In Brief:
- Tomoland said the AI companion it calls an intern has been training itself on player activity inside its mobile app.
- The Singapore-based UGC platform raised $2 million in May led by Sky9 Capital, and its Blueprint Founder Pass sold out in two hours.
- The project counts more than 80 ecosystem partners, more than 100 B.U.I.L.D Protocol creators and more than 3,000 Forker players so far in August.
Tomoland said its AI companion has been training itself on everything players do inside the app, the most direct description yet of how the platform is using the agents it lets users create.
“My AI buddy has been training itself on everything I do inside Tomoland,” the project said in a post on X. “Apparently it learned enough to know me better than I know myself. I am not okay”
August recap so far:
→ 80+ ecosystem partners
→ 100+ B.U.I.L.D Protocol creators
→ 3,000+ Forker players
The numbers speak. Upcoming weeks builds on them@TomolandView on X ↗
The post was labeled an “Intern update.” It didn’t say when the feature ships, what the agent retains or whether players can switch the training off.
What the companion does
Tomoland already lets players build AI partners without writing code, alongside avatars, maps and quests. The companion feature sits next to the world-building toolkit the project inherited from BUD, the sandbox platform Tomoland is built on and which has passed 30 million downloads across Google Play and the App Store.
Tomoland calls its players Forkers. They build maps, run card-based PvP matches, wager in battles and collect xTomo points, which feed the project’s reward system.
The app ships as “Tomoland: The New BUD World” and is published by TOKIMO PTE. LTD.
The August numbers
Tomoland put out its own tally for the month: more than 80 ecosystem partners, more than 100 creators in what it calls the B.U.I.L.D Protocol and more than 3,000 Forker players. “The numbers speak,” the project said. “Upcoming weeks builds on them”
The B.U.I.L.D Protocol is a creator onboarding program promoted mainly through the project’s social accounts rather than published documentation.
Money and backing
Tomoland announced a $2 million raise from Singapore on May 19. Sky9 Capital led, with WAGMI Ventures and Aureus Dealers taking part alongside angel investors from Meta, Depinx Capital, NetEase and Virtuals.
The core team comes out of Tencent and NetEase. Advisers include Dominic Jang, former chief business officer of MapleStory Universe (official site), and Hazel Zhang of Animoca Brands.
The company said the money goes toward tying its mobile gaming base to an ownership layer it calls TOMO, short for Trustless Open Market Ownership. That layer is meant to let creators mint, own and trade maps and game systems rather than license them back from the platform.
Passes and partnerships
Tomoland released the Blueprint Founder Pass on May 7 as a free claim on Ethereum. Supply was 2,222 ERC-721s, capped at one per wallet, and the collection cleared in two hours.
Holders get access to advanced AI features, ecosystem multipliers, airdrop boosts, discounts, early access to ecosystem releases and allocation drops from partners.
In April the project tied up with Anome Protocol, plugging into Anome’s multi-chain network to give Tomoland players access to DeFi applications and additional liquidity against their NFT holdings.
Public token details remain unannounced.
Not every Forker is sold on the AI push. Store reviews have criticized the project’s AI-generated mascot, with one asking the developer to “not use ai for mascot,” while others have asked for the opposite: more AI gadgets, more AI NPCs and characters they can personalize themselves.
Chief Marketing Officer Darren said in May the goal was bridging Web2 and Web3 “in a way that feels accessible and rewarding for everyone involved.”
