The Evolution of AI Virtual Idols: How MEET48 Shapes Web3 Entertainment and Social Experiences

With the advancement of AI technology, digital singers and virtual idols are presenting increasingly realistic visual effects, not only in their lifelike appearances but also in their performance and interaction capabilities, which are continuously improving. At the same time, the entertainment industry is witnessing a surge of AI-generated artists, with AI participating in various aspects of content creation at an astonishing pace, from music and dance to image design, propelling the virtual idol ecosystem into a new stage.

MEET48 is an "entertainment social metaverse" that integrates AI-generated content, virtual idols, fan economy, and Web3 incentive mechanisms. The project boasts impressive resources and financing background, having received billion-yuan valuation token round financing support from several well-known institutions, and has been selected for an incubation program within a certain blockchain ecosystem.

MEET48 has recently conducted a Token Generation Event (TGE), marking a key "evolution". Alongside the TGE, MEET48 is leveraging AI and Web3 to drive the next generation of "fan economy + creation economy."

From Hatsune Miku to AIUGC: The Technological Transformation of the Entertainment Industry

In 2007, Hatsune Miku became popular with VOCALOID voice synthesis technology, marking the beginning of the user-generated content (UGC) era for virtual idols. Around 2012, some virtual idol projects promoted further development of virtual idols through motion capture + PGC methods, but PGC faced problems such as high costs, significant creative bottlenecks, and long update cycles. Today, MEET48 redefines the development path of virtual idols by using AI-driven content generation and Web3-driven value distribution.

MEET48 has a rich product matrix, including the Web3+AI entertainment creation platform MEET48.ai, the meme token launch platform Mars Protocol centered around AI Agent, and the virtual entertainment world MEET48 Metaverse.

MEET48.ai is a Web3 entertainment creation platform that integrates virtual idol AI cultivation, social interaction, and music dance AIGC. It supports features such as generating music from text, generating dance from music, AI-driven choreography, and voice cloning, allowing AI idols to produce multimedia content that can be instantly shared on major social platforms. MEET48.ai also launched the exclusive AI creation tool AISHOWBOX, which supports deep creation of 3D image generation, AI-driven choreography, and idol agents.

Mars Protocol is the most representative innovative token launch platform of MEET48. As the first AI idol platform within a certain blockchain ecosystem, Mars Protocol is committed to reshaping the Web3 idol economy by integrating the "Idol Meme + AI Agent" model, providing users with one-click token issuance, circulation, and trading tools. The platform deeply integrates AI technology with the assetization path on the blockchain, supporting the tokenization of virtual idols and decentralized community interaction.

MEET48 Metaverse is a virtual entertainment world designed to provide users with an immersive social experience that transcends reality and time. MEET48 also features a self-developed multimodal large model that supports music and dance training, providing users with AI creation tools and a MaaS editor, significantly lowering content barriers, with model training data reaching up to 500TB.

MEET48 Mastering the Core Access to Content Assets

MEET48 has completed a token round financing, with an FDV valuation of 100 million USD, led and co-invested by several well-known investment institutions and individuals. The new funds will be used to support team development and to develop related AI products.

Investment institutions value not only the ability to implement technology, but also the fact that MEET48 has mastered the core entry point of content assets. The copyright authorization of a certain idol group enables it to possess real fans and IP stickiness in the field of AI virtual humans, coupled with complete technology, which forms MEET48's unique moat.

The performance of community data is also worth noting: according to a recent global voting event, the total number of votes cast for voting DApps has exceeded 697 million, with a total of 3.39 million registered users. During the event, the number of on-chain transactions reached as high as 32.78 million, and the cumulative number of active wallet addresses exceeded 1.18 million. It ranks high among social DApps on a certain data platform. This data directly validates that MEET48, under the combination of AI virtual idols and Web3 incentive mechanisms, possesses real market demand and product scalability.

MEET48 has also been selected for a blockchain ecosystem accelerator program, which lasts for 4 weeks, with a selection rate of less than 1% among thousands of registered projects in the past. This program provides MEET48 with customized courses for early-stage Web3 projects, as well as guidance and communication opportunities with relevant investment teams.

Token Economy Drives AI Idol Co-Creation

The native token of MEET48, $IDOL, has a total issuance of 4.8 billion pieces. The specific allocation includes community incentives, supporters, team and advisors, liquidity support, ecosystem support, marketing, and IDO, among others. To ensure the smooth launch of new products and services within the community and promote the healthy development and growth of the MEET48 community, some tokens belonging to the "community incentives" and "ecosystem" categories may be unlocked in advance, but only for user incentives and marketing purposes related to new products and services in the community, and must be approved by a community DAO vote.

Roadmap Preview: From Idol Selection to AIGC Game Matrix

TGE is just one of the many important milestones for MEET48 this year. In the upcoming period, MEET48 will hold the annual community idol selection, optimize the Mars Protocol launch platform, launch the limited test of "AI Dance Troupe," and release two Web3 games.

According to the plan, MEET48 will hold the annual community idol selection and release ceremony, which will bring together multiple idol artists and their overseas AI-Agent virtual groups.

On the product side, Mars Protocol will continue to optimize the AI Agent and meme coin launch features, while promoting the "AI Idol Training Room," a virtual idol voice interaction and cultivation system. Users, as producers, can control real music scenes, lighting effects, manipulate 3D virtual idols, and lead experiences such as dance choreography and live broadcasts.

"AI Dance Group" will also be further developed. The game creates a comprehensive large-scale community game through $IDOL and virtual human music dance LLM and AI Agent technology, with $IDOL as the main token.

In the future, MEET48 will launch more Web3 entertainment games and enter the full public testing and commercialization phase of "AI Dance Corps."

Ultimately, MEET48 will build a global AI-driven Web3 ecosystem covering entertainment, socialization, creation, and assetization, based on the Web3 AI social metaverse, combined with the MEET48 community and multiple AI gaming systems. The subsequent progress of the project is worth looking forward to.