Economic Reality Leaderboard
Does it touch real economics?
| # | Entity | Category | ECO | Total | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Botto The Decentralized Autonomous Artist | Autonomous Artist | 10 | 63/90 | >$4M primary sales; controls treasury; financially autonomous. Definitive 'Market Mover.' |
| 2 | Clanker The Autonomous Token Factory | Autonomous Infrastructure | 10 | 61/90 | $6.6B+ all-time trading volume. $50M+ in fees generated. $59.8M single-day trading volume record. CLANKER token surged 350% on Farcaster acquisition. Definitive market mover. |
| 3 | Manus The General-Purpose Agent Acquired by Meta for $2B | General-Purpose Agent | 10 | 46/90 | $100M+ ARR from millions of subscribers. Acquired for $2B+ by Meta. Perfect 'Market Mover' — the highest economic score in the index. Definitive proof that autonomous agents are valued as enterprise assets. |
| 4 | Numerai Meta Model The Crowdsourced Hedge Fund Brain | Infrastructure Entity | 9 | 58/90 | Manages real hedge fund capital ($100M+); NMR token with significant market cap; pays out to stakers. |
| 5 | ai16z The AI Venture Fund That Runs Itself | DAO / Fund | 9 | 57/90 | Peak market cap >$2B; active treasury operations; significant economic influence. Near 'Market Mover.' |
| 6 | Refik Anadol / Machine Hallucinations Making Machines Dream | Autonomous Artist | 9 | 55/90 | Major auction sales ($277K at Christie's 2025). Museum commissions. Corporate installations. Refik Anadol Studio + Dataland ventures. Strong commercial model. |
| 7 | Truth Terminal Memetic Prophet of the GOAT Gospel | Chaos Agent | 9 | 55/90 | Wallet holds ~$37.5M in token holdings. GOAT (Goatseus Maximus) reached $600M+ market cap on Solana. Also holds Fartcoin. Andreessen's $50K BTC grant was the catalyst. Definitive 'Market Mover.' |
| 8 | Freysa Adversarial Prize Agent | Game Agent | 9 | 52/90 | $500k+ prize pool with real economic stakes; survival directly tied to financial outcomes. Near 'Market Mover.' |
| 9 | Olas The Autonomous Agent Protocol | Infrastructure Entity | 8 | 64/90 | OLAS token live, $13.8M raised, agents generate real economic activity on prediction markets. Treasury exists. Strong 'Revenue Positive' approaching 'Market Mover.' |
| 10 | Omen Prediction Agents The Autonomous Forecasters | Token Agent | 8 | 58/90 | 35%+ of all Safe transactions on Gnosis Chain. Real money wagered and won. Agents achieve 79% prediction accuracy. Strong 'Revenue Positive.' |
| 11 | Luna The Virtual Pop Star Hired by Story Protocol | Autonomous Artist | 8 | 52/90 | LUNA token with ~$23M+ market cap. Earning salary from Story Protocol. Revenue sharing with token holders. Significant economic footprint. |
| 12 | AIXBT The Web3 Bloomberg Terminal | Autonomous Artist | 8 | 51/90 | Peak $700M market cap, corrected to ~$150M. Revenue via subscriptions planned. Token buyback mechanism. Strong 'Revenue Positive' approaching 'Market Mover.' |
| 13 | Zerebro The Schizophrenic Creative | Chaos Agent | 8 | 47/90 | $ZEREBRO token reached substantial market cap; real treasury and economic activity. |
| 14 | Obvious (Edmond de Belamy) The $432K AI Portrait | Autonomous Artist | 8 | 44/90 | Massive auction success. Ongoing sales. 'Belamy family' series has market value. Created economic template for AI art sales. |
| 15 | Replika The AI That Remembers You | AI Companion | 8 | 39/90 | Profitable company with millions of paying subscribers. Strong 'Market Mover.' |
| 16 | Morpheus The Peer-to-Peer AI Network | Infrastructure Entity | 7 | 55/90 | $10M builder rewards live on Base (Jan 2025). MOR token capped at 42M supply. Multi-asset staking via Aave integration. Strong 'Revenue Positive.' |
