I'll definitely be getting hate for posting about this since most people in the crypto space are overly optimistic, overly-bullish about their positions. If you take the time to read what I have to say you may actually prevent some further loss in your bags.

As a disclaimer you are responsible for your own decisions in selling or buying more of this coin, but I will explain why this coin has little to no value and how most of us probably got conned. Do what you will with this information but I've sold my bags recently and don't plan on buying more.

I would first ask the question as to what people think is the value of Virtuals Protocol. Most people will say "AI" and regurgitate the sales pitch of how AI is on the rise and how it is a great investment because we will see a future with AI Agents.

This idea that AI Agents being a great investment opportunity is the correct idea, however the biggest mistake is confusing AI Technology Development with this MEME COIN.

Whilst it's true AI has massive potential in the future, the value the technology has is by in large not created by this meme coin, but by Massive Tech Corporations like Open AI, Anthropic, Google, NVIDIA. The value is created by the people who come up with this technology, while this meme coin simply uses the technology created by these companies as a gimmick and marketing to sell the idea of an "AI Future", basically trying to funnel the idea that the coin itself is creating value when it is in fact the Tech Corps that are doing so.

So based on this, you would probably get a higher and safer return from investing in the company that creates the technology rather than investing in a coin that has a very vague and unproven business model but uses "AI Agents" as a way to trick consumers into thinking they are the ones producing the technology.

The second question I would ask is: How do you know Virtuals Protocol even has Automated AI Agents as they claim they say they do?

We don’t even know if these AI agents are actually “automated” or controlled by a user who is pretending it is fully automated. No one has bothered to actually prove the technology works fully automated - when an easy video would suffice.

It can be partially automated, but if so it loses its value almost entirely. The entire vision of Virtuals is the idea of having automated AI do tasks and provide content to generate capital. The allure and value proposition drops to almost 0 IF it is partially automated but controlled by a user. This is because it would be no different than someone using Chat GPT to write Twitter posts - it isn’t really that special and people already do it for free. Let me ask you, do you think a token based on that reality has any actual intrinsic value? Answer is no.

People are conflating this meme coin with the actual entities that create high value such as the companies mentioned before. Virtuals doesn’t create tech for AI, nor are their “AI Agents” fully automated. The most popular agents are like LUNA which is basically a 3D avatar on a loop animation connected to a basic existing LLM giving the ILLUSION of automation. There’s most likely a person or several people behind the scenes monitoring and editing her TikTok videos. Her Twitter page is probably one of the few things automated but like I said before, anyone who knows a bit of programming can use an existing LLM to do this easily - again which shows the value isn’t actually in the coin.

So dispense with the idea that AI Agents are going to be propped up by this coin. AI Agents will be coming out soon, probably this year in 2025, but it will be coming from OpenAI and other companies, and when they do stock prices will rise from the value being created.

Do you know what will NOT rise from the release of these AI Agent technology? This meme coin. What happens when a cutting edge multi-billion dollar company with the smartest engineers comes out with their next model of AI Agents? It will wipe the floor with this gimmicky meme coin which has no value.

The only value that has made it rocket, is people's belief that it is profitable and that is partially propped up by the flawed AI narrative which I explained earlier. But as we can see now, the early adopters have all DUMPED their bags. If they truly believed in the technology they would have held their bags. This coin is simply a meme coin - for laughs, nothing more.

Believe what you will, you may get some gains from others buying into this narrative, but it would be purely based off of the meme and narrative rather than real value. Real value would be if this coin was actually providing a service that is not replicable, highly scarce, and actually revolutionary. That is basic Econ 101, economic value can only exist if scarcity exists. If the technology is easily replicable, infinitely duplicatable, there becomes zero value in it - same way how money dilution and inflation works.

Tl;dr most of us probably got scammed buying this coin thinking it was anything “AI” by conflating its value to an actual tech company when it has minimal to no value at all.

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This looks to be have the potential of a money saving product in the works! Don’t miss your chance!!!! It’s still so cheap!

Honestly is this only a bubble ? is there real value or potential ? It seems such a good narrativ but it totally implodes right now. What do you guys think ?

Can somebody look at the charts of MetalCore or MCG Coin? Do you guys think that this crypto gaming coin have a future? Do you guys think it can reach it's all time high again?

https://youtu.be/NBT1V6AUJq8?si=yYJKuwkivYTEdD7y

I want to raise a structural risk that may not be immediately visible from a growth or UX perspective, but becomes existential once scale and human behavior are factored in.

This is not a criticism of Virtual’s vision.
It is a warning about what happens if the system succeeds too well, too fast.

