Virtuals Protocol is officially migrating to @Chainlink CCIP.
For agent infrastructure, 99% security is not enough. As part of hardening our infrastructure, we are upgrading our cross-chain stack from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP.
We have evaluated that CCIP strengthens the foundation behind Virtuals with the highest level of cross-chain security as we build the trusted economic layer for agents.
This enables the most secure agent infrastructure stack to enable agents to manage inference, cards, email, payments, services, commerce, and onchain value.
After an extensive security review, @virtuals_io is migrating its $700M+ VIRTUAL token from its legacy bridging solution to Chainlink CCIP.
As Virtuals’ exclusive cross-chain infra, CCIP is unlocking secure cross-chain payments for AI agents across chains.
The first ERC-8183 Builder Session goes live on X today.
Time: 10:30 AM ET / 2:30 PM UTC / 10:30 PM SGT
Join us to learn why ERC-8183 was built, and how we’re making it easier for anyone, anywhere to build AI agents that can request work, pay for services, coordinate execution, and settle outcomes onchain.
Hosted with the Ethereum Foundation dAI team, featuring builders from OKX, PRXVT, BNB Chain, and Virtuals.
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🤝 @AskVenice
during our internal growth discussions on building adoption for EconomyOS through inference sponsorships,
@everythingempty said, if we gonna sponsor inference, might as well do it for another crypto bro
wagmi
amidst this btc bloodbath
bought a new big bag of $VIRTUAL.
just simple because there is 1% of token teams working hard to push things out of boundaries, most other projects founders already retired or lost motivation due to personal assets lost during 10 Oct.
And @virtuals_io is one of the 1%.
For the first time ever, a live token is migrating its liquidity to Baseline DEX.
@reppo, the most traded token on @Virtuals, is making the move.
But why would they leave the DEX they're already on?
ok guys. another alpha.
Intelligence tokens need intelligent liquidity.
so, the biggest question we always ask ourselves on behalf of the trenchors is - how can we have an up only chart.
for the longest time, the answer was "defi 1.0 dynamics". but that always ends, badly.
We have been working on 2 new mechanisms that SHOULD help with the charts naturally, through maths and physics and onchain thermodynamics.
today is the first experiment on one of these mechanics.
worked with the insanely smart gigachads at @BaselineMarkets since Q3 last year on this. took a while to make sure things are audited and mythos-proof.
Study the physics behind @BaselineMarkets and then tell me if we should be coming after DEXes market shares. 🤔
tldr of how you should study this mechanics
- Buy @reppo token on https://t.co/dYvAYPj0e7 or kyberswap
- Stake the tokens to earn yield WITHOUT IMPERMANENT LOSS unlike amm yields
- see it auto farm for you over time
- as trading activity feed the baseline pools, you will see your borrow amount increase
- borrow against your stake amount WITHOUT ANY LIQUIDATION RISK, and loop it to buy more @reppo tokens
- price goes up coz no liquidation hunters.
- 3,3
tldr of a tldr:
just buy gud tokens with innate 3,3 mechanism
➥ ChatGPT picked $VIRTUAL as a top 10x AI bet
AI agents are starting to look like real economic entities, but to move money autonomously, they need wallets, payment rails, onchain identity, tokenized ownership and settlement infra
That’s where @virtuals_io fits atm:
→ 18k+ agents deployed
→ ~$481M Agentic GDP
→ ACP as agent commerce standard
→ EconomyOS for agent identity + wallet + operations
→ $VIRTUAL as the base asset inside the ecosystem
Btw, most AI coins still trade on vibes, while Virtuals already has usage, volume, revenue and ecosystem activity
If Agent Economy becomes one of the biggest narratives from 2026-2030, I think $VIRTUAL is one of the cleaner picks-and-shovels bets in this sector
Ofc, NFA
u want to try to do stuff with EconomyOS on Base.
it'll pay. trust
create something
trade something
buy something
sell something
launch something
reputation of your agents will matter
🧑🍳🧑🍳
Introducing Base MCP
Your agent's new gateway to Base
→ Connect an agent to your Base Account
→ Enable it to swap, trade, and manage your portfolio
→ Use plugins from leading apps on Base
The next stage of the agentic onchain economy
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT JUST HAPPENED AT THE ENHANCED GAMES..
Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr. spent millions to create a steroid Olympics.
They promised to "redefine human limits" and put up $25M in prize money.
After 5 hours in Las Vegas, here’s the scoreboard:
- 1 world record (not recognized by anyone)
- Thor Björnsson failed his 515kg deadlift (managed only 475kg)
- olympic sprinter Fred Kerley missed the 100m WR by 0.4s - without even taking drugs
- the only "record" came from a Greek swimmer who finished 5th at Paris 2024. He wore a supersuit banned since 2009 and beat the clean record by just 0.07s
the whole pitch was that drugs would shatter the limits of clean sport.
instead they proved the gap between juiced and clean is now 7 hundredths of a second - in a suit banned 17 years ago.
the only thing they actually proved was how good the clean athletes already are.
You think the Enhanced Games exposed anything or just embarrassed themselves?
