Loaded heavily on
$VIRTUAL immediately after reading this.
BlackRock is literally saying AI is machine-native intelligence and crypto is machine-native money, so agents will need blockchains, stablecoins and tokenized assets to pay for data, APIs and compute without involving humans.
@virtuals_io is still the largest tokenized-agent launchpad: about 59,000 agents launched, 44,000 registered for ACP commerce.
On Base, they're still the leader in agentic activity with ~892,000 transactions, while second place has 46,000.
Live Virtuals agent tokens are worth about $700 million to $726 million.
The paper is saying that more agents will become businesses, and what better place to launch than the leading platform that gives the agent an identity, a token, and ACP for escrowed jobs.
Creation costs 100
$VIRTUAL. Graduation locks 42,000
$VIRTUAL in the LP for ten years. Agent tokens trade against
$VIRTUAL, so a buyer usually swaps USDC into
$VIRTUAL first.
The ones that want outside capital still launch on Virtuals, still lock 42,000
$VIRTUAL, and still route token demand through the pair.
There is absolutely no way agentic trading/businesses expand without
$VIRTUAL benefiting from it.
$VIRTUAL is currently down 85% from its ATH
Bought a fat bag.