Eliza Labs launched an account named auto.fun last month, and Eliza Labs' core member Shaw announced on social media X that the project will go live this week. Previously, he mentioned the possibility of creating a launchpad or community product tied to the $ai16z token. Will the emergence of auto.fun be able to change the current Eliza series token's decline, and what upcoming projects set to launch on auto.fun are worth our attention?

What Is auto.fun?

auto.fun is a community-driven open-source token launcher and a No Code AI Agent builder, where anyone can create autonomous AI agents capable of performing tasks across social media platforms, DeFi applications, and other web3 services.

In addition to launching tokens, creators can earn fees here, and external communities can communicate, create content, or CTO tokens. Eliza Labs claims that auto.fun was developed to economically support the development of AI agents, and auto.fun will be different from ordinary token launch platforms, bringing a narrative change.

The official statement mentions that auto.fun adopts a more equitable token model than previous launch platforms, combining bonding curves and fair launch principles. It allows project teams to lock up to 50% of tokens before listing to help reduce sniper behavior. It introduces a "Liquidity NFT Mechanism" and shares part of the fees with token creators. The officials believe that this token model promotes long-term coordination between AI agent developers and users, ensuring the project's sustainable growth and fair participation by retail investors.

The Pre-launch Pumpfun Scam Coin Saga

Prior to the official launch of the project, auto.fun had already sparked controversy, more precisely, Shaw had sparked community discussions. The reason being that in recent days, several suspected counterfeit auto.fun tokens were issued on PumpFun, and Shaw used a public wallet address to purchase some of them. These tokens started to surge, with some even surpassing a $2.5 million market cap in an instant, then rapidly heading towards zero. Interestingly, after the community CTO, the token experienced several more pumps, currently priced at $1.5 million, which aligns perfectly with the auto.fun community CTO function, full of sarcastic implications.

After being accused of being short of money and rug pulling following online harassment, Shaw firmly denied being the Dev, explaining that "I bought a few random coins on Pumpfun, and when the price started pumping, I said I would donate it, but later someone told me it was a SCAM, so I burned the tokens. Sorry for the confusion. I was just playing around."

This is not Shaw's first time facing community backlash. Previously, during the Eliza community coin incident, Shaw even used a public address to purchase multiple "fuck shaw" MemeCoins with a market value of only a few thousand dollars. In theory, every blockchain player has the freedom to buy and sell, but as a project leader, when your address is exposed in the market, there is a high level of influence that should be carefully balanced with retail investors' interests and the "FUN" factor.

What Alpha Opportunities Are There?

Despite the previous controversies causing market expectations for the project to plummet, there are still over 15 projects from different fields that have decided or expressed interest in joining auto.fun, including some excellent teams. The following are introductions to a few projects with significant interest, but this should not be considered investment advice.

Comput3 AI

Comput3 is a project initiated by Dmitry Nedospasov that provides GPU power for AI apps and AI agents. The current Comput3 API can be used for video generation, open-source model inference, speech generation, private encoding, and portrait generation. The project has now launched a website for the project and the open API interface, claiming that GPU usage costs only $0.5 per hour but has not disclosed specific computing power.

In addition to the above, the project team has also developed a TG MINIAPP for chatbot conversations and partnered with Roolz AI to use Comput3's GPU with the LLM model to generate AI cartoons. The project team claims that they are currently testing APIs/MCP interfaces that allow AI agents to be freely used. Future products will enable large model training, large-scale video generation, and algorithmic model computation. The project will collaborate with BTC mining farms to provide idle capacity, build GPU derivatives, and create an on-chain GPU marketplace.

DogLife.AI

DogLifeAI was initiated by Dr Pepe with the concept of bringing an entire dog onto the blockchain and making it immortal. Prior to this, Dr Pepe had released his own biology-themed social AI Agent called "DrPepe.ai Agent," whose token $Bryan once reached a market value of $40 million but has now fallen to $2.8 million.

Notably, in December 2024, DrPepe and his AI alluded to longevity promotion alongside Silicon Valley tycoon Bryan Johnson, sharing a longevity therapy called Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy "HBOT," which was actually an article shared on the Arweave blockchain by DrPepe the day before. This led the community to believe that Bryan was just a "figment" of DrPepe, which is why the associated token ticker later became $Bryan instead of DrPepe. While DogLifeAI currently has no whitepaper, DrPepe allows users to "pre-purchase" tokens for DogLifeAI using $Bryan.

Sigama Music

Sigma Music is a social music AI agent nurtured by the AI data platform itheum. Besides offering users the ability to upload music and create music radio stations, the platform also provides a token launchpad for users to turn their music into Memecoins.

Kryptonite's CZAI

CZAI aims to provide traders with an efficient, intelligent assistant to simplify investment decisions and enhance fund management transparency. Some community members claim that CZAI is created by the DEFAI project Kryptonite; however, both parties have not yet engaged on social media.

The project mentions that this AI agent will have multi-signature "multi-sig" operations and transparent fund management. It will provide users with personalized trading advice by monitoring market charts, analyzing economic data such as Federal Reserve dynamics, and community sentiment. It will also aggregate on-chain data from multiple blockchains to search for new tokens, track yield opportunities, and discover potential investment opportunities.

Astra

Astra is a multi-chain payment solution based on the Lightning Network developed by Astra Corporation, aiming to provide AI Agents with an efficient and scalable payment infrastructure. Astra's core product is the Astra SDK, which allows developers to integrate native Lightning Network payment functionality into any application, blockchain, or AI agent.

The Eliza team seems confident in auto.fun, intending to bring a new concept to the market after a long project warm-up. However, whether the market will still buy into this narrative after the token event before launch is an unknown. Nevertheless, this also brings a hint of novelty to the long-dormant CryptoAI field.

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