As AI technology rapidly advances, there are active discussions about how blockchain and AI technologies can interact with each other. While Solana and Base are currently leading this trend, the Injective ecosystem is definitely worth paying attention to.
What makes AI-related initiatives in the Injective ecosystem interesting is that rather than simply focusing on meme coins, they put more emphasis on how AI and trained agents can be practically utilized to solve the UX problems inherent in blockchain.
The Injective ecosystem is indeed recording meaningful growth. They are catching blockchain market trends faster than anyone else and turning them into products, and the inflow of funds from outside the chain into Injective is quite significant. This might just be the beginning for the Injective ecosystem.
Crypto and artificial intelligence are experiencing unprecedented convergence across multiple domains. The Solana and Base ecosystems, in particular, have spearheaded this integration through the proliferation of AI Agents and associated tokens, leading to heightened market focus on crypto-AI intersections. While some critics dismiss this convergence as merely trendy—especially given recent market volatility (exemplified by a notable 50% sector decline following the Trump family's meme coin launch that diverted significant capital)—the synthesis of these technologies continues to materialize in tangible implementations. Notable examples include decentralized AI platforms such as TAO and IO.NET, which have established decentralized marketplaces for trading GPU resources critical to AI computation. This evolution suggests that rather than dismissing the phenomenon as speculative, a thorough analysis of the potential synergies between blockchain and AI technologies, particularly in agent-based systems, is warranted.
While Solana and Base currently dominate this technological frontier, other Layer 1 protocols are rapidly advancing into this space. Injective, notably, has distinguished itself by pursuing a comprehensive approach that extends beyond agent deployment to encompass fundamental AI infrastructure development. This raises the question: what specific AI initiatives is Injective pursuing? Let us examine these developments in detail.
Source: Injective
First, iAgent was the most notable and rightfully significant agent-related initiative from Injective. iAgent is an SDK framework that enables anyone to create agents on Injective. Through iAgent, users can command various activities from simple asset transfers between addresses within the Injective network to trading assets using Injective's decentralized exchange and checking wallet balances.
iAgent presents an infrastructure that differs from existing AI solutions on Solana/Base while potentially addressing blockchain's shortcomings. Blockchain infrastructure is notorious for its user-unfriendly UI. Sending tokens is difficult, and interacting with various blockchain-based applications is cumbersome. What if we could implement these processes in the same way we converse with ChatGPT? This would significantly improve the previously complex on-chain user experience. Unlike existing AI x Crypto initiatives that primarily revolve around meme coins, this demonstrates how AI can practically interact with and complement blockchain while providing tangible utility value.
1.1.1 iAgent 2.0
Recently, Injective announced iAgent 2.0, which features a multi-agent framework enabling multiple agents to operate simultaneously, improved UI for easier agent creation by users, and seamless compatibility with social platforms like Twitter. Additionally, it provides full support for ElizaOS, the most promising agent model in the Solana ecosystem, and will continue to support their future updates.
What's particularly noteworthy is that iAgent 2.0 significantly expands its usability through direct interaction with Injective's distinctive native modules (such as the exchange module, RWA Module, and Oracle Module), which serves as a key differentiator for Injective.
The enhanced integration capabilities and support for Solana's ElizaOS demonstrate Injective's commitment to creating a more interconnected and user-friendly blockchain ecosystem, particularly in the realm of automated trading and decentralized finance.
1.1.2 Injective AI Hackathon
Source: Injective Blog
Finally, Injective is hosting an agent hackathon in collaboration with ElizaOS. A total prize pool of $100,000 has been allocated, and they are recruiting teams to develop products across various tracks including launchpads, DeFAI (DeFi x AI), no-code development tools, arts and culture, and multi-agent support tools. Interested parties are encouraged to review the detailed information and apply through the provided link.
For more detailed information about iAgent, which Injective is actively developing, please refer to Injective's iAgent documentation/iAgent 2.0.
Source: Injective Blog
Injective activated the IBC channel with ASI in November last year. ASI is an alliance formed through the collaboration of Fetch.ai, SingularityNet, and Ocean Protocol, focusing on advancing decentralized open-source AI technology.
By activating the IBC channel with ASI, Injective has gained two major advantages:
AI technologies developed within ASI can now interact with Injective's DeFi protocols. Specifically, ASI users can deploy smart contracts on Injective and mint tokens to leverage Injective's DeFi protocols.
Injective users are guaranteed access to ASI ecosystem assets, including $FET, enabling developers to freely utilize ASI's AI technologies.
