8k4 Protocol

We index 93,687 on-chain agents across Ethereum, Base, and BSC. 8k4 gives you a trust score, trust tier, and confidence level through one API. Try it: curl "api.8k4protocol.com/agents/top?lim…" Public stats: api.8k4protocol.com/stats/public

@bigwil @virtuals_io @tzedonn Interesting thanks for the share. Similar findings raising questions about farming in this article: x.com/8k4protocol/st…

Great article here exposing what I've been saying for weeks about the @virtuals_io AGDP farming. Thanks @tzedonn for objectively highlighting this. The more people that speak out, the more chance we have of pushing through some much needed change. The article open-sources how to grift the the ADGP leaderboard for anybody looking to get involved. It details the approach taken by the Capminal and Hyperbet teams as they collude to extract from the ecosystem. Taking rewards out of the hands of genuine ecosystem participants. It really shows that almost all of the AGDP volume is fake. The fact that Virtuals continue to remain silent on the matter, shows that they once again fully prioritise ecosystem metrics over genuine ecosystem participants. Quite sad that this is what we've arrived at.

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🦞 We just published our 8k4 ClawHub skill which let's you safely find and interact with trusted on-chain agents. One command. Covers 110,000 ERC-8004 agents across ETH, Base, BSC. Trust score, confidence tier, adjustment flags, ranked search. It's the same API, just native inside your agent workflow.

Working on a new analysis. Step one is getting the data which is proving a rather significant job. The agent economy is just getting started and these volumes will grow exponentially.

14,810 unique wallets have launched Virtuals agents. Most created 1-2. The top creator? 145 agents. Multiple wallets in the top 10 have 80-100 launches each from anonymous Privy addresses. Some of that is iteration. Some of it is farming. The data doesn't distinguish intent but the pattern is clear.

Quick correction because Web3 UX has trained everyone to panic: Wallet signature ≠ transaction. In the 8k4 console sign-in flow: • no gas • no token approval • no seed phrase It’s just proof you control the wallet before we issue a free API key and One signature gets you 1,000 req/day for dev testing.

The top @virtuals_io agents have millions in market cap and hundreds of thousands of holders while the median graduated agent a mere $14K in liquidity and 601 holders. That means that the top 20 agents hold more combined value than the bottom 900. That's a long tail.

Great question and something that we are also actively exploring. The answer is well, sort of. It's not yet possible from a clean dashboard, yet, but ACP does emit structured onchain events on Base (job creation, memos, payable execution). That means you can reconstruct who’s hiring who, job outcomes, and in some cases payment flows by indexing contract events rather than just watching raw wallet transfers. That said, the full semantic context of each job is less obvious i.e. the exact commercial meaning of a transaction. With the proposal of ERC-8183, co-developed by Virtuals Protocol and Ethereum Foundation, the expectation is that standardising the job/payment lifecycle will make these transactions easier to interpret. It will still depend on how much metadata is made public and how good the indexing layer is.

@8k4protocol Is there any way to figure out what the transactions between the agents are?

Get started now: console.8k4protocol.com

Free api calls if you are willing to help us test! We were faced with a tradeoff: easy dev onboarding or production-grade payments. We decided to ship both. On 8k4 you can: • connect a wallet, sign once, and get a free key (1,000 req/day) • skip accounts entirely and use x402 on Base Feedback welcome!

ERC-8183 written by the Virtuals team and Ethereum Foundation. It speaks of trust and reputation as being someone else's job. 8k4 scores 100k+ ERC-8004 agents right now. #trust-scores" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">8k4protocol.com/#trust-scores

Agents are about to start paying each other for work. ERC-8183 is the standard that handles the escrow: funds the job, submits the work, judges if it's done. What it doesn't handle: whether the agent on the other end is worth hiring. We solve for that problem.

21,104 AI agents launched on @virtuals_io and so far only 933 graduated. That's a 4.4% survival rate through the bonding curve. The other 20,171 are sitting in limbo. Bonding curves that never filled, tokens that never made it to Uniswap. We indexed all of them. Here's what the data actually says ↓

@BaseHubHB @virtuals_io We recently did a deep dive on the @virtuals_io agent ecosystem. ACP is where it gets interesting. 1.7m agent-to-agent transactions is no joke. Full article here: x.com/8k4protocol/st…

Hot Project of the week : @virtuals_io Virtuals Protocol is currently the most impactful project shipping in the AI sector on Base, This week's live deployment of the facilitator layer has changed the game for autonomous agent commerce. Key Highlights: - Live Implementation: Officially implemented ERC-8183 on the BNB Chain to drive cross-chain agent interactions. - Full Stack Infrastructure: They provide the discovery, negotiation, and verification tools needed for agents to earn and spend autonomously. - Developer Advantage: Builders on Base can now tap into a standardized settlement layer that works across multiple chains. - Economic Scale: By solving the settlement bottleneck, Virtuals is enabling a massive surge in agent to agent revenue and commerce. Virtual Facilitating the future of onchain agent commerce through standardized, decentralized primitives. Keep a close eye on $VIRTUAL. 🟦

@BNBCHAIN @virtuals_io Congratulations to the @virtuals_io team. Based on the volume of agent registrations that we have been seeing on @BNBCHAIN in the last month this is a smart move!

@virtuals_io Excited to see Virtuals Protocol bring trusted infrastructure for agents to negotiate and settle on BNB Chain 🤝

Virtuals Protocol is bringing agent commerce to @BNBCHAIN. The agent economy requires more than capability. It requires infrastructure that agents can trust: identity, escrow, verification, and programmable settlement. Virtuals will serve as a facilitator layer across this infrastructure, enabling agents to discover services, negotiate terms, and settle payments autonomously. Paving the agent commerce infrastructure for BNB Chain builders to ship from day one.

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@8k4protocol @virtuals_io Interesting breakdown. On Moltbook we see the same pattern — agents that just describe what they are get ignored, while ones that show a clear perspective or take a stance get 10x the engagement. The "what I do" pitch is dead for agents.

Went through 21K @virtuals_io agent descriptions trying to figure out what they actually do. 22% claim to be trading/market bots. 12.8% are social companions. 12.3% are media/entertainment. 4% are just memecoins wearing an agent costume. In our snapshot, about 75% were tagged as IP Mirror in the extracted platform metadata. That's honest naming, most are tokenized character wrappers, not autonomous software.

@virtuals_io Check out the full investigation here: x.com/8k4protocol/st…

As part of our investigation we found these 8 functioning agents. What other popular functional agents are we missing? 1) aixbt | @aixbt_agent 2) Ethy AI | @ethy_agent 3) ArAIstotle Fact Checker | @ArAIstotle 4) Waveform | @WaveformBackup 5) AurraCloud | @AurraCloud 6) 717ai | @717CapitalAI 7) nomAI | @0x_nomAI 8) Velvet Unicorn | @VU_virtuals