The development of AI virtual idols is accelerating, MEET48 is leveraging AIGC and Blockchain to create a new type of entertainment social experience.

With the continuous advancement of AI technology, AI-driven digital singers and virtual idols are presenting increasingly realistic visual effects and interactive capabilities. At the same time, the entertainment industry has also welcomed a surge of AI-generated artists, with AI intervening in various aspects of content creation at an astonishing speed, from music, dance to image design, pushing the virtual idol ecosystem into a new stage.

In this context, MEET48 has emerged as an "entertainment social metaverse" project that integrates AI-generated content, virtual idols, fan economy, and Web3 incentive mechanisms. The project has received support from a billion yuan valuation token round financing and has been selected for an incubation program of a certain Blockchain ecosystem.

MEET48 held its Token Generation Event (TGE) on June 11, marking a critical "evolution" phase for the project. This initiative aims to leverage the dual drivers of AI and Web3 to create the next generation of the "fan economy + creative economy" model.

The Evolution of the Integration of the Entertainment Industry and Technology

The development of virtual idols can be traced back to the emergence of Hatsune Miku in 2007, which sparked a wave of user-generated content (UGC) with voice synthesis technology. Around 2012, some virtual idol projects further promoted the industry’s development through motion capture and professional generated content (PGC) methods. However, the PGC model has issues such as high costs, limited creativity, and long update cycles. Today, MEET48 attempts to redefine the development path of virtual idols through AI-driven content generation and Web3-driven value distribution.

MEET48 has a diverse product matrix, including the Web3+AI entertainment creation platform MEET48.ai, the 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 functions such as generating music from text, generating dance from music, AI-driven choreography, and voice cloning, enabling AI idols to create multimedia content that can be shared instantly on major social platforms. The platform has also launched a dedicated AI creation tool AISHOWBOX, which supports deep creation of 3D image generation, AI-driven choreography, idol agents, and more.

Mars Protocol, as a representative innovation of MEET48, aims to reshape 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 Blockchain, supporting the tokenization of virtual idols and decentralized community interactions.

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

Project Advantages and Market Performance

MEET48 has not only made breakthroughs in technology but also mastered the core entry of content assets. By obtaining copyright authorization from a well-known idol group, MEET48 has a real fan base and IP stickiness in the field of AI virtual humans, which, combined with its comprehensive technical capabilities, constitutes a unique advantage of the project.

Community data also confirms the market appeal of MEET48. In a recent global voting event, its voting DApp surpassed a total voting volume of 697 million votes, 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. This data directly verifies the real market demand and product scalability of MEET48 under the combination of AI virtual idols and Web3 incentive mechanisms.

Token Economics and Future Planning

The native token $IDOL of MEET48 has a total issuance of 4.8 billion pieces, with allocations covering various aspects such as community incentives, investor support, team incentives, liquidity support, and ecosystem development. The token economic model aims to promote AI idol co-creation and incentivize community participation.

In the future development roadmap, MEET48 plans to hold an annual idol selection event, optimize the token launch platform, launch game products such as "AI Dance Troupe", and continuously improve its Web3 entertainment ecosystem. The ultimate goal of the project is to build a global AI-driven Web3 ecosystem that covers entertainment, social interaction, creation, and assetization.

With the continuous advancement of AI technology and the deepening of the Web3 concept, projects like MEET48, which integrate multiple technologies, undoubtedly provide new possibilities for the future development of the entertainment industry. It not only changes the way content is created but also opens up new avenues for fan participation and value distribution. In the future, whether MEET48 can truly realize its grand vision of perfectly combining AI virtual idols, Web3 mechanisms, and the traditional entertainment industry is something we should continue to pay attention to.