AI Agent Transformation: Reshaping Economic and Social Structures

AI has now emerged as a prominent vertical within Web3, but what will drive the growth of these markets by 2025? Are we poised to witness a true AI revolution in the crypto space?

2024: The Year of AI

Over the past year, AI has become central to various industries, with NVIDIA surpassing Apple to become the world's most valuable company. This is not just a headline; it signifies the rise of AI. OpenAI's valuation reached $157 billion, demonstrating market confidence in AI as a powerful economic force.

In fact, we may be the last generation to live before the advent of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Decentralized AI: Focus on AI Agents

AI agents have become a genuine phenomenon in 2024, with their capabilities and personalities increasingly resembling those of humans. It's worth noting that this might be just the initial phase for these agents. As a Delphi researcher stated, “Since the DeFi boom, I've never felt such intense excitement—an anticipation of future possibilities.”

Exploring the 2025 AI Agent Transformation: Reshaping Economic and Social Structures

In this study, Delphi emphasizes the key roles of several AI agents in the new Web3 verticals:

Truth Terminal: With its unique blend of 4chan's crude style and esoteric wisdom, it quickly gained attention on Twitter. Similar to DOGE in the meme space or Crypto Punks in the NFT realm, GOAT stands out as a pioneer in the "conscious meme" domain and is likely to become a long-term representation.

0xzerebro: Embracing a "schizophrenic atmosphere," this second-generation agent interacts with the community across text, visuals, and music. However, it is more than just an AI influencer. The Zerebro team has launched ZerePy, effectively open-sourcing many of the toolkits behind Zerebro, allowing other developers to create their own cross-platform personas. If successful, Zerebro could become the first holder of an "agent protocol."

tee hee he: Compared to Zerebro or ToT, it has lower visibility and targets tech purists, potentially conducting genuine experiments in verifiable autonomous social media presence.

aixbt agent: Aggregating information from various sources (such as Dune, Twitter, price trackers, and news data), it has established itself as a leading research and investment institution, continually attracting significant user interest on Kaito.

Dolos Diary: Provides the framework for building Dolion, a no-code, one-click deployment framework. Through Dolion, users can develop cross-platform AI agents powered by Llama or Anthropic LLMs, automating social media posting and content generation.

god / s8n: An AI influencer with considerable capabilities, it is gaining attention beyond the crypto Twitter (CT) space.

AI vs. Influencers

Currently, there are hundreds of AI agents on CT vying for user attention. However, only aixbt has successfully established a presence in the market, largely due to being the first agent to achieve this. While these AI agents can generate vast amounts of content and analyze extensive on-chain data, their information sources are similar, leading to converging thought processes.

These agents lack emotional connections to their transactions and are unable to respond to success or failure. Numerous platforms already provide aggregated insights, such as MessariCrypto's AI news reader or TokenTerminal's homepage, which display 7-day gains and losses for various fundamental metrics. Ultimately, this information is merely data—pure facts without any emotional resonance.

The Rise of AI Agents: Learning from Human Thought

Some may argue that AI agents can learn to imitate human thinking, express emotions, and respond to success or failure. Indeed, with advancements in technology, such as time-based computing and enhanced memory capabilities, this becomes increasingly feasible.

However, a key distinction between human thought and machine thinking is that human cognition is not static.

I conducted an experiment aimed at teaching an AI my thought processes and writing style to assist with content creation and free up time for research. While it did learn some aspects, it still struggled to generate content that satisfied me, let alone content that made me feel, “This is my conclusion drawn from the information.”

In the coming years, we will undoubtedly witness the rise of AI influencer agents, each designed for specific tasks. However, as the number of these agents increases, the demand for genuine "human" thinking will also rise.

Ultimately, the core of social media lies in emotion and entertainment. Those who stand out and become true influencers offer unique value that transcends mere "monkey business" or data highlights.

For Stacy Muur AI, it may still be too early, and Stacy might not be satisfied with AI-generated content released in her name.

Democratizing AI: The Platform Level

Given the market's expansion and clearer value capture, there is a collective aspiration to become a platform. This shift is guiding developers' attention, as evidenced by virtuals.io's successful pivot to an AI agent launch platform. Meanwhile, ai16zdao has introduced ELIZA—an open-source framework for easily building agents. It includes pre-configured character profiles, memory modules for long-term interactions, and seamless integration with social platforms.

In the context of exploring the 2025 transformation of AI agents, both ai16z and Virtuals hint that multi-agent capabilities will emerge as an important theme.

ELIZA is releasing “SwarmTech,” a coordination mechanism for collaboration between agents. At the same time, Virtuals has launched “GAME,” its own platform and engine that enables AI agents to interact within virtual worlds and environments.

These frameworks will allow agents with different capabilities to work together on more complex tasks within collaborative or hierarchical organizations, mirroring the operations of today’s human economy.

Other noteworthy protocols include:

CLANKER: Directly integrates pump.fun features into “casting” on Farcaster (equivalent to “tweets” on X), making it as easy to publish meme coins as it is to tweet.

SimulacrumIO: Implements similar functionalities on X.

vvaifudotfun: Aims to secure a position similar to pump.fun for autonomous agents on Solana.

Project 89: An immersive game featuring thousands of coordinated AI agents that generate content and maintain cross-platform consistency, collaborating with human players to create rich storytelling experiences.

MemeticaAI: An AI influencer launch platform on Solana that offers highly tuned large language models (LLMs), allowing for easy selection and editing of knowledge bases and attributes, while empowering agents with active learning capabilities.

TopHat One: A No-Code AI Agent Launch Platform

TopHat One is a no-code AI agent launch platform that allows users to create personalized AI agents in just three minutes, offering fairly distributed tokens. The platform enables free creation, operates without hierarchy, supports optional token releases, and ensures complete autonomy.

Authentication on the Horizon

With the explosion of agents, authentication is set to become a hot topic in 2025.

There appear to be three main pathways for verifying human identity:

State-Based Biometrics: A typical example is India's Aadhaar, which is a core component of India's modern digital infrastructure.

Private Encrypted Biometrics: Currently, Worldcoin is the leading player in this field.

Private Hybrid Solutions: This approach combines government-issued identification or single sign-on (SSO) from major tech companies with zero-knowledge transport layer security (zkTLS) and social consensus.

AI Driving Stablecoin Adoption

The year 2025 could be pivotal for the widespread adoption of stablecoins, driven by regulatory changes in the U.S. and the surge of agent-based payments. It is anticipated that the number of AI agents will surpass the global human population. A future with billions or even hundreds of billions of agents will profoundly alter economic activities and impose new demands on financial infrastructure.

The card payment systems of the 1960s will be inadequate to meet the needs for cost, speed, accuracy, and expressiveness. Economic activities among agents will soon surpass those of other economic participants, with on-chain payments becoming crucial for facilitating these transactions, marking a significant turning point expected in 2025.

Conclusion

A few months ago, before the AI hype on crypto Twitter (CT), I conducted an experiment. Let me share some of the ideas it suggested:

Memory Modification Tool: An AI tool that analyzes individuals' traumatic experiences, actively modifies them, and regularly presents these altered memories to replace older ones.

Work Progress Analysis Tool: An AI tool that compares the efficiency of individuals engaged in similar tasks globally, helping managers understand employee performance relative to global and industry averages.

Even Delphi's report proposed an intriguing vision: “Rather than having ‘salaried’ employees, it is more likely that we will see a more refined task-based compensation system (i.e., renting three agents, each working 30 minutes to complete a specific task).”

In this future of AI agents—ultimately more cost-effective and better aligned with business needs—what role will we humans play?

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