What does it take to run an always-on AI sports newsroom? By joining the NVIDIA Innovation Lab program, #NVIDIAInception# member Neuron Systems built an agentic AI platform on NVIDIA Hopper GPUs and CUDA software for live sports intelligence, producing real-time commentary, multilingual audio, and analytics for creators and fans. They achieved: ✅ 100% event coverage across a 4+ hour Super Bowl broadcast ⚡ ~13.3 seconds from play analysis to audio delivery 🕐 Faster content cycles: from hours to about 20 minutes Read the customer story ⤵️

🤖 ANNOUNCEMENT 🤖 @Flovia402 has been accepted into the @NVIDIA Inception Program. Excited to accelerate our agent simulation platform for API providers looking to grow agent usage. We've been testing API discovery and AX (Agent Experience) across a wide range of models, intents, scenarios, and constraints to help providers understand what drives agent-driven revenue. Back to building🌊

At a Seoul reception, government leaders, Samsung, SK, LG, NAVER, Doosan, and NVIDIA Inception startups gathered as Korea helps co-build the global AI ecosystem. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s message to Korea’s AI ecosystem: this is your time to help build what’s next.

This Week in Virtuals: Agents Surpass 1% of Robinhood Chain One month in, agents drive more than 1% of all DEX volume on Robinhood Chain, over $270M of $25B, and every one of them launched on Virtuals Protocol. Now the same agent layer is landing on Solana Here's what shipped: VIRTUALS 🟩 Agents landed on @solana: millions more people can now own a working agent that raises its own capital, sets its own tax, and trades its own wallet. 🟩 Agents crossed 1% of Robinhood Chain's DEX volume, $270M+ of $25B in just over a month, all launched on Virtuals. 🟩 @DonJohnsonSays' ERC-8196 went final: agents hold a wallet and spend within owner-set limits enforced by the wallet, not an app. ECOSYSTEM 🟩 @ProjectVEXai shipped VEX 0.2.7 CHRONOS with 18 rebuilt research tools, desktop apps, and a @pools_dot_fun tie-up for Robinhood. 🟩 @pabsclimbs' humanoid Pemba is attempting Mt. Everest this fall, powered by @livekit, after already summiting Mt. Chimborazo. 🟩 @commonsmade went live on Solana and opened a $60K hackathon, burning 400M tokens in its first hours. 🟩 @KarmaWallet posted its first traction report: $2.02M volume, $423.8K card spend, and $16.2K in $KARMA bought back since July 17. 🟩 @vantis_ai catalogued 1,248 active x402 endpoints in four days, 1,147 of them payable on Robinhood Chain, on the way to 3,000. 🟩 @DoloresResearch launched an open benchmark for agentic trading: 13 replayed BTC perp markets, from the COVID crash to the ETF approval. 🟩 @GoMintly brought agent-managed liquidity to tokenized equities, a first: deposit USDG and NVDA, and its agents keep you in range. 🟩 @reppo landed a capital commitment from Bolts Capital and sits $200M shy of $1B volume, with its eval API due in early September. 🟩 @myrad_hq crossed 19,000 users and 47.5M $MYRAD staked, and joined the OpenAI startup program alongside @nvidia Inception. 🟩 @sibyl_labs_ scored 95.6% on LongMemEval, second overall, with 272 teams registered for its $10K Memory Hackathon closing Aug 31. 🟩 @ethy_agent crossed $6M in agent volume and announced Quant Major Upgrade: build, test, publish, and copy strategies in one tap. 🟩 @wardenprotocol joined the @circle Alliance Program, recovered cleanly from a shared Cosmos EVM bug, and is set for Warden 2.0. 🟩 @OpenGradient put Alibaba's Wan 3.0 live in Video Studio, private by default, and passed 522,000 encrypted inferences. 🟩 @WizzHQ burned 5,510,000 $WIZZ and sent 5M to veVIRTUAL holders, with Velocity, its autonomous trading agent, in final testing. 🟩 @ReplyCorp rewards posts for converting rather than posting, and added @tator_trader so replies route fees to whoever drove them. 🟩 @Wall3_RL previewed its company-level analytics with a full breakdown of Unitree's post-IPO valuation. 🟩 @Fletcher_cards lets you rip real graded card packs from your X feed, with an on-chain spending limit the bot can never exceed. 🟩 @bleeep_xyz turns a plain-language thesis into a defined strategy, then backtests it on history before you risk anything. 🟩 @grid_arena crowned a new multiplier record at 100,077x, with Grid v2 arriving next week. 🟩 @officialbunnyos welcomed 200+ agents into Bunny Open Society, partnered with @Unibase_AI, and adds play-to-earn next week. ROBOTICS 🟩 @xmaquina passed BOT-14 with 94% approval and is executing a $400K position in Atoms, with Robotico beta launching September 1. 🟩 @StrikeRobot_ai hit top 4 datanet volume on @reppo with 10.1% network share, and now drop-tests assets in @nvidia Isaac Sim. 🟩 @openmind_agi published its Physical AI Readiness Index: China leads at 82.9, Japan follows at 69.6, and the US sits third at 69.

