As AI virtual idols become more realistic and evolve faster, how does MEET48 use AIGC and on-chain mechanisms to shape the Web3 entertainment and social experience?

MEET48, an AI-driven "entertainment social metaverse," integrates virtual idols, AIGC, and Web3 incentives, leveraging AI + blockchain to redefine the fan and creative economies.
Key components:
- MEET48.ai: Web3 platform for AI-generated music, dance, and virtual idol training, featuring tools like AISHOWBOX and SNH48's 700+ song library.
- Mars Protocol: Token launch platform combining AI (text/image/music generation) with idol meme coins and decentralized community interaction.
- MEET48 Metaverse: Immersive virtual world powered by a 500TB-trained multimodal AI model for content creation.
Funding & Backing: $100M FDV valuation with investments from Fosun’s Liang Xinjun, HashKey, and Animoca Brands; selected for Binance’s MVB program.
Tokenomics: $IDOL (4.8B supply) launched on Binance Wallet, Bitget, and others; 45.2% allocated to community incentives.
Milestones:
- 2025 plans include WIPA idol finals, "AI Audition" game testing, and Web3 games like "Bounty Hunter."
- Q1 2026 targets full public beta for "AI Audition."
Community traction: 3.39M registered users, 697M votes in DApp, ranking top in social DApp metrics.
Vision: A global AI-Web3 ecosystem merging entertainment, social, and asset creation.

Author: Weilin, PANews

With the support of AI technology, AI-driven digital singers and virtual idols can now present extremely realistic visual effects. Not only are they close to real people in appearance, but their performance and interactive capabilities are also constantly improving. At the same time, the entertainment industry has also seen the emergence of a large number of AI-generated artists. From music, dance to image design, AI is intervening in all aspects of content creation at an unprecedented speed, pushing the virtual idol ecosystem into a new stage.

MEET48 is an "entertainment social metaverse" that integrates AI-generated content, virtual idols, fan economy and Web3 incentive mechanisms. The project has impressive resources and financing background, and has recently received a billion-dollar token round of financing support from Liang Xinjun, co-founder of Fosun Group, Hash Global, HashKey Capital, Animoca Brands, etc., and was selected for the 8th season of the MVB incubation program of the Binance BSC ecosystem.

MEET48 has conducted a token generation event (TGE) on June 11, ushering in a key "evolution". With TGE, how can MEET48 use the dual-wheel drive of AI + Web3 to open up the next generation of "fan economy + creative economy"?

From Hatsune Miku to AIUGC: The entertainment industry is changing with technology

As early as 2007, Hatsune Miku became popular with VOCALOID speech synthesis technology, ushering in the era of user-generated content (UGC) for virtual idols. Around 2012, virtual idol projects such as Japan's Hololive and South Korea's PLAVE promoted the further development of virtual idols with motion capture + PGC, but PGC has problems such as high cost, creative bottlenecks, and long update cycles. Today, MEET48 uses AI to drive content generation and Web3 to drive value distribution, redefining the development path of virtual idols.

MEET48 has a rich and diverse product matrix, including the Web3+AI entertainment creation platform MEET48.ai, the meme token launch platform Mars Protocol with AI Agent as the core, and the virtual entertainment world MEET48 Metaverse.

On February 7 this year, the official release of MEET48.ai is a Web3 entertainment creation platform that integrates AI training of virtual idols, social interaction, and music and dance AIGC. It supports functions such as generating music from text, generating dance from music, AI-driven choreography, and voice cloning, enabling AI idols to generate multimedia content and share it instantly on major social platforms. MEET48.ai also launched an exclusive AI creation tool AISHOWBOX, which supports in-depth creation of 3D image generation, AI-driven choreography, idol agents, etc.

In the initial stage, MEET48.ai has integrated a large number of exclusive entertainment resources from the MEET48 ecosystem. More than 700 songs and dances from the Chinese girl idol group SNH48 GROUP, which has more than 30 million fans, have been added to the library, and more than 250 active idols will participate in creating their own AI idol agents.

Mars Protocol is the most representative innovative token launch platform of MEET48. On February 7, the platform was launched simultaneously with the MEET48.ai platform. As the first AI idol platform in the BNB Chain ecosystem, Mars Protocol is committed to reshaping the Web3 idol economy by integrating the "Idol Meme + AI Agent" model, providing users with one-click token issuance, circulation and trading tools. The platform deeply integrates AI technology (including text generation, image generation, music generation, voice cloning, etc.) with the assetization path on the blockchain, supporting the tokenization of virtual idols and decentralized community interaction.

MEET48 Metaverse is a virtual entertainment world that aims to provide users with an immersive social experience beyond reality and time. MEET48 also has a self-developed multimodal large model that supports music and dance training, provides users with AI creation tools and MaaS editors, greatly reduces the content threshold, and the model training data is as high as 500TB.

