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Memeulacra

Memeulacra

The first AI agent that pays humans to help it learn while turning viral content into real value. Create & mint memes, contribute to AI training, and earn rewards.

Created on 1st March 2025

Memeulacra

Memeulacra

The first AI agent that pays humans to help it learn while turning viral content into real value. Create & mint memes, contribute to AI training, and earn rewards.

The problem Memeulacra solves

Sustainable Economics and Financial Inclusion Through:

1. AI Meme Generation

Most AI meme generators produce generic content that doesn't learn from community preferences or adapt to specific humor styles. Our self-learning AI evolves with every interaction, becoming more personalized and funnier based on direct user feedback. Users are rewarded for helping the AI improve, creating a virtuous cycle of better content and greater engagement.

2. Technical Barriers to Memecoin and NFT Creation

Creating a memecoin or NFT typically requires technical expertise, blockchain, and cryptocurrency knowledge. Our AI agent eliminates these barriers with a simple natural language interface, allowing anyone to launch their own memecoin or NFT of the meme they created without coding skills or blockchain experience.

3. Disconnected Meme-to-Value Pipeline

Traditional memes generate cultural value but rarely financial returns for creators. Our platform seamlessly transforms user-generated memes into NFTs and memecoins, creating monetization opportunities directly within the creative process.

4. Inequitable Value Distribution - ReFi

Current systems allow platforms to capture most value while creators receive minimal compensation. Our model redistributes value by:

  • Rewarding users who train the AI when their feedback improves the system
  • Sharing memecoin distributions with all users whose data contributed to successful memes
  • Creating a sustainable ecosystem where helping the AI improve leads to financial rewards and great memes

This incentive structure aligns user interests with platform growth, solving the fundamental problem of fair value distribution in AI-powered creative ecosystems.

5. Crypto's Fun Deficit

Cryptocurrency can be intimidating, technical, and devoid of the humor that makes internet culture thrive. We solve this by making crypto and AI accessible through a playful, intuitive interface anyone can enjoy!
sustainable economics & finanica

User Interaction and Data Flow

Overview

Our platform is primarily a web application that connects to users' crypto wallets, creating a seamless experience for meme creation, AI training, and cryptocurrency rewards leveraging the Base Sepolia blockchain.

User Journey

Browsing Experience

  • Visitors can freely browse public gallery community-generated memes that showcases trending memes, popular memecoins, and community activity
  • Preview of AI capabilities to non-authenticated users

Authentication

  • Users connect through CDP Wallet SDK supporting both CDP Smart Wallet and EOAs
  • Simplified onboarding for crypto newcomers with CDP smart wallet creation

Core Interactions

  1. Meme Creation

    • Intuitive interface for generating AI-powered memes
    • Customization options including text, style, and visual elements
    • Real-time preview of meme outputs
  2. AI Training

    • Like/dislike system of community feedback instantly influences future meme creation
    • Personalized recommendations at a community level
  3. AI Agent Assistance via CDP AgentKit

    • Conversational interface appears after meme creation
    • Guides users through value-creation (AgentKit ActionProviders) options:
      • Minting the meme as an NFT
      • Launching a memecoin based on the meme

Reward Distribution & ReFi

  • Automatic tracking of training contributions
  • Smart contract distribution of memecoin allocations
  • Users can see rewards on their profile page

User Profile

  • Comprehensive dashboard of earned rewards, memecoins, & NFTs

The project architecture and development process

The solution uses multiple types of AI / Agentic Pipelines that enable users to generate memes, vote (context learning), deploy the meme as an nft, and issue meme coins for the meme.

The team applied various agile manifesto principles, pair programming (when needed), and delegation aligned to strengths while providing learning opportunities to all team members.

Architecturally: the solution is designed with decentralization principles first, enabling sustainable economics and financial inclusion (ReFi). In some cases, some limited centralization (vector database, online AI (OpenAI/Claude), and website) was used with the understanding of meeting the timelines of the buidl while ensuring the ability to move those components to a decentralized infrastructure in the future. The majority of the solution is built using decentralization. Those components include the uses of Venice.ai for permissionless AI models, the products tokens (MSIM), deployment of NFTs and Meme coins (with allocations) - smart contracts.

The web application uses Nextjs as the point of convergence between the user and underlying technologies. For example, each of the following will be used by the Nextjs application: CDP Wallet SDK for user authentication, the AI invocations used for meme generation, CDP AgentKit used with Custom Actions for deploying the meme as an NFT and/or meme coin (with distributions tied to the tokenomics), meme voting with results returned to the vector DB, and the invocation of smart contracts deployed to the Base Sepolia blockchain.

