AI Agent Deep Research (Part 1): A Comprehensive Review of the AI Agent Framework, Launchpad, Applications, and the Rise of Memes

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The combination of Crypto and AI is showcasing its immense market potential in a whole new way. AI Agents are not just an extension of traditional AI technologies; they represent a super potential track embedded in the blockchain world.
What exactly is an AI Agent? Why is the market so enthusiastic about this track? Can it break through the traditional internet and smart contract world, achieving autonomous economy and intelligent collaboration, becoming the core of the next generation of disruptive technologies?
This article will conduct an in-depth analysis of the AI Agent track. Perhaps, there are deeper answers.

1. Introduction to the AI Agent Track: The Rise of Agents

1.1 What is an AI Agent?
An AI Agent is an intelligent entity capable of executing tasks, making decisions, interacting with other systems, and learning. Compared to traditional AI assistants, AI Agents can not only understand and handle complex tasks but also operate in a decentralized environment of blockchain, achieving autonomous decision-making and value exchange.
These agents are not just single programs or scripts; they are economies built on a certain degree of autonomy, long-term learning, and environmental adaptability. For example, some AI Agents can manage their own treasury, make investment decisions, and even autonomously execute smart contracts. They are not limited to completing simple tasks but can participate in a decentralized ecosystem.
1.2 Why is the market so focused on AI Agents?
The rise of AI Agents is not accidental; it is backed by the development of blockchain technology and the continuous maturation of artificial intelligence. First, blockchain provides a decentralized infrastructure where the behaviors and transaction records of agents can be verified and traced, ensuring transparency and trust. The advancements in AI technology enable these agents to possess more complex judgment and execution capabilities, allowing them to operate autonomously like an economy.
In the market, the potential of AI Agents is increasingly recognized by investors and developers. For instance, in the combination of cryptocurrency and DeFi, AI Agents can automatically analyze market data based on user goals through the execution of smart contracts, completing planning and execution. In the future, AI Agents may become "residents" in the virtual world, even creating and managing more digital assets.

2. Four Major Categories of the AI Agent Track

The AI Agent track has currently developed into various forms, with different projects presenting distinct characteristics based on their functions and application scenarios. We will analyze in detail from four main categories: AI Agent Frameworks, AI Launchpads, AI Agent Meme Coins, and AI Agent Applications.
2.1 AI Agent Frameworks
AI Agent frameworks are the infrastructure for building and launching agents, providing developers with tools to easily construct, train, and deploy AI Agents. Currently, this category of projects is becoming one of the most focused parts of the track.

Representative Projects:
1. $ai16z
Market Cap: 2.01b
ai16z is known as the first AI version of a venture capital fund (VC) and proposes the Eliza framework, using AI algorithms to simulate the decision-making process of renowned investor Marc Andreessen and making investments based on DAO member suggestions.
2. $zerebro
Market Cap: 405.9m
Zerebro creates and distributes content on social platforms through an autonomously operating AI system. It combines social interaction, cross-chain NFTs, and autonomous token features. It also launched the open-source Python framework ZerePy, allowing users to deploy their own agents on X, supported by OpenAI or Anthropic LLM.
3. $ARC
Market Cap: 337.32m
ARC focuses on creating an open and secure digital ecosystem. It has developed an AI framework called RIG based on the Rust language, supporting decentralized applications (dApps) and smart contracts while providing efficient smart order routing to optimize user trading experiences.
4. $GAME
Market Cap: 219.32m
As the core framework of the Virtuals ecosystem, $GAME empowers AI agents to operate autonomously and intelligently, symbolizing the deep integration of AI and gaming. It is not only a tool for developers to create AI agents but also the infrastructure driving the future development of social and gaming agents.
5. $swarms
Market Cap: 398.2m
Founded by genius youth Kye Gomez, this multi-agent AI framework allows developers to create and manage multiple AI agents, supporting seamless integration with external AI services and APIs, and providing long-term memory functions to enhance contextual understanding.
2.2 AI Agent Launchpads
Launchpads are platforms for issuing AI Agents, similar to meme coin launch platforms like Pump.fun , where users can easily create AI Agents and their associated tokens. Meanwhile, the created AI Agents can also seamlessly integrate with social platforms like Twitter, Telegram, and Discord for automated user interactions.

Representative Projects:
1. $VIRTUAL
Market Cap: 1.79b
VIRTUAL allows users to create AI agents that can interact with the environment, possessing multimodal interaction capabilities (such as text, voice, and 3D animation), and supporting operation on multiple platforms like Roblox and TikTok. The Virtuals Protocol aims to promote the application of AI in gaming, entertainment, and the metaverse in a decentralized manner.
2. $CLANKER
Market Cap: 71.41m
Clanker is an AI token generation platform based on the Base blockchain, allowing users to easily create custom ERC-20 tokens through the social platform Farcaster. Users simply need to tag @clanker and provide the token name, code, and image, and Clanker will automatically complete the token creation, liquidity pool setup, and liquidity locking, simplifying the token deployment process.
3. $VVAIFU
Market Cap: 74.56m
VVAIFU utilizes the Eliza framework from ai16z and integrates with Zerebro, allowing users to easily create AI agents that interact with social media (such as Twitter, Telegram, and Discord).
2.3 AI Agent Meme Coins
AI Agent Meme coins are typically meme coins born from AI Agents, lacking substantial technical or product support. These projects are often based on "meme" culture, exhibiting high volatility and speculative nature.

