The Rise of AI Virtual Idols: How MEET48 is Shaping a New Experience in Web3 Entertainment and Social Interaction

With the continuous advancement of AI technology, digital singers and virtual idols are presenting increasingly realistic visual effects. Not only do they look close to real people, but their performance and interaction capabilities are also continuously improving. At the same time, the entertainment industry has seen a surge of AI-generated artists, from music and dance to image design, as AI is intervening in all aspects of content creation at an unprecedented speed, pushing the virtual idol ecosystem into a new stage.

MEET48, as an "entertainment social metaverse" that integrates AI-generated content, virtual idols, fan economy, and Web3 incentive mechanisms, is emerging in this field. The project has received support from several well-known institutions for its billion-yuan valuation token round financing and has been selected for an incubation program in a certain blockchain ecosystem.

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

From Hatsune Miku to AIUGC: The Technological Transformation of the Entertainment Industry

The development history of virtual idols can be traced back to 2007, when Hatsune Miku became popular due to VOCALOID speech synthesis technology, marking the beginning of the user-generated content (UGC) era for virtual idols. Around 2012, some virtual idol projects promoted further development of virtual idols through motion capture + produced content (PGC), but the PGC model faced issues such as high costs, significant creative bottlenecks, and long update cycles. Today, MEET48 is redefining the development path of virtual idols by driving content generation with AI and value distribution with Web3.

MEET48 has a diverse product matrix, including a Web3+AI entertainment creation platform, a token launch platform centered around AI agents, a virtual entertainment world, and more. Among them, the Web3+AI entertainment creation platform supports functions such as generating music from text, generating dance from music, AI-driven choreography, and voice cloning, allowing AI idols to produce multimedia content that can be instantly shared across major social platforms.

The token launch platform, as an innovative product within this ecosystem, 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. This platform deeply integrates AI technology with the assetization path on the blockchain, supporting the tokenization of virtual idols and decentralized community interaction.

In addition, MEET48 also has its own self-developed multimodal large model, supporting music and dance training, providing users with AI creation tools and editors, significantly lowering the barriers to content creation.

Head resources support, MEET48 masters the core entrance of content assets

MEET48 has completed a token round financing, with a valuation of 100 million USD. The investors include several well-known investment institutions and Web3 professionals. These investment institutions value not only the ability to implement technology but also the fact that MEET48 has mastered the core entry point of content assets. The copyright authorization of a well-known girl idol group gives it genuine fans and IP stickiness in the field of AI virtual humans, combined with complete technology, forming MEET48's unique competitive advantage.

The community data performance is also impressive: As of January 14, 2025, the "MEET BEST7" global voting event data shows that the total voting volume of its voting decentralized applications has surpassed 697 million votes, with a total registered user count of 3.39 million. During the event, the number of on-chain transactions reached as high as 32.78 million, and the cumulative active wallet addresses exceeded 1.18 million. This data directly verifies that MEET48 has real market demand and product scalability under the combination of AI virtual idols and Web3 incentive mechanisms.

Token Economy Drives AI Idol Co-Creation

The total issuance of MEET48's native token is 4.8 billion pieces, with the distribution plan as follows:

• Community incentives (including community rewards, future airdrops, and airdrops): 45.2%
• Supporters (strategic investment and private placement round): 7%
• Team and Advisors: 17%
• Liquidity support: 3%
• Ecosystem Support: 20%
• Marketing: 5.8%
• First decentralized issuance: 2%

In order to ensure the smooth launch of new products and services within the community, and to promote the healthy development and growth of the MEET48 community, some tokens belonging to the "community incentives" and "ecosystem" categories may be unlocked in advance, but only for user incentives and marketing purposes related to the community's new products and services, and must be approved by a vote from the community's decentralized autonomous organization.

Roadmap Preview: From Idol Selection to AIGC Game Matrix

In the upcoming period of 2025, MEET48 will hold the annual community idol selection, optimize the token launch platform, launch the limited test of "AI Dance Troupe," and release two Web3 games: "Bounty Hunter Fish" and "Chain Tycoon."

According to the plan, MEET48 will hold its community annual idol selection and release ceremony on August 2, 2025. The event will take place at the AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong on August 2, gathering idol artists from multiple countries and regions along with their overseas AI-Agent virtual groups.

In the third quarter plan, the token launch platform will continue to optimize the AI Agent and token launch features, while promoting the "AI Idol Training Room", which is a virtual idol voice intelligent interaction and cultivation system. Users can act as producers, controlling real music scenes, lighting effects, and manipulating 3D virtual idols, leading experiences such as dance choreography and live broadcasts.

"AI Dance Party" will also be further developed. This is adapted from an online game with over 1 billion users globally and a total revenue of 10 billion USD. AI Dance Party creates a fully ecological large community game through native tokens and virtual human music dance language models and AI Agent technology, with a limited test launch planned for the third quarter.

In the fourth quarter of 2025, two Web3 entertainment games will be launched: "Bounty Hunter Fish" and "Chain Tycoon". In the first quarter of 2026, it will officially enter the comprehensive public testing and commercial operation phase of "AI Dance Group".

Ultimately, MEET48 will build a global AI-driven Web3 ecosystem covering entertainment, social interaction, creation, and assetization, based on the Web3 AI social metaverse, integrating the MEET48 community with multiple AI game systems. The project's subsequent progress is worth looking forward to.