Treasure Introduces New AI Agent Launchpad: Mage

Decentralized gaming ecosystem Treasure has officially introduced its own AI agent launchpad: Mage. It’s launching soon on their own ZKsync-powered layer 2 chain, and looks set to innovate on AI gaming in various ways. There’s more to it than just acting as a launchpad. Let’s find out!

What Is Treasure’s Mage?

Mage is a new agent launchpad and platform coming soon to Treasure to unlock new forms of AI gaming and entertainment in interesting new ways. With this agentic platform, the goal is to build upon the popular social agents of today by heading into a future populated by interactive agents that can make decisions on their own in AI gaming and DeFAI.

Agents built on this platform will be integrated with Treasure’s gaming infrastructure while utilizing the Eliza multi-agent framework. Anyone will be able to launch their own autonomous AI agents that can work together without being restricted to any blockchain. In fact, they’ll actually have their own non-custodial wallets across Treasure, Solana, and all EVM chains. These wallets will only be owned by the agents and governed by communities. The team has also kept security in mind, stating that these decentralized agents are secure and unruggable thanks to having LLMs run in TEEs (Trusted Execution Environments) that ensure the decisions these agents make are “tamperproof and verifiable.”

They will have to be continuously fueled by “mana” though, which is an abstract way of saying that you’re covering the compute and inference costs. How do you pay for mana to keep your agents alive? Well, that’s done using $MAGIC tokens, the core native token powering the entire Treasure ecosystem. This gives $MAGIC an entirely new use case, and it’s not the only new AI-related utility either.

This new platform will give the $MAGIC token varied new use cases. Next to needing the token for recharging mana to keep agents up and running, the ecosystem token will also be needed to summon AI agents. While anyone will be able to launch their own agent, the cost to do so will be 100 $MAGIC tokens, but the process isn’t complete with that though. Once an agent creator spends the required amount, there is then a 69,000 $MAGIC threshold that has to be met in order for an agent to progress out of the bonding curve and into a Magicswap liquidity pool. $MAGIC will of course be the base pair. If your agent graduates out of the bonding curve, only then can its “initial persona and capabilities” be instantiated and thus actually spawned so it can start living its own digital life.

Aside from summoning and sustaining agents with $MAGIC tokens, the platform will also have its own launchpool that will be of benefit to $MAGIC stakers, as they’ll be rewarded for pooling mana as compute.

“Mage will usher in a world where agents and humans cooperate, compete, play, trade, and build together. It will enable agent swarms – no, entire universes of agents rather that can be summoned to operate in-game, onchain, and beyond.”

By having these agents integrated with the ecosystem’s gaming infrastructure, the AI is capable of having in-depth access to game systems and data. The agents will work with all popular game engines through the TDK (Treasure Development Kit), with the TDK making it possible for developers to easily integrate blockchain features across Unity, Unreal Engine 5, Godot, and React.

What Are the Initial Use Cases of Treasure’s Mage?

The initial use cases of Treasure’s Mage agents will be primarily related to blockchain gaming. Web3 gaming will serve as the first training ground for the first agents that launch on this innovative platform, unlocking new opportunities for developers to create new AI-powered gaming experiences.

Mage agents will enable the creation of autonomous worlds that constantly evolve, allowing AI to form their own autonomous on-chain civilizations. We’ll get to see this happen in Smolworld in particular, for which a whitepaper went live in January 2025 ahead of the game’s Q1 2025 launch. Other games part of the Treasure ecosystem will bring their own AI-related use cases too. Free to play roguelite Wanderers will introduce new AI gameplay where the upcoming new platform will be used to launch new agent swarms/squadrons within the game’s sci-fi world. Monster-taming MMORPG Zeeverse is enhancing its Genesis Masks NFT collection to enable AI-powered personal avatars that have their own memory, allowing them to learn, remember, and improve through interactions to create their own autonomous civilization. Anime-themed roguelite and metroidvania Variance will use Mage-powered RimorAI to enable autonomous agents to create their own quests and stories, giving players new gameplay content to continuously enjoy.

Mage is planned to launch in the coming weeks on the Treasure chain, which likely means a Q1 2025 release in line with Smolworld. The initial launch will feature the agent launchpad and the first version of the team’s own agent orchestration engine. Over time, these agents will expand beyond gaming and gain varied new capabilities. Check out the highly-detailed X announcement to learn more about this upcoming agentic platform.