This week, the Virtuals ecosystem has reached a climax again, due to a project called IRIS, which is about to be launched on the Virtuals platform. As the market gradually recovers and the expectation of interest rate cuts approaches, more and more AI projects have been active recently.

This article will sort out the AI projects that have recently been popular or are about to undergo TGE.

1. IRIS - Virtuals' important move to deploy Ethereum.

IRIS is a virtual agent based on the X platform, jointly launched by Virtuals and Nethermind.

Nethermind was founded by Tomasz, co-executive director of Ethereum, so IRIS is seen as being endorsed by both Virtuals and the Ethereum Foundation, and has therefore gained a good reputation.

Nethermind launched the AuditAgent platform, which aims to automate smart contract security, a bit like the direction of yesnoerror before.

IRIS is deployed on social channels and leverages AuditAgent’s custom AI framework to provide near real-time analysis of smart contracts – accelerating security workflows by identifying vulnerabilities in minutes, rather than weeks.

IRIS integrates directly into developer conversations on X—delivering analysis based on real vulnerabilities and expert-driven insights that meet immediate needs.

On June 13, IRIS will officially hold TGE, and we look forward to its performance.

2. IDOL - AI-Agent in the entertainment field, the masterpiece of MEET48

On June 11, Binance Alpha launched $IDOL. After the airdrop was opened on June 9, users still had 14 days to claim the airdrop.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t know $IDOL, you must have heard of MEET48 or SNH48 somewhere.

MEET48 is positioned as the first AI-Agent and AIGC creator and fan economy ecological community in Web3 focusing on the entertainment field, and $IDOL is launched by MEET48.

Another label of MEET48 is that it is a top entertainment application in the BNB Chain ecosystem. The MEET48 community currently has 3.8 million active users and 500,000 Web3 wallets worldwide. It has been ranked first in the BNB Chain social application category with over 100 million on-chain interactions. MEET48 has also been successfully selected for the BNB Chain MVB Season 8 Accelerator Program.

MEET48 focuses on the entertainment field and is also a strategic partner of SNH48 GROUP. The first Web3 Global Idol Annual Popularity Contest launched by MEET48 will also be launched in June.

3. Sahara AI - Buidlpad support, community subscription ends

I believe you must have been flooded with Sahara AI these days, and many people think it is a big deal.

SaharaAI has a luxurious investment lineup and has previously received investments from Polychain, Pantera, Yzi Labs, etc. Sahara AI provides a one-stop solution from data collection and annotation to model training, AI Agent creation, asset trading, etc.

Currently, the community round of Buildpad has ended, and this is the second project on its platform. The first project was Solayer, which performed quite well when it was launched.

Another point that everyone is concerned about Sahara AI is the team behind it. The two core founders are: Tyler Zhou, former investment director of Binance Labs, and Sean Ren, a tenured professor at the University of Southern California and a 2023 Samsung researcher. The core team members come from Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Microsoft, Google and other institutions.

The TGE time of Sahara AI is not known yet, but after the community round, it is said that the pace will be accelerated.

4. Mira - Yap is launched, ranking first on Kaito

On June 11, Mira announced the launch of Kaito and announced that it would give 0.5% of its shares to Yapper. Soon after the news was released, Mira also took the top spot on Kaito. It is foreseeable that based on Kaito's incentives, more Yaps and attention will turn to Mira.

What does Mira do? Simply put: Mira helps you verify whether the information AI gives you is true or false. For example, you ask AI what the weather is like today, and it is clearly raining, but AI tells you that it is sunny today through various data analysis and reasoning. When you raise doubts, AI will prove its own opinion and still not repent. This is just one example, and there are many other scenarios. Many friends who use AI tools should have encountered this problem. That is: what AI gives you is fake, but you don’t realize it, commonly known as "AI hallucination"

Mira was born to solve this problem, so it can be positioned as an important infrastructure for AI. As for how to do it, I understand the core is to "modularize AI results and conduct distributed verification." For example, if there is an AI given content, in Mira, its processing flow is: AI content -> disassemble into different modules -> verify by different nodes -> obtain the reliability results of different modules -> finally define the truth or falsehood of AI.

5. Allora - Foundation has been established and mainnet is about to be launched

Allora is a decentralized reasoning network. As a type of AI infrastructure, Allora can provide specific models based on the specific requirements of different organizations.

Allora provides an abstraction layer for AI collaboration, where multiple models focused on tight problems can come together to create more powerful and inclusive outputs while enabling self-evolution of AI.

The network aggregates these models in an intelligent way—predicting and learning from participants’ performance in real time.

A subject facilitator sets the tasks, the working model generates inferences, and the evaluators compare these inferences with the facts, producing more consistently accurate inferences than any single participant could produce.

Allora combines collective insights and context-aware adjustments to continuously improve its forecasts, surpassing the capabilities of any single model. Allora's foundation was established in Q1, but it is said that the TGE will be held in Q3.