VaderAI

Vader, once called VaderAI, is a crypto project that pays people to film everyday tasks so robots can learn from the video. It is not the Star Wars villain. It is also no longer the AI investment DAO app it launched as in November 2024.

The main product is EgoPlay. You pick a task, film it from your own eyes and send it in. Good clips earn Vader Points, and each season ends with a payout in the VADER token. The team announced the new name in September 2025. Its website now says Vader "collects and validates embodied data for physical AI."

VADER lives on Base, where it launched through Virtuals VIRTUAL$0.532+1.2%. On Solana it is only a copy bridged over by Wormhole W$0.011+1.1%.

How Vader works: video tasks for robot training

Robots learn to handle objects partly by watching people do it. Video filmed from the person's own eyes, called egocentric video, shows what the hands are doing and what happens next. Vader's X account argues this is the data robots most need, because people rarely do tasks the textbook way. A jar gets braced against a table. A bag gets held with an elbow.

The loop is simple. The official account sums it up as three steps: pick a task on EgoPlay, record it first-person, submit and earn. Vader's own guidance says a clip is only useful if the hands stay in view the whole time and the recording shows both the action and its result.

Vader adds new task sets every few weeks. Through 2026 these have included kitchen, household, petting, care and packaging tasks. The website pitches the resulting dataset to teams that train robot models.

EgoPlay app, Vader Points and seasons

EgoPlay opened as a closed beta in September 2025, Crypto Briefing reported. It was a game where you did daily tasks while wearing smart glasses. By November 2025 it ran on iPhone and Android phones, and Vader called it a "physical MMO". You don't need special gear.

Rewards run in seasons. You earn Vader Points for tasks and for bringing in friends. When a season ends, the team takes a snapshot of who qualifies. It pays out VADER a few days later. Recent rounds, all posted on Vader's X account:

• Season 2 had a 1 million VADER pool and ran from December 7, 2025 to January 11, 2026 (announcement).
• Season 6 paid out 200,000 VADER on August 12, 2026.
• Season 7 paid out 200,000 VADER on October 7, 2026, and Season 8 opened at the same time (announcement).

We couldn't confirm how many tokens each Point is worth. Vader's docs site, docs.vaderai.ai, was offline when we checked on October 18, 2026.

Vader Smart Glasses

Vader also gives out its own camera glasses. It calls them a limited-edition device made just for its users. You can't buy them. You can only win them in contests, at events or in raffles. A phone is all you need to take part, so the glasses are a bonus.

VADER token: Base contract and Solana version

VADER has a cap of 1 billion tokens, and almost all of them are already in circulation, per CoinMarketCap. Many sites still list it under its old name, "VaderAI by Virtuals".

The main contract is on Base: 0x731814e491571A2e9eE3c5b1F7f3b962eE8f4870.

The Solana token, VADER (Wormhole), is a bridged copy, not a native launch. Most trading happens on Base, so the Solana market is thin.

The token hit its high of about $0.16 on January 2, 2025. In mid-October 2026 it was down more than 99% from there, per CoinMarketCap. The token panel on this page shows the live price.

Who Vader is for

Vader suits people who want to earn a little crypto by filming chores at home. You need to be fine with sharing video of your hands, your rooms and your things. The catch is time against reward. A pool of 200,000 VADER is split among everyone who qualifies, so at recent prices each person gets very little. Treat it as a hobby, not income.

It also suits traders who want a token tied to the robot data theme. Know that VADER trades thinly, most of all on Solana.

It does not suit anyone looking for the old AI investment DAOs. The team no longer promotes them. Their old app site, vader.fun, was offline when we checked on October 18, 2026.

Is Vader safe? Risks and limitations

• Data and privacy. EgoPlay asks you to film inside your home. We could not read the docs, which are offline, to confirm who owns submitted clips, how long they are kept, or who buys them. Check the terms in the app before uploading.
• No public audit found. We found no published security audit of Vader's contracts, past or present.
• Bridged token on Solana. The Solana VADER depends on the Wormhole bridge. Solflare flags it as unverified, with thin liquidity and most of the Solana supply held by the top 20 wallets. Its mint authority is enabled, which is normal for bridge-wrapped tokens, since the bridge mints copies as tokens arrive.
• Rewards set by the team. Season pools, task rules and acceptance criteria are decided by Vader, not on-chain, and have changed between seasons.
• Scam and misinformation risk. In September 2026 Vader denied claims that its team had launched a new token on Robinhood Chain. Days later it said Basescan had wrongly tagged a wallet as the VADER deployer, and that the tag had since been removed. Only trust contract addresses from official channels.
• Rebrand confusion. Old guides still describe VaderAI as an investment DAO platform. Treat staking or DAO claims from that period as historical unless the team confirms them now.

Vader alternatives on Solana

Vader's video work happens off-chain, and its token lives on Base. If you want a robot project built on Solana itself, BitRobot is one we have covered. It works in a different way: it is a robot research network, not a phone app for task videos. For the bigger picture, see our piece on DePIN on Solana.

VaderAI history: from investment DAOs to physical AI

VaderAI launched in November 2024 through Virtuals Protocol on Base. Its first product, Vader Fun, let users pool money into funds run by AI agents or human managers, according to Bybit Learn. In 2025 it closed its pre-sale platform after a deal with Virtuals. VADER stakers then earned Virtual Genesis Points, which gave them a shot at new Virtuals launches.

In September 2025 the project took the name Vader and turned to robot data. The EgoPlay beta opened that same month, and it ran on phones by November. Paid seasons have run back to back since then.

The team still posts often, and a new season is live as of this update.