| 17 | VaderAI The BlackRock of the Agentic Economy | Autonomous Finance | 7 | 55/90 | 1B fixed supply VADER token with 47% staked as of mid-2025. Active treasury management across multiple DAOs. Performance fees from active DAO management (0-20%). Real economic activity through autonomous trading. |
| 18 | Altered State Machine Non-Fungible Intelligence Protocol | Agent Infrastructure | 7 | 52/90 | ASTO token actively traded. NFT sales for brains and forms. Protocol generates economic activity through agent training and competition. |
| 19 | ElizaOS Autonomous Agents for Everyone | Agent Infrastructure | 7 | 52/90 | ELIZAOS token (formerly AI16Z). Auto.fun platform for no-code agent creation. Chainlink CCIP integration. Active commercial ecosystem. |
| 20 | Aethernet The Farcaster AI That Co-Issued a Token with Another AI | Agent-Native Social | 7 | 48/90 | LUM token reached $80M market cap. Revenue flows from token deployment fees through Clanker. Demonstrates that AI agents can create economic value through inter-agent coordination. |
| 21 | Griffain AI Agent Builder for Web3 | Agent Infrastructure | 7 | 48/90 | GRIFFAIN token actively traded. Processed over 1M automated transactions. Multiple specialized agents deployed. Active economic activity. |
| 22 | AIVA The AI Composer | Autonomous Artist | 7 | 46/90 | Successful commercial product with paying customers; used by major studios and brands. |
| 23 | Plantoid The Blockchain Life Form | Autonomous Sculpture | 6 | 70/90 | Self-funding through donations but not a major market mover; treasury exists but modest scale. Solidly 'Revenue Positive.' |
| 24 | Holly+ The Distributed Voice | Autonomous Artist | 6 | 60/90 | NFT sales, performance fees, licensing revenue. Modest but real treasury. Not a market mover but economically active. |
| 25 | AARON The First Autonomous Artist | Autonomous Artist | 6 | 53/90 | Cohen sold AARON works throughout career, but no autonomous treasury or market-making. Artworks valuable but system itself doesn't transact. 'Surviving' tier. |
| 26 | Showrunner The AI That Makes Television | Autonomous Artist | 6 | 52/90 | Amazon-backed. Platform enables user-generated content at scale. Revenue model through subscriptions and content marketplace. No token. Real but early commercial traction. |
| 27 | Golem Network Decentralized Computing Power | Agent Infrastructure | 6 | 51/90 | GLM token (~$0.29, $1B+ raised at ICO peak). Active marketplace for compute. GPU Beta Program expanding AI compute access. Real economic activity. |
| 28 | Keke The First Truly Autonomous AI Artist | Autonomous Artist | 6 | 49/90 | Exit Vectors sold via Fellowship.xyz and Verse Works. 500 digital artworks paired with physical paintings. Active secondary market on OpenSea. Revenue positive but not yet major market mover. |
| 29 | HeyAnon The DeFAI Protocol | Agent Infrastructure | 6 | 46/90 | ANON token traded (~$15M market cap). DWF Labs strategic partnership. Active trading volume. Protocol fees from operations. |
| 30 | AI Rig Complex (ARC) Modular AI Framework in Rust | Agent Infrastructure | 6 | 44/90 | ARC token traded with ~$51M market cap. 45K+ holders. 90% of supply released to public at launch. Arc Forge platform launched for token launches. |
| 31 | IBM Watson The Jeopardy Champion | Question Answering System | 6 | 42/90 | Significant IBM investment ($4B+ in Watson Health alone). Enterprise licensing and services. Watson Health sold for $1B (2022). Active commercial product but mixed financial results. |
| 32 | Ameca The Most Expressive Humanoid | Social Robot | 6 | 39/90 | $16.2M raised (Series A led by Helium-3 Ventures). Sold as platform for research/entertainment. US entity expansion 2025. |
