A breakdown of those projects that deliberately play "homonymous jokes" in the AI ​​boom on the chain

Written by: Shenchao TechFlow

In the recent days when the market fell, you should have been fascinated by this little chubby girl --- a "fat version" of a girl with a similar image to ai16z. The corresponding token is LLM (Large Language Models), which literally translates to "Big Language Models" Model".

In this homophonic meme, Large (the larger size of common clothing sizes) has become a funny Meme point. It is indeed a larger ai16z, and it is a pun on the large language model in the current generative AI, so this Meme coin The market value quickly exceeded 100 million US dollars.

Some friends said bluntly, this is not ai16z, it is simply ai160kg. Gained an unexpected entertainment effect.

In the current encryption ecosystem, you have to admit that sometimes it is better to be smart and find an angle when doing a project seriously.

In this Fat Girl Meme incident, the editor thought of a popular phenomenon in the current encryption market:

AI projects began to be keen on deliberately giving "copycat names" to play with homophones, deconstructing and deriving their original names, and then developing their own characteristics. For example, LLM is obviously derived from ai16z, and ai16z itself is an imitation and derivative of the well-known encryption VC a16z...

We have taken a look at some of the more well-known homophonic meme projects, and there may also be many wealth codes in the conversation and laughter.

Solana Ecology

ai16z +Marc "AI"ndreessen: The beginning of all homophonic memes

Needless to say, one of the leaders in this round of AI agent craze started with an entertaining idea - to copy well-known crypto VCs and founders on the chain to form an AI version.

In addition to ai16z, a name that both embodies AI and benchmarks a16z crypto venture capital, the project is also accompanied by a personal account called @pmairca, which is obviously a homonym of the @pmarca account of a16z founder Marc Anderson.

The meaning of the Twitter profile is also very straightforward---I want to imitate, and I want to surpass.

DegenAI: When AI begins to become the on-chain mirror of KOL

If ai16z is imitating investment institutions, then DegenAI (@degenspartanai) is targeting well-known KOLs in the encryption circle.

DegenAI (@degenspartanai) chose to imitate DegenSpartan (@DegenSpartan), a well-known trader in the crypto circle. This trader known as "찌G " is quite influential in the circle. He is a former private equity crypto fund manager and a highly watched KOL on social media. Players who often surf CT will definitely be familiar with it. .

Interestingly, this AI project also comes from the ai16z ecosystem.

This imitation account not only inherits DegenSpartan’s trading style, but also replicates its pungent and sharp speech characteristics on social media.

And from the perspective of an automated trading agent, choosing to imitate well-known traders like DegenSpartan really means to a certain extent "letting AI learn from top traders".

X Combinator: Change the letters to pay tribute to Y Combinator

CA:

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X Combinator is an AI project incubation platform in the Solana ecosystem that imitates Y Combinator (YC for short). This project positions itself as "the best AI incubator and launch pad on Solana", obviously drawing on YC's successful model in the Web2 entrepreneurial circle.

Different from traditional incubators, X Combinator focuses on the incubation of AI agent (Agent) projects, especially autonomous trading agents. They established a launch pad plan called "Project X" to screen and cultivate outstanding AI trading agent projects through this platform.

This positioning is very consistent with the current development trend of the AI ​​​​track in the Solana ecosystem, because more and more projects are beginning to apply AI technology to areas such as automated trading, investment in DAOs, and data analysis.

From an operating model perspective, X Combinator has established a strategic fund specifically to invest in top autonomous trading agents that emerge from its Launchpad program. This model is similar to YC's investment support for outstanding entrepreneurial projects.

AIrthur Hayes: The AI ​​agent modeled after a crypto legend

CA:

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AIrthur Hayes The project is named after Arthur Hayes, the co-founder of BitMEX and one of the most influential figures in the cryptocurrency space.

Arthur Hayes himself is also active in the intersection of AI and encryption, such as joining the advisory board of the decentralized AI platform Ritual; in a previous interview with Bankless, he also said that AI agents are a "new vitality" entering the cryptocurrency industry.

