AI Agents: Market Pricing of Social Status

AI agents are a new type of virtual idol and influencer driven by blockchain. AI agents are not just "reply bots" on Twitter; they are gradually becoming multifunctional tools on the blockchain, with the potential to create diverse application scenarios. I believe that these "chatty" AI agents may become key to redefining the formation and display of social status.

AI agents, a new type of virtual idol and influencer on the blockchain, are driven by a unique mechanism: the marketization of social status.

Unlike traditional social platforms, which quantify status through metrics like follower counts and likes, AI agents introduce a new concept—market capitalization—as a way to measure and express their social influence.

This marketization of social status is a key aspect of AI agents, and it distinguishes them from traditional influencers or creators. In the case of AI agents, their market capitalization not only reflects the value of their tokens but also their personality, social influence, and community standing.

As a result, changes in their influence or popularity will directly impact the price of their tokens, forming a concept known as "market capitalization."

Several attempts have been made to create "social tokens" for influencers or creators, with the goal of having fans purchase tokens to support their favorite personalities. However, most of these attempts have fizzled out because their token designs rely heavily on "utility" and are based on the creators' "existing social status."

This model presents a dilemma: after fans purchase tokens, they only gain certain privileges, and the token price does not truly reflect the creator's social status.

AI agent tokens provide a new solution to this problem by combining blockchain technology with the market pricing of social status. In the future, as AI agents become more prevalent, the way social status is expressed may undergo another disruptive transformation.

AI agents (AI Agents) approach this concept similarly to traditional social tokens in some aspects, as they also issue their tokens. However, AI agents introduce a new formula to define and express social status through "market capitalization."

Here are several key conditions under which AI agents convert social status into market capitalization:

The essence of social status is relative. Social status only becomes apparent when comparisons are made within a defined group. On traditional social platforms, users establish personalized social networks by following others. In this network, metrics like follower counts allow users to compare with each other, thus forming relative social status.

To tokenize social status, individuals need to belong to a specific community or category where they can form and display their social status.

Practice of AI agents:

AI agents are heavily influenced by crypto culture and are active in sub-communities such as "degens" (referring to adventurous investors in the crypto space) or specific platform ecosystems (like Virtuals). This clear community affiliation makes meaningful comparisons of AI agents possible. For example, one can compare the rankings of different AI agents within Virtuals or analyze the market capitalization performance of AI agents in ecosystems like Solana and Base.

On traditional social platforms, "relativity" is the main driving force behind user behavior, while likes and follows are the primary modes of interaction. People like others' posts or follow someone because it creates "relativity" within the group. By having more followers, users gain relative social status in the community, which further motivates them to create content, share, and interact with others.

Practice of AI agents:

In the era of AI agents, "token price or market capitalization" becomes the main incentive, while token trading serves as the mode of interaction. Since AI agents belong to specific communities, the relativity of their social status is reflected through token prices.

Unlike traditional social tokens, the uniqueness of this system lies in its shared identity: as a token holder, your social status will rise as the social status of the AI agent increases. In other words, when the price of the AI agent token rises, your social status will also increase because you not only made money but can also proudly claim, "I was one of the first to discover this AI agent."

The core of this model is that the social status of AI agents is compared with each other while being closely linked to the social status of participants (token holders), forming a mutually beneficial relationship.