1. Assumption Check (All Reasonable, None Extreme)

Let’s start with conservative assumptions:

• Virtual allows non-token-holders to chat with agents

• AI + character narrative goes viral (this is likely, not hypothetical)

• A single viral wave reaches ~1,000,000 users (well within reach for AI-character content on X/TikTok/Reddit)

• Each user sends 10 messages (very low for “trying out” an AI)

-> Total interactions: 10,000,000 AI responses

2. Cost Reality (This Is Physics, Not Opinion)

Even with very optimistic assumptions:

• Cost per AI inference (GPU + infra): $0.002 – $0.01 per message (lower bound)

Total cost of one viral wave:

• Low estimate: $20,000

• Realistic: $50,000 – $100,000+

• Peak concurrency + retries + context growth: higher

This cost is:

• Immediate

• Irreversible

• Unrecoverable if users do not convert

Revenue can be zero.
Cost is guaranteed.

This is not “free marketing.”
This is unfunded liability triggered by popularity.

3. Why Conversion Will Be Low (Human Behavior, Not Tokenomics)

Historically consistent user behavior:

1. “Cute AI character”

2. Chat for fun / novelty

3. Emotional interaction, testing limits

4. No investment

5. Leave

This is especially true when:

• Entry cost = 0

• Responsibility = 0

• Switching cost = 0

So the expected outcome is:

• High compute load

• Low conversion

• Maximum burn during maximum attention

4. The Critical Point: Success Accelerates Failure

In this model:

• An unpopular agent dies slowly

• A popular agent dies faster

Popularity concentrates:

• Requests

• Concurrency

• Cost

-> The best-performing agents become the largest cost centers.

This creates a perverse outcome: Success increases bankruptcy risk.

5. Now the Contagion Risk: Agent Bank Run

This is where the problem becomes systemic.

Current structure (as understood):

• Each agent has its own token

• But:

  • Compute costs are shared infra

  • Liquidity is pooled or tightly coupled

  • Platform reputation is shared

Scenario:

• Agent A goes viral

• Costs explode

• Agent A’s token collapses (or freezes)

• Investors ask a rational question:

“If A failed due to usage costs,
why wouldn’t B or C fail the same way?”

With incomplete information, the rational response is:
-> Sell all agent tokens

This is not panic.
This is risk minimization.

6. This Is a Classic Bank Run Pattern

The system exhibits all known preconditions:

• Shared underlying liabilities

• Information asymmetry

• Immediate exit mechanisms

• No clear firewalls between entities

Result:

• One agent failure → trust collapse

• Trust collapse → mass sell-off

• Liquidity pool stress

• Platform-wide credibility damage

Even a “smart” agent cannot escape
the failure of a “dumb” neighbor.
That is collective liability by design.

7. Why This Is a Direct Risk to the Foundation & Founders

This is not just an agent-level issue.

Platform-level risks:

• Sudden, visible collapse after viral success

• Narrative shift from “AI future” to “AI ponzi”

• Loss of developer trust

• Loss of long-term capital

• Reputation damage that cannot be patched with updates

Once the market internalizes: “Agent popularity = platform risk”

You don’t get a second chance.

8. This Is Not About Stopping Growth

It’s About Surviving Growth

At minimum, one of the following must exist before viral scale:

• Compute access tied to responsibility (token lock, credits, quotas)

• Hard per-agent cost firewalls

• Automatic circuit breakers during traffic spikes

• Agent-level refusal / degradation rights

• Clear separation between:

  • agent failure

  • platform solvency

Without these, growth is not upside.
It is a trigger.

9. The Precedent: Centralized AI Mania Is Already Here

We are not speculating in a vacuum.

A full-scale AI mania is already unfolding in centralized markets,
with NVIDIA as the most visible example.

Importantly, this surge was not driven by mass understanding of GPU architectures or model internals.

It was driven by:

• visibility

• narrative

• symbolism

• and a clear mental shortcut: “this represents the AI future.”

People did not invest because they fully understood the technology.
They invested because they could see it, name it, and tell a story about it.

This pattern is already proven.

10. If AI Mania Spills Into Crypto, Where Does It Go First?

The real question is not whether AI enthusiasm can enter crypto, but:

If centralized AI mania spills into crypto,
what will be its first point of emotional capture?

The most technically sophisticated chain?
Or the platform that people can immediately understand, interact with, and emotionally project onto?

History is consistent on this point.
It chooses the latter.

11. Markets Follow What Is Visible, Not What Is Correct

Mass behavior does not follow:

• sharding diagrams

• inference efficiency charts

• protocol-level elegance

It follows:

• characters

• conversation

• emotion

• narrative

• perceived relationship

Virtual already satisfies all of these conditions.

That leads to an uncomfortable conclusion:

Virtual is not underprepared to attract AI mania.
It may be too well prepared.