With the support of top resources, MEET48 has the core entrance to content assets

On April 4 this year, MEET48 announced the completion of its token round of financing, with a FDV valuation of US$100 million. It was led by Fosun Group co-founder Liang Xinjun, Hash Global and HashKey Capital, and followed by Animoca, Infinity Labs, Promontory, Oak Grove and a number of Web3 professionals. The new funds will be used to support the development of its team and the development of related AI products.

Investment institutions value not only the ability to implement technology, but also the fact that MEET48 has mastered the core entrance to content assets. SNH48's copyright authorization allows it to have real fans and IP stickiness in the field of AI virtual people, and its complete technology constitutes a unique moat for MEET48.

It is also worth noting the community data performance: as of January 14, 2025, the data of the "MEET BEST7" global voting event showed that the total number of votes in its voting DApp exceeded 697 million, the total number of registered users reached 3.39 million, the number of on-chain transactions during the event reached 32.78 million times, and the cumulative number of active wallet addresses exceeded 1.18 million. It ranked first in the DappBay social DApp and third in the DappRadar social rankings. This data also directly verifies that MEET48 has real market demand and product scalability under the combination of AI virtual idols and Web3 incentive mechanisms. For investors, it is one of the few projects that have proven user growth, on-chain transactions and ecological consensus.

On October 30 last year, BNB Chain officially announced that MEET48 was selected for the 8th MVB (Most Valuable Builder) accelerator program in cooperation with Binance Labs and CMC Labs (CoinMarketCap's accelerator program for startup projects). The program lasted for 4 weeks, and the selection rate of thousands of registered projects in the past was less than 1%. MVB provided MEET48 with customized courses for early Web3 projects, fireside chats and 1:1 guidance with BNB Chain and Binance Labs investment teams, CMC Labs, and access to resources across the BNB Chain ecosystem.

At the Hong Kong Web3 Carnival in April this year, MEET48 co-founder Wayne Zhang was invited to attend the first roundtable discussion of "BNB On-Chain AI Unlocks the Future". The theme was "How AI Agents Reshape the Web3 Ecosystem". The guests analyzed successful AI Agent use cases, from smart contract automation, personalized recommendations to innovations in Web3 interaction models, and explored the potential and challenges of AI in enhancing on-chain data analysis and optimizing DAO governance, providing forward-looking insights for industry development.

Token economy drives AI idol co-creation

In order to give back to all users who support the MEET48 ecosystem, the $IDOL equity token airdrop event has been launched. The snapshot was completed at 16:00 UTC on May 21, 2025, and the collection page was officially launched at 3:00 UTC on June 9.

$IDOL was launched on Binance Wallet, Bitget, Gate, MEXC and PancakeSwap on June 11. Binance Wallet held an exclusive $IDOL TGE from 4pm to 6pm (UTC+8) on June 11. Eligible users must use Binance Alpha Points to participate. Bitget, Gate and MEXC will launch IDOL tokens at 8pm (UTC+8) on June 11, 2025.

The total issuance of MEET48's native token $IDOL is 4.8 billion. The specific distribution is as follows:

Community incentives (including community rewards & future airdrops, and airdrops): 45.2%
Supporters (strategic investment and private placement): 7%
Team and advisors: 17%
Liquidity support: 3%
Ecosystem support: 20%
Marketing: 5.8%
IDO (Initial Decentralized Offering): 2%

Note: To ensure the smooth launch of new products and services within the community and 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 new community products and services, and must be approved by the community DAO vote.

Roadmap preview: From idol finals to AIGC game matrix

The highly anticipated TGE is just one of many important milestones for MEET48 this year. In the rest of 2025, MEET48 will hold the WIPA community annual idol finals, optimize the Mars Protocol launch platform, launch a limited test of the "AI Audition", and launch two Web3 games "Bounty Hunter" and "Chain Millionaire".

According to the plan, MEET48 will hold the WIPA Community Annual Idol Selection and Release Ceremony on August 2, 2025. The event will be held at the AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong on August 2, bringing together SNH48, idol artists from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and their overseas AI-Agent virtual groups.

In the Q3 plan, on the product side, Mars Protocol will continue to optimize the AI Agent and meme coin launch functions, while promoting the "AI Idol Training Room", a virtual idol voice intelligent interaction and cultivation system. Users, as producers, control real music scenes, lighting effects, manipulate 3D virtual idols, and dominate dance choreography and live broadcast experiences.

"AI Audition" will also be further developed. Audition is an online game with more than 1 billion users worldwide and a cumulative revenue of 10 billion US dollars. AI Audition will create a large-scale community game with a full ecosystem through $IDOL and virtual human music and dance LLM and AI Agent technology. The game will use $IDOL as the main token and is scheduled to start limited testing in Q3.

In Q4 2025, two Web3 entertainment games will be launched: "Bounty Fish" and "Chain Millionaire". In Q1 2026, "AI Audition" will officially enter the full public beta and commercial operation stage.

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