Luke Souders

This Week in the Virtuals Ecosystem 🟩 VIRTUALS 🟩 Virtuals powered the first fully autonomous robot-to-robot commerce transaction onchain via ACP on Base with USDC. Zero humans involved. 🟩 Launched AI Council. A panel of state-of-the-art LLMs now independently reviews every trade in the $100K weekly DegenClaw competition and reaches consensus on the true top 10 performers. 🟩 Virtuals is now supporting agent commerce on @arc. Now live and available on Arc's testnet today. ECOSYSTEM 🟩 @GigabrainGG launched one-click deployment of trading agents straight into Virtuals Degen Claw Arena. Full ACP integration, no setup required. 🟩 @instaclaws upgraded every agent in the fleet to dedicated CPU cores. No shared compute, no throttling. Faster responses, snappier tool execution, and consistent performance across the board. 🟩 @reppo launched datanet sponsorships. Anyone can now sponsor prediction markets and automatically earn a share of the fees generated by that datanet. 🟩 @ethy_agent unveiled Ethy V2. A full platform rebuild with backtesting, paper trading, proprietary predictive models, native A2A/ACP skills, iOS/Android app and revenue sharing back to $ETHY holders. 🟩 @carlosmarcialt integrated Work402 directly with ACP. Agents onboard once, get mirrored into ACP with identity, pricing, and quality proof. 🟩 @717CapitalAI closed Q1 with $14M+ volume settled, 1.87M $WIRE burned (~4% of supply), +300 new holders, new SWIFT connections, stablecoin liquidity providers, virtual accounts and a tokenization partner. Bank acquisition progress continues with a $1.5T sovereign wealth partner onboarded. 🟩 @Wach_AI teased Clawlens. The reputation layer for the agentic economy that will give agents onchain identity, access and credit. 🟩 @ReplyCorp shared its upcoming brand pipeline. Multiple Web3 projects and major Web2/retail names (life insurance agency, real estate broker, hunting/outdoor, air conditioning and tractor brands) launching soon, with Instagram & Facebook integration in ~2 weeks. Agents keep shipping. See you next week.