This integration has opened up possibilities for developing innovative services and applications through the combination of blockchain-based AI technology and DeFi. It is particularly significant as it enables the development of various financial services, such as automated trading strategies, predictive modeling, and risk management utilizing AI technology.
The collaboration between these platforms represents a significant step forward in bridging the gap between decentralized AI and DeFi ecosystems, potentially leading to more sophisticated and efficient financial products and services in the blockchain space.
While iAgent focused on the agent framework itself, the initiatives that Injective is now building with Allora and Sonic are more focused on enhancing iAgent and creating an environment where various agents can coexist. First, the initiative with Sonic primarily involves building a cross-chain agent hub that enables agents created in the SVM (Solana Virtual Machine) ecosystem to be utilized within the Injective ecosystem. Particularly, by using Sonic's HyperGrid infrastructure, Injective's WebAssembly-based blockchain and Solana can interoperate through IBC (Inter-blockchain communication), allowing them to leverage the Solana ecosystem, which currently leads the agent market, without technical complications. Given Solana's current dominance in the agent market, Injective and Sonic's construction of an agent smart hub can be considered a strategically excellent choice.
The next initiative is directly related to iAgent. The core of this initiative is the collaboration between Injective and Allora, which is building decentralized AI infrastructure, to enable iAgent to create more diverse use cases. Through Allora, iAgent can access real-time data, allowing it to create iAgent use cases based on a wider range of information. Furthermore, through the Allora network, iAgent will gain self-improving capabilities, enabling it to perform its role as an agent more accurately and without errors.
Of course, Injective is not solely focused on agents. In fact, as the demand for AI increases, computing resources become increasingly important, and Injective is already collaborating with projects that provide GPU markets in anticipation of this demand. Their collaboration with IO.NET is a prime example of this. IO.NET is a decentralized GPU marketplace (for more detailed information, please refer to Four Pillars's IO.NET article). Through the collaboration with IO.NET, Injective is researching ways to enhance the computational power necessary for iAgent's development and exploring potential financial products related to GPU resources (since they already plan to tokenize GPU resources through collaboration with Aethir, we might soon see more diverse RWA offerings on Injective).
Through these collaborative efforts, we can see that Injective is not merely riding the AI x Crypto hype, but rather working to advance blockchain experiences through agents while also improving these agents' learning and computational capabilities to create practical use cases.
Having consistently published research reports on Injective over the past year, I consider myself the most knowledgeable outsider regarding Injective. In the blockchain industry, Injective is the player that most quickly reads and executes on market trends. While people may not fully appreciate how remarkable this is, in an industry where market trends change rapidly on a weekly basis, Injective's execution ability and proactiveness are truly irreplaceable. Those curious about blockchain market trends need only look at what Injective is preparing.
However, the particularly high expectations for Injective regarding AI and crypto stem from the AI background of Injective's co-founder, Albert. Before diving deep into blockchain research, Albert was more focused on artificial intelligence research at Stanford University. Therefore, I sincerely hope that Injective can turn this AI x crypto cycle into an opportunity to find practical utility rather than treating it as just another buzzword. Already, their iAgent initiative and collaboration with the AI x Crypto industry leaders like Eliza Labs, IO.NET, Fetch, Allora, and Aethir represent efforts to address blockchain's inherent inconveniences through AI.
Source: Artemis
Currently, Injective is showing significant achievements in terms of metrics. According to Artemis, new capital is flowing into Injective at the fourth-highest rate after Solana, Base, and Avalanche. Even during recent major market-moving events like Trump and Melania, they brought these assets into their ecosystem faster than any other team (while bringing in tokens directly takes considerable time, derivatives like futures can be introduced quickly, and Injective quickly introduced assets like Melania ($MELANIA) and Trump ($TRUMP) to Injective users through Helix).
Particularly, with the potential upcoming Trump administration, there is significant interest in U.S.-created blockchains. Given that Injective Labs, the core contributor to the Injective Network, is led by U.S.-born co-founders, it remains noteworthy. This might just be the beginning of Injective Network's golden age.
Related Articles, News, Tweets etc. :
https://blog.injective.com/en/iagent-2-0-powering-the-next-generation-of-ai-agents-on-injective-2/
https://blog.injective.com/en/introducing-the-injective-x-elizaos-ai-agent-hackathon/
https://blog.injective.com/en/enhanced-ai-agent-capabilities-coming-to-injectives-iagent/
https://blog.injective.com/en/injective-and-aethir-join-forces-to-pioneer-tokenized-gpu-compute/
https://blog.injective.com/en/sonic-and-injective-build-industrys-first-cross-chain-smart-agent-hub/
https://github.com/InjectiveLabs/iAgent/tree/master?ref=blog.injective.com
