Is the launchpad still a sexy business?

@virtuals_io's answer is: Yes.

The Evolution of the Launchpad's Role

In historical cycles, the launchpad mainly played the intermediary role of project promotion, financing, and token issuance, relying on the enthusiasm of bull markets to achieve monetization. However, the current market cycle has raised higher demands on launchpads:

Trust Crisis: The speculative excess of past cycles has led to a loss of trust; launchpads need to restore trust through transparent mechanisms and long-term value creation.

Ecological Responsibility: Transitioning from a single financing tool to an ecological catalyst, focusing on sustainable ecological cultivation and technological innovation alignment.

The strategic line of Virtuals Protocol is clear:

Core Objective: Incubate AI projects and cultivate the ACP ecosystem.

Value Positioning: Lower the barrier to creating AI agents through a no-code platform, promoting the integration of AI and blockchain.

In addition to Virtuals, another launchpad I am personally interested in is @AtlantisOnSonic.

Latest Developments of Atlantis

As the native launchpad of the Sonic ecosystem, Atlantis shows strong momentum:

Financing: Raised 1.08 million $S within 20 hours of launch.

Initial Project: Official announcement of @SynapGG, focusing on trading AI agents.

Atlantis's Strategic Line: Deeply bind with the Sonic ecosystem to achieve mutual prosperity.

Strategic Advice: Short-term Optimization for Atlantis

If I were part of Atlantis, I would do two things in the short term:

First, reach out to the winning projects of the Sonic DeFAI hackathon to seek cooperation.

Second, rewrite and design the business logic of the launchpad; fine-tuning is also acceptable.

Finally, the above is not investment advice.