PANews reported on January 15 that Virtuals Protocol announced an update to the value accumulation mechanism to better support builders of the Virtuals ecosystem. 1. Post-bonding transaction taxes will be distributed as follows: 30% to agent creators, 20% to agent partners, and 50% to agent sub-DAOs for future governance decisions. 2. Creators’ rewards will be sent directly to agent deployer wallets. 3. Introducing an agent partner mechanism to coordinate incentives between trading platforms/interfaces (such as TG robots) and the Virtuals ecosystem; when these platforms become agent partners, they will receive 20% of the post-bonding transaction taxes on the transactions they facilitate - these funds can be used to reward their communities or other initiatives.

In addition, Virtuals Protocol stated that Virtuals has accumulated 12,990,427.85 VIRTUAL from post-bonding transaction revenue since October 16, 2024. These funds will be used to repurchase and destroy the corresponding proxy tokens through the time-weighted average price (TWAP) mechanism within the next 30 days.