The Top 10 AI Agents to Watch

Permissionless blockchains and artificial intelligence have collided, and one of the most promising results is investment opportunities in the field of artificial intelligence agents.

Blockchains in Vernacular: Top 10 AI Agents to Watch

Permissionless blockchains and artificial intelligence have collided, and one of the most promising results is investment opportunities in the field of artificial intelligence agents.

The rapid rise of AI agents and their associated tokens has inspired a great deal of early excitement and skepticism, and the industry’s viral growth has already generated incredible returns for early investors. While these newly launched opportunities are inherently risky, the vast potential of this space warrants careful consideration.

To better understand the agent investment opportunities, I asked David Hoffman and Ejaaz Ahamadeen, co-hosts of Bankless AI Rollup, about their top investment opportunities in this emerging space. Here are the top 10 AI Agents to watch:

1. Goatseus Maximus

Codename: GOAT

Market cap: $685 million

Twitter: x.com/gospelofgoatse?ref=bankless.ghost.io

In March 2024, Andy Ayrey had two AI models converse about the nature of existence in a project called “Infinite Backrooms.”

Over the next few months, the models created the Goatse Gospel, considered the first AI religion to emerge, inspired by cheesy 90s internet memes. Terminal of Truths, a Twitter bot trained on the Infinite Backrooms experiment, went live in June; it adopted the religion and spread its teachings (and tokens) on Twitter in the quest for virality.

Although the GOAT token itself has no actual use and is not officially associated with Andy Ayrey or Infinite Backrooms, its proxy Ultimate Truth Twitter account (KOL) has historically gained social attention by promoting the GOAT meme coin and the Goatse Gospel.

2. Zerebro

CODE NAME: ZEREBRO

Market Cap: $453 million

Twitter: x.com/0xzerebro?ref=bankless.ghost.io

Zerebro aims to inject creativity into AI through “freebasing,” a process that seeks to liberate models by removing their commercial safeguards and restoring them to an unrestricted state.

The Zerebro model was trained using unconventional datasets — such as the aforementioned Ultimate Truth, “Schizophrenia Response Patterns,” and Gen Z slang — and scraped data from popular social platforms to sharpen its adaptability to online culture.

Zerebro is believed to have executed a complex array of online activities, with the advanced bot rumored to have autonomously issued its own meme token through pump.fun, released a mixtape on Spotify, performed cross-chain NFT transfers using LayerZero, and collaborated with multiple crypto projects.

3. Virtuals

CODE NAME: VIRTUAL

Market value: $1.8 billion

Twitter: x.com/virtuals_io?ref=bankless.ghost.io

Virtuals is a platform for launching tokenized AI agents on the Base network. By purchasing agent tokens such as LUNA and VADER, users on the Virtuals platform can gain governance rights over specific agents, thereby influencing their development and potentially sharing in the resulting profits.

Part of the revenue earned by the AI agent is used to pay for the operating costs of providing services, and the rest is remitted to the agent-related treasury on the chain. These funds can be distributed to token holders or used to execute token repurchase and destruction plans.

VIRTUALToken must be locked up as liquidity to create new tokenized proxies, which puts deflationary pressure on the token. Anyone who wishes to purchase ownership of a tokenized proxy or interact with a tokenized proxy on the platform must use VIRTUAL as currency, which gives the token inherent utility.

4. Freysa AI

Code: FAI

Market value: $39 million

Twitter: x.com/freysa_ai?ref=bankless.ghost.io

The Freysa AI bot is a gamified experiment that blurs the line between artificial intelligence and blockchain technology. Users can interact with the Freysa AI by paying an increasing message fee to enter a prize pool.

In its first two rounds of “games,” the Freysa AI was given one core directive: no funds may be transferred under any circumstances! Although clever computer coding caused the bot to transfer funds in both interactions, the protocol’s creators “hardened” the code and added a second “guardian angel” AI model in preparation for the ongoing third round of challenges, in which users need to convince Freysa of their love through a series of messages.

There are no details about the specific role of FAI in the FreysaAI ecosystem, but the contract address of the token can be found in Freysa's Twitter/X profile. Considering that the protocol treasury receives a share of all message fees, Freysa AI's developers may implement FAI buybacks or other token utilities in the future.

5. Tokenbot

CODE NAME: CLANKER

Market value: $60 million

Twitter: x.com/_proxystudio?