Mirae Asset Securities’ Research Center (미래에셋증권), one of Korea’s largest traditional brokerage and investment institutions, featured Virtuals Protocol as a leading example of agent fundraising in its Feb 23, 2026 report. The report presents Virtuals Protocol's launch mechanism as a new capital formation model for AI agents, emphasizing: • Smart contract based Commit/Refund escrow • Structural mitigation of ICO era rug pull risk • Onchain performance tracking via ERC-8004 • Integration with @ethereum standards across identity, authentication, payments, and fundraising We are proud to be pioneering the capital formation primitive for AI agents, and encouraged to see this category entering institutional capital markets coverage.(Virtuals Protocol)