Briefly,
- Artificial intelligence-related crypto tokens are gaining popularity.
- VIRTUAL, AI16Z and other tokens have all gained over 40% in the last week.
- According to CoinGecko, the total AI market capital is now at nearly 26 billion dollars.
As Bitcoin drives a wider crypto market revival, tokens tied to AI are making a comeback. After recovering from an area low of $75,000 in the last few days and surpassing $95,000.
In the past seven days, several niche AI categories rose by over 40%. CoinGecko data shows that the average price of a coin is $0.01. The surge in value has been driven by tokens, such as agent launchpad Virtuals Protocol’s VIRTUAL token or AI agent protocol Eliza OS’s AI16Z token. These tokens have increased 123% to $1.43 each and 89% at $0.298 respectively.
The pair are still well below their respective all-time peaks of $5.07 a $2.47, which represents drops of 71% e 87%.
The resurgence has been propelled by other notable AI tokens as well, leading the entire AI Agent market cap—which includes infrastructure tokens and the AI-inspired meme coin Fartcoin—to double in the last three weeks, Analytics platform Cookie.fun.
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Cookie.fun, as of April 7, recorded an AI Agent total market cap of approximately $4.5 Billion. This was based on more than 1,600 AI Agents across all blockchains. The number is now $9.06 Billion after a small gain over the past 24 hours.
The growth of the crypto industry includes noteworthy movements by a research agent and a cryptocurrency influencer AIXBTThe market capitalization of an autonomous agent based on Virtuals Protocol was once just short of $1 billion. Even after a 73% increase this week, tokens are still 82% below their January high.
Bitnsor, Near Protocol and other blockchains connected to AI have all seen a rise of over 9% during the last seven days.
Why not now? There is currently no obvious and clear catalyst for the crypto AI tokens, aside from a wider market reaction that has pushed Bitcoin above $95,000. Virtuals Protocol is one of the teams that continue to grow in this space. Genesis Launching Mechanism Agent tokens can be accessed more easily.
Crypto VCs continue to invest in the crypto sector. Last week. Fortune Paradigm made a big bet with AI accelerator Nous Research. The company announced that it had raised $50 million at an estimated token value of $1 billion.
According to CoinGecko the broader artificial-intelligence category has gained 14% in one week, increasing its market capital to under $26 Billion. Bitcoin and Ethereum, the two top cryptoassets have gained 4.6% and 7.6% in comparison.
Andrew Hayward is the editor
