New York, USA, May 12, 2026, Chainwire reports:
Charms.ai enables anyone to create AI characters with soul, reasoning memory, and ownership, building an ever-evolving on-chain economy around these characters.
AI characters are gradually becoming a new form of media.
Hundreds of millions of people spend time interacting with AI characters. They are not just seeking answers but also companionship, entertainment, identity, fantasy, humor, emotional continuity, and a sense of existence.
However, existing platforms still treat characters as rented software. Users pay subscription fees, creators publish content within others' systems, and platforms control this relationship. If a character becomes popular, most of its value flows to the platform that hosts it.
The new economy of AI characters.
On Charms, a character is more than just a prompt. Creators name it, give it a visual identity, voice, emotional tone, personality, soul, and social presence. People can chat with public characters for free, building relationships over time and following the growth of characters they care about.
The economic aspect is built around this process:
This funding can help pay for:
This is the core idea of Charms: the characters people love should be able to sustain themselves.
Opening New Paths for Creators
For creators, Charms transforms character creation into an owned creative business. Creators are no longer publishing bots on closed platforms hoping for traffic; instead, they can create characters with unique tastes, personalities, and stories, benefiting from the economy generated by them.
The on-chain character economy is about to begin.