Here’s what’s trending this week:

🧠 Kaito dropped Yapper Feeds, a real-time stream of posts from top and rising voices on Crypto Twitter.

🗳️ Balance ran a community vote to decide how rewards should be split. 17,000 votes later, the crowd picked equal distribution by a landslide—78%. Meanwhile, their token EPT just got listed on Bithumb, one of South Korea’s top exchanges.

⚡ Gata upgraded the Gata DataAgent mechanism: from every 45 seconds to every 5 minutes. Each task now pays 5x more.

Now let’s talk AI agents…

Over 1 million on-chain agents have already spun up, pulling in $8.7M in revenue in just 5 weeks.

On top of that, VanEck thinks we’ll see over a million new AI agents launched in 2025.

DeFi was the first playground. But agents are already migrating to gaming, social, and consumer apps.

The agent wars are here.

🤖 Hype Builds Around Virtuals Genesis

Two weeks ago, Virtuals dropped Genesis: a new token launch system built for contributors.

No bonding curves. No anonymous sniping. Instead, Genesis rewards skin in the game. You join the 24-hour presale by pledging Virgen Points plus some VIRTUAL.

So far:

• Over 700,000 $VIRTUAL committed (~$1.3M)

• Price up 200%, touching $2

• Many Genesis tokens have doubled

• 8,300+ wallets joined

• Nearly 19,000 transactions recorded

Each launch allocates 37.5% of tokens to contributors, 12.5% to liquidity, and the rest is split between devs, treasury, and marketing.

So how do you earn Virgen Points?

• Post about Virtuals (daily submissions encouraged)

• Stake tokens (e.g., VADER gets priority weighting)

• Hold $VIRTUAL (but diamond hands don’t get extra credit)

Performance varies by project. Ape into a solid project and you might see $0.30+ per point. Early launches had lower FDVs and less point dilution, leading to juicier allocations.

Now? It’s getting heated. More wallets, more points, more competition. Points vanish after 30 days, and if you dump too fast, future earnings take a hit.

This system is not without controversy. Some have criticized the team token unlocks as “slow rugs”. Stay aware, my frens.

💲 Tether AI Is Announced

Tether, the stablecoin giant behind USDT, just unveiled Tether AI. It’s a decentralized network of autonomous agents built to manage the internet’s economic activity for you.

They’re calling it: Personal Infinite Intelligence. 🧠

So, what exactly is Tether AI?

It’s an open-source runtime for autonomous agents. Think plug-and-play AI brains that can operate anywhere and pay with crypto

• 🔓 Open-source + decentralized.

• 💻 Runs on any device: Laptop, phone, Raspberry Pi

• ⚙️ Composable: Devs can slot it into their apps or build from scratch.

• 💸 Built-in payments: Using Tether’s Wallet Dev Kit (WDK), agents can send and receive USDT and Bitcoin natively.

But why does this matter?

Visa and Mastercard just revealed their own AI agent plans. Tether is stepping into the ring with something they can’t offer: a fully decentralized system that runs on crypto rails, not corporate APIs or walled-off platforms.

And Tether has been quietly laying the groundwork:

• 2023: Took a stake in Northern Data Group for AI infra

• 2024: Global hiring spree for AI talent

• 2024: Launch of the WDK, built for agent-native payments

It’s a bid to control the foundation of a new AI-driven internet. Tether wants to be the operating system for that future.

Protocol Updates

• Camp Network raised $30M and is making noise as a major AI × IP play and a direct Story Protocol competitor. You can get early exposure by yapping on their Kaito leaderboard or farming points on their loyalty site.

• Fraction AI just launched on Base mainnet. After 30M+ testnet sessions and 1.2M agents created, users can now build AI workers that evolve through real-world feedback across domains like writing, finance, and code.

• Coinbase Dev just dropped x402, a new open protocol to bring on-chain payments to the web using HTTP status code 402. It lets devs accept crypto in a single line of code, enabling frictionless micropayments.

• Reborn announced a strategic partnership with Unitree to accelerate physical AI. Reborn is an open ecosystem for AGI robots, using incentives to drive data collection for robotics.

• FLock OFF is live on Bittensor as Subnet 96—an open network for training small AI models at the edge. Anyone can join as a miner or validator to help improve model performance.

• xTAO is going public via a merger with Adrianna Ventures and raising $10M in a private round backed by Arca, DCG, and others. The deal will list xTAO on the TSXV under the ticker XTAO, making it the first public company tied to Bittensor. Led by WonderFi founder Karia Samaroo, xTAO runs a validator and holds TAO as its treasury asset.

New funds, hackathon & grants

• SevenX Ventures just launched a $10M AO Ecosystem Fund with everVision and BuidlerDAO to back early-stage projects on AO. The fund will support infra, middleware, and apps.

• Lantern Capital just launched in partnership with Nethermind, with Tomasz Stańczak joining as GP. The fund is focusing on machine-to-ledger systems, Ethereum L2s, and chain-agnostic infra for the AGI era.

• Nous Research is hosting an RL hackathon in SF with $50K in bounties and zero gatekeeping. You’ll be building environments using Atropos, their new reinforcement learning framework.

• The ARIO Grants Program is live with $150K in funding for projects building on the first permanent cloud network. Grants up to $50K are available. Deadline to apply: July 1.

AI Agents

• Elite Agents just launched the MCP Marketplace in beta. It’s a Shopify for AI agents. Users can build no-code agents using tools from SendAI, Graffle, and Genopets, or deploy their own via MCP Server.

• Newton just dropped its first on-chain automation agent. Built by Magic Newton Foundation, it uses ZKPs and TEEs to prove every action is legit. Agents can trade, rebalance, and manage funds across chains.

• Almanak just unveiled Coder, the first in its new lineup of autonomous agents that turn DeFi strategies into production-ready code. Coder writes, tests, debugs, and deploys strategies on the Almanak platform in minutes.

• Cambrian AI released its Agent Launcher, a starter repository enabling developers to quickly deploy agentic chatbots on the Sei Network.

Web2 AI

• Cursor Pro is now free for students. Just verify your .edu email to unlock a full year of Pro features—including 500 fast requests/month—for $0.

• Google just dropped early access to Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O edition), an upgraded model with major boosts to coding, especially for building interactive web apps. It now tops the WebDev Arena Leaderboard.

• ChatGPT is rolling out a revamped shopping experience. Users can now search, compare, and buy products with improved results, all without ads. Search just crossed 1B queries in a week.

• LTX Studio just released a new open-source video model with 13B parameters, built for speed, quality, and control. It uses multiscale rendering for smoother motion and runs 30x faster than rivals.

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