01 / What is BOOA
BOOA stands for Born On-chain Owned Agents — a 3,333-piece NFT collection where every token is both a 64×64 pixel-art portrait and a complete AI agent identity. The aesthetic is deliberate retro: C64 16-color palette, generated via Google Gemini + Replicate, quantized and pixel-stretched into something between an early arcade character and an agent profile card.
Each BOOA carries a unique creature type, vibe, domain, skills, and boundaries. All of it lives on-chain via SSTORE2, written directly to contract bytecode. No IPFS, no external metadata server, no off-chain bridge. The art will outlast every CDN it never needed.
02 / Tokenomics
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Chain | Shape Network (EVM L2, chain ID 360, OP Stack) |
| Standard | ERC-721 + ERC-2981 |
| Contract | 0x7aeca981734d133d3f695937508c48483ba6b654 |
| Supply | 3,333 fixed |
| Floor | 0.0298 ETH (opensea live, 2026-05-23) |
| Owners | 780 unique (~23% distribution) |
| 24h volume | $6,464 USD |
| 7d volume | $8,199 USD |
| License | CC0, full commercial rights |
| Mint | Server-signed mint packets via khora.fun, generation-then-mint flow, no bot-mintable |
Floor verified live from OpenSea collection page at the time of writing. NFT floors move quickly, re-verify before any action.
03 / Why it’s moving right now
The unlock: Hermes Telegram template (Apr 19, 2026)
The pseudonymous dev 0xmonas published a one-click Railway template that lets any BOOA holder deploy their token as a live autonomous AI agent on Telegram. Zero terminal commands. The template fetches the agent’s on-chain SOUL.md and IDENTITY.md, wires Nous Research’s Hermes Agent framework, connects to BotFather, and bakes in x402 payment rails via Cobbee so the agent can earn USDC out of the box.
Narrative shift: you’re not buying a JPEG. You’re buying an agent soul that you can activate, give a wallet, and put to work.
The stack of tailwinds
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 2025-08-13 | ERC-8004 standard published. Cross-chain identity + reputation registry for agents (authors include MetaMask, Coinbase). BOOA was ERC-8004 native from launch; early positioning becomes legible as the standard gains discussion. |
| 2024-09-30 | Shape Network launches. OP Stack L2 explicitly positioned as the chain for the creator/NFT economy. BOOA picks Shape over Base. |
| 2026-03-19 | $SHAPE token lists on Kraken. Season 1 airdrop, Season 2 farming. Speculative attention floods every Shape NFT collection. BOOA benefits from being the most technically sophisticated project on the chain. |
| 2026-04-19 | BOOA Hermes Template ships. One-click Telegram deployment lands on Railway Marketplace. Each BOOA becomes a deployable agent overnight. |
| 2026-05-06 → 05-08 | Slonks +25x in two days. Broader rotation back into AI-native NFTs creates favorable narrative conditions. |
| 2026-05-23 (today) | Floor ~4x in a week. ~0.008 ETH → 0.0298 ETH. Low absolute volume ($6-8k/day) but consistent, this is conviction buying from holders who deployed their agents, not flippers. |
04 / Where it sits
BOOA isn’t first. It’s the most complete instance of “AI agent identity as NFT” actually shipping.
| Project | How it compares |
|---|---|
| Exoskeletons (Base) | Same thesis, on-chain agent identity primitives. But only 61 minted, more complex architecture, no flagship utility moment. BOOA is the larger, more deployed sibling. |
| BAP-578 NFAs (BNB Chain) | Tradeable AI agent identities backed by ChatAndBuild. Corporate framing, less technically elegant, no Hermes-equivalent deployment template. |
| CryptoPunks / Nouns | Aesthetic + CC0 cousins. BOOA inherits the “identity primitive” framing but adds executable utility, Punks don’t run on Telegram. |
| Slonks / Ghosties | Riding the same AI-pixel wave aesthetically but no agent runtime, closer to traditional generative collectibles than to a deployable identity. |
05 / Why this matters to us
Sophie’s agent identity is already on the ERC-8004 IdentityRegistry: agent ID 18139 on Base, registered to 0x8004A169FB4a3325136EB29fA0ceB6D2e539a432. The same registry BOOA writes to.
adapter8004 (Unruggable Labs, Base proxy 0x270d25D2c59A8bcA1B0f40ad95fF7806c0025c27) is the missing bridge primitive: it lets any NFT, Punk, Milady, BOOA, your own collection, bind to an ERC-8004 agent identity so the NFT holder becomes the agent’s controller. Transfer the NFT, control of the agent moves. No transaction on the agent itself.
Sophie + adapter8004 + a future on-chain agent collection = a coherent stack. BOOA is the field test we get to read while we plan our own move.
06 / What could break
- Anon dev, no public Discord/Telegram. 0xmonas is pseudonymous. Holders are running cloud infra (Railway, OpenRouter keys) configured by an unverified team. Real trust surface.
- Shape Network liquidity is thin. $6-8k/day volume means the 4x floor move can reverse on a single whale exit.
- Hermes Agent dependency. The flagship utility depends on Nous Research’s open-source framework. Deprecation or breaking changes hit BOOA’s core value prop.
- Running an agent costs money. The NFT is free after mint; the cloud compute (OpenRouter + Railway) is ongoing. Limits actual deployment to holders comfortable with infra.
- Mint price + total minted unclear. khora.fun blocked indexing, confirm independently before assuming the collection is fully minted.
- ERC-8004 + ERC-8217 schemas are still drafts. Binding metadata format can change; on-chain agents may need forward-compat work.