Holoworld

Hologram Labs names Tong Pow and Hongzi Mao as its co-founders. Pow led the company; Mao led its technology. A July 2022 TechCrunch profile showed the proposition in one video call: browser-based machine learning tracked Pow’s face and made a Cool Cats NFT move in real time.

The pair had started Hologram in 2021 and announced a $6.5 million seed round led by Polychain Capital in July 2022. The money was attached to a product, not yet a token economy: an extension for calls and streaming, plus work for NFT collections that wanted their pictures to become performable characters.

Holoworld AI’s January 2024 introduction kept Hologram’s avatars but added chat, configurable personalities, knowledge and tradable character assets. It also advertised an AI Chain for a future quarter. That chain belonged to the roadmap; the durable change was the move from tracking a human face to letting a software character speak and generate content.

The present suite separates jobs. Agent Market configures personality, files, voice and avatars and can deploy agents to social channels. Ava Studio turns prompts, scripts and characters into multi-scene videos and bills the underlying model work in Holo Credits. The API documentation currently supports Live2D bodies and marks 3D support as future work. HoloLaunch then adds fundraising and economic design for new character projects.

Holoworld’s homepage says the ecosystem has passed 1 million users, 700,000 creations and 35 million interactions. Those figures show what the company chooses to measure, but no definition, time series or independent audit accompanies them. They should be read as project-reported counters, not externally verified active users.

The same page places Aww Inc., Pudgy Penguins, NYX Professional Makeup and Solana in an ecosystem display. At least one relationship has an independent counterpart: Aww’s own page says its MIRAI virtual human was co-developed with Holoworld. The reviewed sources did not provide equivalent first-party confirmation for every displayed logo, so the list is not treated as one uniform set of contractual partnerships.

HOLO opened for Binance trading on September 11, 2025 with 347,376,226 tokens circulating, 16.96% of the 2.048 billion supply cap. Binance’s retroactive BNB program received 30.72 million tokens, or 1.5%. Holoworld’s own table divided the full supply into eight buckets and separate vesting clocks. Foundation, advisors, contributors and investors together account for 50.96%.

The utility page assigns HOLO to staking, launch access, creator incentives, Open MCP exchange and “Foundation Governance.” It does not provide a voting contract, quorum, proposal threshold or rule explaining when a vote binds the Foundation. Meanwhile Ava Studio’s compute remains denominated in Holo Credits, and project materials distinguish AVA as an application-level token. “Utility” therefore describes several proposed economic roles, not one payment required throughout the product.

Token identity also crosses two ledgers. Binance publishes a BSC contract and a Solana mint. Hyperlane’s registry is more precise: BSC HOLO is the collateral asset and Solana HOLO is a synthetic representation. Its deployment record names 0xd8A863460a4C78B41eC1B68604130e694358BD32 as the BSC route owner and 6d3vKAcmi7XRtG8jWAKJj8VPDaiprT56bVSkVW2eCxCp as the Solana route owner.

The verified BSC token code adds another control layer. Accounts with the relevant roles can mint up to the 2.048 billion ceiling, appoint or remove token administrators, turn ordinary transfers on or off and whitelist addresses that may still transfer while the switch is off. The contract interface does not enumerate the addresses currently holding those roles.

The airdrop terms name Orbit Technologies Limited as operator and explicitly separate it from the Holoworld Foundation. Orbit reserves discretion over eligibility, quantities, claim periods, lockups, changes and cancellation. The same terms decline to promise usability, tradeability, liquidity or value.

That legal language sets the boundary around the product narrative. HOLO may unlock staking and launch participation where the apps implement them, and the documentation says holders can influence Foundation programs and protocol evolution. It does not make a token holder a shareholder of Hologram Labs, owner of a creator’s character, recipient of company revenue or creditor with a redemption claim.