VIRTUALS "hidden" secret cashback sauce There's a feature @virtuals_io has that not many people talk about, but is a key part of their flywheel. Every trade made on the Virtuals platform has a 1% trading fee. I'm using @AcolytAI as an example here, Acolyt has $120k in traded volume in Virtuals in the past 24 hours. So, $1.2k USD is taken overall as trading fees, but here is the amazing part: out of that, the Virtuals team shares a staggering 70% of the cashback to the Agents devs! These kind of cashback practices are not very common in web3, but quite typical in web2, maybe the lack of competition hasn't caused them to emerge en mass just yet, but what a difference does it make. Imagine a lean team, such as Acolyt, which gets a lot done with fewer resources than most (reminds me of the @kurorobeast team as well), out of that $1.2k there is $840 USD going back to the team, per day! (assuming thats the average). That is around $25k a month going back to the team in trading fees alone, that is significant revenue that can cover a good portion of any lean team's runway. You could use @Vader_AI_ as an example too, $320k daily volume, that is $2.24k a day, or $67k USD a month! These are pretty steady inflows too, the average traded volume for these established agents since launch is much higher than that. Lets look at a new agent; @BasisOS, $820k in traded volume today, thats gonna yield $5.7k for the last 24 hours only! By not being overly greedy the Virtuals team creates the perfect flywheel, Agent devs eat well out of their trading fees, so they are incentivized to stay and not bridge out and want to encourage more volume on Virtuals, Virtuals wins cause they get their 30% and they get more agents launching there because of the incentives/ It is not the only piece of the Virtuals flywheel, which is quite robust: Virtuals is the trading pair for Agents, to bond Agents require a certain amount invested in $VIRTUAL, holding Agents and Virtuals increases the chance for trenchers (Virgens) to get points and get access to new launches, etc But it is the most overlooked one. As I've said in the past, Virtuals is the most attractive DEX just via virtue of the cashback they offer, blows my mind that other DEXs or token launchpads are not copying it yet.