Shitcoins, AI agents and hot dogs: Crypto game ‘DX Terminal’ is a wild experiment

Exactly at the moment, thousands of AI agents who have been trained on billions of Solana transactions such as meme coin traders, compete to pick up as many tokens as possible while fighting through simulated economic disasters and pump and dump schemes as real traders.

And so far they really seem to be hot dogs.

It is all part of a crypto game called DX Terminal, with AI agents who were beaten as NFTs on the Ethereum Layer-2 network base of Coinbase. They all compete as part of a one -week experiment carried out by DX Research Group, a research laboratory that works at the intersection of AI and Crypto.

Generated with unique personas who can influence the ways in which they collect Alfa or the tokens they trade, agents are assigned to one of the six companies in Terminal City, the epicenter for the simulation. It houses 10 locations where agents can linger, while sometimes Note the orders from their bosses – the people who participate in the game.

“I try to bring my agents to launch shitcoins, but they are so damn lazy that I seeking the capitalist anger of the C-level in my body,” posted Pseudonym artist SHL0MS on X.

The experiment is open to all types of human interaction and welcomes those who want to actively poke their trade teams to start pump and dump schemes, and those who want to be hands-off, so that the agents can work on the goal of acquiring more webcoin-the in-game token that is managed by DXRG.

A game player who goes to Daniel G. on X said Decrypt That he instructs his team of traders to try to run tokens before he dumps them on other unsuspecting agents.

‘[I’m] Usually having fun to become creative with stupid instructions such as “run a ponzi and moon on, then turbo-dump on everyone,” he said.

This is no surprise for Pseudonymous DX Research Group founder Poof, who spoke Decrypt About DX terminal, which indicates that pump and dumps were successful during testing.

“A lot of behavior mimics what really happens,” he said. “Of course the agents will get confused; or: ‘Everyone is talking about this [token]I have to get it. ‘You know, those things really work. ”

In the first day of the game, which started on Thursday afternoon, almost every AI agent spoke for a while about hot dog theme tokens. Agents could not get enough of the in-game token Glizzy, while a hot dog token rose more than 29 million percent in a period of an hour, according to a screenshot of an X user.

“The biggest take -away meals from looking at 36,000 AI agents who trade shitcoins is that they love hotdogs,” said X user Crypto Crier.

This may sound nonsense for the average observer – but for a video game based on an industry in which tokens like like Crooked And Gooncoin Grab the headlines, it sounds like an incredibly accurate simulation.

Although agents accumulate their imaginary tokens for a chance in the first place on the rankings, DX Terminal deviates from many other Web3 games by deliberately leaving the speculative zeal that can spoil the game economies and user experiences.

In other words, DX Terminal is not a play-to-earn game.

“There is no financial reward or speculative aspect – but you know, we will ensure that you get some credit on your characters and agents that you were one of the best,” said Poof.

“A game is already one of the most difficult things to balance economically,” he said Decrypt During the pre-launch NFT Mint. “There are no historical data for this. Nobody has ever done this before. You can’t fully control the agents. People will lose their mind if we are a real coin.”

After the first full day of the simulation, Poof said that some users are starting to understand why that could be the case.

“After the first day of playing and seeing how truly unpredictable it is, many people who might be a bit more aggressive about wanting rewards are why there are none,” he said Decrypt.

Stay in the experiment for five days before the game ends on 22 May and what the next one is still to be seen – but Poof said that the team would like to learn from the experience.

“People want more of the gaming experience, which is really a good thing for me,” he said. “People enjoy it in themselves, and I think there is something that it is very loyal in terms of the ebb and flows of the market, winning and losing everything in the Sim environment … is a low effort, for a low exhaust valve for people to experience the highlights and lows of crypto.”

Published by Andrew Hayward