Should the AI Agents framework standard issue a token?
For Zerebro, this is an open-source approach to drive traffic and expand the ecosystem for monetization, with the possibility of issuing new framework tokens or authorized MEME tokens.
Author: Haotian
@0xzerebro officially announced the release of the ZerePy framework and standards, and many people have shifted their attention to why there is no issuance of tokens for unknown brands, falling into a kind of myth-making about creating a new ELIZA community. This question is actually quite intriguing, so let's discuss it:
1) For DAO organizations driven by ownerless AI Agent applications like ai16z, the ELIZA framework standard represents a sense of community cohesion and expectations for subsequent open-source ecological development.
The influence of the ELIZA framework standard within the GitHub developer community is growing at a visibly rapid pace. It is endorsed by ai16z as a community token and has gained market consensus, with many coincidental factors involved, not strictly following the initially set development path. Therefore, how ai16z designs Tokenomics and clarifies the relationship between ai16z and ELIZA will be of utmost importance. However, the integration still has variables and requires further observation;
2) Here comes the question: subsequent projects like ARC, Swarms, etc., have all taken the route of first issuing tokens via GitHub repo (IGO). This novel MEME-based issuance method itself is a means of community financing, which is understandable.
However, whether the framework standard itself should issue tokens, and how to empower after issuing tokens becomes crucial. Currently, under the market's Fomo sentiment, issuing tokens seems to have become a standard practice, but without a judgment criterion, there will likely be a phase of issuing tokens for the sake of issuing tokens, which is clearly undesirable;
3) The emergence of ZerePy serves as a good example. Essentially, the relationship between ZerePy and Zerebro is similar to that between OP Stack and Optimism. It will externalize Zerebro's successful deployment experience in single AI applications in the form of an open-source foundational framework, allowing the market to see more single AI applications with Zerebro genes.
For Zerebro, this is a way of open-source traffic generation and commercial expansion to grow the ecosystem. Whether to issue a new framework token or authorize a MEME token is possible, but the specific choice depends on Zerebro's market focus. Recklessly issuing a "spin-off" is not wise for an ambitious single AI.
Unless the ZerePy ecosystem develops to a certain extent with a trend towards platformization, and the old Zerebro's Tokenomics cannot accommodate ZerePy's incentive effectiveness, only then will the significance of issuing tokens become apparent. Until then, similar tokens can only be regarded as MEME.
Therefore, I believe that soon, the question of whether to issue tokens for the framework standard will evolve into an internal logic:
For frameworks that fully consider Tokenomics effectiveness, need to leverage platform effects, and focus on achieving chain operations, issuing tokens is necessary. However, for ecosystems centered on single AI or other types of DAO organizations, whether the framework needs to issue tokens must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.
Finally, a reminder for friends: the "asset issuance" method of first issuing on GitHub is indeed novel, but in the early stages, scams are bound to be rampant. Learning to discern the quality of GitHub repository code, analyzing the feasibility of its commercial application vision, and assessing the reliability of team members are all essential.
As for community MEME tokens being officially endorsed, ELIZA has set a precedent, but whether similar projects will exist in the future is fundamentally uncertain. Moreover, whether ELIZA can truly be empowered has become an unknown variable. Randomly seeing a framework standard and blindly buying in, relying on speculative imagination, carries too much risk.
Disclaimer: The content of this article solely reflects the author's opinion and does not represent the platform in any capacity. This article is not intended to serve as a reference for making investment decisions.
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