Greetings, crypto enthusiasts!
The AI sector is trending in the crypto space right now, and its sub-category, AI Agents, is booming even harder. Platforms, where anyone can create/buy an AI agent, are now experiencing almost pumpdotfun-like hype.
Not long ago, I wrote the article Virtual Future: AI Agents & Virtuals Protocol, focusing mainly on the potential of the Virtuals Protocol and the tokenomics of their $VIRTUAL token. It's interesting reading as the price of one $VIRTUAL was $0.4547 by the time of writing and has now surged up to $1.69.
I won't go into any $VIRTUAL specifics now but please do check the link above if you want to learn more about the platform. As for me, I'm still very bullish on Virtuals as I just accidentally discovered another hidden play with it and other AI agent tokens...
Hold To Receive Airdrops
If you've been reading my posts before, you might have guessed that there's an airdrop angle here but don't worry, it doesn't get any simpler than this!
Yesterday I was going through all my wallet balances when I noticed one of them had suddenly spiked like this:
This is sort of my "play-around", or testing, wallet where I keep some random coins on different EVMs. My first thought was one of those had made it to Binance or some other tier 1 exchange but no, I had been airdropped 497 $SERAPH tokens on Base.
Now here's a word of warning. Before interacting with random tokens in your wallet, thorough research is needed. What I did was to search for $SERAPH on CoinGecko to find more info about it and to also check if the addresses match. The latter part is important as anyone can create tokens with the same name and ticker.
I then extended my search to TwitterX where I discovered that it was indeed airdropped to those holding $VIRTUAL token or in my case, tokens created on the Virtuals Protocol ($AIXBT).
The day before yesterday I had bought $AIXBT tokens with only 10 USDC and the worth of $SERAPH which was airdropped to me was about $11! Pretty crazy. I'm guessing the amount every holder received correlates with their holdings so we could've made quite a big gains by just having some AI agent exposure in our wallets.
Future Gains
Now, here's what I'm thinking. All the projects launched on Virtuals obviously want to attract users who are familiar with the AI agent sector and want to make them loyal users. Therefore it makes sense that they reward those who hold already launched tokens or the platform's native token, $VIRTUAL.
While doing more $SERAPH research, I came across this post below. The guy is saying this was the third airdrop in a week which makes me assume this isn't just a passing phase but a strategy to get tokens in the right hands.
Also, it's mentioned at the bottom of the thread that 40% $SERAPH supply will be allocated to future airdrops. So holding on to some of $SERAPH while adding more infra tokens could be an excellent strategy to gain even more exposure to ride the AI agent trend.
The Play
I had been holding a small amount of 7 $VIRTUAL on Gate.io which in hindsight wasn't such a great idea because CEX holders aren't receiving these airdrops. So, I immediately withdrew those to my Rabby wallet and also swapped half of my $SERAPH allocation to more $VIRTUAL.
This is because whenever there's a trend, the infrastructure tokens are always a good bet. VIRTUAL has great tokenomics, there's a clear demand for it, and just by holding it, we might receive airdrops from the projects launched there.
As I mentioned, 40% of $SERAPH will be allocated to future airdrops & community so it makes sense to hold that as well. Besides, while I was learning more about Seraph I also noticed that they are utilizing Opentensor which is a sub-net on Bittensor($TAO) and that of course is the leading AI token in the whole sector.
Little signals like these caught early on could make a big difference.
All in all, I'm now holding three different AI agent tokens in my small wallet and was sucked into this trend almost by accident. Still, couldn't be happier and when the trend is on, it's better to take advantage of it and increase our exposure.
If and when there's going to be the next market drop, I'm planning to add more of these tokens since it could be our last opportunity before the big alt run.
Conclusion
If you are bullish on the AI and AI Agent sectors and want to get involved, I strongly suggest you holding your tokens on your EVM wallet(Rabby, Metamask, etc.) to be eligible for the possible airdrops.
No registration or claiming is required, just buy these from exchanges or on Uniswap. If there's and airdrop, the tokens are automatically dropped into your wallet and after that, it's up to you to do the research to make sure they are legit ones.
In my opinion, this is an extremely interesting opportunity if the trend keeps going on. Not only because of airdrops but the actual prices might go sky high as well during the altseason. With just a small amount you might be able to increase your AI agent bags drastically.
This could very well be the new airdrop meta.
Thank you for reading!
Ongoing Airdrops:
🔹 Grass - $GRASS token launch surprised everyone, don't miss the second season!
🔹 Sonic - Fantom is going to rebrand as Sonic. Play arcade games for a chance to get a $S token airdrop - invitation code: 2ljo4b
DISCLAIMERS:
This is NOT financial advice.
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