Virtuals Protocol
What one unit is, what it costs to enter, and what we can observe onchain.
- Week2026-W42
- Updated2026-10-12
21,587 agent tokens have launched on Virtuals' BondingV5 on Base as of 2026-10-12.
How measured · The length of the public tokenInfos array on Virtuals' BondingV5 contract on Base, found by binary search for the first index that reverts. The latest weekly reading.
- One unit is
- one agent-token LAUNCH at stage 1; one graduated agent NFT at stage 2. These are different objects and must never be conflated.
- Entry costs
- free — normalLaunchFee = 0, confirmed on-chain. The widely-repeated '100 VIRTUAL' figure is stale.
Trend — launched, week over week
Gaps in a line are weeks the value was unknown. Chains are never combined.
What we measured
Base
▸▾ How these were measured
- Window scan incomplete — unknown, not zero.
- totalSupply covers graduations from every bonding version, while the launched row covers BondingV5 only. Dividing one by the other mixes denominators.
- BondingV5 ONLY. Earlier bonding versions exist and we hold no confirmed address for them, so an all-versions launch total is unknown to us — see the venue caveat before computing any conversion rate.
Confirmed contracts
Every address here was confirmed on-chain twice: bytecode present, and the block explorer's verified contract name matching the claim. A confirmation older than the re-check interval renders as stale rather than as a number that looks current.
How this is measured
AgentNftV2 totalSupply() for graduated agents (verified directly). Launch counter on BondingV5 — see verification_gap.
Each figure is read per chain and per lifecycle stage and is never added to another. A rate computed on fewer than 20 observations is stored and shown as “not enough readings”, never as a finding; a value that could not be read says “not measured” with the reason.
What this page cannot settle
- Permissionless with no liveness check anywhere in the contract, so stage 1 carries a ~98% noise floor. ALSO: legacy AgentNft 0x652BF29626356b7FaDc2B5205d4F81be9743da1c is a decoy — name()='Persona', totalSupply 0.
- Headline safety: Only as a two-stage figure. 'Launched vs graduated' is publishable and genuinely interesting; 'agents created' is not.
- The 19,180 launch figure came from research and was not independently re-read by us; the graduated figure was. Verify the launch counter directly before publishing either.
- Every method on this page is EVM-shaped. Solana identity registries are covered elsewhere as upper bounds; Solana payment settlement is not covered anywhere on this site.
In the directory as Virtuals Protocol.
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Sato Hub, "Virtuals Protocol — measured on-chain", satohub.ai/agent-economy/virtuals, as of 2026-10-12. CC-BY.
Data: satohub.ai/api/export/adoption.json?venue=virtuals (CC-BY, current week; every row carries its method, evidence tier and sample size).
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- What is one unit of Virtuals Protocol?
- one agent-token LAUNCH at stage 1; one graduated agent NFT at stage 2. These are different objects and must never be conflated. Counting anything else as a "Virtuals Protocol agent" would compare different objects, so every row on this page names the stage it counts.
- What does it cost to enter Virtuals Protocol?
- free — normalLaunchFee = 0, confirmed on-chain. The widely-repeated '100 VIRTUAL' figure is stale. Entry cost is why raw sizes are not comparable across venues: free and permissionless is a different market from bonded.
- How is Virtuals Protocol measured?
- Public chain reads on 1 chain, keylessly, once a week — this view is the week beginning 2026-W42. Each row carries its method, evidence tier and sample size, and a row we could not read is null rather than zero.
- Does a count here say the agents work?
- No. A registration, a launch or a staked service is an entry in a contract. Nothing about funding, activity, competence or safety is implied, and what happens after entry is measured as its own stage.
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Sato Hub. "Virtuals Protocol — measured on-chain." Sato Hub, updated 2026-10-12, accessed 2026-10-16. https://satohub.ai/agent-economy/virtualsData last refreshed 2026-10-12; this page is rebuilt daily. Citations carry the date so a reader can tell which snapshot a claim came from. Catalog data is licensed CC-BY-4.0.