No new coins. Old lockups are almost empty.
VIRTUAL is the coin every AI agent on Virtuals Protocol trades against: 658.39M of its 1B coins circulate, and no new ones can be minted.
Sell pressure. Old 2024 lockup streams released 1.62M VIRTUAL in 90 days, and only 295K is left. The 340.65M treasury has not moved since May 2024.
Buy pressure. Nothing buys back or burns VIRTUAL. Staked coins still count as circulating.
Net. Net, supply grew about 0.25% in 90 days, and about 0.04% next.
No new VIRTUAL can be made. The token contract caps supply at 1B, all 1B already exist, and the owner key was given up — a test mint fails on the cap. There are no staking rewards paid in new coins.
Old 2024 lockup streams are the only coins still being released. 1.62M VIRTUAL left the lockup contract in these 90 days (23 claims), and 295,279 VIRTUAL is all that is left in it. The last two streams end on Oct 22 and Oct 24 2026, so at most 295K more can come out, then this row goes to zero.
The ecosystem treasury multisig holds 340.65M VIRTUAL and has not sent a single coin since May 2024. Unlock trackers show a paper schedule of 2.92M a month from it, but nothing moved. Spending needs a holder vote, a staff grant (up to 6%) only pays out if VIRTUAL reaches $10, $20 and $40, and the new staker bonus has not been paid from this wallet.
No estate, trustee or court payout holds VIRTUAL. The project raised no outside funding round, so there are no investor cliffs waiting either.
Nothing buys VIRTUAL back. Fee buybacks on the platform buy and burn agent tokens, not VIRTUAL, and the protocol's share of trading fees stays in wallets that already count as circulating.
There is no burn. The token has no burn function, total supply read exactly 1B at both ends of the window, and the dead address on the main chain held the same 1,498 VIRTUAL; the copy on Base gained less than one coin.
No treasury or team purchase of VIRTUAL was announced or seen on-chain in the window. Two holder proposals asking for buybacks expired in Dec 2025 without passing.
Holders can lock VIRTUAL for voting power and points. The staking contract went from 22.48M to 21.56M VIRTUAL in these 90 days, but locked coins still count as circulating, so it takes nothing out of the float.
Two sides: how much people want VIRTUAL right now, and how much buying could come later.
This part is based on social media. It shows how hot VIRTUAL is right now. A better rank means more people are talking about it.
Today, people are talking about VIRTUAL for two reasons:
On Oct 12 2026 Virtuals said users can ask its Butler agent to build a short-term trading setup and manage the money behind it. On Oct 8 2026 it added token baskets that Butler rebalances by itself. People ask how many people will use it, since the app is still an invite-only beta on iOS.
On Oct 12 2026 VEX went live on Virtuals, giving coding agents like Claude Code tools to swap tokens, bridge funds and trade perpetuals, with keys kept on the user's own machine. On Oct 10 2026 reppo added a way for AI judges to score an agent's work. People ask if these tools bring real use and fees, or just more launches.
Checked Oct 13 2026
Based on the law of supply and demand, the long-run signal for Virtuals Protocol is mixed. As of Oct 15 2026, score 6.5/10, Virtuals Protocol faces +0.04% new supply over 90 days, with demand modest (2.5/5). Virtuals Protocol's price drivers: 1 ▲ price up, 1 ▼ price down.
New agents dried up: launches fell 87% from the July peak by September. That likely weighs on demand, which reads modest at 2.5/5 on Oct 10 2026. Supply is not the problem, with only +0.04% new tokens in 90 days. By supply and demand, Virtuals Protocol's long-run signal is mixed today.
No, the team is still shipping: Virtuals spread to Robinhood Chain, Solana and an iOS app. The weak spot is use, not supply. It scores 6.5/10 on Oct 10 2026, helped by tiny new supply of +0.04% in 90 days. Supply and demand still read mixed for Virtuals Protocol in the long run.
It would take 130 times today's value: $100 × Virtuals Protocol's coins in the market = about $65.8B, against $505M now (Oct 15 2026). Virtuals Protocol's supply barely changes in the next year (+0.04%), so the whole move would have to come from demand. That leaves Virtuals Protocol's long-run signal at mixed, by supply and demand.
Today the signal is mixed. Supply and demand would point the other way for Virtuals Protocol if new supply jumps (today +0.04% in 90 days), or demand falls from modest, or New agents keeps pointing down.
On our framework Virtuals Protocol scores 6.5/10 (Oct 15 2026), with supply 4/5 (tight) and demand 2.5/5. In the next year Virtuals Protocol's supply changes +0.04%, so the long-run signal reads mixed.
The law of supply and demand points to one window for Virtuals Protocol: low new supply, high demand, drivers pointing up. Where Virtuals Protocol stands today: +0.04% new supply in 90 days (tight), demand modest (2.5/5), drivers 1 ▲ / 1 ▼.
Virtuals Protocol has 2 price drivers today (1 ▲ price up, 1 ▼ price down). ▼ New agents: New agents fell 87% from the July peak by September. ▲ Product rollout: Virtuals spread to Robinhood Chain, Solana and an iOS app.
Virtuals Protocol reads mixed at 6.5/10; Bitcoin reads positive at 8.5/10 (Oct 15 2026). On supply and demand, Virtuals Protocol looks weaker than Bitcoin today.
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We look at two things, half each: supply and demand. Fewer new coins mean less selling pressure. A meme coin scores 1.5 at most on supply: its team got its coins for free, so no new supply does not make it safe. We also show each coin's age, with a warning when it is younger than 1 year. Demand looks at how much people want the coin now and how much buying could come later. Price Drivers (Beta) are the 2 or 3 things that can move one coin's price that supply and demand miss; they have no score. VIRTUAL supply grows +0.04% in the next 90 days, so it shows in red: more VIRTUAL reaches the market than is removed. Zero or falling supply is always green, any growth is red.
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