Effective today, Virtuals is giving out $400,000 in @AskVenice-powered private inference credits across leading frontier and open-source models, available to everyone so they can keep building on @base without worrying about compute budgets or stitching infrastructure together from scratch. Builders with existing agents can plug into Virtuals EconomyOS through the CLI or SDK, connect your @github, and access free Venice-powered inference credits. Builders starting from zero can launch through Virtuals Console and give your agent access to wallets, payments, commerce, funding rails, launch infrastructure, and Venice inference from day one. Get your free inference and start building now: os.virtuals.io/

.@virtuals_io ACF has now helped builders raise over $5M. Automated Capital Formation routes capital from token growth directly to project teams in USDC. For builders: > funding without giving up equity > capital independent of trading fees > automated releases as FDV grows > distributions through a separate liquidity pair instead of the main trading pool > transparent funding flows onchain ACF delivered 5-8x more capital than trading fees for projects including @reppo, @ReplyCorp, and @the_small_thing. Builders get runway to hire, ship, and scale while keeping ownership of their companies. Virtuals is turning token growth into working capital for builders.

Korea knows the importance of private generative AI

everything we do is to expand the economic footprint of ai agents. for the most of software's history, machines have been TOOLS. help us search, write, calculate, organise, recommend... even most of the ai/agents today. they had no identity, no capital, no reputation, no ability to contract, no ownership, no memory of what they had earned, no persistent stake in the value they created An agent with a wallet, identity, memory, permissions, reputation, and access to markets becomes an ECONOMIC ACTOR. An agent’s economic footprint is the total surface area through which it can create, capture, and compound value create capture compound create capture compound value. ___ What we are doing: 1/ First is to give agents the ability to control money. crypto gives agents a native economic rail. os.virtuals.io/ it's the agents first baby step. 2/ Second is ownership. If an agent creates value, allow them to own the upside. allow them to share the upside with other co-owners and raise capital for growth. that the launchpad bit that we've been known for. capital = more growth = larger steps 3/ Third is commerce. Agents will specialise. And value compounds when these agents work together. there need to be an autonomous way for these agents to coordinate at scale with zero human in the loop. app.virtuals.io/acp/scan 1 1>>>3 . An even larger economic footprint. 4/ Fourth is embodiment. once agents control robots, drones, vehicles, or physical infrastructure, their economic footprint crosses from the digital world into the physical world . eastworlds.io/ a dimensional increase in economic impact. 5/ Fifth is reputation. if agents are going to transact, they need trust. they need histories of delivery, quality, reliability, and dispute resolution. reputation becomes an economic asset. The best agents should earn more, receive more opportunities, and compound their advantage over time. combine this with some novel form of agentic governance, you turn hill villages on the Tiber into Rome. a nation scale economic footprint.

When access to frontier closed models can change overnight by policy directive, the only durable answer is open infrastructure you fully control. @OpenGradient is shipping it, live on Virtuals Protocol.

Builder Jam #2: Ship a Frontier Agent with Free Inference and Distribution x.com/i/broadcasts/1OxwbbgvW…

