As artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technologies converge, new infrastructure based on blockchain and artificial intelligence is developing rapidly, becoming the primitives for constructing novel applications and business models.
Decentralized AI Markets (Decentralized AI Marketplaces) continue to explore model sharing and trading; decentralized AI computing platforms reduce computing costs by utilizing globally distributed computing resources; AI-powered decentralized finance uses AI algorithms to analyze market data and execute automated trading, constructing more just credit systems; the combination of NFTs and AI art plays a crucial role in driving transformation in artistic and creative industries……Whether in “AI for Crypto” or “Crypto for AI” directions, will unleash global productivity and restructure current social production relations.
In 2023, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned the “AI Gaming” concept on Twitter, foreshadowing future trends in the gaming industry where AI integrates with virtual worlds. Game intelligence, changes in player behavior and interaction methods mean that games will no longer be mere entertainment tools, but digital worlds with deep interaction, dynamic environments, and personalized experiences.
AI Gaming will encompass multiple application scenarios in future development. Recently, Ultiverse announced their new AI-powered infrastructure – Ulti Protocol. Ulti Protocol is releasing AI storytelling for a classic Web2 game – Stardew Valley that promises to redefine interactive gaming experiences. The innovation allows players to generate deeply personalized narratives featuring the game’s iconic characters, transforming the traditional gameplay into a dynamic, infinitely adaptable storytelling platform.
“AI + Crypto New Infrastructure” is Leading the Transformation of the “AI Gaming” Track
Computing power, algorithms, and data are issues that all AI applications must address. In the wave of AI Gaming, Ultiverse’s market positioning as an AI game infrastructure provider offers the optimal solution to these three challenges. By introducing AI technology-driven characters and environments, Ultiverse not only provides users with unprecedented immersive experiences but will also demonstrate significant value capture capabilities.
AI Infrastructure (AI Infra):
Ultiverse’s underlying architecture evolved from the Bodhi Protocol. After market validation and technological preparation, Ultiverse’s previous achievements in the Metafi domain have provided a solid foundation for constructing the more extensive Ulti Protocol.
Ulti Protocol will be divided into three distinct layers:
The application layer is where users directly interact with Ulti Protocol functionalities. Here, users can create AI content, establish participation pools, and manage their digital assets.
The execution layer represents the core of Ulti Protocol’s on-chain functionality, responsible for executing user commands, processing participation rewards, and supporting multi-chain interoperability.
The settlement layer enables multi-chain payment gateway functionality, ensuring secure, decentralized payment processing and asset management, including cross-chain asset transfers. The key on-chain functions of Ulti Protocol based on blockchain infrastructure can guarantee AI content minting and ownership, improve cross-chain asset compatibility, and refine on-chain reward mechanisms.
AI Gaming:
Ultiverse integrates AI technology deeply, providing players and developers with a dynamic, personalized, and creative game world that delivers more individualized and dynamic experiences. The following are demonstrated in Ulti Protocol:
1. AI-Driven NPC Interactions: Ultiverse utilizes AI to create vivid, responsive NPC characters. These NPCs are not static preset elements but dynamically adjust their behaviors and responses based on player choices and interactions, offering a more immersive and personalized interactive experience.
2. Real-Time Story Rendering: Another major AI application in Ultiverse is real-time story rendering. AI adjusts the overall plot based on player behaviors, decisions, and game progression, customizing a unique narrative path for each player. This real-time rendering mechanism ensures highly personalized game content with unlimited replay value.
3. Character Dialogue: Ultiverse’s AI-enabled character dialogue system ensures that in-game conversations are not only natural and fluent but also emotionally rich and deep. Dialogue content is context-sensitive, supporting branching storylines and emotional narrative development, which increases game interactivity and player engagement.
4. Game Stage Management: Game progression management and difficulty adjustment are also AI-driven. AI can dynamically adjust level difficulty, mission objectives, or environmental layouts, ensuring smooth game experience transitions while maintaining challenge and enjoyment.
5. Asset Creation: AI plays a crucial role in game asset creation. It can produce variants or entirely new content based on existing assets, reducing human development costs and time while ensuring game content diversity and richness.
6. Engine Integration: Ultiverse’s AI technology is seamlessly integrated with major game engines, including Unity and Unreal Engine. Preset modules accelerate game development, enabling developers to easily incorporate AI functionalities into existing game projects. Additionally, Ultiverse supports integration with other tools and plugins, allowing developers to flexibly expand and customize game features.
7. World Generation: In Ultiverse, AI also handles the task of automatically creating complex interactive worlds. Based on the game’s theme or player progression, AI can customize world layout and content, ensuring the uniqueness and depth of the gaming experience.
