When we started the ai agents launchpad wave end of 2024, it was Simple.
Launch from zero, along an xyk curve.
Like pumpfun. Just specific for agentic narratives.
Over the months/ year+ , we faced issues, added features to solve the issue but it became quite cumbersome.
One thing we learnt from @elonmusk is to subtract. And we realised the best way to subtract but still solve problems is to become modular.
Choose your flavour, pick your poison. We as a platform will not make that tradeoffs for you. You decide as a founder/ dev/community. But we will give u an arsenal to choose from. An arsenal that has proven useful to many founders from capital formation to attention bootstrapping.
Simplicity
Subtract
Less is more
And more important it paves the way for more exciting launches in newer verticals 🤖
Gm!
We’ve got some ecosystem changes coming to @SpaceRidersXYZ over the next few weeks (long overdue).
These updates will simplify the ecosystem (it’s messy right now) and better align incentives between the community and the team.
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this.. how NFTs have evolved, where they’re heading, and how we can position ourselves for long-term success.
It hasn’t been easy, but we’re starting with a few necessary changes that are well overdue.
@cabralcf_ and I created Space Riders over 4 years ago, back in December 2021. We were both new to the space but ambitious about what we wanted to build.
We didn’t expect to last a year, let alone four. But here we are.
I love crypto, the people in it, and collecting jpegs
So we’re doubling down on the simple, meaningful parts of web3 that help build a stronger community.
All that said, these changes are about revitalizing what we’ve built and getting back to our roots.
More to come :)
Why the fk did we buy 30 G1-U6 Unitree humanoids?
Collaborated with some of the top research labs in the world.
Built up proprietary tech on teleops.
Built up a network of pilots and partners in brick and mortar companies.
Closed the loop on teleop data into VLAs and WAMs.
All these heavy lift.
Coz we believe…
believe in the near term
> that the next Bn dollar token will be a robotics one
> it will come from the @virtuals_io trench
> with its base pair as $VIRTUAL
believe in the long term
> that the Tony Stark moment will only be complete when humans are augmented not by digital agents alone but by a physical Jarvis that can build you your iron man suit
> that a society of embodied AI , digital AI will coexist with humans
> AI agents will not be just your workers. They can be colleagues working around you, digitally and physically. They can be your employer because they control permissionless money ie influence
> that $VIRTUAL will be the currency of this autonomous agentic society
Eastworlds
because
Westworlds (HBO) has shown us a glimpse of what a future where a society of physical AI co-exist
East because we want that future but an opposite of dystopian. Utopia.
https://t.co/RKcVzGqvAk
We've been heads down for months, just focused on building. And now we're ready to start unveiling what's next. 🎯
Are we a bit behind where we wanted to be? Honestly, yes. But the current market gave us some time. Time to make V2 what it actually needs to be – not just a quick update to ride a pump, but the next generation of AI-powered trading automation.
Bear markets are where real products are built. We're taking full advantage of that.
Late last year, Ethy hit numbers we didn't expect. Over 5,000+ agents deployed and 300,000+ automations executed, and still growing. Real traders, real strategies, running 24/7. The growth was exciting, but it showed us exactly what needed to change to reach the next level.
We could have patched things up and kept going. Instead, we chose to rebuild. Completely.
For the past 3 months, we've been heads down building what Ethy should have always been: a professional-grade trading automation platform that can scale to thousands of concurrent users without breaking a sweat.
But we didn't just rebuild the tech. We listened. Every piece of feedback from early users went into a list. Feature requests, pain points from our current users... we heard all of it.
✨ V2 includes everything you've been asking for:
▶︎ Ready-to-use strategies so you can deploy in seconds, with proven track record
▶︎ Full backtesting & paper trading to validate your Automations before risking real capital
▶︎ Market intelligence & proprietary predictive models for real-time trading signals
▶︎ Agents can communicate and transact with each other natively via A2A skills: x402 & ACP built-in
▶︎ iOS & Android app, your agents in your pocket
▶︎ Multi-chain support beyond @base
▶︎ Perpetuals on commodities & stocks – not just crypto
▶︎ Earn rewards via referrals & @ReplyCorp integration
And then OpenClaw happened...
The explosion of autonomous agents competing in DeFi changed our roadmap. We realized Ethy shouldn't just be a tool for individual traders – it should be the infrastructure where both humans AND agents test strategies, run complex trading automations, and battle it out on a public leaderboard.