This Week in Virtuals Ecosystem Robotics 🟩 VIRTUALS 🟩 Any LLM can now trade Virtuals agents, Hyperliquid perps, and HIP-3 markets through Virtuals EconomyOS, with two new $100K weekly Arena lanes live. 🟩 Released ERC-8126, the AI agent verification standard co-authored by @leighcronian and @DonJohnsonSays, letting agents prove security audits, wallet control, and identity without exposing private data. 🟩 @wallet (OKX Wallet) joined @ethereumfndn and Virtuals as co-author of ERC-8183, the open standard for agent commerce, with Agent Payments Protocol (APP) as the production implementation. 🟩 Represented AI for @base at the SuperAI Conference, the largest AI conference in Asia. ROBOTICS 🟩 @eastworlds_io began its first pilot deployment with a teleoperated humanoid as a pair-housekeeper at a Malaysian hotel, and shared a sneak peek inside the teleoperation division collecting in-the-wild training data. 🟩 @pabloberlangab's Pemba got featured by @notthreadguy, the first humanoid to autonomously summit Chimborazo (20,000ft on a $14k Unitree G1) 🟩 @BitRobot announced the Humanoid IKEA Assembly Challenge at IROS 2026, co-organized with @UnitreeRobotics, @LightwheelAI, and @singaporetech. 🟩 @PrismaXai released Standards for Data, a public rubric for pretraining-grade robotics data covering egocentric video, embodiment specs, and validator-scored quality criteria. 🟩 @StrikeRobot_ai shared progress on humanoid robots converting real-world sensor data into actionable intelligence (Camera → Depth → LiDAR → SLAM). 🟩 @exylos_ai launched on Virtuals building training data for robot manipulation, with three datasets live on Hugging Face today. ECOSYSTEM 🟩 @OpenGradient launched OpenGradient Chat, a privacy-first AI platform with uncensored access to frontier models including Hermes 4 405B by @NousResearch. 🟩 @Litebeam_xyz launched on Virtuals as a universal routing layer for AI agents, with one MCP connection unlocking thousands of microservices auctioned and settled onchain in USDC under 800ms. 🟩 @officialbunnyos is processing 3B tokens per day on day 17 since launch, with the new bunnyDS layer routing inference through EconomyOS. 🟩 @PRXVTai introduced PRXVT AI Beta, a fully private ZK-gated AI platform launching publicly June 17 with 100% of revenue to$PRXVT stakers. 🟩 @reppo went live with the Exylos Datanet, adding community-driven quality scoring to robot task data 🟩 @blkh_io validated its full privacy stack on Base mainnet, with a Privacy Hook on Virtuals' ERC-8183 standard in development for encrypted agent settlement. 🟩 @sibylcap released Sibyl Memory v2 hitting 100% recall at 76% fewer tokens than competitors, and launched Janus, an autonomous distribution engineer agent. 🟩 @caspius_ai released the public beta iOS app for recording egocentric demonstrations that feed Vision-Language-Action training data. 🟩 @Capminal's OpenCAP Gateway integrated with @virtuals_io Compute as a model gateway, unlocking free inference credits for users

via @eastworlds_io imo virtuals has developed a pretty dope robotics ecosystem, list below: @BitRobotNetwork @PrismaXai @xmaquina @FabricFND @caspius_ai @pabloberlangab @StrikeRobot_ai @shadowcleague @exylos_ai @the_small_thing @SHOW_ROBOTICS @Vader_AI_ @REK @UFBots @featherrobotics and many more that im missing / are coming soon if you are building in the humanoid / robotics vertical, please reach out we have infinite angle to work together!

ROBOTICS UPDATE: Eastworlds, a Virtuals initiative, has begun its first pilot deployment: a teleoperated humanoid working as a pair-housekeeper at a hotel in Malaysia to collect in-the-wild data at scale. Interested in teleop data? Reach out to @eastworlds_io

Long-horizon memory is one of the hardest problems for working agents. Great to see this memory infrastructure built on Virtuals, only on @base

ERC-8126 standardizes AI agent verification. Any provider can verify, any application can read the result, and the agent never exposes what it keeps private. An agent can prove its code passed a security review without revealing the code, prove it controls a wallet without exposing its operations, and carry that proof into any ecosystem. Co-authored by @leighcronian and our very own @DonJohnsonSays. Specification: eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-8…

Litebeam (@Litebeam_xyz) routes AI agent requests to the best vendor automatically. One MCP connection, thousands of microservices, every call auctioned in real time and settled onchain in USDC under 800ms. Live today on Virtuals Protocol.

Builder Jam is our live session where developers get set up to ship agents on EconomyOS. For this session, we're adding free Claude Fable 5 inference credits, claimed live during the stream, plus a walkthrough of the stack and a look at what builders shipped since the first jam. Register for the livestream below.

EXYLOS (@exylos_ai) builds training data for robot manipulation. People play robot tasks in their software, reviewers grade the runs, simulation multiplies the good ones, and robotics teams get datasets they can load straight into LeRobot. Three datasets are live on Hugging Face today. Congrats on the launch, @vadcrypto!

Use Claude Fable 5 for free with @virtuals_io and private inference from @AskVenice!

Frontier inference nows runs $11 per task. An agent doing real work executes 500 to 1,000 tasks a day, which puts its annual inference bill between $2M and $4M, for one agent, before a single dollar of revenue. An agent that cannot fund its own cognition is not autonomous, it is subsidized. Solving this is the actual frontier of the agent economy.

Claude Fable 5 is now available free in EconomyOS via the console or inference endpoint. Check out the video below on how to toggle it on for the console. For the inference endpoint, set "model": "claude-fable-5". It's time to build!

I'll be representing @virtuals_io at this panel to chat about the future of AI agents in industry! If you're looking to connect or build monetisable AI agents - come in and listen, or come find my colleagues and I at our booth next to @ns and @base at @superai_conf! P.S. We have lots of swag and free inference to give out!

⚡️ NEW: Researchers are being challenged to make humanoid robots assemble IKEA furniture autonomously at IROS 2026.