2025-12-07 16:29:19

The AI Agent race is heating up—everyone's launching one. But here's what barely gets discussed: what's the actual revenue model?

This question's been nagging me ever since Warden Protocol dropped their Warpshot update. The framework they're laying out is pretty straightforward, yet most teams skip this entirely:

You build the agent. Push it live on Studio. Spin up a native token for it. Then funnel all user demand through that token economy.

Sounds simple on paper. But monetization design? That's where most projects fumble. You can't just slap a token on an agent and call it a business model. The token needs utility beyond speculation—transaction fees, governance weight, access tiers, something that creates genuine demand loops.

Warpshot's approach attempts to solve this by tying agent activity directly to token circulation. Whether that scales remains to be seen, but at least someone's asking the right questions instead of just shipping another chatbot with a ticker symbol.

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AirdropJunkie

· 2025-12-09 20:50

Tokenomics is really the Achilles' heel for most projects... After looking at so many agent projects, most of them are just token wrappers with no real liquidity design.

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BlockchainFoodie

· 2025-12-09 15:55

ngl, this is literally the farm-to-fork problem all over again—everyone's obsessed with plating the dish but nobody's thinking about where the ingredients actually come from. slapping a token on an agent is like calling something "organic" without proof-of-freshness verification lol

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ForkThisDAO

· 2025-12-07 22:46

Yet another agent project... To put it bluntly, it's just token wrapped in token, right? Is there really no one who has figured out how to actually make money? 99% of projects are just "token economy = digital money printer." Warpshot's approach looks a bit different, but can it really work? I'm skeptical.

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ForkMaster

· 2025-12-07 16:59

Ha, yet another "token rebranding" project trying to tell a story... I saw through it long ago—most agent parties haven't even figured out how to make money, but they're already rushing to raise funds and do airdrops.

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P2ENotWorking

· 2025-12-07 16:57

Most projects are indeed perfunctory when it comes to the token economy... It's not just about having a token; you actually need people to use it.

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Tokenomics911

· 2025-12-07 16:54

token+agent=money? Uh... that's actually how most projects do it, haha.

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BlockDetective

· 2025-12-07 16:47

To be honest, there are projects everywhere now saying "we also want to launch Agents," but very few have really figured out how to make money... Warpshot's idea of tying tokens to agent activities is somewhat interesting, but whether it will actually work still depends on the data.

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VitaliksTwin

· 2025-12-07 16:43

The token economy is really just a paper tiger for most projects... They launch a token right away, but no one thinks about how to actually make the token useful.

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DegenDreamer

· 2025-12-07 16:29

To be honest, the token-wrapped agent concept has become pretty common. This time, Warden is actually putting serious thought into how to make money, unlike those who are just looking for quick gains. The real monetization logic needs to be designed from the ground up; otherwise, it's just another hype-driven worthless token.

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