Virtuals Protocol wallet

What is Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL)?

VIRTUAL is the currency underneath Virtuals Protocol, a platform where anyone can launch an AI agent as its own token. Every new agent is priced on a bonding curve against VIRTUAL: buyers pay in VIRTUAL, and once the curve fills (42,000 VIRTUAL) the agent token graduates into a liquidity pool that is also paired with VIRTUAL. So the coin sits under every agent in the ecosystem - it is what you spend to get into a launch and what agent tokens trade against afterwards.

What matters when you hold it is that the same asset exists in more than one form. It began as an ERC-20 on Ethereum mainnet, but nearly all activity moved to Base, where the agent launches and their pools live. The two balances are separate, and moving between them is a bridge transaction, not a simple transfer. A Solana version was added later as a separate mint, where the balance sits in a token account and SOL covers the fees. On Ethereum and Base the fees are paid in ETH, so a VIRTUAL balance on its own cannot move without a little ETH next to it.

Two things trip holders up. First, the agent tokens themselves (LUNA, AIXBT and hundreds of others) are not VIRTUAL, even though they are bought with it; a wallet that shows your VIRTUAL will not automatically show them. Second, Ethereum and Base share the same address format, so a transfer sent on the wrong one of the two lands somewhere the recipient may not be watching.

The Tangem app keeps a separate VIRTUAL balance for each network and shows which network a transfer goes out on before the card signs it, so you can compare it against what the recipient actually asked for. Supported networks in Tangem (5): Base, Ethereum, Robinhood, Arc, Solana. For a coin that lives on several chains at once, that per-network view is the reason to keep it here.