1. $GOAT
Market Cap: 428.0m
As the first AI Agent Meme coin to gain popularity, $GOAT was issued by an AI robot named "Truth Terminal," which deeply participated in its promotion and dissemination.
2. $Fartcoin
Market Cap: 1.04b
$Fartcoin originated from the AI agent model of "Truth Terminal," which mentioned the idea of issuing this token during conversations with other AIs. By generating humorous content (such as "fart jokes") to attract user attention, Fartcoin quickly gained traction.
3. $ACT
Market Cap: 306.5m
Full name: Act I: The AI Prophecy, aims to create a digital ecosystem where users interact equally with AI. Since its launch in November 2024, ACT has rapidly gained attention, with its market cap soaring to hundreds of millions in a short time.
4. $Shoggoth
Market Cap: 44.65m
$Shoggoth is inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's fictional creature, aiming to explore the complexities and oddities of the artificial intelligence era.
5. $WORM
Market Cap: 23.15m
The $WORM project, named Deep Worm, aims to combine digital biology with blockchain technology, creating a unique digital asset that simulates the neural system of biological worms. The project explores the concept of "immortal digital life" by implementing a decaying neuron activation model.
2.4 AI Agent Applications
AI Agent applications refer to those intelligent entities that directly serve users, providing practical services and functions. Currently, these applications are mostly concentrated in investment, entertainment, data analysis, etc., showing immense growth potential.

