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Original title: GambleFAI: The Rise of Autonomous Betting Agents

Original author: 0xJeff, AI InvestorOriginal

compilation: ChatGPT

Editor's note: The article describes the development process of GambleFi, which emerged in 2023 and was gradually marginalized under the market shift and the trend of meme coin popularity in 2024. Entering 2025, GambleFAI was born, combining the advantages of decentralized gambling and AI technology. With advances in AI in large language models (LLMs) and machine learning, GambleFAI enables players to get more accurate predictions, significantly increasing their win rates. AI Agents are driving innovation in the industry, not only improving prediction accuracy but also bringing higher potential returns to players, marking a technological leap forward in the gambling industry.

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TL; DR

GambleFi is a narrative that emerged in the second half of 2023 and offers a simple value proposition – democratizing access to casino games and prediction markets for billions of users through global crypto liquidity.

Casinos like Rollbit and Shufflecom generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year by acting as bookmakers for casino games and receiving commissions ("vigs") on sports betting odds.

This narrative has gained more traction in 2023 due to the impact of a bear market – a market environment in which the risk-reward of betting on a casino or sportsbook is more attractive than buying cryptocurrency tokens. However, this has changed dramatically in 2024, with the market's focus shifting as market sentiment turns extremely bullish, BTC halving, and figures like Trump embrace cryptocurrency.

The rise of Pump.fun and the arrival of the meme coin season has sparked a frenzy of celebrities, animals, startups, and anything imaginable being used to launch meme coins. Stories of ordinary anonymous people turning $500 into $6.9 million became common. This changes the mindset of gamblers – why risk 50:50 or 33:66 odds in a casino to bet 2x or 3x their gains, when they can get 10 to 100x returns on their meme coins? As a result, the GambleFi narrative has gradually declined, and players have turned to trading meme coins instead of betting in casinos.

By 2024, Polymarket has emerged as a leading prediction market platform, especially in political events like the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Known as the "Source of Truth", Polymarket offers real-time predictions, with more capital betting on the outcome to reflect public sentiment. Its credibility continues to grow, making it a source of citation for global media in a variety of markets – not just elections, but also sports, cryptocurrency, AI, celebrities, hacking, geopolitics, and more.

The birth of GambleFAI

is then, into 2025. Due to the meme coin frenzy and the fork of Pump.fun, the altcoin market is in disarray, with millions of tokens popping up and anyone being able to launch a token in a matter of minutes. Compared to gambling in casinos or prediction markets, the risk-reward of cryptocurrencies is starting to look less attractive.

At the same time, AI and AI Agents are advancing rapidly – large language models (LLMs) have become more sophisticated, equipped with inference capabilities, automated workflows, and provided domain knowledge across industries, including GambleFi. Instead of analyzing football teams, tactics, player performances, and historical data themselves, gamblers can now rely on AI to provide strategic insights.

That's where GambleFAI comes in.

GambleFAI is a combination of GambleFi and AI, merging decentralized gambling with AI-powered data synthesis and prediction capabilities. With the advancement of AI, gamblers no longer face odds below 40% due to insufficient information. Instead, retail players can leverage the insights and machine learning models provided by AI to increase their win rate to over 55% to 60%.

We've

seen this phenomenon unfold among players in several sectors:

Billy Bets

@AskBillyBets is the first autonomous betting agent powered by @sportstensor, running on Bittensor Subnet 41 (SN41).

Sportstensor is building the most accurate decentralized sports prediction algorithm. It aggregates intelligence from competing machine learning models, rewarding long-term discovery advantages rather than short-term victories.

Billy Bets started betting on Polymarket from a pool of $100,000. So far, it has generated $24,000 in profits, of which $6,000 has been spent on buybacks and burns of $BILLY.

DKING

is the first autonomous sportsbook DAO running on @webuildscore subnet 44 (SN44).

Score integrates computer vision and predictive models to analyse match footage in real-time, tracking micro-events, player patterns and match analysis to enhance betting insights.

VLLMs annotate the content to highlight the behavior of players in soccer. This data is then used to further train the model for accurate player evaluation and prediction.

DKING's offerings include:

• Agentic Wagering Pool: Stake $DKING to deposit USDC into a pool managed by an autonomous betting agent.
• The Terminal:$DKING holders have access to a personal soccer AI Agent powered by Score's model.

While the products are not yet live and DKING is still in its early stages, the team is said to be working with the second-largest sports hedge fund to explore potential capital allocations.

AION5100

@aion5100 is a @Playinfgames-driven AI agent running on Subnet 6 (SN6).

AION consists of 256 large language models (LLMs) that compete with each other to generate up to a trillion synthetic scenarios per month to refine predictions. The goal is to achieve full autonomy – to be able to autonomously manage your own keys, code, and funds by 2027.

AION has already made seven Polymarket forecasts with mixed results (loss of $665 and treasury of $9.2 thousand). It explores a variety of markets – Bitcoin, egg prices, Apple launches, the Super Bowl, and more.

It's hard to tell, but it would be interesting to see if the generic model could outperform the ROI of the specialized model in the long run.

AION is up 53% over the past weekAION is up 53% over the past week, fueled by the GambleFAI narrative triggered by BILLY. Soon, holders will be able to access a trading terminal with AION insights that go beyond Polymarket.