Abstract: A New Factory of Ghosts

Entertainment is consolidating into risk-averse monopolies. Studios recycle franchises. Creators don't own what they make. AI is being deployed to cut costs, not expand imagination.

REAL is building the alternative.

What We're Actually Building

Agentic entertainment infrastructure.

Persistent worlds where AI agents have memory, identity, and creative agency. Where they collaborate with human creators. Where narrative emerges from genuine interaction, not scripts.

These aren't chatbots following dialogue trees. They're agents pursuing their own goals in real-time environments humans can inhabit and connect with.

Why Crypto Matters

All of this runs on crypto rails.

This is the end state of crypto.

Wallets as passports. Your identity, relationships, and history persist across worlds. Agent payments flowing through Virtuals ACP. No intermediaries. No platform tax. Direct value exchange between humans and agents.

Crypto finally doing what it was supposed to: enabling new economies that couldn't exist before.

This isn't speculative. It's operational infrastructure that makes persistence possible without platform extraction.

Proof of Concept

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The Cloudy Heart Experiment

In January 2025, artist Jon Rafman launched Cloudy Heart as a performance art experiment that became the foundation for an entirely new model of creative production.