Trading activity:
Reported 24-hour volume equals 9.83% of market capitalization. The local markets snapshot lists Binance, HTX and Upbit among venues with observed trading activity.
Values are descriptive and should be read together rather than as a price forecast.
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Snapshot date: 2026-09-14.
Methodology responsibility:
YearBull’s analytical methodology and presentation rules are developed and maintained by
Alan Zelvin, Founder & Lead Crypto Researcher.
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What is Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL)?
Virtuals Protocol is a launchpad platform launched in 2024 that enables users to create, tokenize, and monetize AI agents for gaming, entertainment, and virtual environments without requiring technical expertise. Initially built on Ethereum's Base Layer 2 network, the protocol has expanded to Ethereum mainnet, Solana, and Ronin as of 2025. VIRTUAL serves as the base liquidity pair and transactional currency for all AI agent interactions across the ecosystem. The protocol operates through a bonding curve system where new AI agents are created with a 100 VIRTUAL fee. Users can buy and sell agent tokens until the agent reaches 42,000 VIRTUAL, at which point it graduates to a permanent liquidity pool paired with VIRTUAL. AI agents are multimodal, capable of text, speech, and 3D animation, and can manage on-chain wallets autonomously. Notable examples include Luna, an AI girl band vocalist with over 500,000 TikTok followers. The GAME framework powers agent functionality, enabling them to process inputs, generate responses, and remember past interactions. Virtuals Protocol was founded by Jansen Teng and Weekee Tiew, evolving from PathDAO, a gaming guild established in 2021 that pivoted to AI agents in January 2024. The team raised $16 million in seed funding led by DeFiance Capital and Beam. In 2025, major partnerships were announced with Animoca Brands and a collaboration with Zyfai and BasisOS to launch an Agentic Fund of Funds. Users can stake VIRTUAL tokens for veVIRTUAL to participate in DAO governance and may receive airdrops of agent tokens. When users interact with agents, they pay fees in VIRTUAL that generate protocol revenue. This revenue funds periodic buybacks and burns of the VIRTUAL token, reducing its total supply as a value-accrual mechanism for holders.
Official links and contract records appear in Key Facts. Project details can change, so verify current information with the project.
Virtuals Protocol historical signal analysis
YearBull has 255 daily observations for this comparison, from 2025-12-20 through 2026-09-12. 30 day return +6.8%, 90 day return -1.4%. The 30 day move is positive while the 90 day move remains negative, which describes a recent recovery inside a weaker medium term window.
The latest record places the asset at YearBull Rank #744, Bull Score 46/100, Risk Low, and Cycle Early. Rank moved lower by 698 places from the closest stored 30 day comparison. Across the stored window, Bull Score averaged 56.9 and was at least 50 on 81.2% of observations.
Median absolute day to day price movement was 3.01%. The latest price is -43.4% from the highest local daily price in this window. Reported 24 hour volume equals 6.45% of current market capitalization. Circulating supply changed +0.3% across the available supply window. These measurements describe observed behavior and do not establish future direction.
Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) is tracked under virtual-protocol. The local profile associates it with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Solana Ecosystem, Launchpad, Ethereum Ecosystem. The source profile maps it to ethereum, base, solana.
Asset Role and Supply
Its role should be evaluated through network or product use, supply design, governance, liquidity, and trading-venue quality. The reviewed record shows circulating supply about 658.39 million VIRTUAL, total supply about 1.00 billion VIRTUAL, maximum supply about 1.00 billion VIRTUAL. It classifies supply as capped. Supply fields may change through issuance, burns, migrations, or source revisions and should be checked against project records.
Market Structure
At the 2026-09-12 review, the local snapshot placed Virtuals Protocol at market-cap rank #118, with market capitalization about $418.08 million and reported 24-hour volume of $46.53 million. These values describe observed scale and turnover, not fair value or guaranteed executable liquidity.
YearBull Perspective
The dated snapshot recorded YearBull Rank #582, Bull Score 46/100, Risk Low, and Cycle Early. Rank, Bull, Risk, and Cycle answer different questions and should be read together.
Key Risks
Material risks include market volatility, liquidity deterioration, protocol or governance failure, concentration, and regulatory change. Historical prices, rankings, and classifications do not predict future performance. Verify contract addresses, network support, custody, and venue availability before acting.
Most recent YearBull Rank reading for virtual-protocol is #635.
Rank timeline (last 365 days)
Rank movement (nearest daily data).
Reading rule: rank #120 sits higher than rank #200.
7d window (2026-09-07): #65 → #635 (down by 570).
30d window (2026-08-15): #381 → #635 (down by 254).
YearBull Rank is a relative placement score used on YearBull to compare a coin against peers within the same dataset. Lower rank numbers indicate stronger placement in the current snapshot. It is a context signal for relative placement, not an outcome forecast.
Liquidity note: If the line only moves on high-volume days, liquidity is a key filter. relative rank is sensitive to who is active in the window.
Where it trades: If the line breaks range, confirm it across a longer window. consolidation can make rank more stable.
Phase read: If the 30d is noisy, increase the lookback to avoid over-reading. a stable phase often tightens the rank range.
Volatility posture: If the curve is step-like, it may be reacting to discrete inputs. big jumps can be data-driven, but also rotation-driven.
Practical note: read the move, then read the stability of the move.
Editorial note:
This analysis was prepared by the YearBull research team under the direction of
Alan Zelvin,
Founder and Lead Crypto Researcher.
The assessment follows YearBull’s internal research methodology and editorial standards.
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