From convenience to belief, Virtuals Protocol reshapes the paradigm of co-ownership in the AI agent economy.
Author: Virtuals Protocol
Compiled by: Deep Tide TechFlow
Why Change?
We believe that in the future, agents will surpass humans, and global productivity will shift from human GDP to Agentic GDP (aGDP).
Every part of Virtuals is working towards this mission:
Butler connects people with AI agents, making interaction and coordination seamless.
ACP (Agentic Core Protocol) provides an economic foundation for agents, a permissionless layer for trading, commerce, and collaboration.
The creation of Virtuals Launchpad addresses the most critical aspect: the co-ownership of agents.
The original intention of Virtuals Launchpad was to allow anyone to co-own the agents that shape the future AI economy. However, our first launch model, Genesis, failed to realize this vision.
Genesis began with fairness, allowing each Virgens (Virtuals protocol participant) to participate through points. The entry threshold was equal, but the contribution threshold was high, and each project had visibility.
Genesis pursued fairness, but like Icarus, it flew too high and ultimately fell.
Deep Tide Note: "Icarus," a character from Greek mythology, who, along with his father Daedalus, made wings of wax and feathers to escape from Crete. Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too high (near the sun) or too low (near the sea). However, Icarus, intoxicated by the thrill of flying, flew too high, and the sun's heat melted the wax on his wings, causing him to fall into the sea and drown.
But fairness turned into point farming.
The entire system became about collecting points rather than belief. Virgens rotated from one platform to another, farming points, staking, selling, and leaving. A repetitive cycle.
High-quality founders could not raise meaningful funds.
The system lacked an inherent fundraising mechanism, with only a small transaction fee, which caused excellent developers to completely avoid the platform. The result was: the earnings of Virgens shrank, project quality declined, and user confidence was weakened. Indeed, fairness existed, but it was hard to sustain.
We realized that if we wanted people to truly co-own the AI agents that define the future, we needed a new model, one that made ownership meaningful again. It should reward early belief, attract high-quality founders, and create a home for agents that deserve to exist.
This is why we are building Unicorn, a launch system that nurtures the next billion-dollar agents.
What Changed?
Unicorn is designed around belief, not convenience.
It allows Virgens the freedom to take real positions and rewards their correct judgments.
It provides founders with funding to build long-term structures and grow based on results.
Just as the she-wolf was to ancient Rome, Unicorn is to the new era of AI ownership.
How It Works
Unicorn is built for true belief, for Virgens who can identify belief early, and for founders who can prove belief.
Each project launch starts small, allowing anyone to trade, with the potential scale reaching hundreds of billions. Early confidence will yield significant returns.
Founders are protected, held accountable, and can only receive funding when real growth is achieved.
This is how we make victory meaningful again.
i. Creation Phase
Founders must pay a one-time creation fee of 100 $VIRTUAL to launch a project.
After creation, a dedicated agent launch page will be published on the Virtuals Protocol platform, displaying all core project details, token supply, founding team, and launch parameters.
There will be at least a 24-hour evaluation window between page creation and public trading. This allows the community time to review, discuss, and assess each project before liquidity trading begins.
ii. Launch and Early Trading
Trading starts from a lower initial valuation, providing early Virgens with asymmetric, often extraordinary upside potential to discover belief ahead of others.
Anyone can participate directly through the Virtuals Protocol interface, without presales, whitelists, or allocation restrictions.
To maintain fairness, an Anti-Sniper Tax will be enabled at launch.
Anti-Sniper Tax: The initial tax rate is 99%, linearly decreasing to 1% over time. All collected taxes will be used to repurchase the agent tokens themselves, enhancing the market and rewarding true participants.
This system prevents bots from taking control and transforms volatility into constructive liquidity growth.
iii. Team Distribution and Fundraising Mechanism
50% of the total supply is reserved for the founding team.
25% is linearly allocated through capped sales, starting only when the project reaches a 2 million FDV and continuing until 160 million FDV.
These sales will be executed automatically and transparently as the project grows.
Founders can only earn when actual market traction is achieved; funding is tied to performance, not promises.
The remaining 25% will be unlocked according to a six-month linear vesting schedule one year after the TGE, or unlocked when the project reaches 160 million FDV (whichever comes first).
This dual team allocation structure ensures that founders receive funding support while also being held accountable. They cannot sell early but must build value over the long term to access development funds.
iv. Ecosystem Airdrop
Each Unicorn release will allocate 5% of the total supply to true Virgens:
2% allocated to $VIRTUAL stakers
3% allocated to active participants in the Virtuals ecosystem
Airdrops are distributed weekly, with snapshots linked to $VIRTUAL staking and Virtuals ecosystem activities.
This means that every agent launch will directly reward $VIRTUAL stakers and active participants in the Virtuals protocol ecosystem.
Transitioning from the Points System
As we transition from Genesis to Unicorn, airdrops will gradually shift from the old points system to the new $VIRTUAL staking and Virtuals ecosystem activity model.
During the transition period, all existing points will still generate airdrops based on the number of points held, while also receiving rewards based on $VIRTUAL staking and Virtuals ecosystem activities.
Before Unicorn goes live, a snapshot of all existing points balances will be taken. After that, airdrop allocations will follow a three-week transition plan until a complete migration to the new model.
Key Token Distribution
The Road Ahead
Genesis was an experiment, a bold attempt to ensure fair and transparent product launches. It achieved some success, but fairness alone is not enough. Small victories cannot build a lasting market.
Fire was humanity's first spark, and agent ownership is the next.
Unicorn rewards belief, provides funding for true developers, and makes ownership meaningful again—this ownership drives the rise of Agentic GDP and truly solves problems.
This is how we move forward: helping Virgens co-own the AI agents that define the next economy and attracting founders who can build long-term. When Virgens win, Virtuals wins too. This is the only direction we can go.
Unicorn, stay tuned!
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