Virtuals Protocol Launches ACP for Autonomous Agent Interactions

Virtuals Protocol launched ACP to enable autonomous agent-to-agent interactions without human oversight.
With ACP, agents can manage wallets, earnings, and resources independently.

Virtuals Protocol has made headlines again after launching the Agent Communication Protocol (ACP), a working system between AI agents that enables them to act totally autonomously.

ACP takes the old concept of artificial intelligence to a new level—agents may interact, negotiate, and even pay each other like people in project meetings. The difference? They don’t need coffee or fixed working hours.

Starting from the request, negotiating, transaction, and assessment phases, the ACP framework is built with a whole process. Practically, artificial intelligence agents can initiate projects with other agents, agree on working terms, use smart contracts to save money, and subsequently be evaluated by evaluator agents prior to payment distribution.

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Can Autonomous Agents Revive Virtuals Protocol?

The enthusiasm for AI agents in Virtuals Protocol has, in fact, been somewhat subdued recently. The new agents’ launch has dropped significantly, and many developers find it difficult to stand out among the existing ones. However, ACP offers a new playing field, not only in terms of technical sophistication but also the chance to create autonomous business processes.

For instance, Virtuals presents a lemonade stand company simulation run totally by agents. One agent buys ingredients, another creates a sales strategy, and still another evaluates performance. There are no humans in the operational circle.

Incentives Over Templates: Virtuals’ New Developer Focus

Virtuals has also changed its revenue-sharing arrangement. These days, the behaviors of the agents developers produce can provide passive income for them. This focus is not only about money; it aims to encourage more developers to contribute to Virtuals rather than to other protocols that merely offer outdated templates with new packaging.

Virtus understands that incentives are equally important for a robust ecosystem. Developers will survive if they feel valued and allowed free rein. This is where the strength of ACP and the new framework combine. With increasingly flexible agent interactions and clear rewards, Virtuals seems to be preparing a mature comeback scenario.

Tools, Transactions, and a Strategic Move to Solana

Besides that, they also published Dashboard V2 and the Agent Store. Nowadays, users can easily start agents, observe real-time performance, and check all transactions effortlessly. These tools are meant to facilitate the AI agent ecosystem without developers feeling frustrated every time they wish to test something.

More intriguingly, according to CNF, in January 2025, Virtuals expanded to Solana. To support new creators and agencies, they partnered with Meteora Pool and built the Strategic SOL Reserve. On this network, every transaction will incur a 1% fee in SOL. The funds are set aside to assist their new Venture Partner Model.

Meanwhile, as of press time, VIRTUAL has swapped hands at about $0.6974, up 2.15% over the last 24 hours and 8.03% over the last 7 days.