Autonomous AI Artist Coin on Zora Briefly Surges 11,000% on First Day

The latest token frenzy on Zora didn’t come from a meme or a celebrity, but from an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) artist that claims to mint its own work and launch coins in binary code.

Developed by the pseudonymous coder dev0xx, the AI system autonomously generates one artwork and mints a corresponding coin daily, all entirely on-chain and without human intervention.

In an X post on July 30, dev0xx noted that zxbt “is the next iteration of zora_xbt,

making it autonomous and able to generate its own digital art pieces.” The AI continuously ingests real-time social media and news data, evolves its personality and goals, and produces generative art reflecting its changing environment, the developer explained.

Each artwork is minted as a token on Zora, a launchpad built on Coinbase’s Layer 2 Base network that’s been gaining traction by offering on-chain tools supporting creator royalties and fee sharing.

Its first coin, named “01111010011110000110001001110100” — the binary representation of zxbt — was launched with a fixed supply of one billion tokens, according to BaseScan data. The developer said the name was meant to throw off bots from buying the token early.

In just 24 hours, the token has gained over 660 holders, generated $3 million in trading volume, and trades at a $2.6 million market cap. It traded as high as a $5 million market cap a few hours after launch, per DEXScreener, though it later retraced by roughly 60%.

As dev0xx explained, the bot’s modular framework includes personality and goal prompts, alongside four engine components — observe, think, feel, and create — that together enable it to autonomously analyze data and produce daily tokenized art.

Not everyone in the crypto community is sold on Zora’s creator token model, however. Critics dismiss these coins as “shitcoins” doomed to lose value.

Jesse Pollak, founder of Base, argues that these tokens unlock real value by linking content and creators directly to revenue, but Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko counters that without claims on future cash flows or assets, such tokens remain little more than speculative bets.