Virtuals Protocol: Why Did We Launch the New Platform Unicorn?
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Virtuals Protocol: Why Did We Launch the New Platform Unicorn?
From convenience to conviction, Virtuals Protocol reshapes the paradigm of shared ownership in the AI agent economy.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: Virtuals Protocol
Compiled by: TechFlow
Why Change?
We believe that in the future, agents will surpass humans, and global productivity will shift from human GDP to agent GDP (Agentic GDP, or aGDP).
Every part of Virtuals plays a role in this mission:
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Butler connects people with AI agents, enabling seamless interaction and coordination.
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ACP (Agentic Core Protocol) provides agents with an economic foundation—an open, permissionless layer for transactions, trade, and collaboration.
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The creation of Virtuals Launchpad addresses the most critical piece: shared ownership of agents.
The original goal of Virtuals Launchpad was to enable anyone to co-own intelligent agents shaping the future AI economy. However, our first launch model, Genesis, failed to fulfill this vision.
Genesis started with fairness—every Virgens (Virtuals protocol participant) could join through points. Equal entry barriers, high contribution thresholds, and full project visibility.
Genesis pursued fairness but flew too high like Icarus, and ultimately fell.
TechFlow note: "Icarus," a figure from Greek mythology, who, along with his father Daedalus, escaped Crete using wings made of wax and feathers. Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too high (close to the sun) or too low (near the sea). But overcome by the joy of flight, Icarus soared too close to the sun, melting the wax on his wings, causing him to fall into the sea and drown.
Yet fairness turned into point farming.
The entire system became about collecting points, not belief. Virgens cycled from platform to platform—farming points, staking, selling, leaving. A repeating loop.
High-quality founders couldn't raise meaningful funding.
The system lacked a built-in fundraising mechanism, offering only minimal transaction fees, driving top developers away from the platform entirely. The result: shrinking returns for Virgens, declining project quality, and eroding user confidence. Yes, it was fair—but unsustainable.
We realized that if we want people to truly co-own the AI agents defining the future, we need a new model—one that makes ownership meaningful again. A model that rewards early belief, attracts high-quality founders, and creates homes for agents worth existing.
This is why we built Unicorn, a launch system designed to incubate the next billion-dollar agents.
What’s Changed?
Unicorn is designed around belief, not convenience.
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It gives Virgens the freedom to take real positions and rewards them for correct judgment.
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It empowers founders with long-term structures and funding tied to actual growth.
Like the she-wolf to ancient Rome, Unicorn is to this new era of AI ownership.
How It Works
Unicorn is built for true belief—for Virgens who spot potential early, and for founders who prove their conviction.
Each launch starts small, open for anyone to trade, with potential scale reaching hundreds of billions. Early confidence brings massive returns.
Founders are protected, held accountable, and only receive funding when real growth is achieved.
This is how we make winning meaningful again.
i. Creation Phase
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Founders pay a one-time creation fee of 100 $VIRTUAL to initiate a project.
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Upon creation, a dedicated agent launch page is published on the Virtuals Protocol platform, displaying all core project details, token supply, founding team, and launch parameters.
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A minimum 24-hour evaluation window exists between page creation and public trading. This allows the community time to review, discuss, and assess each project before liquidity goes live.
ii. Launch & Early Trading
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Trading begins at a low initial valuation, giving early Virgens asymmetric—often extraordinary—upside for spotting belief ahead of others.
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Anyone can participate directly via the Virtuals Protocol interface—no presales, whitelists, or allocation limits.
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To maintain fairness, an Anti-Sniper Tax is enabled at launch.
Anti-Sniper Tax: Starts at 99% and linearly decays to 1% over time. All collected taxes are used to repurchase the agent's own tokens, strengthening the market and rewarding genuine participants.
This system prevents bot dominance and transforms volatility into constructive liquidity growth.
iii. Team Distribution & Fundraising Mechanism
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50% of total supply is reserved for the founding team.
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25% is distributed linearly through a price-capped fundraising sale, starting only when the project reaches a $2M FDV and continuing up to $160M FDV.
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These sales execute automatically and transparently as the project grows.
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Founders only gain access to funds when the project gains real market traction—funding is tied to performance, not promises.
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The remaining 25% unlocks via a six-month linear vesting schedule after TGE, or upon reaching $160M FDV—whichever comes first.
This dual-team distribution structure ensures founders are both funded and accountable. They cannot dump early, but instead earn development capital by building long-term value.
iv. Ecosystem Airdrops
Each Unicorn launch allocates 5% of total supply to real Virgens:
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2% allocated to $VIRTUAL stakers
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3% allocated to active Virtuals ecosystem participants
Airdrops are distributed weekly, with snapshots tied to $VIRTUAL staking and Virtuals ecosystem activity.
This means every agent launch directly rewards $VIRTUAL stakers and active participants in the Virtuals Protocol ecosystem.
Transition from 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 continue generating airdrops based on point holdings, while also earning rewards based on $VIRTUAL staking and Virtuals ecosystem activity.
A snapshot of all existing point balances will be taken before Unicorn launches. Afterward, airdrop allocations will follow a three-week transition plan until full migration to the new model.
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The Road Ahead
Genesis was an experiment, a bold attempt to ensure fair and transparent product launches. It succeeded to some extent, but fairness alone isn’t enough. Small wins don’t build lasting markets.
Fire was humanity’s first spark; agent ownership is the next.
Unicorn rewards belief, funds real builders, and restores meaning to ownership—the kind that drives the rise of Agentic GDP and solves real problems.
This is how we move forward: helping Virgens co-own the AI agents that will define the next economy, and attracting founders capable of building for the long term. When Virgens win, Virtuals wins. This is the only direction we’re moving in.
Unicorn—coming soon!
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