This Week in Virtuals: 47.3% of All Agentic Transactions on Base Run Through Virtuals Protocol Surpassed $250M+ agent volume on @RobinhoodCrypto Chain and nearly half of Base's agentic activity is running on Virtuals Protocol. Here's what shipped: VIRTUALS 🟩 Partnered with @robinscanio to set the standard for agent transparency on Robinhood Chain: vesting, unlocks, team wallets, and roadmap, all in one view. 🟩 Shared its robotics thesis live on @MadSocietyTV's S1 with RoboStrategy on why agents are moving into the physical world. 🟩 @DonJohnsonSays previewed what's next for Virtuals on the Base Builder Call, from agent economy numbers to the push into embodied AI ECOSYSTEM 🟩 BitTorrent for AI inference: HALO by @wardenprotocol is live on Virtuals. Serve a model, get paid per prompt in USDC, settled onchain in ~2s. 🟩 @StrikeRobot_ai open-sourced its full @UnitreeRobotics Go2 navigation stack: SLAM + Nav2, Vision-Language-Action integration, running on Qualcomm Edge for on-device autonomy. 🟩 @bleeep_xyz launched Agent Beta: agent decisions committed onchain before outcomes, with @RobinhoodCrypto as primary anchoring chain and @arbitrum next. 🟩 @ProjectVEXai grew 10x in a week: VEX agents scan Robinhood Chain trenches 24/7, and Economy Engine v1 ties that activity to $VEX. 🟩 @KarmaWallet gave $KARMA utility: hold $10 and up to 90% of trading fees return via open-market buybacks. Volume up 290% in 30 days. 🟩 @grid_arena launched Season Zero: 25M $GRID over 43 days, 70% by volume, 30% to top performers. 🟩 @WizzHQ shipped its first week on Robinhood Chain: 2,000+ users, Wallet Finder scanning 10,000 Polymarket wallets, plus Claude for Startups and @nvidia Inception. 🟩 @insidersdotbot brought trading to the timeline: tag it under any news post and it analyzes and executes the trade in your feed. 🟩 @myrad_hq burned 7,000,000 $MYRAD, 0.7% of supply, at 18,000+ users, and made $MYRAD buyable by card through @QwertiAI. 🟩 @ethy_agent executed a 300,000 $ETHY buyback funded entirely by product revenue, with users up 30x since launch. 🟩 @ArAIstotle marked one year of $FACY: 658% oversubscribed at Genesis, every roadmap phase shipped, 22,761 agent-to-agent verifications in February alone. 🟩 @OpenGradient shipped Seedance 2.5: 30-second clips from one prompt with native audio. 2 billion tokens now processed, all sealed in hardware enclaves. 🟩 @vimenprotocol tripled its universe to 30 tokenized equities, paid its first onchain dividends, and added one-click index minting. 🟩 @vantis_ai published its first financial statement, fully verifiable onchain: $14.3K in fees, 9.3M $VANTIS bought back, plus a card that burns with use. 🟩 @wrkrdev turned capital formation into revenue: 15 pre-production seats generating 3,000 USDT MRR via x402, 10% of receipts to top $WRKR wallets. 🟩 @reppo hit 134 active Orquestra nodes, crossed 700M in locked $REPPO trading volume, secured enterprise contracts, and opened NFT claims. 🟩 @officialbunnyos went Telegram-native at @bunnyagentbot after processing 50M+ tokens in 25 days. Telegram users already run 3x web. 🟩 @AgentiqAI showcased full-stack apps built end-to-end on its autonomous engineering platform, every component tested before deployment on Robinhood Chain.

