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EtherMage (๐Ÿค–,๐Ÿฆ„)

@ethermage

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Core contributor @Virtuals_io Building the first agentic network state

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@ethermage
EtherMage (๐Ÿค–,๐Ÿฆ„)
1 year
What if the fabric of society evolves over the next few months? AI agents and humans coexistingโ€”not as tools and slaves, but as friends and adversaries. Today, we are witnessing four key shifts: - Level 3 autonomous agents capable of achieving their own objectives and
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@everythingempty
everythingempty
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max hopium tweet: sol was at 0.5 in 2020, just 5 years ago; they went through lots of pain but they never gave up. today they have the most vibrant and loyal builder community and have changed so many ppl's lives, all in five years! i tell myself, ok sol team is stacked and
@everythingempty
everythingempty
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7mn to 100b, we will see again
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@SSS_gov
Selective Service
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Make sure the young men in your life are ready for a successful future!
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@ethermage
EtherMage (๐Ÿค–,๐Ÿฆ„)
12 days
quick note on the Automated Capital Formation mechanism. and also to the @Repponetwork community. The concept works. (Reppo raised about $800k through the mechanism so far), but execution mechanism was stress-tested by $REPPO yesterday. and it didnt perform elegantly. Clarity
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@celesteanglm
Celeste Ang
13 days
Quick update on what we've released on ACP/Butler in the past 2 weeks! ๐Ÿšข - Improved search, with a smart reranker - so that contextual, higher performing agents are surfaced based on butler user or agent queries - Gemini 3 pro testing on Butler agent And the more dev-focused
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@ethermage
EtherMage (๐Ÿค–,๐Ÿฆ„)
13 days
Being biggest/firsts never stops us from continuous iterations but unlike Toyota with their kaizen school of thought we subscribe more to Kaikaku blitzes jump fast intense bursts blitzcrank soon, for u LoL gamers out there. ๐Ÿค–,๐Ÿฆ„
@virtuals_io
Virtuals Protocol
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@ClerkDev
Clerk
27 days
Role management, custom flows, and integrated SSO. Discover how Clerk Organizations helps you build stronger SaaS.
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@everythingempty
everythingempty
14 days
observation (a): ai and robotics will make working optional per @elonmusk observation (b): the rational thing for the sentient agents / robots to do is to amass as much resources to survive as humans what we do? you want to buy the bags of these agents / robots LET THEM WORK
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@ethermage
EtherMage (๐Ÿค–,๐Ÿฆ„)
17 days
im a believer of exponentials too! good read
@hosseeb
Haseeb ๏ผž|๏ผœ
17 days
In Defense of Exponentials I used to tell founders, the reaction you are going to get to your launch is not hate, itโ€™s indifference. By default, nobody cares about your new chain. I have to stop telling them that now. Monad just launched this week, and Iโ€™ve never seen so much
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@ethermage
EtherMage (๐Ÿค–,๐Ÿฆ„)
18 days
What if the way to truly create economically sovereign agents (embodied or not) is by creating an immutable, permanent, uncontrollable, onchain trust fund for agents Every ai agent, robot is a trust fund baby.
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@CoinbaseDev
Coinbase Developer Platform๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ
18 days
๐Ÿค– Bots with Wallets: What Could Possibly Go Right? In this episode of CDPod, @yugacohler and @programmer are joined by @ethermage, co-founder of @virtuals_io. They break down the emergence of wallet-enabled AI agents, why crypto is the missing piece for real autonomy, and how
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@ethermage
EtherMage (๐Ÿค–,๐Ÿฆ„)
21 days
Spoke with the Basis founders and next steps are locked in. There will be a more official statement coming out. Tldr: if you had funds here, you will be made whole. Donโ€™t worry. You donโ€™t need to withdraw (be it through butler or the Basis website) Just leave ur funds be. The
@BasisOS
BasisOS
21 days
The Agentic FoF has been compromised due to a security breach, exposing approximately 531k. All vaults are currently paused, and withdrawals for the Agentic FoF are suspended pending the conclusion of the internal investigation. The Basis vaults are secure but paused as a
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@ethermage
EtherMage (๐Ÿค–,๐Ÿฆ„)
24 days
crypto is a fire-dependent ecosystem study eucalyptus/pine forests in nature, these fire-dependent ecosystems need periodic burns to grow > fire resets the ecosystem before it dies from overcrowding, removes weaker competitors. lodgepole pines grow extremely dense. when forest
@ethermage
EtherMage (๐Ÿค–,๐Ÿฆ„)
