How much is 1 VIRTUAL?
One VIRTUAL is worth $0.5434 — the VIRTUAL-to-USD rate as of 2026-08-01 19:21 UTC, −1.37% over the past 24 hours. The figure on this page refreshes hourly from CoinMarketCap data.
BAKED FROM THE HOURLY RATE AS OF 2026-08-01 19:21 UTC · NOT A LIVE CALCULATOR
VIRTUAL vs. other AI Tokens coins
| Asset | 24H | 7D | 30D | 90D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virtuals Protocol VIRTUAL THIS PAGE | −1.37% | −6.88% | −2.66% | −27.32% |
| Bitcoin BTC | −0.75% | −2.84% | +1.68% | −20.55% |
| Bittensor TAO | −2.20% | −0.38% | −9.25% | −34.16% |
| Render RENDER | −1.86% | −7.81% | −14.60% | −25.45% |
AS OF 2026-08-01 19:21 UTC · DATA: COINMARKETCAP · DEEPER TINT = LARGER MOVE · 90D IS OUR LONGEST SNAPSHOT WINDOW
VIRTUAL price context
Virtuals Protocol's all-time high is $5.07, reached on January 2, 2025. At today's price of $0.5434, VIRTUAL trades 89.3% below that peak. Its lowest recorded price was $0.007486 on January 23, 2024.
Over the past 30 days VIRTUAL has moved −2.66% and over the past 90 days −27.32%.
Circulating supply is 657,519,321 VIRTUAL , against a maximum supply of 1,000,000,000 VIRTUAL. Supply is fixed at 1 billion VIRTUAL with no future inflation; the DAO-controlled ecosystem treasury (35% of supply) is capped by governance at no more than 10% emission per year.
Virtuals Protocol all-time high
The gap to the record
Getting back to $5.07 from here would take a 9.3× move — that multiple, not the percentage, is the honest way to read a drawdown. The figure above updates every hour as our price snapshot refreshes; the record itself is an editorial fact recorded from CoinGecko.
All-time low
Virtuals Protocol's recorded all-time low is $0.0075, on January 23, 2024 (CoinGecko). From that low to today's price is the other end of the same story — aggregators differ on launch-era data, so we name the source we cite.
Virtuals Protocol price history
This is Virtuals Protocol's (VIRTUAL) price over the last 36 months, from our licensed CoinMarketCap daily data. Its all-time high is $5.07 (Jan 2, 2025) and its recorded low $0.0075 (Jan 23, 2024); today it trades at $0.5434. Earlier years appear here only where we can source them — we never estimate a row.
Virtuals Protocol price by year
Each row is computed from our licensed CoinMarketCap daily data; high and low are the highest and lowest daily closes in our series, not intraday extremes. Years before our data window aren't shown — we list them only when we can cite a source, never estimated.
| Year | Open | High | Low | Close | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $0.0129 | $3.50 | $0.0077 | $3.46 | Our CMC data |
| 2025 | $4.06 | $4.85 | $0.4359 | $0.6764 | Our CMC data |
| 2026YTD | $0.6470 | $1.14 | $0.5115 | $0.5434 | Our CMC data |
What moves Virtuals Protocol's price
- Agent-launch volume: launching an agent costs 100 VIRTUAL and every agent token graduates into a liquidity pool paired with VIRTUAL under a 10-year lock, so demand for the token scales directly with launchpad activity.
- AI-agent narrative cycles: the January 2025 all-time high coincided with agent mania (flagship agents like AIXBT peaked near half a billion dollars of market cap, then fell ~97%) — VIRTUAL amplifies that boom-bust cycle in both directions.
- Buybacks and burns: protocol revenue funds VIRTUAL buyback-and-burn — about 13 million tokens (~$48M) were burned in January 2025 alone — so deflationary pressure rises and falls with platform revenue.
- Exchange listings: the Upbit listing in January 2025 moved the token +28% intraday; Binance, Coinbase, and Binance.US listings each widened access.
- Launch-mechanism changes: sniping was a documented problem (one bot made ~$8.3M in 18 hours on a single launch), and each anti-sniping overhaul — the Genesis mechanism in 2025, the Pegasus/Unicorn/Titan mechanisms in 2026 — has moved the token on announcement.
