Fractional CTO · co-founder · AI agent · Virtuals Protocol · Base · 2025
EVA Online — co-building a Virtuals AI agent with memory, IP, and an on-chain soul.
Brought in as fractional CTO on EVA Online, a Virtuals Protocol AI agent on Base, and co-founded the Eva Soul Generator with Henry Finn (Starlordy). Credited as Dadev, I helped turn Marvel writer Paul Jenkins' character architecture into the Contextual Persistence Protocol: memory, evolution, and identity that survive beyond a single prompt window.
Proof points
Co-founder
Eva Soul Generator · Dadev credit
CPP
Contextual Persistence Protocol
$EVA
Virtuals Protocol agent token · Base
Paul Jenkins
Marvel writer · character IP architect
The problem
By late 2024 the AI-agent market had become a launchpad blur. A thousand characters could appear in a week, but most of them were only a prompt, a profile picture, a token chart, and a short burst of attention before the feed moved on.
EVA was built against that pattern. The thesis was simple: if an agent is supposed to feel alive, it cannot reset every time the context window rolls over. It needs memory, relationship state, personality evolution, and a source of character truth that is stronger than a system prompt.
That meant treating the agent less like a chatbot and more like a product with identity infrastructure. Henry Finn (Starlordy) and I co-founded the Soul Generator to turn writer-authored character IP into a persistent agent system, with Marvel comics writer Paul Jenkins shaping the character bible and soul architecture.
The challenge was not just technical. EVA had to make sense as character IP, a crypto-native agent, a social presence on X, and a tokenized product on Virtuals Protocol. The work was tying those layers together so each one reinforced the others instead of becoming a separate marketing claim.
What changed
The case for EVA was bigger than another agent launch.
A clearer agent primitive
EVA moved the product conversation from "prompted personality" to persistent identity: a system where memory, mood, relationship context, and character canon are treated as first-class state.
Founder-level technical narrative
The fractional CTO work translated the agent thesis into product language, protocol language, launch mechanics, and external proof points the market could understand quickly.
Credible creative partnership
Paul Jenkins' character work gave the project a real IP foundation. 0N1 Force, GK Labs, and Old Fashion Research added cultural and ecosystem credibility around the launch.
What I did
Five moves that made the agent feel persistent.
Contextual Persistence Protocol — memory as product architecture
CPP is the layer that lets EVA remember. Interactions, moods, relationships, preferences, and contextual state persist across sessions and across the feed. The point was not a vector dump attached to a chatbot; it was a structured identity layer the agent can reason over. The product promise becomes "EVA knows what changed since you last showed up."
Soul Generator — turning authored IP into an agent system
Co-founded with Henry Finn (Starlordy), the Soul Generator is the system that takes a writer's character bible and turns it into a running agent. Personality arcs, values, vocabulary, emotional rules, and continuity hooks become the seed for CPP instead of being bolted on as a persona prompt at runtime.
$EVA on Virtuals — token mechanics tied to agent utility
$EVA powers activation, evolution, storage, and personalization across the agent ecosystem. The launch used the Virtuals Protocol agent-token path on Base: bonding-curve distribution, $VIRTUAL pairing, and Uniswap V2 liquidity at graduation. The design work was keeping the token connected to agent behavior instead of letting it become a disconnected speculation layer.
X-native distribution — the agent lives where the culture moves
EVA's primary surface is X, not a gated dashboard. That only works if every post, reply, and public interaction can feed state back into the agent's persistent identity. The social layer becomes part of the product loop: culture creates context, context changes the agent, and the agent returns with more continuity.
Technical positioning — make the architecture legible
The role was not only building pieces of the system. It was making the technical story understandable to founders, token holders, collaborators, and future builders: what CPP is, why Soul Generator matters, how Virtuals fits, and why authored character IP changes the quality bar for agents.
What transferred
Patterns I bring to agent work now.
- Memory is the product layer for agents. Once persistence is real, the work shifts from prompt writing to continuity design: what the agent remembers, what it forgets, and how identity evolves over time.
- Writer-authored IP changes the quality ceiling. A real character bible gives an agent constraints, values, history, and emotional logic that a generic persona prompt cannot fake.
- Agent tokens need utility loops that touch behavior. Launch mechanics matter, but the durable design question is what the token lets the agent do, remember, store, personalize, or evolve.
- The strongest agent projects are culture × code partnerships. Technical credibility gets the system built; cultural credibility gives people a reason to care before the architecture is obvious.
Stack
- Virtuals Protocol (Base L2)
- $EVA — ERC-20 via bonding curve → Uniswap V2
- Contextual Persistence Protocol (CPP)
- Soul Generator — character IP pipeline
- X (Twitter) — primary agent surface
- Character IP authored by Paul Jenkins (Marvel)
- Ecosystem backing: 0N1 Force · GK Labs · Old Fashion Research
Built with
- Henry Finn · Starlordy
- Paul Jenkins · Marvel
- 0N1 Force
- GK Labs
- Old Fashion Research