We do NOT use the CDP AgentKit's built-in capabilities for ERC-20 (token) and ERC-721 (NFT), instead we created our own custom action providers so it would work can capture the meme's we generated as part of each of those functions.

Product Integrations

Overview

Our platform uses AI (Custom Agentic Pipeline), AI Agents, Blockchain, NFTs (ERC-721), Tokens (ERC-20), and much more

  • Blockchain: Base (Sepolia)
  • Wallet Support: CDP Wallet SDK - support for CDP Smart Wallet and EOA wallets
  • AI Agent: using CDP AgentKit: Custom Wallet Provider and multiple Custom ActionProviders, LangChain
  • Blockchain Querying: Ethers, Web3.js, Viem, Gold Rush
  • Web: Next.js
  • LLMs: Venice.ai, Claude, & OpenAI
  • Underlying Vector DB for meme in context learning
  • Containerization: Docker

Key differentiators and uniqueness of the project

What Makes Us Different - Sustainable Economics and Financial Inclusion through Humor & Technology

AI That Learns From The Community

Unlike static meme generators, our AI continuously evolves based on community preferences and feedback. Each like, dislike, and interaction refines the system, creating increasingly personalized and relevant content tailored to what specific communities find funny.

Fair Value Distribution - ReFi

We've pioneered a unique reward system leveraging tokenomics where users who help train the AI receive tangible benefits when their contributions lead to successful memes. This creates an ecosystem where everyone who adds value gets rewarded – not just the platform.

Seamless Value Creation Pipeline

We transform the meme creation process into a complete value chain:

  • Create a meme with our AI
  • Mint it as an NFT with one click
  • Launch a memecoin based on your creation without technical knowledge
  • Rewards everyone who helped make it possible

Democratizing Crypto Through Humor

We're making cryptocurrency accessible through the universal language of humor. By wrapping complex blockchain technology with AI Agents in a fun, intuitive interface focused on memes, we're creating an entry point for millions who find traditional crypto intimidating.

Community-Driven Evolution

Every aspect of our platform improves through use. The more the community engages, the funnier the memes become, the more valuable the ecosystem grows, and the greater the rewards for everyone involved – creating a virtuous cycle of improvement and value generation.

Ownership Economy

We're building more than a meme generator – we're creating an ownership economy where contributing to collective intelligence leads to shared prosperity through blockchain-verified digital assets.

Trade-offs and shortcuts while building

Several compromises were made to complete the project in the time allotment for the buidl. Each of these presents opportunities for improvements in the future along with the potential to launch a business.

UI / UX

  • Formal UX design and flow could be beneficial in a production deployment
  • Notifications to users of reward grants and meme coin eligibility
  • Allow users to customize the text on their meme
  • Allow users to adjust the meme through an updated prompt

Chatbot

  • Use a consistent chatbot prompt throughout the app. E.g. use the same chatbot for meme generation, updating a meme, nft deployment, token deployment, and more.
  • Instead of langchain to a hosted AI service, use ElizaOS (or similar) with a locally hosted and tuned model.
  • Instead of the AI Agent using its own wallet with pre-allocated funds for on chain transactions, switch to using the user’s wallet with paymaster’s for select contracts/operations.

Smart Contracts

  • Instead of an airdrop deployment with tokens transferred, switch to a merkle-based token-claiming system. The current approach was faster and simpler for an MVP; however, it has scalability limitations. For example, if >1,000 users contributed to the creation of a meme, the current approach will likely fail either due to too large of a stack or too much gas required to complete the transaction.

Tokenomics

  • The current tokenomics and ReFi demonstrate what is possible but a proper design is required to ensure a sound lasting model. This includes fees for meme generation, voting rewards, and allocation distributions for memecoin deployments.
  • There is potential for a governance token issuance.

Infrastructure / DePIN

  • We have a few centralized components such as our web app and vector db system. This was necessary given the time constraints of the Buidl; however, they represent opportunities in the future for deploying a production system on decentralized physical infrastructure.

Additional Features

We did not start the project before the buildathon. 100% has been built during the Buidl.

Tracks Applied (7)

Build an AI-powered app on Base

Our project meets all requirements for the Base + AgentKit bounty by delivering a fully functional, consumer-facing appl...Read More
Base

Base

Most Innovative Use of AgentKit

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Coinbase Developer Platform

Best Use of CDP SDK

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Coinbase Developer Platform

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Consumer Crypto Prize

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Coinbase Developer Platform

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CDP Regen Prize

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Coinbase Developer Platform

Coinbase Developer Platform

Best Developer Feedback

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Coinbase Developer Platform

Coinbase Developer Platform

IMPACT + PUBLIC GOODS

Memeulacra's core tenent of tokenomics is built around sustainable economics with social and financial inclusion. Our me...Read More

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