AI-Related Crypto Tokens Are Roaring Back to Life and Are Among the Biggest Winners

After an extended downturn, AI-related crypto tokens are roaring back to life and are among the biggest winners from the past week's rally. By GLORY.

After an extended downturn, AI-related crypto tokens are roaring back to life and are among the biggest winners from the past week's rally.

The rally has been led by Virtuals Protocol ( $VIRTUAL), which rocketed 92% over the past 7 days, taking it past the $1 mark.

Other tokens making notable moves include ai16z ( $AI16Z) and aixbt ( $AIXBT), which are up 75% and 60%, respectively, over the past 7 days of trading.

Overall, the bullish activity has brought the AI Agent sector to a $4.5 billion market cap, a level not seen since early March.

There’s no single catalyst behind this week’s broad rally in AI-related cryptos. Rather, the main driver behind the bullish price action seems to be positive momentum developing in the crypto market at large.

Bitcoin is up 12% in the past 7 days, and Ethereum and Solana are each up 13%. Crypto sentiment has dramatically improved, with the Fear/Greed index moving up to a 52 (Neutral) from 17 (Extreme Fear) earlier in the month.

As a relatively new sector of the crypto market, AI tokens were hit harder by the pullback than major cryptocurrencies in other sectors like DeFi and gaming. However, the high volatility of this sector is boosting it in the current updraft, amplifying gains for AI coins as the rest of the market slowly ticks upward.

There’s also a growing sense that while AI cryptos are relatively new today, this sector could be one of the main drivers of crypto growth in the near future. One analyst on X, Xremlin, compared today’s AI boom to the dot-com boom of the 1990s and suggested AI tokens could add billions of dollars in market cap.

It’s also noteworthy that most AI agent tokens haven’t yet gone through a full-blown crypto bull market. The sector only really took off in 2024 with the launch of $AI16Z, and it quickly faced macroeconomic headwinds and uncertainty about the future of AI in the wake of China’s Deepseek model release.

That suggests AI agent cryptos could be a coiled spring—compressed during this pullback, and now ready to explode higher at the first sign of an opening.

The momentum in AI cryptos isn't limited to established coins that are already trading on exchanges. Emerging ICO coins in the AI niche are also seeing massive investment inflows and lining up major exchange listings.

No token in this space has been more impressive than "MIND of Pepe" ($MIND), which has raised more than $8.25 million in its ongoing token presale. It's one of the biggest AI agent crypto ICOs to date, and the $MIND token could see 10x gains or better if it launches into a high-momentum environment like the one forming now.

Is Launching Into A Bear Market A Good Idea?

It might not be the ideal time to launch a new token with the bear market still fresh in the minds of investors. However, bear markets are also a period of innovation and development, and new projects can use this time to build a strong foundation and community.

Moreover, as the market recovers, projects that have been diligently working on their products and engaging with their community are more likely to emerge as leaders in their respective niches.

In the case of $MIND, the project is entering a rapidly growing sector with huge potential for disruption. AI is one of the hottest topics in tech today, and it's quickly changing the way we live, work, and interact with the world around us.

This interest in AI is also transferring over to the crypto sphere, with a new generation of "AI Agent" tokens like beINcode ( $COIN), ChainGPT ( $CHAIN), and aixbt ( $AIXBT) launching and quickly gaining traction among traders.

But $MIND is taking things a step further by combining the advanced capabilities of AI with the decentralized and community-driven nature of Web3.

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