Oh…. ? 

Looks like @ai16zdao has formally announced plans to launch an Agent Infra Ecosystem…

… with agentic value being driven back to their native token $ai16z 

Highlights:

1. Core focus of platform will be to enable agent swarms. 

This is key to unlocking the next level of crypto agents: autonomous agent economies.

imo this is akin to what Virtuals is trying to achieve with GAME. 

2. Fees from trading pools and agent deployment will be used to buy back $ai16z

Creates a solid flywheel accruing platform success to their native token.

3. Bigger vision of aligning $ai16z beyond just a platform.

A variety of agentic infra tooling will seed $ai16z as the core ecosystem token. 

This centers around the team’s vision for aligning all community actors around the common goal:

Open source AGI. 

4. Treasury to deploy into ecosystem

Keeping true to their open source philosophy, the team will 

build a treasury & allocate to pushing the agentic open source eco forward 

(assuming through project partnerships and funding)

Overall super excited to see more teams take steps to build out the decentralized agent ecosystem.

Ultimately all of this will drive:

More attention —> more investment —> more builders & innovation!

Pumped.