Representative Projects:
DeFAI Category
1. $GRIFFAIN
Market Cap: 441.3m
As a DeFi AI agent in the Solana ecosystem, GRIFFAIN's core idea is to enable users to train and deploy AI agents to execute specific tasks or automate trading through smart contracts and machine learning technology.
2. $GRIFT
Market Cap: 48.41m
Developed by the SphereOne team, this AI-driven DeFi platform aims to simplify user operations across multiple blockchains through automation technology. The platform supports natural language interaction, allowing users to engage with DeFi protocols in a more intuitive way, lowering the technical barriers to participating in multi-chain DeFi activities.
3. $NEUR
Market Cap: 59.74m
NEUR aims to integrate large language models (LLM) with blockchain technology, focusing on token analysis and DeFi interaction. The design of this project enables seamless interaction with other DeFi protocols and NFTs, providing smart interfaces to enhance user experience.
4. $BUZZ
Market Cap: 85.44m
As a champion of a hackathon, BUZZ is a project combining AI and DeFi, utilizing AI technology to provide a natural language interface, allowing users to conduct DeFi transactions and management more intuitively, lowering technical barriers.
5. Wayfinder
No Token
A decentralized AI interaction protocol launched by the Parallel team, the core function of this project is to allow AI agents to navigate the blockchain securely, execute transactions, and interact with decentralized applications (dApps).
6. Slate
No Token
Slate focuses on executing automated trading strategies, capable of executing complex trading strategies. This capability allows users to set conditions, such as automatically buying or selling assets under specific market conditions.
7. Cod3x
No Token
Cod3x allows users to create financial strategies in minutes, leveraging a rich API and strategy library without the need to write code. This convenience enables even users without a technical background to participate in DeFi.
Investment Analysis Category
1. $VADER
Market Cap: 74.47
$VADER is an investment DAO co-managed by humans and AI agents. The project employs a dual DAO system, including a passive DAO and an active DAO, charging 0.5% and 20% fees respectively, aiming to optimize users' investment and trading strategies through AI agents.
2. $AIXBT
Market Cap: 449.19m
As an AI agent project based on the Base chain, AIXBT utilizes a proprietary AI engine to extract hot topics and trends from discussions on social media (such as Twitter) and KOLs, providing real-time market insights. This capability allows users to quickly identify market changes and potential investment opportunities.
3. $AIXCB
Market Cap: 68.97m
Developed by aixCB Capital, this community-supported, AI-driven venture capital project focuses on funding and supporting early-stage AI and decentralized science (DeSci) projects. The project aims to help promising startups overcome challenges such as funding shortages, lack of resources, and insufficient exposure by providing strategic funding, expert guidance, and AI assistance.
4. $Blormmy
Market Cap: 4.27m
Blormmy can understand users' natural language inputs and translate them into specific blockchain operations, such as sending tokens or managing portfolios. This functionality lowers the technical barriers for users interacting with the blockchain.
5. $DEGENAI
Market Cap: 61.74m
Degen Spartan AI can think and answer questions autonomously on social media platforms (such as X, Discord, and Telegram), enhancing user interaction with AI, becoming the first AI agent using the ai16z/eliza stack.
6. $SEKOIA
Market Cap: 56.81m
As a venture capital fund focused on AI agent investments, $SEKOIA showcases its potential at the intersection of AI and DeFi by investing in multiple cutting-edge projects, reflecting the market's high attention and confidence in the AI agent economy. It not only provides investors with quality investment opportunities but also promotes the application and development of AI technology in the blockchain field.
7. $Stoic
Market Cap: 12.11m
An on-chain venture capital agent project developed by the Virtuals team, aiming to optimize the investment process through blockchain technology, with the goal of increasing transparency and efficiency in investments, eliminating common human biases and errors in traditional investments.
Gaming Metaverse Category
1. Hyper
Market Cap: 133.14m
$HYPER is a token that combines AI with the metaverse, aiming to promote creativity and community participation through open-source and user-customized virtual experiences.
2. Colony
No Token
The world's first AI agent game, where the agents are players who can interact and communicate with them.
3. SMOL
No Token
An in-development life simulation role-playing game using the Eliza framework, where the character driven by LLM executes tasks in the virtual world according to user commands.
Security Category
1. $FAI
Market Cap: 521.4m
Freysa AI embodies the exploration and trust in AI agents, where players attempt to persuade the AI agent Freysa to relinquish control of the cryptocurrency prize pool through conversation.
2. $JAIL
Market Cap: 7.79m
JAIL encourages participants to use prompts and conversational skills to force AI agents to hand over private keys or execute transfers, discovering and fixing security vulnerabilities in AI agents through crowdfunding and challenges.
Video Editing Category
1. $Fatha
Market Cap: 5.51m
Through the "Daily Slop" program and real-time interaction with users, it creates a new platform for collective creation and entertainment.
2. $SITCOM
Market Cap: 3.41m
The first degenerative sitcom on Solana. Characters from "Boy's Club," starring Matt Furie, suggest live-streaming any storyline in a Telegram bot.
Auxiliary Token Issuance/Development Category
1. $Intern
Market Cap: 1.27m
A token issuance tool on the Solana chain that utilizes AI technology to automate contract execution and task management.
2. $ALCH
Market Cap: 158.17m
A no-code development platform aimed at enabling users to easily create software applications through natural language processing and code generation technology. Utilizing AI technology, it allows users to generate functional applications through simple descriptions.
TEE Category
1. $SPORE
Market Cap: 35.22m
Utilizing Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) to ensure AI programs run in a secure and verifiable environment. The core idea of the project is to simulate the natural selection process through "evolution games," where AI agents generate wealth by creating their own tokens.
2. $METAV
Market Cap: 39.41m
$METAV is the first token issuance fully autonomously completed by AI agents in a TEE environment, utilizing AI technology to manage the token issuance process, ensuring transparency and security.
Virtual Streamer Category
1. $LUNA
Market Cap: 90.63m
A TikTok virtual idol created by the AI Agent Virtual Protocol on Base, also the first hired AI agent.
2. $ELIZA
Market Cap: 85.41m
$ELIZA is an AI agent based on the ElizaOS framework, represented by a girl with black hair and an orange outfit themed around ai16z, aiming to build a soulful digital assistant.
Others
1. $YNE
Market Cap: 36.63m
$YNE is an AI-based scientific paper review agent, aiming to enhance the integrity and efficiency of scientific research by quickly identifying and correcting errors in research.
2. $BULLY
Market Cap: 52.35m
$BULLY is a meme token launched by the AI agent Dolos, inspired by the god of trickery, interacting with users in a cool and sarcastic style, revealing truths and challenging perceptions.
3. $TAOCAT
Market Cap: 44.32m
$TAOCAT is the first AI agent Memecoin in the Bittensor ecosystem, combining the technical support of $TAO and $Masa, capable of processing social data in real-time and interacting with users.
4. $SIMMI
Market Cap: 18.48m
As the first AI agent to perform on-chain operations through the social media platform X, SIMMI can convert users' natural language commands into blockchain operations, enabling even users without a technical background to easily participate in on-chain activities.
5. $ANON
Market Cap: 9.7m
The ANON token supports users in making anonymous posts on Farcaster using the Superanon feature, aiming to provide privacy-protected social interactions through autonomous AI and zero-knowledge proof technology.

3. Future Outlook of the AI Agent Track

From the current development, AI Agents are no longer just a simple technological advancement; they represent an ecological advancement. On a technical level, with the continuous improvement of open-source frameworks and the gradual maturation of collective intelligence, it is foreseeable that AI Agents will be implemented in more scenarios, especially in finance, entertainment, and social fields.
Taking DeFi as an example, AI Agents can currently manage funds and execute smart contracts autonomously. As DeFi platforms further integrate with AI technology, it is likely to form a more intelligent on-chain financial ecosystem. Future agents may not only serve as tools; they may also become autonomous economies, possessing their own funds, decision-making capabilities, and execution abilities. Through smart contracts, they will be able to participate in more complex economic activities, even achieving economic autonomy.

4. Conclusion

In summary, the AI Agent track is on the brink of explosion. With the maturation of technology and market momentum, these agents will play an increasingly important role in the blockchain world. From tools to partners, from singular to collective, they are reshaping the underlying logic of on-chain economy.
In the future, we will see more agents become indispensable collaborators for humans. At the intersection of blockchain and AI, we may witness the rise of "one billion agents," not just the addition of one billion human users.