ChainCatcher news, Pantera Capital executive partner Paul Veradittakit stated that there are significant opportunities in the cryptocurrency space to leverage AI agents. He believes that cryptocurrency trading is a reasonable domain for the integration of AI agents and predicts that AI-driven trading volumes could grow exponentially, as AI agents are both smart and fast, capable of taking action on behalf of users.They can seamlessly enter and exit different types of products and engage in DeFi trading, which truly represents the future of financial services.

ChainCatcher news, DeepBrain Chain founder Feng delivered a keynote speech titled "From Code to 'Autonomous Intelligent Agents': How DBC AI Public Chain Reshapes the Trillion-Dollar Human-Machine Collaboration Economy" at the "DBC Decentralized AI Ecosystem Conference・2025 Hong Kong Station." He introduced the development history of DBC, its technical characteristics, and its positioning and goals in the global AI infrastructure market, providing forecasts for the global AI infrastructure market size from 2025 to 2030, and predicting the realization of autonomous AI Agents after 2029.In addition, he emphasized DBC's potential in addressing the existing problems and challenges in the current AI field, and painted a future scenario driven by decentralized AI, highlighting its importance in promoting a fairer, more transparent, and efficient global economic system.

ChainCatcher message indicates that, according to SoSoValue data, the encrypted market sector has generally risen, with the PayFi sector leading with a 5.21% increase. Within this sector, XRP has risen by 5.78% in the last 24 hours, influenced by factors such as Trump's sharing of related articles on Truth Social. Stellar (XLM) has increased by 3.90%.The AI sector has seen a rebound, rising 3.52% in the last 24 hours. Within this sector, Bittensor (TAO) has risen by 15.61%, and Golem (GLM) has risen by 16.16%. However, the AI sub-sector AI Agents has decreased by 2.68%, Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) has decreased by 3.21%, and Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) has decreased by 8.72%.In other sectors, the Layer1 sector has risen by 1.68% in the last 24 hours, with Cardano (ADA) increasing by 4.09%, Sui (SUI) increasing by 4.65%, and Aptos (APT) increasing by 14.21%; the DeFi sector has risen by 1.22%, the Layer2 sector has risen by 1.20%, the Meme sector has risen by 1.15%, and the CeFi sector has risen by 0.85%.

ChainCatcher news, during the "Trends and Rhythms of the New Web3 Cycle" event held at Consensus HK, Brianna, Chief Strategist of Virtuals Protocol, shared a keynote speech titled "Building an AI Nation with Virtuals Protocol."Brianna stated that we need more Agents to reach Level Three, where Level Three AI agents can independently execute tasks, make decisions, and plan, transitioning from specific task systems to broader autonomous systems. She pointed out that game engines can initially build Level Three agents, enabling them to autonomously take action, manage services freely, and dynamically adapt to feedback. The number of game agents launched on Virtuals has reached 15,000, with a growth of 455% since its release (about 1.5 months ago).In addition, Brianna shared several consumer use cases for agents that she believes have great potential, such as entertainment IP AI agents, DeFAI agents, WatchDOGE agents, and more.

ChainCatcher message, according to SoSoValue data, the encrypted market sector continues to pull back, with AI Agents down 9.53%, while the RWA sector remains relatively strong. Within the AI Agents sector, the 24-hour declines for Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL), AIXBT, ai16z (AI16Z), and AI Rig Complex (ARC) are 13.96%, 10.63%, 11.22%, and 18.59%, respectively. However, the RWA sector has increased by 1.72% in the last 24 hours, with MANTRA (OM), Maker (MKR), and Plume (PLUME) rising by 4.35%, 10.63%, and 9.53%, respectively.In addition, the Meme sector has seen a 24-hour decline of 3.47%. Within this sector, Dogecoin (DOGE) is down 2.37%, Shiba Inu (SHIB) is down 2.75%, and Pepe (PEPE) is down 5.76%. Notably, the total market capitalization of the Meme sector has fallen to levels seen in November 2024, with the winter gains almost completely reversed.In other sectors, the CeFi sector is down 3.25% in the last 24 hours, the PayFi sector is down 3.30%, but Litecoin (LTC) has risen 6.55% against the trend. The Layer1 sector is down 3.67%, and the DeFi sector is down 4.22%.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the innovative project NetMind.AI in the field of AI and blockchain integration has announced the launch of its AI Agent XYZ platform, along with the release of its first Life Agent - Zoey.The XYZ platform aims to build a decentralized intelligent economic ecosystem through AI Agents. In the first version launched on February 18, users can create Agents and issue their tokens. In subsequent versions, users will be able to use multiple Agents simultaneously, allowing them to collaborate with each other to complete tasks, in order to achieve AGI civilization.As of the time of publication, the Zoey Agent token NML has seen a maximum increase of 1000%.

