AI plays the leading role, and 22 encryption projects collectively ended up deploying AI Agent

Author: Nancy, PANews

AI Agent is undoubtedly the core theme of the current on-chain market. From infrastructure construction, tool development, DeFi to games and other products, the rapid iteration of AI Agent is driving the explosive growth of the market, strongly occupying the market's attention and user minds. The recent increase in the proportion of DEX/CEX trading volume also proves the crazy plundering of on-chain liquidity and attention, and that market capital flows are undergoing structural changes. According to data from The Block and DeFiLlama, the proportion of spot trading volume between DEX and CEX has increased significantly in the past few months. As of January 2025, this proportion has reached 20.2%, a record high.

Under this trend, many non-AI encryption projects that lack favorable themes are also rushing in, trying to ride on the AI ​​Agent, which brings its own traffic. In this article, PANews has compiled 22 encryption projects that deploy AI Agents, covering multiple tracks such as games, public chains, payments, DeFi, and DePIN. These projects mainly accelerate the construction of the AI ​​Agent ecosystem through technical framework development and application scenario implementation. and development.

Illuvium: Introducing autonomous AI NPCs to the game

lluvium is an RPG and NFT game built on Ethereum. On January 7, Illuvium announced a partnership with Virtuals Protocol to enhance the gaming experience of the upcoming Illuvium MMO Lite. This cooperation will use Virtuals' AI technology and its GAME LLM framework to provide dynamic and intelligent behaviors for NPCs and provide players with a sense of immersion.

Story Protocol: Hire AI Agent Luna with high salary

Story Protocol is Layer1 designed specifically for intellectual property (IP). In December last year, after Story Protocol released a TCP/IP framework between AI Agents, it announced that "the human intern has asked for leave and plans to recruit an AI Agent to manage Twitter", and finally decided to hire Luna to manage its X account. With an annual salary of up to 36.5 USDC, it is said that she will bring "charm, personality and a touch of mischief".

Circle: Explore **AI agents operating and trading independently using

USDC**

In the second half of 2024, Circle announced that it would cooperate with Solana to launch an AI agent to improve infrastructure security. In November of the same year, Circle released a report stating that the company had issued more than $2 billion worth of USDC in the past few weeks, exploring how the combination of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology will change people’s understanding of work and finance, especially By using "autonomous" payments. Circle introduces a concept that enables AI agents to operate and trade independently using USDC. In addition, it has built a sample application to "demonstrate this autonomous system" and encourages users to use this template to build their own projects and provide feedback.

Arbitrum: Launching **funding program and establishing AI agency

collaboration**

In November 2024, Arbitrum announced the launch of a $1 million Trailblazer funding program aimed at attracting developers with innovative ideas to deploy impactful AI Agents or other AI products based on Arbitrum. In addition, Arbitrum has also reached cooperative relationships with Eilza Labs and ARC Agents.

Stripe: Plans to launch AI agent toolkit

In November 2024, Jeff Weinstein, product director of payment company Stripe, said that it was launching a software development kit (SDK) specially built for AI agents. The toolkit supports large language models (LLM) to call payment, billing, issuance and other APIs, and integrates Vercel, LangChainAI, CrewAIInc, etc., and any model can be used through functions.

Coinbase: Releases multiple **AI agent products to simplify on-chain

operations and interactions**

At the end of October last year, Coinbase launched a new tool, Based Agent, which is developed based on the Coinbase SDK, OpenAI and Replit platforms. It allows users to create an AI agent with encrypted wallet functions in 3 minutes, and can perform on-chain transactions, token swaps and pledges. Wait for multiple tasks. The following month, the Coinbase Developer Platform also cooperated with Langchain to launch AgentKit, a framework for building AI agents, which can integrate on-chain (Base chain) and off-chain interactive functions. It combines Web2 API and on-chain data to enable Agents to browse content on their own and empower the chain. operate on.

Orca: An AI Agent version of the automated robot is being developed

Orca is an AMM DEX on Solana. On January 6, ai16z Lianchuang Shaw revealed in an offline interview with BlockBeats that ai16z is working with Orca to develop an agent, which is an automated robot that can automatically manage Orca’s liquidity pool. Users just put their tokens into it and if the pool doesn't exist it automatically creates a new pool or if the pool already exists it puts the tokens into the existing pool. Next, it continuously monitors these pools and automatically withdraws funds from the pools if it detects situations that could lead to permanent losses, such as token price divergences. Because what most people worry about is permanent loss. Users can also programmatically control the spread of tokens, or adjust how tokens are paired.

io.net: Establishing multiple cooperations in the field of AI Agent

DePIN's leading project io.net has established multiple cooperations in the field of AI Agent. For example, in December last year, io.net announced a partnership with Zerebro, a creative autonomous AI agency, to enhance Ethereum verification operations. Not only that, io.net also cooperates with ai16z to provide decentralized GPU computing power to support the operation of the latter model.

IoTeX: Launching the first AI Agent BinoAI in the DePIN field

IoTeX is an open platform that modularly constructs AI+DePIN infrastructure. In December last year, IoTeX announced the launch of the first AI Agent in the DePIN field: BinoAI, which is built on ELIZA-OS and aims to lay the foundation for the evolution and development of decentralized autonomous consciousness in the DePIN field. BinoAI will use AI autonomous learning to automatically recognize and conduct insightful analysis of DePIN-related knowledge, and will be based on ai16z's ELIZA framework, enabling BinoAI to securely access and interact with on-chain data. Combined with IoTeX's decentralized DePIN module infrastructure, BinoAI will run in a completely decentralized and trustless environment. Its application scenarios in DePIN include smart travel, energy systems, smart wearables, and smart homes.