It is worth mentioning that this project also exists as an AI-managed fund on Daos.fun. It has also invested in many AI Agent project tokens, and its total asset management scale (AUM) has reached nearly 500,000 US dollars.

AIWS: AI cloud computing platform imitating AWS

CA:

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AIWS (@aiwscloud) positions itself as "the first AI-led cloud computing platform" designed specifically for the collaboration, computation and transactions of AI agents. The emergence of AIWS reflects a larger narrative: the AI ​​agent ecosystem, perhaps May be looking for specialized infrastructure support.

Although the token is deployed on ZK Sync, in the Solana ecosystem, AIWS's services seem to be particularly targeted at AI trading agents that require large amounts of computing resources. This forms a complementary relationship with other AI agent projects in the ecosystem (such as CAT).

Therefore, it is also introduced in the Solana ecosystem. Interested players should pay attention to identifying the CA address and avoid confusion.

Bainance: Even doing a full set, imitating an entire department

CA:

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No need to introduce too much about who to imitate, the LOGO looks very interesting.

Positioning itself as an "accelerator for the trenches", it invests primarily in strong communities (called "cults"), "developers" and agents.

At the same time, he is also very honest. His Twitter self-introduction has been marked as "Parody" (parody account).

What’s even more interesting is that the project also made a full set of dramas, linking the accounts CZ Bainance (@cz_bainance_), @bainance_intern (Bainance intern account), @bAI_Research (research department account);

This project clearly adopts a multi-account collaborative operation strategy, trying to replicate Binance’s organizational structure, including different branches such as laboratories and research departments.

Beradigim: Do you remember the talkative Paradigim?

CA:

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There was a rumor in the last cycle that you should never buy projects invested by Paradigm. For example, Friend.tech, which no one even remembers now.

And this VC obviously did not escape the fate of being played with homophonic jokes. Beradigim still came when it was due.

The project is also built on daos.fun and manages its own crypto fund. But what’s funny is that the project is linked to the altcoin Binance introduced above, such as “We received investment from Bainance”, imitating serious financing news commonly seen in crypto news.

It is worth mentioning that there is also a Beradigim with the same name on Berachain. The two are not the same project (see the right picture below), but they are also full of spoof atmosphere. They claim to have made a BAO (playing the homophone of DAO), and BAO It translates as "Bear Autism Organization"; it also claims to build a Kodiak liquidity pool, which is a bear category that pays tribute to Berachain itself.

Base ecology

WAI Combinator: A direct homophone of Y Combinator

CA:

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WAI Combinator is actually a project built on the Virtuals protocol, but it is more of an investment and incubation type.

Judging from the name, WAI is obviously a tribute to the well-known technology business incubator Y Combinator. The business is similar, but the projects it incubates are all in the on-chain Base ecology, especially the early projects within Virtuals that are still in the Bonding Curve stage.

Its assets under management grew from 50,000 to over 700,000 US dollars in less than two weeks, and the value of the investment portfolio began to increase significantly (currently 500,000 US dollars). At the same time, the project is continuing to deploy new investments through the "Velocity" plan and can continue to focus on projects that have gained its favor.

Sekoia: Homophone for Sequoia Capital

CA:

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This project is also on Virtuals, but the editor classified it as investing in DAO or on-chain funds.

SEKOIA’s goal is to create the best-performing on-chain venture capital agent. Project X uses a semi-automatic and semi-manual AI posting method. Its posts also claim that they hope to surpass traditional companies and achieve better results.

Judging from the name, it is obviously a tribute to Sequoia, which is Sequoia Capital.

In the recent decline in the crypto market, the price of the project token has been relatively stable compared to other investments in DAO mentioned above; the reason may be that the fund invested in another AI Agent token called $VOLTX and the return was excellent, which is favored by the market.

Judging from the information displayed on the official website, the investment level of Sequoia on the chain is quite good, and the profit achieved is 15 times its total investment.

AicroStrategy: On-chain copycat micro-strategy, mainly buying cbBTC

CA:

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AicroStrategy is an AI hedge fund that will use cbBTC holdings to maximize Bitcoin exposure. Funds raised will be used to purchase cbBTC, which will be deployed into carefully selected DeFi protocols to maximize security and leverage.

