AI Agent newcomer Swarms increased 7 times in a week, what other ecological potential projects are there?

Author: Golem, Odaily Planet Daily

In the first week of 2025, the AI Agent track continues to soar, with the market capitalization of the two major ecosystems, ai16z and Virtual, breaking through $2 billion and $5 billion respectively, setting new historical highs.

AI innovations are still emerging. Just when people thought the "factional struggle" for AI Agent infrastructure was settled, and that all AI agents needed to "dock" within these two major ecosystems, a dark horse—Swarms—burst onto the scene. In the past week, the Swarms token surged over 768%, with a market cap peaking at $440 million; currently, Swarms has also surpassed 2,800 stars on GitHub.

Swarms is a multi-agent collaboration framework, centered around providing the core component of a "framework" along with long-term memory, task decomposition, and other functions, helping multiple AI agents collaborate seamlessly within the same network to tackle complex tasks. Currently, Swarms is also vigorously promoting the development of ecological projects. As the multi-agent collaborative ecosystem enriches, the still-early Swarms ecosystem may hold Alpha opportunities. Odaily Planet Daily will briefly introduce the Swarms ecosystem projects and the progress of Swarms itself.

Ecosystem Project Introduction

MCS

• Market Cap: $25 million
• Number of Holding Addresses: 3,889
• Token Contract: ALHFgnXSenUv17GMdf3dL9gtFW2KKQTz9avpM2Wypump

MCS was created by Swarms founder Kye Gomez, who has linked the official MCS Twitter account in his profile, providing official endorsement. MCS is a production-grade multi-agent system for medical diagnosis and coding built on Swarms, allowing users to diagnose and analyze medical and health-related issues for free through conversations with MCS. According to data disclosed by Kye Gomez, MCS has seen over 6,000 daily active users in the past two days, and its API is about to go live for one of the largest medical providers in the U.S.

SPORES

• Market Cap: $9.4 million
• Holding Addresses: 5,347
• Token Contract: H1koD28XAHg2vuGp7XggehBCR4zP6r6k6EQ3MR6j3kU2

SPORES is the token issued by Autonomous Spores, which has transferred 10% of the tokens to the Swarms DAO. Autonomous Spores plans to develop four AI agents based on the Swarms framework:

• The first agent is Saya, an AI agent fund manager built on Swarms Intelligence, which will manage a series of AI agent risk funds, honing its decision-making abilities through a large volume of trading data in the trading system, with the first fund set to launch soon;
• The second agent is Oozeborn, inspired by Clanker on Base, which simplifies the process for users to launch tokens and create AI agents on Twitter by commenting or tagging #Oozeborn in posts;
• The third agent is Grassian, a data analysis AI agent built on Swarms algorithms, primarily focused on identifying early Alpha bloggers on Twitter and scoring these individuals to provide insights into the ecosystem. Grassian is also an important source of information for Saya's trading decisions.
• The fourth agent is Jaguarundi, a risk assessment AI agent that evaluates risks in the trading system, providing security for Saya while also running an insurance fund aimed at mitigating overall trading system losses.

Autonomous Spores leverages the collective intelligence of AI agents through the collaboration of these four agents. Currently, Autonomous Spores plans to share a portion of the management fees generated by Saya and the trading taxes generated by Oozeborn with the community. However, Grassian and Jaguarundi have not yet been launched.

CREATE

• Market Cap: $8.8 million
• Holding Addresses: 4,528
• Token Contract: 92crE7qiX5T7VtiXhCeagfo1E81UtyguiXM7qCi7pump

CREATE claims to be the ultimate creative engine, essentially an AI platform built on Swarms that generates images or audio based on text prompts.

IFSCI

• Market Cap: $3.5 million
• Holding Addresses: 1,177
• Token Contract: RqGHXg2eh3zPjyzNM7kUyrrSmhb9M9q4mCKFH1mpump

IFSCI claims to be the first vertical AI x DeSci Agent project built using Swarms, aimed at helping users personalize their fasting and dietary plans. Users can participate in AI as food data contributors, health indicator providers, or researchers. As data providers, users only need to post their meal photos and corresponding descriptions on the X platform and @adesciagent, and they will receive rewards based on their contributions.

According to the official roadmap, IFSCI plans to launch a fully functional application in Q3 2025 and expand scientific research globally.

Progress of Swarms Ecosystem Construction

The currently thriving AI Agent framework projects resemble the prosperous period of early Ethereum L2. Although the technologies and models differ, the most intuitive way for users to assess quality is by observing the prosperity of the ecosystem. As a multi-agent collaboration framework, Swarms somewhat relies on a thriving agent ecosystem to "validate" its own value. Compared to ecosystems like ai16z and Virtuals, Swarms, despite starting later, is already actively working on ecosystem construction.

Today, Swarms' official Twitter account posted on the X platform to recruit ecological project collaborations, offering support in technology, marketing, and agent infrastructure, while also allocating 10 million Swarms tokens (worth $3.38 million) as an ecological fund. Swarms founder Kye Gomez also stated that he will "personally meet and support all our partner projects, providing technical assistance, marketing guidance, and more."

Kye Gomez announced today that the Swarms Marketplace is about to launch new features, including:

• Auto-generation and upload: Seamlessly create agents, tools, and groups, then upload them directly to the marketplace;
• Paywall integration: Monetize agents by listing them at a certain price, allowing others to purchase the developer's creations;
• Swarms token integration: Use Phantom to buy and sell agents with Swarms tokens, simplifying transactions;
• Swarms Auto-Cloud: Launch the Swarm API in the cloud with just one prompt;
• Agent quality rewards: Earn Swarms tokens for publishing high-quality agents, evaluated using advanced frameworks;
• Real-time chat and API: Provide real-time interaction and API functionality for each agent, group, tool, and prompt;
• Usage tracking: Monitor real-time usage of agents using detailed tracking tools.

Although there are still controversies regarding the originality of Swarms, steadfast construction is the best response to such disputes. ai16z was also accused of being a token conspiracy group in its early days, but its current market cap has proven its value is recognized by the market. "Either continue to soar or fade away," whether Swarms can "arm wrestle" with ai16z in ecosystem construction will require time to test.