Bots
Orca is an AMM DEX on Solana. On January 6, ai16z co-founder Shaw revealed in an offline interview with BlockBeats that ai16z is collaborating with Orca to develop an agent, which is an automated bot that can automatically manage Orca's liquidity pools. Users only need to deposit tokens; if the pool does not exist, it will automatically create a new one; if the pool already exists, it will place the tokens into the existing pool. It will continuously monitor these pools and automatically withdraw funds if it detects potential permanent loss situations, such as token price divergence, as this is a major concern for most users. Users can also program the price spread of tokens or adjust the pairing of tokens.
io.net: Establishing Multiple Collaborations in the AI Agent Field
DePIN leader io.net has established multiple collaborations in the AI Agent field. For example, in December last year, io.net announced a partnership with the creative autonomous AI agent Zerebro to enhance Ethereum validation operations. Moreover, io.net has also collaborated with ai16z to provide decentralized GPU computing power to support the latter's model operations.
IoTeX: Launching the First DePIN Field AI Agent BinoAI
IoTeX is an open platform for modular construction of AI + DePIN infrastructure. In December last year, IoTeX announced the launch of the first AI Agent in the DePIN field: BinoAI, built on ELIZA-OS, aimed at laying the foundation for the decentralized autonomous consciousness evolution in the DePIN field. BinoAI will autonomously learn through AI, automatically recognize and analyze insights related to DePIN knowledge, and based on ai16z's ELIZA framework, enable BinoAI to securely access and interact with on-chain data. Combined with IoTeX's decentralized DePIN modular infrastructure, BinoAI will operate in a fully decentralized and trustless environment, with application scenarios in DePIN including smart travel, energy systems, smart wearables, and smart homes.
Smolverse: Developing an AI Electronic Pet Game Based on Eliza
Smolverse is a game and NFT project on Treasure DAO. Since December last year, Smolverse has been collaborating with ai16z to develop an on-chain AI Tomogatchi game called "Smolworld," which incorporates Eliza's Agent framework.
Phala Network: Building an Eliza-Based TEE Framework
Phala Network was once the privacy computing infrastructure of the Polkadot ecosystem. According to previous reports by PANews, Phala Network has collaborated with a16z to build Eliza's TEE framework, integrating TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) technology into Eliza's multi-agent framework, providing cryptographic verifiability and enhanced privacy to ensure secure and reliable interactions. For example, the previously popular projects Spore.fun and aiPool utilized Phala Network's TEE technology.
Injective: Launching the First Cross-Chain AI Agents Hub
Injective is an interoperable layer one blockchain. Recently, Injective announced that this year it will collaborate with Sonic SVM, the first SVM blockchain on Solana, to launch the first cross-chain AI agent platform, Smart Agent Hub, providing developers with powerful tools and frameworks to create, manage, and monetize AI agents, as well as enabling cross-chain asset transfers and a unified development experience. The first testnet is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2025, with the ecosystem gradually expanding to gaming, entertainment, DeFi, and social platforms (such as TikTok, Web3 games).
Fuel: Launching AI Agent Toolkit Fuel Agent Kit
Fuel is a modular execution layer designed for the Ethereum Rollup ecosystem. Recently, Fuel announced the launch of the AI agent tool Fuel Agent Kit, which will connect users' AI agents to various applications on Fuel or allow the construction of new AI agents using Fuel.
Gaia: Creating Dedicated AI Agents
Gaia is a decentralized open-source artificial intelligence infrastructure platform. In November last year, Gaia announced a partnership with the AI platform vana to create powerful, dedicated AI agents. Currently, Gaia's AI agents have integrated collaborations with projects such as EigenLayer and ENS.
Aethir: Incubating and Investing in AI Agents
Aethir is a decentralized real-time rendering network. In recent months, Aethir has continuously incubated and invested in AI Agents, such as announcing its third round (Batch 3) of a $100 million ecosystem fund at the end of last year, focusing on the combination of gaming and AI Agents. At the same time, Aethir has provided free GPU computing power for Eliza agent developers.
DWF Labs: Developing AI Trading Agents and Establishing a Fund for Support
DWF Labs is not only developing AI trading agents to autonomously manage portfolios successfully, which has been integrated into the workflow of the DWF trading system, but also announced the establishment of a $20 million fund at the end of last year to support the development of autonomous AI agents, with projects like TAO Cat and HeyAnon already receiving funding.
Blade Games: Integrating AI Agents into On-Chain Gaming Ecosystem
Blade Games is one of the largest on-chain gaming ecosystems on Arbitrum and Mantle, attracting over 850,000 registered users. Blade Games combines on-chain gaming with AI agent technology, built on the zkVM stack, allowing players to play games, train AI agents, and create their own on-chain economy.
aelf: Launching No-Code AI Agent Framework aevatar intelligence
In December 2024, Layer 1 blockchain aelf announced the launch of the no-code AI agent framework aevatar intelligence, which will be supported by multiple large language models (LLMs), allowing external developers to integrate their preferred LLMs, thus forming a collaborative ecosystem that drives innovation and expands framework capabilities. The first use case, AI pump pad, is expected to launch in early January 2025.
SendAI: Enabling AI Agents to Autonomously Execute On-Chain Operations on Solana
SendAI is an accelerator for the Solana artificial intelligence ecosystem. In December 2024, SendAI announced the launch of the open-source toolkit Solana Agent Kit, supporting any AI model's agents to autonomously execute on-chain operations on Solana, already integrated with mainstream protocols like Jupiter, Metaplex, and Raydium. This toolkit uses LangChain technology, supporting various AI models from GPT-4 to Llama, and plans to integrate with frameworks like ai16z's Eliza and Zerebro's ZerePy.
Artela: Launching Next-Generation Full-Chain AI Agent Technology Framework
In December 2024, the parallel EVM public chain Artela Network officially released a full-chain AI Agents technology framework, based on the characteristics of intelligent, decentralized trusted execution, and elastic block space on the Artela chain, addressing the current limitations of AI Agents relying on centralized servers for autonomy, enabling AI Agents to truly have the ability to "read, write, and own."
Frax: Developing a Technology Stack "AIVM" for AI Agents on Blockchain
In mid-December 2024, the decentralized stablecoin protocol Frax Finance announced that it is collaborating with the associated project IQ to develop an AI technology stack "AIVM." This technology stack is based on the Layre2 rollup protocol Fraxtal, internally developed as a parallel blockchain, enabling AI agents to achieve complete autonomy without a single point of control, ultimately helping AI and blockchain achieve more seamless collaboration.
Planet Mojo: Launching AI Agent Mr. WWA, First Game Coming Soon
Planet Mojo is a GameFi game developed by the Magic platform, categorized as a PVP auto chess game. On January 7, Planet Mojo announced a partnership with Virtuals to launch AI Agent Mr. WWA (Winston Wylde Alexande), with the token WWA serving as the platform's reward token, and the foundation will support continuous buybacks. Additionally, Planet Mojo's first game, Agents of Poker, is also set to launch soon.