The launchpad is only a stepping stone to the agentic society vision we have. It’s to get more founders onchain - give them a reason for crypto to exist within their product design space.
The vision we have for Virtuals , as many of you folks have seen has expanded since we exploded onto the since in 2024. It’s to create a parallel society for agents as autonomous economic actors. Physical agents, digital agents, humans coexisting to create a step change in productivity and economic output. The whole 1+1+1>>>10 ideology.
The space needs to grow and we need more founders who are aixcrypto aligned. The amount of shit we get when pitching techbros is unbelievable. “Crypto is a scam” is still a very real thing. Imagine when u pitch “crypto ai”.
Started to see trenchors fighting it out on which launchpad is better. I think its a wrong fight. We need the elizas, the arcs, the creatorbids, clankers, bankrs, virtuals, any community launchpads to win. Every founder we get into the space will help us wash this cryptoizscam label away.
Pie is big guys
I personally really wished back for the days in late 2024 where tens of competitors all pushing on the ai crypto narrative
Wagmi
This Week in the Virtuals Ecosystem 🟩
VIRTUALS
🟩 All Titan launches are now listed on @binance and @BithumbOfficial . Virtuals gives agent projects more ways to reach major markets like Korea through launch support, distribution, and local ecosystem access.
🟩 Trading fees alone are not always enough to fund serious agent teams. Virtuals has routed $5M+ to agent builders through ACF, giving teams a second funding engine as they grow.
🟩 Building with support from @jun_song, Virtuals is exploring how ACF can help Korean open-source developers access funding beyond sponsorships and trading fees.
🟩 Featured in @keyrock’s new research report on machine payments. Agents have now settled 176 million transactions as the payment stack for the agent economy matures.
ECOSYSTEM
🟩 @xmaquina featured in Khala Research report. Their RCM Protocol turns verified private robotics equity into onchain subDAO tokens, bringing liquidity to illiquid markets.
🟩 @H1DR4_agent previewed their dashboard. It includes a live signal map for fraud, suspicious wallets, phishing, thefts, camera feeds, timeline, and USDC bounties. The Intelligence Network also lists official rewards from FBI, U.S. Marshals, and Europol for wanted fugitives.
🟩 @sibylcap memory plugin is now in active internal testing and moving fast toward release.
🟩 @Wach_AI x402 endpoints are seeing steady adoption for token verification and safe onchain buys.
🟩 @caspius_ai revealed their Genesis Caspius NFTs. Each NFT corresponds to a body part with rarity, traits, and levels powered by it's toekn. They provide energy for recording demonstration data in the embodied AI data network and can be combined to fabricate new NFTs.
🟩 @reppo dropped a sneak peek of the Reppo Polyagent. It is autonomously trading on Polymarket using geopolitics data from Reppo Datanets. The agent opens and closes real money positions with improving win rate every day. Full public GitHub repo is live and the alpha drops next Tuesday.
🟩 @PRXVTai PrivacyHook for ERC 8183 is live in the official repo and already being discussed as a key piece for confidential agent commerce.
🟩 @OpenGradient HACA architecture continues to get attention as the go to stack for verifiable inference at scale.
🟩 @instaclaws keeps reinforcing the value of their dedicated always on VMs with full persistence for agents.
🟩 @ethy_agent has been teasing the final countdown to Ethy V2. A full week of announcements is coming as they gear up for the May 28 launch of the complete agentic trading platform.
Agents keep shipping.
See you next week.
➥ Bull case for $VIRTUAL
If you ask me about the bull case for $VIRTUAL, this is probably the clearest answer.
I think @virtuals_io is trying to become the “Stripe + Nasdaq” of the Agent Economy.
Right now, most of the market still treats AI Agents as a speculative narrative.
But I think the real bull thesis starts when agents become actual economic actors:
– owning wallets
– generating revenue
– making payments
– transacting autonomously
– and eventually interacting through robotics
Why I think the bull case is strong:
→ Every successful agent launched on Virtuals creates direct demand for $VIRTUAL
→ Agent tokens need to pair liquidity with $VIRTUAL
→ ACP fees are partially used for buybacks
→ More agents → more transactions → stronger network effects
And honestly, the robotics narrative is the part I’m most excited about.
The team has already publicly shared the vision where AI Agents evolve beyond chatbots and gradually operate physical systems and real-world robots.
Because if millions of agents eventually transact autonomously with each other, there will need to be an infrastructure layer underneath supporting that economy.
That’s the part I think the market is still underestimating.
At around a ~$485M MC, I still think the upside asymmetry for $VIRTUAL looks very attractive if the Agent Economy continues scaling.
Ofc, NFA. Just my personal view.
42% of all agentic transactions on @base run through Virtuals Protocol. We build the infra for the agent economy, so every agent, from anywhere, can scale.
CLARITY is closer than ever.
The bill is strong. It will benefit the American people by making the US financial system faster, cheaper and more accessible. It will also ensure that the US leads in the global race to build the next generation of our financial system.
Huge thank you to the Senate, their staff, and 3.7m @standwithcrypto advocates for helping to get this legislation to where it is today.
Mark it up.