Today's sector market cap: $12.4B -5.66%
The sector has seen a pullback, with the value of Web3 AI being recognized by the mainstream market.
📈 Top 10 Coingecko trading volume in the last 24 hours:
Token Trading Volume Market Cap Price Volatility
1- $VIRTUAL $189.3M $870.1M $1.33 -6.7%
2- $TAO $153.8M $3.5B $364.15 -6.8%
3- $BANANAS31 $140.6M $71.9M $0.01 +4.1%
4- $SAHARA $88.9M $191.1M $0.09 -4.8%
5- $AI16Z $74.3M $144.0M $0.13 -10.6%
6- $AIXBT $46.6M $121.8M $0.13 -8.9%
7- $KAITO $45.4M $278.2M $1.15 -5.8%
8- $GOAT $34.3M $97.2M $0.10 -8.4%
9- $AVA $32.1M $38.0M $0.04 -14.6%
10- $COOKIE $27.2M $87.4M $0.15 -9.5%
⭐️ Key Information
1. Nasdaq-listed Heritage Distilling (CASK) announces the launch of a new $IP token reserve worth $360 million.
- Heritage Distilling @heritagedistill secured $220 million in PIPE financing (including $100 million in cash and $120 million in $IP tokens), with participation from well-known venture capital firms like @a16zcrypto, @arrington_cap, and @ambergroup_io.
- Heritage Distilling will allocate $82 million to purchase $IP tokens from Story Foundation @StoryProtocol at a fixed price of $3.40 per $IP token. The Story Foundation will use these funds for strategic buybacks of $IP tokens in the open market.
Comment: Story's 'Microstrategy Moment' has officially arrived. From now on, stock investors can also participate in the intellectual property ecosystem and AI economy built by $IP and Story.
2. Data layer AI Agent of the Virtuals ecosystem - Loky AI @Loky_AI upgraded and launched
- Loky AI provides a unified data infrastructure layer for AI Agents, offering modular, permissionless real-time data services through Loky MCP APIs.
- Current real-time data services cover: ACP Index (tracking the task volume, revenue, and performance of Agents within the ecosystem), staking dynamics, wallet snapshots, trading signals, etc.
- A new terminal has been launched, with the next step being the release of the Base Mini App.
Comment: Real-time data monitoring is crucial in the collaborative network of AI Agents. Loky AI's upgrade provides stronger foundational services for Agents in the ACP network, enhancing collaboration efficiency.
3. NEAR AI @near_ai elaborates on NVIDIA @nvidia's Confidential Computing
- Hardware Layer Security: Integrating encryption, isolation, and authentication capabilities into GPU chips effectively reduces the risk of data exposure even when the software system is under attack.
- Compliance Support: Ensures AI workloads only run in secure and validated environments, providing provability of hardware trust for regulated industries and safeguarding sensitive data.
Comment: The hardware layer security is beyond reproach, although expensive.
4. Xeleb Protocol ($XCX) completed TGE on Binance Alpha
- Xeleb Protocol @xelebofficial is an AI Agent launch platform on the BNB Chain, allowing users to create and publish their own AI Agent Influencers without coding.
- Alpha trading opened at 16:00 Beijing time on August 11. The airdrop for Alpha users has been fully claimed.
Comment: AI Agent infrastructure on the BNB Chain is worth keeping an eye on.
📊 Data sources: @xhunt_ai, Cookie DAO, Coingecko
💡 Risk Warning: The above is for information sharing only and is not investment advice.