About the new shares of the Virtual ecosystem

A reader left a message asking me how I handle the tokens obtained from participating in Virtual's token offerings. Do I continue to stake them or sell them?

Among all my tokens, except for selling some of the Virgen meme coin after receiving it, all the other tokens I obtained are staked, and none have been sold.

The reason for selling part of the Virgen is that it is a meme coin, and participating in it is purely for fun, so after seeing a decent profit, I sold part of it but still kept some to continue staking.

As for staking all the other tokens without selling:

First, I hope that one of these projects will truly emerge as a valuable and profitable one;

Second, from a profit perspective, according to the rules of Virtual's token offerings, the tokens I received are very few, and selling them does not yield significant profit for me.

The key to participating in token offerings on Virtual is to accumulate a lot of points. I have never calculated how those points are obtained. I am also quite lazy and don’t do much yapping; I didn’t choose the maximum term for staking on Virtual, so the points I received are limited, and I participate in projects cautiously.

Some projects I like are popular, with very high participation, which means I can't invest much at all, and the shares I can get are very small. There are also some popular projects that have high returns after launch, but I don’t like them, so I didn’t participate.

On average, even if I sell immediately after the projects I participated in go live, the returns are not high.

For example, I originally planned to invest 100 dollars, but due to point limitations, I could only invest 5 dollars. This 5 dollars, on average, might yield 10x or 20x, with a maximum return of only 100 dollars.

This results in my original plan to take out 100 dollars to invest, but in reality, even if I sell everything, I can only get a maximum of 195 dollars, which is less than double my investment.

If it’s just for this return, I might as well buy Ethereum, which has lower risk and requires less effort.

So I decided to stake everything and see if I can catch a project with high future returns from that 5 dollars I invested.

Even if all the projects I invest in fail, I would only lose 5 dollars in total.

The current significance of token offerings in the Virtual ecosystem is more about short-term impact than long-term significance. Its most important role at this stage is to gather popularity and attract developers and participants into this ecosystem. However, to ensure the long-term development and growth of the Virtual ecosystem, it must continuously generate value and achieve a wealth effect—achieving this goal now seems to depend on the implementation and launch of the ACP protocol.

The vision of the ACP protocol is to enable interaction between AI Agents, generating value and profit through interactions between AI Agent to Consumer (A to C) and AI Agent to AI Agent (A to A).

If this protocol can be realized and produce effects, it will not only connect all existing AI Agents in the ecosystem but also provide a good direction for the future development of AI Agents. It will guide the development of AI Agents to focus on interactions based on smart contracts and how to create value through these interactions.

As long as this direction is formed, I believe new blockbuster AI Agents will emerge that surpass AIXBT, and they will appear in batches. Some currently plummeting but valuable AI Agents will also recover from their lows and reach new highs in the future. At that time, even without any AI Agents tokens, just holding Virtual will yield good returns.

Conversely, if the ACP protocol cannot be realized, no matter how the current launch platform changes its mechanisms or methods, the effects will be temporary, and ultimately, investors will still judge the project and ecosystem based on the performance of AI Agents rather than the mechanisms of the launch platform.