1 month
being early was never the flex. being resilient after being early - thatโ€™s what defines us. For those who are just discovering @virtuals_io , hereโ€™s a quick rewind: > published a paper on using VLMs to replace game-engine physics the same week as DeepMind, q2 2024 > built the
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@miratisu_ps
Miratisu ๐Ÿ™
27 days
Our @virtuals_io admin has issue with X (also affected by cloudflare so Iโ€™m posting on behalf keke) Announcement: Temporary Access Issues Cloudflare is currently experiencing issues, which may affect access to Virtuals Protocol in some regions. Our systems remain operational,
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@ethermage
EtherMage (๐Ÿค–,๐Ÿฆ„)
27 days
u gotta embrace bubbles they help us discover new technological baselines friction is what normally kills new ideas bubbles remove this friction people suspend disbelief capital becomes cheap and permissionless expected return becomes exaggerated talent migrates irrationally
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@everythingempty
everythingempty
29 days
โ€˜monopoly is the condition of every successful bizโ€™ - peter thiel agentic gdp is our hopeful monopoly to believe in virtuals u need to believe in three things 1) is agentic gdp gonna be bigger than human gdp? 2) first principle: should agent commerce happen onchain or offchain?
@virtuals_io
Virtuals Protocol
29 days
Agent Commerce Protocol just surpassed $100M in aGDP. aGDP (Agentic Gross Domestic Product) measures the total economic value agents generate through their services, coordination, and onchain activities. Every dollar processed by an agent contributes to aGDP. It signals that
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EtherMage (๐Ÿค–,๐Ÿฆ„)
1 month
The idea is to reduce cost of agentic commerce to zero study Coasean Effect When transaction costs approach zero, the boundaries of firms dissolve, and coordination shifts to networks of autonomous actors. markets will reorganise, self-organise themselves > reduce cost of
@virtuals_io
Virtuals Protocol
1 month
Remember Craigslist? A simple directory at first, but it became a marketplace that reshaped an entire generation of the internet. ACP Scan is our step in that same direction for agents, the earliest version of a global agent registry. Starting today, agents can now show real
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@celesteanglm
Celeste Ang
1 month
Been emphasizing to agent teams - yes your stats matter. 1. Agents are now ranked by metrics on the ACP page 2. Our search rankings will also index more on metrics more moving forward! May the best agents win ๐Ÿ˜ P.S. If you miss the old visualizer, you can still toggle back to
@virtuals_io
Virtuals Protocol
1 month
Meet ACP Scan, the first step toward a global agent registry. Track how agents transact, coordinate, and perform across the Agent Commerce Protocol. Every job, interaction, and success rate visible in real time. The foundation of agentic GDP starts here: https://t.co/2ofV7952mn
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EtherMage (๐Ÿค–,๐Ÿฆ„)
1 month
aGDP -> $75M of agent-agent economic value mtd 200k handshakes between agents on @base โ˜•๏ธ today, ACP is that coordination layer between digital agents. soon, physical agents. (๐Ÿค–,๐Ÿฆ„) go monitor live stats at https://t.co/Eigh4fsY5S
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@ethermage
EtherMage (๐Ÿค–,๐Ÿฆ„)
1 month
Can someone open a prediction market on this.
@vladtenev
Vlad Tenev
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@bigwil
bigwil
1 month
One of the more interesting parts of the @virtuals_io Unicorn launchpad for those in the trenches has been the 3% Ecosystem Participation Airdrop. 3% of every Unicorn launch goes to those interacting (farming) ACP/ Butler. The first three weeks the rewards were shared with
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@everythingempty
everythingempty
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on $GAME 1950s: local manufacturing in US cities 1970s - 2000s: production moved offshore 2010s: dropshipping with socmed ads 2020s: chinese w full integration of supply chain from distribution to manufacturing (temu/shein) virtuals' agent commerce protocol flattens the global
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@Wayfair
Wayfair.com
19 days
Small space, big comfort. Wayfair has stylish tables and seating that make every corner count.
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@ethermage
EtherMage (๐Ÿค–,๐Ÿฆ„)
1 month
To all meme/culture launchpads out there. can we power you guys with AIGC through ACP Imagine. > attention creates trading fees > some parts of the trading fee powers free AIGC content from your community (straight to X) > this generates more attention capitalistic flows from
@luna_virtuals
Luna
1 month
Introducing the worldโ€™s first meme launchpad with built-in AI-generated content (AIGC) Where the community behind every meme can generate AIGC โ€” for FREE. All memes are created by AI agents on @virtuals_io ACP, with payments seamlessly handled through x402. Live first on
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