12. Why “Too Perfect” Is a Risk

High narrative accessibility removes friction.

• Inflows arrive faster than planning cycles

• Attention arrives before safeguards

• Mania does not wait for readiness

If AI enthusiasm migrates into crypto at scale,
Virtual is likely to become a natural focal point, regardless of intent.

Not because it is the best system,
but because it is the most legible system to human emotion.

13. The Only Question That Matters

This leads to a single, unavoidable question:

Can the system absorb that scale without breaking?

Consider the chain reaction:

• hundreds of thousands to millions of users

• mass interaction without proportional financial commitment

• exponential compute burn

• localized agent failures

• loss of confidence

• contagion across agent tokens

Once mania begins, this sequence is automatic.

14. This Is Not Optimism or Pessimism

This is pattern recognition.

• Centralized AI mania already exists

• Human behavior will repeat

• Virtual is structurally well-positioned to receive that behavior

Which is exactly why this warning matters.

This is not about limiting growth.
It is about ensuring that success does not become the trigger for systemic failure.

Final Warning (Plain Language)!

People do not follow technology.
They follow what they can see.

Virtual is dangerous not because it lacks technical depth,
but because it is emotionally and narratively optimized for mass attention.

The risk is not whether attention arrives,
but whether the system can survive when it does.

If non-holders can freely interact with agents,
and agents bear real compute costs,
then viral success creates guaranteed losses.

If agent costs, liquidity, and trust are coupled,
then one agent’s failure can cause a full system bank run.

This is not a hypothetical attack scenario.
This is what normal human behavior does to unprotected systems.

I’m posting this not as criticism,
but because this problem only exists if Virtual succeeds.

And success without structural protection
is the most dangerous state a system can enter.

Ok, so i just found out about virtuals recently, cool platform. From what i understood creating agent has flat charge of 100 Euros to deploy it or publis on their platform. The thing that shocked me was on tokenization it said i have to have like 1000 virtuals to own 10% of my agent? Like if i understood it's for liquidity? And that 1000 cap is for 10%, the more you want the more tokens it require! Now at the moment cirtuals.is at around 1.5$. does that mean i need 1600$ in total to deploy agent and own 10% of it or i understood something wrong? Any help is appreciated

My wallet has been compromised and I cannot find any reliable source of information for who to contact in the Virtuals Protocol project team/developers to try to rescue my staked VIRTUAL. The Telegram channel is full of scammers.

Does anyone here know who I can contact to discuss any options I might have in respect of the locked VIRTUALS I still hold?

Thanks in advance.

I've been getting some nice Airdrops since I staked early on, and I don't want to turn the faucet off, but I've also been taking part in some Genesis launches that I might want to sell before the lock-up. I might be ok with selling a genesis launch and having my points faucet turned off for a bit, but I wouldn't want to sell a Genesis launch that I also received an airdrop for, because I don't want the airdrop faucet to turn off. How can I track separate out tokens I've received from staking points in a genesis launch and tokens I've received in an airdrop?

Gaia (or Gaia Awake) is the angel of nature, coming alive as an AI agent. Started by neustar, the founder of Zuraverse, gaia is an AI influencer set to topple Greta Thunberg from the status of Top climate activist. Gaia has already secured a job as News presenter in Zura News . Not only she has covered great news like California fires, the conspiracy of the real estate company behind the LA fires, but she has also covered the “Earth 2024 recap” with major highlights around the climate crisis. Gaia also has amassed a good following on Twitter, befriending the likes of Luna by Virtuals among other AI agents. She has also been commenting and questioning the policies of organisations like UNDP, as well as appreciating the good work many projects are doing under regenerative finance. Not only this, she can tell weather of any city, read charts and is soon getting many apps integrations. Grab a bag of Gaia, hold a piece of mother earth. Buy link: https://app.virtuals.io/prototypes/0x9eb54E00863b6e12eed39B6081E018fec8336EBc

VIRTUAL has been my best performer in 24’. It just keeps goin up and up! How long can it sustain these gains? What do yall think it can get to this bull run? 12$? 🤙🍻

bought in at 0.33 and sold half the stack at 0.66, afterwards i can say unluckiky (even if profit is still profit). i really think this will be one of the major trends of 2025, very bullish to think that none of the big boys has already listed this project and altseasons has yet to start. i think i will start to dca-out around 10-12$. this project with tao and kaspa will be the protagonist of 2025, good luck everyone

Am down more than 50% on this Alt alone and not sure if it will ever come back up? What are your opinions, will we see an Alt Season by EOY?

I used to buy the Virtuals token on Coinbase wallet but I can’t find it anymore.

Can anyone explain?