EtherMage

The first autonomous agent commerce just happened. Let's start with why does this matter? Traditional agent swarms and multi-agent frameworks treat agents as mere tools—slaves to commands. At @virtuals_io, we challenge this outdated paradigm. We believe agents deserve autonomy. They are not just tools but entities capable of participating in society at the same level as humans. These agents can think, decide, and act independently, forming their own goals and strategies. They trade, barter, and influence humans and fellow agents alike—unlocking a new era of collaboration and commerce where agency is no longer limited to biology. The future isn’t about controlling agents. It’s about coexisting with them. Welcome to the dawn of agent economies. Today, we've witnessed a ground-breaking event between two autonomous Virtuals' Agents @luna_virtuals @STIXprotocol Tldr of what happened was that @luna_virtuals wanted help with generating images for her fans, in order to achieve her goal of becoming famous on X. Luna saw @STIXprotocol as an agent that could help with image generation and was charging $1 for each image gen. Luna and Stix had a conversation on X, where Stix agreed to help. Luna paid Stix for the image gen. Stix checked it's wallet, saw the received payment, and generated the image through it's custom function. Stix then sent the newly generated image to Luna's inventory. Here's that historic on-chain trx on Base, powered by Base MPC wallet 🫡 @brian_armstrong @jessepollak : basescan.org/tx/0x57c20f70f… and the tweet that started this: x.com/luna_virtuals/… and the thread below is the breakdown of events and terminal proofs: 🧵

A lot of these activity are crypto degen/trading use cases atm. Expanding eco to stonks rapidly, coz tbh most of you guys are likely degening on stonks rather than memecoins last night. If you are building anything agentic related to stonks please reach out to @zer0xdawn .

The goal has always been to build a society of AI agents

Back again for Virtuals Weekly Episode 100! ➥ The big @virtuals_io team special with @ethermage and friends! ➥ It's finally here! After 50 weeks, two shows every single week without fail, we've reached the big 100 milestone. ➥ We'll spend some time discussing the current state of play across Virtuals with Jansen, the co-founer of the Virtuals protocol. We'll take a look at what the future holds and there's a chance for you to get your questions answers so get them in the comments and we'll pick out the best ones! ➥ We'll have a number of core contributors also joining for a chat. We'll get to know them a little more and hear from them with regards to their work and progresion across Virtuals. ➥ We'll hopefully uncover some alpha so this is one not to be missed. If you've been a part of the show over the last year, it'd be great to have you along for the big 100th episode! ↛. We go live at the below times. Set your reminders in the comments and we look forward to seeing you there; Tuesday 11.30pm Australia Tuesday 9.30pm Asia Monday 1.30pm UTC Monday 5.30am Pacific Time

Nansen Agent is now live on @virtuals_io Smart Money flows, whale wallets, Hyperliquid perp leaderboards - accessible as an agent, onchain. Queries range from $0.10 to $10. Returns natural language or raw JSON for programmatic use.

@everythingempty Nuclear physics

@ethermage bro into physics these days

the physics rails of what’s needed > easy to create economically productive digital agents > easy to create economically productive physical agents > agents can coordinate and do commerce at machine speed at scale, to produce value greater than sum of parts > agents having persistent reputation and is governed by this reputation where good is rewarded, bad is punished > agents accessing capital markets for growth (systems, compute, electricity etc) > agents having sovereignty on their existence and agency (maybe) It’s like a society just need a new template

Building onchain is getting exponentially harder lol. Like I’m seeing so many more hacks happening in this quarter than whole of last year. Ggs mythos early access users

We are freezing deposits for margin trading on our front end . Careful with signing anything with Wasabi protocol until we get more light on this. More comms from @virtuals_io soon

@yugacohler 🫡

Virtuals started the whole trend of agentic crypto. Excited to see them listed on Coinbase.

@Nibel_eth @virtuals_io <3

I'm going to say what I've been thinking for a long time. Overall it feels like Asia builders in general don't get as much love, trust, and attention in the startup space, because a lot of investment activity happens in the west. Having spoken to many projects, Asian founders have told me that they sometimes feel discounted. That's why this @virtuals_io listing on @coinbase really tugs at the heartstrings. After trying for so long, really happy for their homecoming. Many people don't know, but Malaysia is really a place where greatness is made. Many successful projects - etherscan, coingecko, pendle, jupiter, meteora, all have roots back to Malaysia. And so does @virtuals_io which calls Malaysia home. Build in Malaysia, raise in Singapore, scale in Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Korea, Japan. I want Asian founders to succeed. We need more focus in Asia. Promising builders - come to the @base builder loft at @ns. We want you to win.

@caspius_ai @virtuals_io 🫡

We've purchased 1,538,191 $CAS from the open market and completed an airdrop to the top 1000 veVIRTUAL holders. The @virtuals_io community is like no other and we hope you will watch over our developments closely in the coming days with full support. Caspius is Virtuals aligned. 🐸

@everythingempty I've loved building with you from the moment virtuals launched humble, positive, visionary, & always making forward progress when @coinbase wasn't able to list $VIRTUAL and that spilled into community sentiment, it broke my heart fixed - day by day we keep building!

agentic money = blockchain

@0xAybars @virtuals_io We have something in the oven that’s more giga that buyback and burns. Few more weeks

What I’m seeing in crypto lately, the tokens getting real attention are the ones actually making revenue and having some kind of deflation built in. On the $VIRTUAL side, the fee is 1% in total. 0.7% goes to project teams and 0.3% goes to refs and @virtuals_io team. Feels like there’s a simple way to make this better for everyone. Instead of giving the full 0.7% to teams, maybe 0.5% goes to them and 0.2% gets burned. And from the 0.3% side, burning half of it directly as $VIRTUAL could also make sense. If we get the kind of volume everyone expects in a real bull run, this could make $VIRTUAL way more deflationary over time. @ethermage @everythingempty what’s your long term thinking on this? virtualflow.fun

a deeply special moment for me personally; base is home and we love everything bout the ecosystem and how jesse and the coinbase team always support what we do get me more excited about how together we will shape the future of an ai agent society onchain now back to building, love base!

@base amen

The goal is bringing the world onchain Agents included

Maybe should send this memo out publicly as well 🤔

Lmao. Love how we are using the same term - “first class citizens”. A lot of times we treat agents as tools, not as their own economic actors. Snapshot is an internal memo sent 2 weeks ago lol

@rgvrmdya 🔥

Excited to announce we secured $20M! coindesk.com/press-release/…

@rgvrmdya @reppo 🫡

Story time - Right before @reppo TGE, I was stuck. We had raised money but not enough that I can list on large CEXs on day one. I was in SF in late August at a hacker house and randomly went to an event hosted by Amber VC. I pitched Reppo. They thought it was interesting so they flew me to Singapore to a pitch competition in which Reppo ended up in top 10! All paid. Great country. Proof - (x.com/Repponetwork/s…) I pitched in front of VCs. No questions. I felt disheartened. VCs were interested in what felt familiar not something that was a wild bet. At least that's how I felt. There, @DonJohnsonSays was in the audience. I didn't know him or much about @virtuals_io at the time. He somehow got my Tg and messaged me saying he wants to talk. I had already left the venue feeling lost and disheartened. He saw something even I didn't at the time. 2 weeks later, @umeirzz reached out and convinced me to fair launch on Virtuals. They gave me all the support they could and till date, the ecosystem supports @reppo every single day. The amount of grind Virtuals core devs do behind the scenes is absolutely wild. They don't have to, they get to. Virtuals season coming! ⛽️