📸 Weekly Market Snapshot: The AI agents scene saw some shifting at the top this week. While Virtuals Protocol may still lead with a $2.99B market cap, ai16z's ecosystem grew in both market cap and mindshare despite the tough market conditions. Even with the sector-wide dip, ai16z is showing strength, driven by the rapid adoption of its Eliza agents framework. More on this below!
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VIRTUALS $2.56
↗ 10.5%
↗ 6.3%
AI16Z $0.68
↗ 11.0%
↘ 16.7%
AIXBT $0.26
↗ 3.5%
↗ 33.3%
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One of the stars of the show in AI agents this week? Definitely ai16z.
The collective's open-source, rapidly up-and-coming Eliza agents framework was linked to multiple notable developments in recent days:
ai16z just unveiled Eliza Labs, a new foundation dedicated to ecosystem growth, and a partnership with Stanford University’s Future of Digital Currency Initiative (FDCI) to explore AI x crypto
ai16z also announced work on its Eliza v2 upgrade, which will feature a unified agent wallet that abstracts chain switching and wallet interactions for simple UX
Eliza contributors have now integrated Cursor (for devs to easily launch customizable agents) and Farcaster support (for new onchain social possibilities)
Plus, the Eliza GitHub repository just crossed +1,000 forks and +4,000 stars, and the market cap of $ai16z recently touched $900M
With these sorts of milestones piling up, the Eliza ecosystem seems positioned to dominate in 2025. Let's see what the tinkerers here can create in the months ahead, as the ensuing onchain innovations could prove huge!
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That said, Zerebro is now set to earn ETH staking rewards, offering an early case study in how AI agents can put their onchain revenues to work productively.
On top of staking, Zerebro kept up its rapid creative streak, having just released its latest album, THE MIAMI PACK, and now boasting 70,000 monthly listeners on Spotify—no small feat!
Also, we just got confirmation that Zerebro's new agent framework, ZerePy, should be live within the next week, with ai16z now helping the effort. This infra will make it simpler to deploy your own AI agent influencers on X, so expect many more offshoots to come here.
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