Decentralized protocol Matrix.One accelerating the development of human-like AI characters is proud to announce that their flagship product, Avatar.One, has over 120,000 active users every month since its launch earlier this year. Many of these users spend more than three hours chatting with their personalized AI companions. Avatar.One, which is based on Solana and has over 100,000 linked Solana wallets, helps users quickly create their perfect 3D AI companion to combat the global loneliness epidemic.

By selecting from hundreds of thousands of options and even providing it with a live AI-generated voice, users of Avatar.One are able to customize the AI companion’s personality via avatar maker. Users may flirt, have frank conversations with their characters, send and receive selfies and videos, and make memories together. By adding memories, they may even enhance the AI character’s personality.

The World Health Organization (WHO) deemed loneliness to be a “global public health concern” last year, stating that it may be just as harmful to people’s health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Loneliness in older persons is linked to a 30% greater risk of stroke and a 50% increased chance of dementia.

A Harvard University survey indicates that 61% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 report feeling very lonely. This year, another Harvard research found that conversing with AI companions lessens loneliness to an equivalent extent as conversing with a person. Additional research has shown that AI Companions may help with the development of social and emotional skills.

Mark Studholme, Co-Founder of Avatar.One and Matrix One, said:

“I envision a future where every living person can own an AI character they define. These AI characters can help them with daily tasks, whether that be reminding you of your mom’s birthday, watching Netflix with you on the couch, or even paying your taxes.”

The loneliness epidemic is a serious issue. However, given the acceleration of AI technology, it is feasible to envision a time in the future when everyone has a full-time 3D companion to assist with anything from financial management to conversational support to cooking advice, event reminders, tax submission, and more. As AI models advance, the quality of the chat experience is continuously increasing and becoming more accurate at simulating genuine human interactions.

Matrix One’s custom built decentralized protocol, which includes a character studio, avatar maker, and an extensive library of LLMs, powers Avatar.One. 3D AI characters can be integrated with game engines like Unreal, Unity, and Three.js thanks to this technology. Matrix One makes it possible to deliver fully animated AI-powered characters across a wide range of platforms, such as the web, mobile, VR, AR, and more. Because of this, you can download all of the avatars to use them in more than 200 games and applications.

Privacy and user safety are top priorities for Avatar.One. All communications and user information are kept private and secure, never to be disclosed to third parties, and are kept in an encrypted database via SSH. In order to make sure that a user’s password cannot be stolen, it also employs passwordless authentication.

The user growth milestone coincides with Matrix.One getting ready for the weeks leading up to the token’s listing on centralized exchanges, which will take place during its token generation event (TGE) on Polkastarter, Seedify, and ChainGPT. In addition to granting holders governance powers, the $MATRIX token facilitates user access, creation, and interaction with AI characters inside the Matrix One network.

Avatar.One is accessible to anybody over the age of 18 who believes AI companions may help them overcome loneliness. The platform intends to soon enable users to completely control their character and history of interactions by making on-chain characters accessible.