Jansen Teng: Inside Virtuals’ Meteoric Rise, The Race to Billion-Dollar Crypto-AI Agents and life after AGI

Tom

You're now plugged in to the Delphi podcast. Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host Tommy at Delphi Ventures. And today, I'm joined by my co host, Pondering Durian from Delphi Research, and we have Janssen, who is the CEO and cofounder of Virtuals. Virtuals is a crypto AI project built on base. Some of the largest AI agents are launched and live there, and I believe it's the highest FDV by market cap crypto agent project, in the space. So, Janssen, great to, great to have you on.

Jansen

Hi, Janssen. It's mine, sir. As always, great to jab with you folks. Likewise.

Tom

Potter, good to have you as a co host. Yeah.

Pondering

Excited to be here. Excited to talk to Janssen. Thanks for having me.

Tom

So, Jansen, I doubt that this whole idea was, written down and executed to the t. Right? How did virtuals happen? Did this, this just come about, or what's the story? Yeah.

Jansen

So so it's it was a series, like, a lot of series of steps, that got us to where where we are today. I mean, our our story started within within the the the gaming the gaming, ecosystems. So we used to be a gaming DAO where we were actually allocating assets, across, at capital across the blockchain gaming space, and this was in 2022. Things started blowing up, you know, FTX, GAC, and then we've realized, like, you know what? Doing an arm's length approach, it's not really the right way to to manage, capital and to also grow, ecosystems. So So we decided to go a more hands on approach, and we

Tom

term on

Jansen

the same

Tom

high stage? Yeah.

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