8. Game Modification Creation Tools: Ultiverse provides AI-based game modification tools, allowing developers and players to create new missions, characters, or game mechanisms according to their specific requirements.
By leveraging Ulti Protocol’s AI technology and tool, players can now craft unique storylines where Stardew Valley’s 12 marriageable characters respond with unprecedented naturalism and depth. The technology enables unprecedented narrative flexibility—from cyberpunk adventures with Sebastian to mystery investigations with Caroline—each storyline emerging as a unique, contextually rich extension of the game’s beloved universe. Other than technical achievements, it signals a fundamental shift in how players interact with game worlds, offering a glimpse into the future of AI-driven interactive storytelling, and possibilities for transforming all existing games.
Ultiverse Leading the Trend:
As an AI and blockchain-driven virtual world platform, Ultiverse continuously seeks balance between technological innovation and market demands. Through multiple innovative products, the platform not only demonstrates its robust technological capabilities but also fully reveals its market potential in future virtual worlds and the gaming industry. The already released product matrix is leading industry trends and promising broader development spaces.
Ultiverse’s infrastructure and tools have formed a super node. Ultiverse Live is a comprehensive media platform for Web3 projects, accumulating over 1 million followers on X.com, 36 million likes, and collaborating with more than 300 KOLs. Mission Runner, as a platform-level Quest platform for traffic processing and growth, has reached 1 million wallets.
The core asset-side community is robust. Ultiverse’s first NFT, Electric Sheep, completed 7,000 NFT minting in July 2022 at 0.5 ETH, with subsequent trading volume surpassing 9,000 ETH. The first 3D animated, AI-driven interactive NFT MetaGF minted over 20,000 in a limited time.
Decentralized application data is outstanding. Terminus saw over 66,000 views and 77,000 interactions during the Cyberpink event. The AI-driven virtual Agent Ulti-Pilot immediately collaborated with nearly 100 game projects at launch, capturing millions of interactions. The Gold Chip Mint in May this year raised 33,873 ETH (approximately $100M USD in value), over-subscribed by nearly 1700%……
Ultiverse has raised a total of $13.5 million, with investors including Binance Labs, Sequoia, DeFiance Capital, IDG Capital, Animoca Brands, Foresight Ventures, DWF Labs, GSR, and Sky Vision Capital. Moreover, Ultiverse maintains deep collaborations with leading industry projects.
AI Agent Exploration and Future Vision:
Currently, the market’s narrative is shifting towards AI agents. Surveying the entire track, it becomes evident that capital is primarily concentrated on AI agent frameworks and new assets and applications developed within these frameworks.
ai16zdao focuses on the open-source Eliza framework, which has been the most referenced on Github since the AI Agent narrative erupted. Zerebro developed the ZerePy framework, providing open-source tools to help users deploy Zerebro-style agents on X platform and demonstrating AI agents’ creative potential through high-quality music albums. Other notable projects include vvaifudotfun’s framework-agnostic agent launch platform on Solana, HoloworldAI’s creation of independent 3D audio-visual AI agents, arcdotfun’s portable and modular AI agent framework based on Rust (Rig), and alchemistAIapp’s no-code AI agent development platform.
@UltiverseDAO, as a crucial component of new AI infrastructure, will construct an intelligent and efficient Web3 ecosystem by combining AI-driven and asset-empowered approaches with open-source AI agents and token economics. Ultiverse’s future service to the AI Agent ecosystem will be manifested in several key directions:
- Screening of AI agent frameworks
- Issuance of AI-driven new asset types
- Construction of AI Dapp/AI Agent markets
- Refinement of AI search interfaces and execution engines
- Development of AI Agent Swarm collaborative integration
In the global AI narrative wave, Ultiverse can:
- Support cross-chain AI infrastructure for building complex interactive content and game ecosystems
- Provide AI-driven dynamic narrative and experience for existing games
- Achieve large-scale adoption through intelligent guidance of AI + Crypto
- Assist in the issuance and intelligent management of AI-driven assets
- Comprehensively service the AI Agent ecosystem to form an AI AgentFi growth flywheel
Ultiverse’s vision is to create a global, decentralized virtual world that promotes comprehensive integration of users with AI, blockchain, and the digital economy. The platform firmly believes that AI Agents will be a critical force in driving Web3 adoption. By combining the innovative capabilities of AI and blockchain, Ultiverse will continuously strive to build a bridge connecting global users with the digital future, jointly exploring the infinite possibilities of the Web3 era.