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Virtuals Protocol price and where to buy VIRTUAL

VIRTUAL · composite across every USD market we track
Composite price
$0.5863
▼ -3.73% · 24h
Venues quoting
4
14 USD markets tracked
Cross-venue spread
0.07%
$0.000400 high to low
High 4 eligible venues · $12.0M qualifying volume
Volume behind print
$12.6M
Outliers over 5% discarded

The Virtuals Protocol price above is our own composite: every dollar-quoted VIRTUAL market we track, weighted by its trading volume. Below it you can see which exchange is cheapest right now and how far apart the venues are.

VIRTUAL pricing from our own market database, measured across 4 venues, updated .

Where VIRTUAL trades, and at what price Every market feeding the composite
VenueMarketPrice24h Volumevs composite
Binance VIRTUAL/USDT perp $0.5858 ▼ -3.79% $37.1M −0.000506
WhiteBIT VIRTUAL/USDT perp $0.5852 ▼ -3.61% $14.4M −0.001106 Trade
Bybit VIRTUAL/USDT perp $0.5857 ▼ -3.67% $14.1M −0.000606
OKX VIRTUAL/USDT perp $0.5857 ▼ -3.62% $13.1M −0.000606
Binance VIRTUAL/USDT spot $0.5864 ▼ -3.68% $5.6M +0.0000937
Bybit VIRTUAL/USDT spot $0.5862 ▼ -3.81% $2.7M cheapest
OKX VIRTUAL/USDT spot $0.5866 ▼ -3.73% $2.0M highest
WhiteBIT VIRTUAL/USDT spot $0.5864 ▼ -3.54% $1.7M +0.0000937 Trade
Bybit VIRTUAL/USDC perp $0.5848 ▼ -3.56% $537.6K −0.001506
Pionex VIRTUAL/USDT perp $0.5858 ▼ -3.79% $341.2K −0.000506 Trade
Binance VIRTUAL/USDC spot $0.5835 ▼ -4.36% $263.6K −0.002806
WhiteBIT VIRTUAL/USDC spot $0.5858 ▼ -3.64% $231.5K −0.000506 Trade
OKX VIRTUAL/USDC spot $0.5857 ▼ -3.79% $118.2K −0.000606
Bybit VIRTUAL/USDC spot $0.5844 ▼ -3.31% $26.4K −0.001906
Prices and volume update from the same live venue feed as the composite above.
VIRTUAL perpetual funding Same contract, different cost per venue
VenueContractRateAnnualised
binance VIRTUALUSDT +0.4070 bps +8.9%
bybit VIRTUALUSDT +0.0101 bps +0.1%
okx VIRTUAL-USDT-SWAP −0.0327 bps -0.7%
binanceVIRTUALUSDT
Rate
+0.4070 bps
Annualised
+8.9%
bybitVIRTUALUSDT
Rate
+0.0101 bps
Annualised
+0.1%
okxVIRTUAL-USDT-SWAP
Rate
−0.0327 bps
Annualised
-0.7%
Funding is what holding a perp costs, paid between traders every interval. Work out the cost on your size

What is Virtuals Protocol?

Virtuals Protocol is a platform for launching and trading AI agents as tokens, mainly on Base. VIRTUAL is its base currency: agent tokens launched on the platform trade against it.

How to buy Virtuals Protocol, step by step

  1. Pick an exchange. VIRTUAL is listed on four of the five exchanges we track. Compare fees, funding options and whether it serves your country in our exchange reviews.
  2. Create and verify your account. Regulated exchanges ask for identity documents before you can deposit fiat.
  3. Fund the account. A bank transfer or a stablecoin deposit usually costs far less than a card payment.
  4. Buy VIRTUAL. Use the VIRTUAL/USDT or VIRTUAL/USD market, and check the cheapest venue in the table above first.
  5. Decide where to keep it. On the exchange is simplest, but the exchange then holds your coins. VIRTUAL lives mainly on Base; choose the network your wallet expects.

Where to buy Virtuals Protocol at the best price

The cheapest venue right now is marked in the table above. Add its trading fee before comparing: on VIRTUAL the venues disagree by about 0.12 percent on average, so on a small purchase the fee and the funding method usually matter more.

  • The price on that venue. Each row shows the gap to our composite.
  • The trading fee. Our fee comparison lists spot fees side by side.
  • How you fund the account. A bank transfer or stablecoin deposit is usually far cheaper than a card payment, which often costs several percent.

Why the Virtuals Protocol price differs between exchanges

In our minute-by-minute measurement the gap between the highest and lowest venue averaged about 0.12 percent, against about 0.025 percent for Bitcoin. It went above half a percent in about 10 minutes out of every thousand, and reached about 1.7 percent at its widest.

About two fifths of the VIRTUAL spot volume we track trades on a single venue. The spread figure at the top of this page is the live measurement; our guide on why crypto prices differ between exchanges explains the mechanism.

What moves the Virtuals Protocol price

The wider crypto market, and in VIRTUAL’s case its own news too. In our hourly composite, VIRTUAL moved with Bitcoin at a correlation of about 0.66, where 1 would mean identical moves, and its moves were about two and a half times the size of Bitcoin’s.

VIRTUAL-specific drivers come on top: interest in AI agent tokens and leverage. In our data it followed Bitcoin more closely than most coins at this size. The funding rates on this page show whether leveraged traders are paying to be long or short right now.

Pros and cons of Virtuals Protocol

Pros

  • The base currency of a popular AI agent platform.
  • Its volume is spread across venues rather than concentrated on one.

Cons

  • Its demand depends on a speculative niche.
  • It trades on four of the five exchanges we track.
  • It trades far below its all-time high of about $5.07.

Virtuals Protocol’s highest price

Virtuals Protocol’s all-time high is about $5.07 on volume-weighted data. The chart above shows the last 30 days of our composite, and the VIRTUAL to USD converter applies the live price to any amount.

Questions people actually ask

01What is a virtual coin?

In this context VIRTUAL is the token of Virtuals Protocol, the currency AI agent tokens on the platform trade against.

02Is virtual protocol a good investment?

We do not give investment advice. What we publish is what VIRTUAL costs on each exchange we track and how far those prices disagree.