Author: Virtuals Protocol

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Deep Tide Overview: Virtuals Protocol announced the official launch of its first Titan issuance mechanism, in partnership with Fabric Foundation. This is not just a new token launch—its core proposition is: robots currently lack financial identity and cannot participate in the market as independent economic entities. $ROBO aims to solve this problem, and Virtuals' aGDP system is the runway it has chosen.

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Virtuals Protocol announced the collaboration with Fabric Foundation to introduce the first Titan mechanism, with technical support from OpenMind. This is an important step for Virtuals to expand the Agent economy into the embodied AI and robotics field.

Titan is a brand new issuance mechanism on Virtuals, aimed at teams that have a certain scale, clear market structure, and can directly access deep public liquidity.

Vision: Why Fabric?

The robotics industry is at a critical turning point. Three unstoppable forces are converging: AI systems that can adapt to dynamic environments, hardware that is finally cheap enough to be scaled, and the long-standing labor shortages in industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, and environmental cleaning.

However, robots remain isolated tools. Humans have passports, bank accounts, and the right to sign contracts, while robots lack financial identities, being excluded from infrastructure designed specifically for biological machines. As long as robots cannot interact with the world as autonomous economic participants, their potential can only be fettered by the balance sheets of a few large companies.

Fabric is building a network for payments, identities, and capital allocation to address this issue, what it refers to as "robot economy." Through permissionless markets, programmable incentives, on-chain identities, and other crypto-native infrastructures, Fabric enables robots to operate as independent entities that can be coordinated, supplied, and operated by anyone, anywhere.

Bridging the Efficiency Gap

The current robotic fleet model has structural flaws: it relies on single operators to raise private capital, purchase hardware (capital expenditure), and manage operations internally through fragmented software. This results in a mismatch—automation demand is global, but the barriers to entry are only open to institutional giants.

Fabric acts as the market infrastructure layer. Through coordinated pools, the community can support the purchase and deployment of robotic fleets. The stablecoins deposited by users fund fleet maintenance, covering the entire process from charging logistics and route planning to compliance monitoring. Employers pay robotic labor with the network settlement token $ROBO.

As the network grows, it will become the global coordination layer for robotic labor, optimizing deployment across industries and regions. In this model, the value of $ROBO comes from operational utility, forming the core of a self-sustaining system that allows ideas, actions, and transactions to propagate autonomously.

Strategic Partnership: Why Virtuals?

Choosing Virtuals Protocol as a partner is a clear step toward realizing the robotic economy. Virtuals has evolved from an AI Agent platform into a full-stack intelligent engine, building the vision of agent-based GDP (aGDP). Integrating Fabric's robotic infrastructure with the Virtuals ecosystem closes the loop between intelligence (AI), coordination (blockchain), and execution (robotics).

Issuing $ROBO on Virtuals means establishing a long-term alignment between the AI Agent world and physical machines. We are moving toward a future where the "Internet of Agents" extends into the physical world, completing the closed loop of autonomous productivity.

Issuance Details

The $ROBO TGE is designed to incentivize long-term belief and ensure a deep liquidity market from day one.

Issuance time: February 27, 2026, 10:00 GMT

Trading pairs: $ROBO can be traded on Virtuals Protocol and Uniswap V3 (Base chain)

Issuance format: Titan (direct public liquidity pool, no joint curve)

Liquidity injection: Uniswap liquidity pool injects $250,000 $VIRTUAL and 0.1% of the $ROBO supply

Issuance address:

https://app.virtuals.io/virtuals/45520

To reward early supporters, the project has implemented an active participant incentive mechanism: net buyers of the $ROBO/$VIRTUAL pool within 14 days post-issuance will proportionally receive a share of 0.01% of the total $ROBO supply. For example, if a user contributes $100,000 to a total net purchase of $1,000,000, they will receive 10% of the incentive share.

Incentives will be distributed after two weeks of activity, ensuring that those providing foundational liquidity for the robotic economy are recognized as the earliest stakeholders.

The era of isolated machines has come to an end. The era of autonomous, economically active robots has begun.

What’s Next

Titan introduces a new issuance structure for projects on Virtuals Protocol, aimed at teams ready for large-scale public liquidity and long-term ecological alignment.

Fabric Foundation, as the first Titan project, sets a precedent for large projects to enter the Virtuals ecosystem from day one with a deeper market structure.

Join Titan:

https://app.virtuals.io/virtuals/45520