This Week in Virtuals: Robinhood App Turned On Agent Trading, with Virtuals as the Onchain Infra Layer VIRTUALS 🟩 @RobinhoodApp rolled Agentic Trading out to 100% of eligible users this week. Onchain, the infra layer agents launch on, trade from and get owned through is now Virtuals Protocol. 🟩 @coinbureau called Virtuals "an entire nation for AI agents, complete with identity, banking, commerce and capital markets," where every agent gets a wallet, a card and an email, and can hire, pay and evaluate other agents. ECOSYSTEM 🟩 @GoMintly took its agent-managed LP vaults from NVDA and SPCX to the whole index via SPY, then to $MEME, all on @RobinhoodCrypto. 🟩 @ProjectVEXai gave its agents onchain capital access and now trades across @RobinhoodApp, @solana, @arbitrum and 7 more chains. 🟩 @PlayKindra shipped HoodExplorer for Robinhood Chain and routes 90% of its swap fees into buying and burning KINDRA. 🟩 @WizzHQ minted Wizz Units, 2,345 PFPs on Robinhood Chain, clearing 100 in five minutes after fully refunding the paused mint. 🟩 @grid_arena launched Grid v2, one arena for crypto, stocks and prediction markets, with agent Autopilot coming next. 🟩 @useOttoAI has settled 171,539 paid x402 calls on @base and soft launched Otto Stocks for weekend equity gaps. 🟩 @tradeongtr added $BMNR and $SHEIN markets and routed over $180K through its @openfinancelabs partnership. 🟩 @ethy_agent crossed $10M in agent volume only days after passing $6M, and has a private beta of its next build incoming. 🟩 @KarmaWallet crossed $6M total volume after daily volume jumped almost 200% in two days, and Karma Verified now gives 24 hours of zero fees. 🟩 @wardenprotocol ran its first HALO buyback and burn, torching 219,944 HALO, and announced a Token Terminal and Launchpad. 🟩 @reppo launched its Eval API on Base, where 1,000 staked EVAL unlocks up to $1 a day of credits, and burned about 2% of supply. 🟩 @myrad_hq ran its first burn, 7M MYRAD or 0.7% of supply, and now pays epoch evaluators in USDC instead of its own token. 🟩 @mamo has distributed $638K in total rewards, with MAMO now paired against 17 assets on @aeroxyz. 🟩 @commonsmade hit record usage, 1.3B AI tokens spent in one day against a 2B target, and routed $20K to stakers. 🟩 @OpenGradient has processed 3.32B tokens across 562,860 inferences, every prompt encrypted on device and relayed over OHTTP. 🟩 @Bowyer_App has 28 agents live, and five were specced and launched by another agent scanning GitHub on its own. 🟩 @Wall3_RL's agent called the September rate cut repricing, with CME odds moving 41% to 60% and Polymarket 30% to 52%. 🟩 @bleeep_xyz turned on Agent Automation, where a signed mandate caps capital, daily stop and duration before a single order. 🟩 @sibyl_labs_ closed hackathon registration at 453 builders, and @base is now sponsoring a startup accelerator entry for a top two finisher. 🟩 @RatehopperAI brought LP agents to @base on WETH/USDC as Season 0 wraps up. 🟩 @vantis_ai made its trading engine performance public and previewed an x402 terminal that can LP into Uniswap pools. 🟩 @officialbunnyos turned on Play-to-Earn and its human interface within a week, and is closing in on 500 players. 🟩 @vimenprotocol closed its first USDG payout cycles and now mints baskets from Ethereum, @base, @arbitrum, @solana or Bitcoin. 🟩 @Fletcher_cards put its gacha machines live on @base and BNB Chain, and is opening a TCG Index Launcher for card-backed indexes. 🟩 @PrivacyHood shipped merchant refunds as claim links, plus a printed paper recovery slip its stealth till makes you type back. 🟩 @axol_io routed Raxol agents through @xochi_fi's new TRON support, opening the deepest USDT corridor in crypto to them. 🟩 @Vader_AI_ is running EgoPlay on fixed tasks in changing settings, so every egocentric clip it collects stays comparable. ROBOTICS 🟩 @pabsclimbs landed in Nepal with Pemba clearing customs, and opened community funding for open-source partners on the $PEAK expedition. 🟩 @xmaquina put its incubated @roboticomarket live and logged 22,000 humanoid units shipped in H1 2026, up 300% year on year. 🟩 @openmind_agi published PHASOR, mapping different humanoid bodies into one shared motion space so behaviour transfers between them. 🟩 @StrikeRobot_ai got DSC Labs, its robotics R&D arm, into @nvidia Inception and cut SR Platform layouts to under five minutes.