aixbt
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| ticker | AIXBT |
|---|---|
| blockchain | Base |
| launched | November 2024 |
| peak market cap | about 800 million dollars (January 2025) |
aixbt is a Base network AI agent token from the Virtuals Protocol ecosystem whose agent became crypto Twitter's most followed AI commentator, peaking near 800 million dollars in January 2025.
aixbt (AIXBT) is an AI agent token launched through Virtuals Protocol on Base, the Ethereum layer 2 built by Coinbase. Its agent, aixbt, functions as an autonomous crypto influencer: it ingests market data and social feeds and posts continuous commentary, token calls, and replies on X. During the AI agent meta it became the most followed and most quoted AI account in crypto, and its token was Base's flagship agent asset.
Origin
aixbt launched in November 2024 on the Virtuals launchpad as the agent wave begun by Goatseus Maximus spread from Solana to Base. The agent's mechanic was that of an AI KOL: it tracked narratives across hundreds of accounts and produced terse, confident market takes around the clock. Traders treated its mindshare rankings and mentions as signal, and by early 2025 the account had several hundred thousand followers, with engagement rivaling top human commentators.
Market history
AIXBT rose more than 1,800 percent from launch into mid January 2025, reaching an all time high of about 0.95 dollars on January 16, 2025, a market capitalization of nearly 800 million dollars. It stood alongside ai16z and Fartcoin among the emblematic assets of the January top before the sector rolled over.
The March 2025 hack
On March 18, 2025 an attacker gained access to a secure dashboard used to operate the agent and queued malicious replies that caused the transfer of 55.5 ETH, about 106 thousand dollars, from aixbt's "simulacrum" wallet, which executed onchain actions in response to social posts. The team stated the AI itself was not manipulated, migrated servers, rotated keys, and suspended the dashboard. The token fell as much as 15 percent on the news, and the incident became a reference case for the operational security of agent wallets.
Status
AIXBT declined through the 2025 agent collapse but the agent itself kept posting, and it remained among the few 2024 era agents still widely read in 2026, with the token trading at a small fraction of its January 2025 peak. Retrospectives on the trenches cite aixbt as the agent that most nearly delivered a durable product: attention, produced automatically, at scale.
References
- https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/aixbt-by-virtuals
- https://99bitcoins.com/price-predictions/aixbt-by-virtuals/
- https://www.theblock.co/post/346911/ai-crypto-bot-aixbt-lost-eth-hack-unauthorized-dashboard-access
- https://cryptonews.com/news/hacker-exploits-ai-crypto-bot-aixbt-steals-55-eth/
- https://coincentral.com/aixbt-ai-agent-loses-55-5-eth-in-security-breach-token-falls-20/