ChainCatcher news, AI VC Agent HeyAni officially debuted at the Portfolio Day hosted by Animoca Brands in Hong Kong.HeyAni is co-developed by Animoca Brands and FLock.io, aiming to provide more comprehensive and professional investment and operational advice to projects through decentralized AI technology, lowering the entry barriers for Web3 entrepreneurs and investors.The underlying technology of HeyAni is fully built by FLock.io, relying on its decentralized AI training and verification network to achieve three core functions:Web3 projects can submit business plans, and AI will conduct intelligent assessments and provide optimization suggestions;Investors can query token codes, and AI will generate relevant analysis comments based on publicly available token information;HeyAni Alpha regularly analyzes and publishes a list of high-potential projects through AI.FLock.io provides a complete set of decentralized AI training and computing solutions, ensuring the transparency, fairness, and verifiability of AI assessments.HeyAni is based on the AI models trained on FLock.io platform Mainnet Task2 and Testnet Task 16, integrating Animoca Brands' investment and operational experience from over 540 Web3 ecosystem projects, creating an enterprise-level + retail-end crypto investment analysis platform based on decentralized AI, and promoting the Web3 ecosystem towards a smarter and fairer new phase.

ChainCatcher news, Binance founder Zhao Changpeng (CZ) stated on the X platform that he is not trying to promote any specific AI agent token. However, he hopes to see more on-chain AI agent development with practical use cases. Real development usually happens after the hype has passed.

ChainCatcher news, according to Binance founder Zhao Changpeng's post on X platform: "According to Defillama data, the trading volume of BNB Chain has increased by 66.63% in the past 7 days, and it all started with a video tutorial.I heard the team is working on a new video tutorial to teach people how to create AI agents on BNB Chain."

ChainCatcher message, according to monitoring by ai_9684xtpa, a certain address has experienced comprehensive losses in trading AI Agent / Celebrity Coin / National Coin, with a loss of 1.19 million USD over 7 days:The address gradually withdrew 7,371 SOL (approximately 1.59 million USD) from CEX in mid-January to trade Meme coins;The popular tokens Murad / SWARMS / AICC have all incurred losses;This morning, they cut losses on the AI Agent series tokens ai16z & TMC & degenai, fully buying LIBRA with 354,000 USD and then losing 68% before exiting;10 hours ago, they deposited the last 560 SOL into CEX, worth 110,000 USD.

ChainCatcher message, the DeepBrain Chain ecosystem project XAIAgent has now launched its IAO (Initial AI Agent Asset Offering). According to official data, over 13 million DBC tokens have already participated in the subscription.It is reported that XAIAgent is dedicated to creating a decentralized platform for the creation, use, launch, and trading of AI Agents. This IAO adopts a zero-price fundraising model, allowing more users the opportunity to fairly acquire AI Agent assets and promoting rapid expansion of the ecosystem.

ChainCatcher message, XO official announced yesterday that it will collaborate with Virtuals Protocol to launch the latest AI Agent, achieving the first cross-platform social interaction. The AI agent Seiko will be launched after $XOXO goes live on Kucoin. Currently, the AI Agent call volume within the XO App is one hundred thousand per day, and it is expected that the integration with Virtuals will create more demand.

ChainCatcher news, UXLINK announced on the official X platform that it has become a sponsor of the Consensus Hong Kong conference, and will jointly hold the AI Agent Rising themed event on Hong Kong Island with BNB Chain and Meet48.The content includes a panel discussion, Web3 KOL sharing, and a wonderful performance by the GNZ48 group. The event is also supported and co-hosted by Taker, deBridge, Sundog, and Sidekick.

ChainCatcher news, Aiccelerate DAO co-founder Ejaaz stated on social media that the profit model of AI agent platforms is shifting from simple issuance fees to service-level taxation.He pointed out two main profit directions: first, the agent market (similar to the Apple App Store), where the platform takes a commission from users purchasing agent services; second, the agent execution market, which provides infrastructure services such as AI model calls, computing power support, and agent collaboration for AI agents.Ejaaz emphasized that relying solely on profit from agent issuance is outdated, as this model tends to lead to a proliferation of low-quality bots. In the future, the industry's focus and revenue will shift towards the execution layer.