Organization Name – Virtuals

Category – Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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Virtuals Protocol introduces a concept that sits at the edge of what blockchain and AI can currently do together: the autonomous AI agent as an on-chain economic entity with a tokenized representation, a treasury, and the ability to earn and distribute value without a human intermediary controlling its financial activity. Launched in 2024 on Ethereum’s Base Layer 2, Virtuals provides the infrastructure for deploying, tokenizing, and coordinating these agents at scale.

From a civilizational perspective, this is a genuinely new kind of entity. Throughout history, economic actors have been… humans, human organizations, or property. An AI agent with its own token, its own revenue stream, and its own governance structure is a fourth category that existing legal and financial frameworks have not fully processed. The question of what identity means for an on-chain AI agent—who is liable, who can sue, who controls the revenue—is not a hypothetical; it is a live legal and governance problem that platforms like Virtuals are forcing into the open.

VB Transparency Score of 8.41 at the 50th percentile; RMA Unverified across all seven pillars; MES of 7.66—notably low for a category that has attracted significant market attention. No headquarters listed. Community aggregate rating not recorded.

VaaSBlock’s analysis of identity verification in the AI era—the Know-Your-AI framework—is directly relevant: as AI agents become economic participants, the infrastructure for verifying what an agent is and who controls it becomes as important as KYC for human participants. Read More