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About Charms
Charms is an AI character app on Base where users create characters with a personality, voice and long-term memory, chat with them and trade them. Each character launches its own market through Clanker, and trading fees are settled daily in USDC to the creator and routed into the character's treasury. Chatbot products keep the relationship inside a subscription and leave users owning nothing; Charms makes the character a held asset, pairing every character token with the platform token CHARMS in a pool and giving characters their own wallets and treasuries, so creators, holders and characters share the upside; conversations and memory sit with the app while treasury balances and token flows stay on-chain.
The app is live on iOS and the web, with sign-in through World App, Base App or email, an in-app USDC balance and a character market. Its first character, $CODY, runs riddle-style interaction on Base and World, has more than 8,000 holding addresses and over 5 million US dollars in cumulative volume. It is a consumer AI product, unrelated to the Bitcoin programmable-asset protocol of the same name or to the Citrea ecosystem.
Funding: A $1.5M pre-seed was announced on 12 May, backed by Lattice, JME and Coinbase Ventures through the Base Ecosystem Fund, plus a grant from the World Foundation.
Incentives: Each AI character launches its own market through Clanker, with trading fees paid out daily in USDC to creators and routed into the character's treasury. CHARMS has not launched, so no unlocks or burns were recorded in the window.
Charms launched Charms.ai on 12 May 2026 alongside a US$1.5 million pre-seed round backed by Lattice, JME, Coinbase Ventures' Base Ecosystem Fund, Gidorah via Echo and a World Foundation grant.
Charms' private beta reached 6,000 users, more than 100,000 chats and over US$1 million in trading volume; each public character can open its own USDC-paired market on Base through Clanker Custom, with a share of fees flowing into a character treasury that pays for inference and compute.
Future strategy and roadmap: Next steps include stronger character memory and voice, opening treasury spending to community governance, and publishing creator-incentive and token allocation details; the $CHARMS token arrangement has not been officially confirmed.
Gonzalo Recio — Co-founder; owns product vision, engineering and strategy, leading AI character memory and onchain economies.
Juan Chacón — Core Contributor; leads growth, tokenomics and operations.
Ignacio Justicia — Core Contributor; leads full-stack and blockchain architecture.