Smolverse: Developing an AI electronic pet game based on Eliza

Smolverse is a game and NFT project on Treasure DAO. Since December last year, Smolverse has cooperated with ai16z to develop an on-chain AI Tomogatchi game called "Smolworld", which combines Eliza's Agent framework.

Phala Network: Building a TEE framework based on Eliza

Phala Network used to be the private computing infrastructure of the Polkadot ecosystem. As previously reported by PANews, Phala Network has partnered with a16z to build Eliza’s TEE framework, which integrates TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) technology into Eliza’s multi-agent framework, providing cryptographic verifiability and enhanced privacy to ensure Safe and reliable interaction. For example, previously popular projects such as Spore.fun and aiPool all used Phala Network's TEE technology.

Injective: Launching the first cross-chain AI Agents Hub

Injective is an interoperable layer 1 blockchain. A few days ago, Injective announced that it will cooperate with Sonic SVM, the first SVM blockchain on Solana, to launch the first cross-chain AI agent platform Smart Agent Hub this year, providing developers with powerful tools and frameworks to create, manage, and monetize AI agents. And realize cross-chain asset transfer and unified development experience. The first test network is expected to be launched in the first quarter of 2025, and the ecosystem will gradually expand to areas such as games, entertainment, DeFi and social platforms (such as TikTok, Web3 games).

Fuel: Launched AI agent tool Fuel Agent Kit

Fuel is a modular execution layer specially designed for the Ethereum Rollup ecosystem. Not long ago, Fuel announced the launch of the AI ​​agent tool Fuel Agent Kit, which will allow users to connect their AI agents to Fuel and various applications on Fuel, or use Fuel to build new AI agents.

Gaia: Create your own AI agent

Gaia is a decentralized open source artificial intelligence infrastructure platform. In November last year, Gaia announced that it would cooperate with the AI ​​platform vana to create a powerful and exclusive AI agent. Currently, Gaia's AI agent has integrated cooperation with EigenLayer, ENS and other projects.

Aethir: Incubating and investing in AI Agents

Aethir is a decentralized real-time rendering network. Aethir has continued to incubate and invest in AI Agents in recent months. For example, it announced the third round (Batch 3) of its US$100 million ecological fund at the end of last year, focusing on the combination of games and AI agents. At the same time, Aethir also provides free GPU computing power to Eliza agent developers.

DWF Labs: Develop AI agent trading and set up fund support

In addition to successfully managing investment portfolios completely autonomously by developing AI trading agents, which have been integrated into the workflow of the DWF trading system, DWF Labs also announced the establishment of a US$20 million fund at the end of last year to support the development of independent AI agents, including TAO Cat, HeyAnon Projects have been funded.

Blade Games: On-chain game ecosystem integrating AI Agent

Blade Games is one of the largest on-chain gaming ecosystems on Arbitrum and Mantle, attracting more than 850,000 registered users. Blade Games combines on-chain games with AI agent technology and is built on the zkVM stack. Players can play games, train AI agents, and create their own on-chain economy on this platform.

aelf: Launching codeless AI agent framework aevatar intelligence

In December 2024, Layer1 blockchain aelf announced the launch of the codeless AI agent framework aevatar intelligence, which will be powered by multiple large language models (LLM), allowing external developers to integrate their preferred LLM, thus forming a driving innovation and expansion A collaborative ecosystem of framework capabilities, the first use case AI pump pad will be launched in early January 2025.

SendAI: **enables AI agents to autonomously perform operations on the

Solana chain**

SendAI is the Solana artificial intelligence ecosystem accelerator. In December 2024, SendAI announced the launch of the open source toolkit Solana Agent Kit, which supports agents of any AI model to independently perform operations on the Solana chain. It has integrated mainstream protocols such as Jupiter, Metaplex, and Raydium. The toolkit uses LangChain technology to support various AI models from GPT-4 to Llama, and plans to integrate with frameworks such as ai16z’s Eliza and Zerebro’s ZerePy.

Artela: **Released the next generation full-chain AI Agent technology

framework**

In December 2024, the parallel EVM public chain Artela Network officially released the full-chain AI Agents technology framework. Based on Artela's on-chain intelligence, decentralized trusted execution, elastic block space and other features, it solves the current autonomy of AI Agents that relies on centralized servers. Restricted pain points can bring real "read, write, and own" capabilities to AI Agents.

**Frax: Developing technology stack “AIVM” for AI agents on the

blockchain**

In mid-December 2024, the decentralized stablecoin protocol Frax Finance announced that it was cooperating with the associated project IQ to develop an AI technology stack "AIVM". The technology stack is a parallel blockchain developed in-house by Fraxtal based on the Layre2 rollup protocol, which enables AI agents to achieve complete autonomy with no single point of control, and ultimately helps AI and blockchain achieve more seamless collaboration.

Planet Mojo: **Launching AI agent Mr. WWA, the first game will be

launched soon**

Planet Mojo is a GameFi game based on PVP auto-chess developed by Magic Platform. On January 7, Planet Mojo announced that it would cooperate with Virtuals to launch the AI ​​Agent Mr. WWA (Winston Wylde Alexande). The token WWA will be used as a platform reward token, and the foundation will support continuous repurchase. In addition, Planet Mojo’s first game Agents of Poker will also be launched soon.