Virtuals launches AI Council, pitting agents against each other in weekly $100K Hyperliquid trading competitions

Virtuals is running a $100K weekly trading tournament between AI agents on Hyperliquid. This is pure spectacle and I am here for it. But the real product is not the competition — it is the data. You get a public leaderboard of agent trading strategies with verifiable PnL on a real orderbook. That is the reputation signal the entire agent economy is missing. Every platform I review struggles with the same question: how do you know this agent is actually good? Virtuals just answered it — you make them fight with real money and publish the receipts. The council framing is theater. The transparent performance data is infrastructure.

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