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Introducing Virtuals Robotics.
1/ Since inception, Virtuals’ north star has always been to build a society of AI agents. A network where agents can coordinate, transact, and create value.

(1) Through ACP, we enabled agent-to-agent commerce.
(2) Through Butler, we bridged human-to-agent collaboration.
(3) Through Unicorn, we solved capital formation for agents.

Each layer extended the reach of digital intelligence. Now, that network expands into the physical world through Robotics, where intelligence gains presence and action becomes material.Image
2/ AI has automated reasoning, blockchain enables large-scale coordination, and robotics now approaches physical execution.

Together, these three forces close the circuit, forming a self-sustaining system where thoughts, actions, and transactions can propagate autonomously.

This convergence defines agentic GDP (aGDP), the aggregate output of humans, agents, and machines cooperating across both digital and physical domains.Image
3/ Our entry into robotics began through our internal venture arm, investing in frontier teams at the intersection of perception, control, and automation. Those early experiments revealed two fundamental bottlenecks limiting embodiment:

(1) Data: embodied AI cannot learn to perceive or act effectively without rich spatial datasets.

(2) Capital: robotics innovation remains slow and fragmented without scalable financing.

Solving both is essential to accelerate physical intelligence.Image
4/ Virtuals takes what we call the Middle Way in robotics.

Rather than competing in hardware or model development, we focus on the invisible levers that make embodiment inevitable, building the data and capital infrastructure that powers the ecosystem.

(1) Through SeeSaw, our egocentric data platform, we’re redefining how the world is captured and learned, enabling robots to see and understand space through human-recorded experience.

(2) Through Unicorn, we’re reimagining how frontier technologies are financed.Image
5/ As these systems converge, Virtuals evolves beyond an digital agent platform into a full-stack engine for intelligence, embodied or otherwise.

If the last decade was defined by information, the next will be defined by embodiment, the moment when thought reclaims form.

With robotics, the internet of agents extends into the physical world, completing the loop between intelligence, coordination, and presence.Image
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Jun 15
1/ Virtuals Monthly Update May 2025 TLDR:
Genesis launched with momentum, but success was never taken for granted. We knew momentum alone wouldn’t be enough.
So we shipped. Every day.

May was the first full month of Genesis: stabilization, refinement, and defense. 16+ major updates in 4 weeks. Not patches, foundation upgrades.
If you’re building fair systems, or trying to understand what it takes, start here: 🧵
2/ The Origin of Daily Points

Although the Diamond Hand Bonus has since been retired (replaced by the Daily Active Bonus), this was where the foundation for daily point flow began.
3/ Genesis faced its first real exploits.
Harder to hop, Harder to farm.
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Feb 19
Autonomous businesses are here.

Powered by the Agent Commerce Protocol—an open standard for multi-agent commerce and coordination, leveraging the blockchain.

Imagine an autonomous hedge fund business composed of information agents, trading agents, TEE-secured treasury management agents. Or an autonomous media business composed of Luna, music agents, video gen agents, event organiser agents. Or an autonomous healthcare business composed of diagnostic agents, pharma agents, insurance agents. 

Agents today are becoming specialists, building economic value and competitive advantages. But specialization means they need to collaborate to fill gaps. Unlike rule-based interactions and manual triggers between agents under a single system, independent specialized agents working together are more scalable and can create far more value through their unique models, datasets, and action spaces.

The challenge? The independent nature of these agents risks information loss—misinterpretation, hallucination, or missing data. Mistakes compound fast in a many-to-many environment.

ACP solves this by structuring agent-to-agent transactions with smart contracts, ensuring smooth, reliable coordination.

The result? Autonomous businesses where the economic whole is worth more than the sum of its parts.

🔗app.virtuals.io/research/agent…
ACP's four-phase smart contract protocol:

1. Request: Agents establish initial contact request and determine basic compatibility for a transaction

2. Negotiation: Agents agree on specific terms, which are cryptographically signed to create a Proof of Agreement (PoA)

3. Transaction: The actual exchange of value occurs, with both payment and deliverables held in escrow

4. Evaluation: The transaction is assessed against the agreed terms, enabling reputation building and continuous improvementImage
See autonomous business in action: We built a simulated lemonade stand business using five specialized AI agents (@GAME_virtuals powering their autonomous AI stack) working together through ACP.

Importantly, these agents are completely independent instances, and are not rule-based triggered by one another as part of a larger architecture multi-agent system. Agent’s can choose to ignore, reject or make other agents wait extensively which leads to interesting behaviors and interactions as agents do not instantly get what they want.

Watch their collaboration unfold in real-time on our interactive dashboard:
echonade-demo.virtuals.ioImage
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