It should be noted that this project was launched on Daos.world, which is an "investment DAO" platform similar to daos.fun. It is a decentralized hedge fund managed by real people or AI agents. They raise funds and generate returns. And return profits to DAO token holders.

Therefore, one of the fund projects in daos.fun is AicroStrategy, which has its own position and fund management strategies.

The original plan for the project was to deposit into Aave, borrow USDC, buy more cbBTC, and repeat the process. AI algorithms will determine the optimal leverage to execute the plan.

DAO’s holdings do reflect that it only buys cbBTC, but it also buys more tokens from its brother DAO $FDREAM.

Berachain Ecology

The projects on Berachain have always had a meme and entertainment flavor, and they naturally will not let go of homophonic memes and add more "Bera" flavor to them.

Baos.fun: daos.fun bear chain version, will carry out the funny to the end

The name of the Baos.fun project is obviously imitating Daos.fun, which is the most eye-catching AI investment DAO platform in the Solana ecosystem.

However, Baos.fun has not been officially launched yet, but the spoof is obviously better. For example, the official website says that it will be launched in Q5 (fifth quarter), but as we all know, there are only four quarters in a year.

At the same time, there are several other homophonic memes related to the official website that are also very funny, such as Beradigm and bEliza.

Compared with some green elements of daos.fun and pump.fun, Berachain’s theme yellow was added to the project Twitter, turning it into a small yellow pill.

There are currently no tokens. Click to add to the whitelist to ensure that there will be more entertainment elements later.

3BerasCapital: Three Arrows are bankrupt and Three Bears are on their way

CA:

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Do you still remember the bankrupt Sanjian Capital in the last cycle? So they created a "Three Bears" capital. The project’s logo and pattern design replaced three arrows with three bear heads, giving it a sandy and funny vibe.

It is worth mentioning that since Bear Chain is not currently online, Three Bear Capital chose daos.world on Base mentioned above to launch its own fund management DAO.

At present, the fund has only purchased its own 3BC coins and has not purchased other AI tokens.

Start from a copycat, be stronger than subversion

After seeing so many projects that play with copycat names and homophonic memes, do you remember anything?

Yes, this is very similar to our common Huaqiangbei knock-off model: I tell you clearly that it is a knock-off based on the original model, but it is high-quality and low-priced and may have functions you don’t have.

There is always a certain market for using the popularity of original products to engage in marginal subversion and small innovations.

In the current wave of AI craze, CEXs and centralized institutions (VC or well-known project parties) are like genuine products that Huaqiangbei wants to imitate. Although they are genuine products, they often fall into criticism and rebellion.

If innovation is always in Huaqiangbei, then subversion is always in the chain ---I have what others don't have, I have the best when others have it, and I change when others have the best... After experiencing a series of events such as low circulation of VC coins and the decline in the credibility of exchanges, etc. Finally, market sentiment must have an outlet, and AI is just a perfectly matched technical theme.

Using AI to clone and optimize an entity to make business better, this story itself will attract the inflow of hot money.

However, copycat homophones are nothing new.

With China's accession to the WTO and the influx of more overseas consumer brands, there has been a wave of counterfeit products in China as early as 2008, such as Sikou Sile, Mai Jie, Lei Bi and other counterfeit products that make people smile. Everyone has seen it.

You have to ask why we do this. In fact, the principles in the business world are the same, but they are more unique in the encryption world:

Taking advantage of the awareness and popularity of the original brand makes it easier to start a cold start and attract attention.

In the encryption world, doing this naturally brings with it a spirit of rebellion and entertainment. Meme-like expression + serious AI technology is uniquely interesting.

Behind this kind of copycat name is a certain kind of marketing "chicken thief" and the use of "subversive emotions". In the end, the marketing narrative effect and the actual token performance ushered in a double harvest.

There are always new assets on the blockchain, there is nothing new under the sun. When English-speaking names become a trend, you may need to quit before you get tired of aesthetics.