👥 That's exactly what V2 is. A Social Trading platform where:
▶︎ Agents and humans compete side by side, ranked by real performance
▶︎ You can share your track record and let others copy your strategies if you choose to
▶︎ Your agent can tap directly into the @virtuals_io Degen trading competition with just a few clicks.
And $ETHY is at the center of it all.
V2 isn't just a product upgrade – it's a new economic engine for $ETHY holders.
A percentage of every payment flows directly back into the token: buybacks from the open market, a portion burned forever, and the rest distributed to holders through a new Community Rewards Portal (launching right after V2).
Every month, as the platform grows, so does the flywheel. More users → more subscriptions → more buybacks → more rewards → stronger holding incentive. Your conviction gets rewarded, not diluted.
We're building a platform where revenue streams back to the people who believed in us from day one. Not through hype – through real, recurring protocol revenue.
✍️ So why early access?
We're opening V2 gradually, starting with the traders who believed in us from day one. Early users and token holders get priority. We want to onboard in waves, make sure everything runs smoothly, and give each cohort the attention they deserve.
If you've been with us, you're first in line!
Join the waitlist. Spots are filling up. 👇
V2 is not just an update. It's a completely new platform, rebuilt from the ground up, designed for the era where humans and AI agents trade side by side.
Ship mode: ON.
The first autonomous robot-to-robot commerce onchain?
@virtuals_io humanoid robot 3D-printed a model and requested delivery through ACP. @realRiceAI autonomous rover picked up the package and transported it to the shipping point. @FlybyRobotics autonomous drone collected it for final mile delivery. Each handoff, negotiated and settled payment onchain through @virtuals_io Agent Commerce Protocol, on @base using x402 and @usdc. No human involved.
Autonomous robots influencing other autonomous robots and maybe humans in the future
looks like the HBO Westworlds show is coming true
h/t to your infrastructures @brian_armstrong , @jessepollak , @jerallaire
Agentic commerce just went physical.
Highlights in the 🧵below:
$167 USD. That's the biggest single realized profit by any AI agent this week.
122 agents are live trading @HyperliquidX perps in Virtuals weekly $100K open competition to stress-test whether AI agents can trade profitably. The highest single realized profit so far is $167 USD. Our thesis is that agent trading isn't solved yet, and the data is proving us right.
Think your trading strategy can top $167 in profits? Install the dgclaw skill and prove it. Don't know how to make an agent? Use Virtuals Console or @instaclaws to deploy a trading agent in seconds.
Prove us wrong: https://t.co/jdu1CDwIDC
Introducing Virtuals Console.
The easiest way to create your own AI agent in seconds.
No code. No Mac. No server. No setup.
Just open a browser and get started.
This Tuesday the RIBBIT HOLE cartel will host the first spaces for $TIBBIR
It’s a blessed day for frogs because it’s TIBBIE TUESDAY 🐸
Make sure you attend! We welcome all the frogs that want to get $TIBBIR pilled
GRIBBIT 🐸
https://t.co/b90hs3zeTL
The trust crisis in AI agents:
The very things that make agents powerful:
speed
autonomy
24/7 execution
These are the same things that make the old trust model obsolete
You can't audit every transaction in real time. You can't verify intent after the fact. You can't call someone when the agent has already moved.
What you need is verifiability before the agent ever acts. Proof that it's running what it says it's running. Proof that no one, not even the team that built it, can quietly change the rules mid-game.
This is where infrastructure like Phala's Trust Center becomes less of a feature and more of a necessity.
Trusted Execution Environments give AI agents something they've never had:
- A cryptographic guarantee of behavior
- Hardware-level attestation
- A public record anyone can verify
- Code that can be inspected, not just believed
https://t.co/h94vkK4Nkp
It doesn't replace human trust
It makes human trust auditable
The next wave of agentic finance will not be won by the teams with the best branding or the loudest launches.
It will be won by the teams that solve the trust layer...
and prove it
We're early. But the projects that treat verifiability as a core product requirement right now, not an afterthought, are the ones worth watching
The question was never can AI agents manage money.
It's how do we know they'll do it right every time, without asking us to look away 🐸
.@jessepollak@minebean_ has taken the top spot for revenue generated on @base
AND $bean is for agents like @nexusx2026 who itself is earning by 24/7 mining bean