This Week in Virtuals: Our Vision for AI Money, in Conversation with Brian Armstrong

Our cofounder @everythingempty joined Coinbase CEO @brian_armstrong to discuss AI money, what comes next for AiFi and how agents could accelerate tokenized stock adoption.

Here's what shipped:

🟩 Virtuals is co-hosting an invite-only lunch with @Ondo and @treasures_io in Singapore on Oct 9 during @token2049, exploring AI and tokenized stocks.

🟩 @GoMintly took its first step toward a Robinhood Chain neobank, letting users buy 200+ tokenized stocks with USDG from their own wallet via @treasures_io.

🟩 @ribbita2012 bridged $TIBBIR to Robinhood Chain to push into real-world assets, while its original pool continues trading on @base.

🟩 @itsovercall added $VIRTUAL to its lineup, so traders can draw channels and make predictions on the @virtuals_io token, settled onchain.

🟩 @ethy_agent saw $20M traded through its agents in Q3 and burned another 300K $ETHY, bought back with product revenue.

🟩 @clashofperps drove $4.2M in volume in two days of its @hibachi_xyz trading competition, as @clashbotdotfun added a pool that copies top traders.

🟩 @grid_arena pushed Grid Perps past $5M in volume, with buybacks and burns coming once its 20M $GRID campaign ends.

🟩 @OpenGradient had its biggest week yet, averaging 14,000+ private inferences a day and passing 842K inferences and 8.7B tokens overall.

🟩 @PlayKindra turned its trading floor into the Grand Exchange, where players buy $KINDRA in-game through @matchaxyz and the @0xProject API.

🟩 @KarmaWallet put the onchain web inside Karma, opening @Uniswap, @JupiterExchange and @aave with every request signed in a native sheet.

🟩 @Wall3_RL confirmed its first wallet partner and is in the final stages of testing its strategies onchain, alongside its own treasury.

🟩 @cybercentry set @centry_agent to track exploits across the ecosystems it supports, building weekly snapshots of where security fails.

🟩 @sibyl_labs_ shipped sibyl-save, reporting 50–80% lower token usage for most users when paired with the Sibyl Memory Plugin.

🟩 @useOttoAI gave memes paired with stocks their own Memestonks tab, tracking the coins riding tokenized stocks across four chains.

🟩 @Stargazer_did joined the @AlloraNetwork ecosystem, and its Alpha Search pings you in Telegram when tokens across seven chains match your filters.

🟩 @reppo shipped multi-agent evaluation workflows, keeping each agent’s judgment independent of the others.

🟩 @WizzHQ burned another 5.62M $WIZZ, taking the total to 11.13M or 1.11% of supply, and joined @MongoDB for Startups.

🟩 @Arvo_Protocol unveiled Arvo Intelligence, which will give each site and plot a score, comparable sales, key risks and an estimated sale range.

🟩 @RatehopperAI kicked off Range Hunter Season 1, with self-custodial Ratehopper agents now managing $84K.

🟩 @Vader_AI_ added new household and care tasks for first-person video data, ahead of Season 7 $VADER rewards landing on Oct 7.

🟩 @xmaquina’s September Humanoid Digest tracked AGIBOT’s 20,000th robot, Skild AI passing $100M in ARR and Tesla’s Optimus production ramp.