With under 11 days left in its presale, MIND of Pepe ($MIND) is gaining steam as capital flows out of meme coin giants like DogWifHat ($WIF) and Bonk ($BONK).

Meme coins are still a force, but this shift could suggest that investors are moving from top performers into high-potential plays with greater upside potential.

Capital is quickly pulling out of meme coins and flowing into AI tokens. Over the past seven days, the total market cap of meme coins has pulled back from over $76 billion to around $67 billion.

Most of the losses came from some of the sector’s top performers. $BONK went down by 11.3%, $WIF by 20.1%, $BRETT by 18.8%, and $FLOKI followed with a 16.94% dip.

Despite the short-term slide, the broader 30-day trend remains bullish: $BONK rose by 52.25%, $WIF by a massive 121.51%, $BRETT by 92.82%, and $FLOKI by 62.2%.

This round of profit-taking was expected, especially after U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff pause announcement last month, which helped fuel a sharp run-up across risk assets. But with gains now realized, capital is shifting.

And that shift is heading toward AI.

Over the past 30 days, Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) surged by 241%, NEAR Protocol climbed 24%, Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET) added 14.41%, and Bittensor (TAO) gained 36%.

However, the past seven days saw VIRTUAL decline by 6.28%, NEAR slid 12.32%, FET dropped 15.19%, and TAO fell 8.53%.

In contrast, one newer contender gaining real attention in the shift toward AI is $MIND – a crypto-native AI system designed to make trading smarter, faster, and more lucrative.

With nearly $10 million now raised and just 11 days left in its presale, investor FOMO is kicking in – not just because of the meme appeal, but because the tech is already live.

Unlike most AI projects still stuck in roadmap mode, $MIND has launched a modular crypto trading agent live on X – powered by persona-trained LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic vector matching, and a persistent data layer. It tracks narratives, sentiment, token activity, market dynamics in real time – and then packages that intelligence into grounded, actionable insight.

And the next leap is coming: the $MIND Terminal, a token-gated platform for real-time token analytics, on-chain tracking, and autonomous blockchain interaction – built to not just follow the market, but shape it.

Virtuals Protocol Tops $1.2B Ahead Of Full Launch – What Could $MIND Achieve?

Virtuals Protocol currently sits above $1.2 billion in market capitalization, driven largely by AI narrative momentum and early positioning in the agent economy. While it has launched initial AI agents like Tracy.AI and AIXBT, much of its ecosystem – including tools for agent creation and platform-level scaling – is still under construction.

In contrast, $MIND is still in presale mode, with a sub-$10 million valuation and, as mentioned, a working AI agent already deployed on X.

Even a move to just half of Virtuals Protocol’s market cap would represent a staggering multiple from current levels.

And while a simple 2x or 3x return is already impressive in this market, $MIND brings something rare: a convergence of working AI infrastructure with meme-level community energy.

In crypto, that dual thesis has historically been a launchpad for much more aggressive price discovery – and $MIND is starting from a base low enough to make those outsized gains possible.

$MIND is proving that investors are looking beyond the meme – and toward the tech that could define crypto’s next frontier.

While capital is rotating out of overextended meme and AI tokens, $MIND is still early, still undervalued, and already delivering on functionality. Most competitors are months away from shipping.

Joining is straightforward: head to the $MIND website, connect your wallet (Best Wallet is recommended), and contribute using ETH, USDT, or even a bank card.

Every purchase makes you eligible to stake $MIND tokens for up to 246% APY. Rewards are dynamic – the earlier you stake, the higher the rate, as the pool naturally tapers over time.

Best Wallet is available now on Google Play or the Apple App Store, offering full visibility into your $MIND holdings and seamless setup for new contributors.

Follow the live evolution of the @MIND_agent on X, plug into Telegram, and stay ahead of every move before launch day.