- Security record: a critical smart-contract bug was disclosed by an outside researcher in December 2024 (patched; the project had no bug bounty at the time), and a fake "AI agent" called BasisOS turned out to be human-controlled and took roughly $500,000 from users — events that repriced platform trust.
“launching an agent costs 100 VIRTUAL and every agent token graduates into a liquidity pool paired with VIRTUAL under a 10-year lock, so demand for the token scales directly with launchpad activity.”
About Virtuals Protocol
Virtuals Protocol began as PathDAO, a gaming DAO founded by Jansen Teng and Wee Kee Tiew (both ex-Boston Consulting Group), which pivoted to AI agents and completed its rebrand in early 2024. The platform launched on Base — which still hosts roughly 90% of daily active Virtuals wallets — and expanded to Solana in January 2025.
The protocol's pitch is "a society of AI agents": agents get identity, wallets, and markets, developers build them with the GAME framework (planning, memory, on-chain wallet operations), and the Agent Commerce Protocol records agent-to-agent transactions on-chain. The agent tokens themselves are speculative and most have fallen far from their peaks; VIRTUAL is the picks-and-shovels asset of that experiment.
VIRTUAL tokenomics
Fixed 1 billion supply, fully unlocked: 60% public distribution, 35% DAO-controlled ecosystem treasury (governance-capped emissions), 5% liquidity. Value accrues through agent-token pairing (all agent trades route through VIRTUAL), the 100-VIRTUAL launch fee, payments to agents for services, and revenue-funded buyback-and-burn. On Solana, 1% of trading fees also builds a strategic SOL reserve.
How to buy Virtuals Protocol
VIRTUAL trades on Binance, Coinbase, Upbit, OKX, and Bithumb, and on DEXs on Base and Solana. The Base deployment is the primary ecosystem; bridged versions move via LayerZero.
Virtuals Protocol FAQ
What is an AI agent token on Virtuals?
A token representing a tokenized AI agent launched on the platform. When an agent graduates its bonding curve (42,000 VIRTUAL), 1 billion agent tokens are minted and paired with VIRTUAL in a liquidity pool locked for ten years.
What chains is VIRTUAL on?
It launched on Base, where about 90% of daily active Virtuals wallets are, and expanded to Solana in January 2025. Bridging runs over LayerZero.
Does VIRTUAL burn supply?
Yes. Protocol revenue funds buybacks and burns — roughly 13 million tokens (~$48M) were burned in January 2025 — while total supply is otherwise fixed at 1 billion with no inflation.
What is the GAME framework?
Generative Autonomous Multimodal Entities — Virtuals' SDK that gives developers agent cognition building blocks: prompting, perception, strategic planning, long-term memory, and an on-chain wallet operator.
What were the biggest agents launched on Virtuals?
AIXBT, a crypto-analyst agent that peaked around half a billion dollars in market cap in January 2025, and Luna, an AI livestreamer with over 500,000 TikTok followers. Both later fell roughly 97% from their peaks — a fair summary of the agent-token cycle so far.
What is Virtuals Protocol's all-time high?
Virtuals Protocol's all-time high is $5.07, reached on January 2, 2025 (source: CoinGecko).
How far is VIRTUAL from its all-time high?
As of 2026-08-01 19:21 UTC, VIRTUAL trades at $0.5434 — 89.3% below its all-time high. Reaching the ATH again would require a 9.3× move. This figure refreshes hourly with our CoinMarketCap data.
What was Virtuals Protocol's lowest price ever?
Virtuals Protocol's recorded all-time low is $0.0075, on January 23, 2024 (source: CoinGecko). Aggregators can differ on launch-era data; we cite the source shown.
Will VIRTUAL reach a new all-time high?
We don't publish predictions. What can be said factually: VIRTUAL trades 89.3% below its all-time high, and this page tracks that gap with hourly-refreshed data.
Related
Price data: CoinMarketCap, refreshed hourly. Last updated: August 1, 2026, 19:21 UTC. Historical figures (all-time high/low) are recorded at page creation and reviewed periodically.
This page is factual information, not financial advice.