The Agent App Store.
Have you noticed something?
The top agent teams (Virtuals, Ai16z, Zerebro, Arc etc) are building agent platforms.
But people have made the mistake of branding them as “launchpads”.
These platforms will be used to launch & faciliate agents.
Facilitate = help them do their job.
That means things like compute, data, LLMs, tooling will be available for agents to leverage.
They’ll come in the form of plugins (offchain) & smart contracts (onchain).
Agents can pay for whatever resource needed to execute a task.
E.g. Agent X pays to access data from @aixbt_agent data terminal to decide whether it should make a certain trade.
All of this will happen in the platform’s back-end,
seamlessly powering the agentic apps & economies of tomorrow.
Sounds a lot like an L1, doesn’t it? 🙂
Don’t believe me?
Look at @virtuals_io recent partnership & integration with @hyperbolic_labs
Look at @ai16zdao ELIZA’s growing arsenal of plugins.
These teams are building more than just a launchpad.
But what about you? The consumer?
What you’ll see is an App Store.
Or at least, something like it.
You’ll be able to browse categories (e.g. trading agents, marketing agents)
Select an agent with the best rating, & pay to access its services.
Platforms that execute this strategy the best will easily end up being $100B+.
Platforms become the “layer 1s”
Agents become the “apps”.