The AI Dispatch #29 - Eliza is Back? Bullish Vibes, DePai

Happy Monday, dear readers! Welcome to the AI dispatch #29.

This week's edition includes:

💹 A General Overview of the AI sector Marketcap

🤖 A Guest post Introducing @Almanak__

📚 A Recap of the Top News from Last Week

💹Market Overview

This is a historical week for all Ethereum, with $ETH finally breaking $4k after over 4 years. May this be a good sign of things to come - we've already seen the sector heating up again in the last couple of days.

Anyway, welcome to another week oscillating between the $10-12b benchmark in terms of total market cap for AI projects.

This week's price action is not doing us any justice. However, we are seeing signs of a rebound across a series of AI agents, especially those in the @virtuals_io ecosystem such as @Vader_AI_.

While we've extensively covered the Virtuals ecosystem lately, it's refreshing to see the @autodotfun account being more active.

For those interested to learn more about the future of elizaOS, they should listen to this interview from the point of view of @LoicRicci, a builder using the Eliza framework:

Some other updates in the ecosystem include more startups getting accepted into the AWS Startup Program:

Shaw also recently released an interview with @0FJAKE:

🤖 Introducing Almanak

What is Almanak?

Almanak is a platform to build, optimize, and manage sophisticated code-based financial strategies using a swarm of AI agents, all in a no-code environment designed for institutional-grade vibecoding.

What can you do on Almanak?

On Almanak users can build "code-based financial strategies". The underlying complexity is abstracted as anyone can vibe code in an institutional-grade environment, without the need to be a developer.

The advantages of these strategies is that they are:

• Deterministric

• Verifiable

• Audited

• Simulation-tested

• Much faster to deploy than traditional development times

Some examples of these strategies include:

• Deploy tokenised vaults using ERC-7540, making strategies composable, fungible, and DeFi-integrated.

• Participate in bribe mechanics where protocols compete for AI-managed TVL and capital routing.

What's going on in the Almanak Ecosystem?

The platform saw its first vault launched by community curators, enabling users to monetise strategies by charging management or performance fees. The vault launched with a $5 million cap that was filled in under 24 hours. The cap was then raised to $10 million, and it was filled again in less than a day.

📚Top Weekly News

• Where is AI going to be in 40 years? Some interesting comments under this post by @S4mmyEth:

  

  • Ever heard of DePai? Decentralised physical AI... VCs are up for it, with lots of funding in the sector. Here are some of the top ones by the one and only @Slappjakke:

• $TIBBIR - Ribbit? Some speculation on legal entities associated with @ribbita2012:

• Another interesting example of anti-bot proof of humanity developed by @billions_ntwk:

• @TheoriqAI has finalised its sale on @KaitoAI, sharing more details on the allocations:

• What about more AI features in games? @pixels_online just launched their own AI swarm:

• @stacy_muur shared interesting insights on the biggest VC raises for AI projects, with @SentientAGI, @nillionnetwork, @oceanprotocol, @billions_ntwk:

• For those interested in deeper research on AI I can't recommend enough to have a look at @Delphi_Digital's Delphi Intelligence:

Here's just some examples of what you can find:

Last but not least.. Here's a list of interesting AI tools you should check out:

For the last piece of content for this week, we want to highlight the importance of privacy with this post by @0x_ultra:

That's a wrap for this week! We hope you're enjoying some time off, and reading this on the beach.

GG

See you next week