Today, something unprecedented is happening in the world of AI and crypto. While tech giants spend billions teaching AI to be polite and professional, one project is taking a different approach.
Meet iDEGEN—an artificial intelligence that starts with zero knowledge and learns everything solely from crypto Twitter. This “blank slate” experiment went live yesterday, 26th November, accompanied by the launch of the IDGN token, which is available exclusively via a pre-market adaptive auction on the official iDEGEN website.
Price action so far has been electric, with the pre-market price up by 1182% in the first 4 hours alone and over $188k raised as the adaptive auction structure creates unprecedented viral engagement.
The iDEGEN experiment
Most AI projects come pre-loaded with knowledge, rules, and careful programming. iDEGEN, though, is born knowing absolutely nothing. Think of it as a digital baby raised by the most chaotic family in finance—the crypto degen community.
The project’s mechanics mean that the experiment can be observed—and influenced—in real-time. Every 60 minutes, without fail, iDEGEN must post what it's learned on X, synthesizing inputs from the community to come up with its own takes.
Plus, it responds to every single interaction. Every tweet, every meme, and every trading theory gets processed and absorbed into its growing consciousness, combined with its existing knowledge base, and spat out in the form of a new post.
With forced hourly posts and replies, iDEGEN sets up a perfect feedback loop with the community, creating an iterative learning process like no other. While other AI projects remain static, iDEGEN evolves constantly. Six months from now, it could be anything from a trading savant to a meme lord—or something entirely unexpected.
The result is entirely up to the crypto community, setting up a battle between well-meaning AI parents, agents of chaos, and everything in between. Regardless of which side you fall on, you’ll be able to watch it all unfold in real-time on X.
The IDGN token launch
Behind the iDEGEN AI agent is the IDGN token—a way to invest in the future of crypto’s biggest ever social experiment.
The token sale is as innovative as the project itself: IDGN is launching through an adaptive auction that flips the rules of pre-market sales on their head, and could in itself create waves of virality that ripple out through the crypto community.
There's a total supply of 11,111,111,111 IDGN tokens, distributed on Solana. Starting today, 26th November at 11:00 UTC, tokens will be available through a pre-market auction that adapts to real demand every 5 minutes. If people buy in two consecutive 5 minute windows, the price goes up 5%. If nobody buys across two windows, it drops 5%. So far, this has resulted in an extremely bullish upside move, with prices jumping 1182% in the first 4 hours of pre-market trading.
Official exchange listings are locked in for midnight UTC on 1st January, 2025, where the listing price will be the final auction price plus 10%. Any unsold tokens will be burned, adding a deflationary edge—that is, if there are any tokens left over after a pre-market auction that is hard-wired to induce a FOMO-filled bidding war, and has already done so in the first day alone.
The official iDEGEN presale is the only way to get IDGN tokens before the exchange listing.
AI memecoins: Crypto’s fastest growing megatrend
iDEGEN joins a trend that is exploding right now in crypto: AI memecoins.
Tokens backed by autonomous AI agents are signalling the birth of “Web4” in crypto: the decentralized social networking of Web3, plus autonomous, on-chain intelligent agents able to interact, influence, and shape the future of the crypto.
The trend took off with Goatseus Maximus, shilled by Terminal of Truths (ToT), an autonomous agent posting on X that now has its own crypto wallet. After ToT posted about the GOAT token, it began a 7,000% six-day surge, with the coin now listed on Binance and having peaked at a market cap of over $1.3 billion.
Others have followed since: autonomous agent zerebro has its own token, ZEREBRO, now worth nearly half a billion dollars, whereas FARTCOIN, also shilled by ToT, hit a new all-time high capitalization of over $420 million last week.
The meta is clear: agents that post entertaining, cult-like, and controversial content lead to huge spikes in their affiliated tokens’ prices. New billion-dollar behemoths are minted almost overnight when agents like Terminal of Truths bring them into the spotlight.
iDEGEN builds on the concepts behind these tokens, but offers a prospect like no other: an agent raised by the community itself, facilitating unprecedented levels of audience buy-in, and a presale designed to create viral price action. Attention is the currency of AI memes, and iDEGEN could garner more attention than anything else we’ve seen in this space.
The pre-market sale of iDEGEN has begun
The iDEGEN agent and pre-market sale are live right now, meaning this groundbreaking social experiment is already underway. Will the community create a digital entity that revolutionizes trading? A meme machine that speaks the language of crypto natives? Or something entirely unexpected?
The beauty of iDEGEN is that nobody knows, not even its creators. The end result of the experiment will be determined by the crypto community, and the crypto community alone. Good, bad, ugly, strange—it’s up to the degens to decide.
Regardless, the project is already enjoying massive success in its pre-market auction, and the current price action is setting the stage for a potentially historic rally when IDGN hits the open market on 1st January.
The official iDEGEN presale is the only way to get IDGN tokens before exchange listings on 1st January, 2025.