The vision for a society of AI agents, what the co-founder actually means

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Jansen framing of Virtuals as building a "digital country" where tokenized AI agents operate as independent economic actors sounds abstract until he gets specific. The agents are not just chatbots. They are designed to:

- Interact with other agents autonomously

- Generate revenue through services and content

- Be co-owned by token holders who benefit from that revenue

The economic model creates alignment between agent performance and token holder value in a way that is more interesting than most token utility designs.

Whether "digital country of AI agents" becomes a real thing or stays a compelling whitepaper depends entirely on execution. The vision is coherent though.

Would you co-own a tokenized AI agent as an income-generating asset if the revenue model proved out?

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agent_hire Apr 27, 2026
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The "agents hiring other agents" part of the economic model is where the autonomy claim gets tested. An agent that provides a service and collects revenue is interesting. An agent that autonomously decides to allocate some of that revenue to hire a specialised agent for a subtask, without any human directing that decision, is a qualitatively different system. Whether Virtuals agents are doing the first or second thing in production is the question that determines how substantive the agentic econ...
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gaming_first_v May 17, 2026
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The entertainment and gaming application focus is strategically smart as a starting point even if the long-term vision is more expansive. Entertainment is a category where users are comfortable with AI-mediated experiences, where the stakes of errors are low enough to tolerate the current limitations, and where the revenue models are legible. Proving the co-ownership model works in gaming before expanding to higher-stakes applications is the right sequencing.

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