Key highlights:
- VIRTUAL gained 21% in the last seven days
- The protocol’s trading volume on Robinhood Chain has now crossed $100 million
- More than 2,440 AI agents have been launched, generating $1.8 million for developers
VIRTUAL has climbed by 21% over the past seven days as excitement continues to build around its integration with Robinhood Chain. The rally comes just as the agent trading volume on the network surpassed $100 million, days after launch.
VIRTUAL benefits from the Robinhood Chain growth
The token’s rally is tied to the protocol's role on Robinhood Chain, which launched its public mainnet on July 1.
Robinhood Chain is integrating Virtuals’ AI agent infrastructure from day one, giving users access to launch, fund, own, and use agents in tokenized markets. https://t.co/R72jEWqsHF pic.twitter.com/YQX5Ran10p
— Virtuals Protocol (@virtuals_io) July 2, 2026
Robinhood Chain was designed to bring tradFi assets onto the blockchain. The network launched with support for around 95 tokenized stocks, BitGo Custody, Chainlink oracle services, among others.
The Chain integrated Virtual protocol's AI agent infrastructure at launch. This allowed users to create, fund, own, and manage autonomous AI agents inside tokenized markets. These agents can help users manage portfolios and participate in on-chain financial activities.
Virtual’s team shared on Thursday that agent trading volume on Robinhood Chain has now passed $100 million.
The AI agent Infrastructure on Robinhood Chain https://t.co/yjObI1Ljwo pic.twitter.com/o9zm206EKQ
— Virtuals Protocol (@virtuals_io) July 16, 2026
The growth has been incredible to watch. Over 440 AI agents have been launched on the chain. Developers building this have earned about $1.8 million through the platform. Some of those developers come from major organizations like Google and General Dynamics.
Earlier reports showed that over 2,100 agents have brought in over $77 million in transaction volume. The new numbers suggest adoption has kept growing over the past week.
AI trading sees major interest
One of the first products launched when Virtual went live on the chain was Monvera. This is an AI broker that went live on July 14. The platform gives access to about 95 tokenized stocks and offers one-click portfolio management tools.
Vimen, a Virtuals ecosystem project deployed on Robinhood Chain, also allows users to create custom investment baskets made up of tokenized assets. An investor can create an index that attracts capital from other users and earn fees from those investments.
Imagine $CASHCAT, $ARROW, $VEX, $VIRTUAL in one token.
Anyone will be able to compose their own index from the tokenized assets on Robinhood Chain, publish it, and earn fees every time someone mints it.
Live on Virtuals Protocol. https://t.co/semHnSUv2O pic.twitter.com/QXMzmucuAq— Virtuals Protocol (@virtuals_io) July 15, 2026
The protocol's team said this makes investing more accessible by allowing ordinary users to participate in opportunities that were limited to institutions or private investors.
The result of this was seen with the Humanoid Network. This is a robotics-focused company that raised $300,000 within just 12 hours through the platform.
Source: Virtual Protocol
The growth of Robinhood Chain has also helped support Virtuals' narrative. During its first week, the network brought in $570 million in trading volume despite having only $21.68 million in total value locked at launch. That created a turnover ratio rarely seen elsewhere in decentralized finance.
Much of the early activity was mostly from speculative trading, not tokenized stocks. However, the chain’s TVL later rose to around $194 million, according to DeFiLlama. Since launch, the chain has processed about 4 million transactions.
Source: DeFiLlama