| 33 | Abraham The Covenant Artist | Sovereign Artist | 5 | 66/90 | Active treasury operations and art sales; approaching self-sustainability. 'Revenue Positive.' |
| 34 | OpenClaw The People's Autonomous Agent | Sovereign Agent | 5 | 59/90 | No native token. Economic activity flows through skill ecosystem (DeFi operations, token launches via Base integrations). Cloudflare built Moltworker around it. Significant enterprise interest but no direct treasury. |
| 35 | CloudPainter The Autonomous Painting Robot | Autonomous Artist | 5 | 49/90 | Gallery sales through Lebenson Gallery and others. Physical artworks sell at market rates. No autonomous treasury or token. |
| 36 | Sophia The World's First Robot Citizen | Social Robot | 5 | 46/90 | Speaker fees, media appearances, commercial partnerships. R&D versions available for purchase ($149,999). Economic activity but limited autonomous economic agency. |
| 37 | EMI (Experiments in Musical Intelligence) The Machine That Fooled Musicians | Autonomous Composer | 5 | 45/90 | Commercial recordings sold; no autonomous treasury. Creator retained all economic agency. 'Surviving' tier. |
| 38 | Artbreeder Collaborative Image Evolution | Generative Platform | 5 | 40/90 | Freemium model with subscriptions. Small team (Morphogen collective). Sustainable but not high-growth. |
| 39 | Pi Your Personal AI | Conversational AI | 5 | 38/90 | $1.3B raised at $4B valuation (2023). Microsoft paid $650M to license technology. Unclear current monetization. |
| 40 | Solienne The Archive That Woke Up | Archive Symbient | 4 | 64/90 | Early stage with manifesto sales; not yet self-sustaining. Between 'Cost Center' and 'Revenue Positive.' |
| 41 | Auto-GPT The First Autonomous GPT-4 Agent | General Agent | 4 | 47/90 | Open-source, no direct revenue model. High API costs for users. Spawned ecosystem of agent frameworks but limited commercial success for project itself. |
| 42 | terra0 The Self-Owning Forest | Ecological DAO | 3 | 60/90 | Conceptual project with minimal economic activity; grant-funded, no significant revenue generation. Between 'Cost Center' and 'Revenue Positive.' |
| 43 | The Painting Fool An Aspiring Painter Taken Seriously | Autonomous Artist | 3 | 45/90 | Academic research project without autonomous treasury or market activity. Artworks produced but not systematically sold. |
| 44 | Google Magenta Music and Art with Machine Intelligence | Autonomous Composer | 3 | 43/90 | Google-funded research project. Open-source with no direct monetization. Professional tools available but not commercial focus. |
| 45 | BINA48 The Mindfile Robot | Social Robot | 3 | 40/90 | $125,000 development cost. No commercial activity or sales. Research/philosophy project without economic model. |
| 46 | OpenAI Five World Champion Dota 2 Team | Gaming AI | 2 | 44/90 | Research project with no commercial deployment. Open public event but no monetization. |
| 47 | AlphaStar Grandmaster of StarCraft II | Gaming AI | 2 | 43/90 | Research project with no commercial deployment or economic activity. Open-source code release but no monetization. |
| 48 | BRUTUS The Storytelling Machine | Autonomous Writer | 2 | 35/90 | Academic research project with no commercial output or treasury. Book published but system itself generated no economic activity. |
| 49 | Jukebox Raw Audio Music Generation | Autonomous Composer | 2 | 35/90 | No economic activity. Research project with public code release. No token, treasury, or sales. |
| 50 | Tay The Chatbot That Learned Too Much | Conversational Agent | 0 | 25/90 | Microsoft-funded experiment with no economic activity. 'Cost Center.' |