Author: shaofaye123, Foresight News
In the attention economy, hot money flows to hot spots. TRUMP staged a bloodsucking market, and AI tokens seem to have become a relic of the ancient times. On January 21, according to CoinGecko market information, the AI sector tokens rebounded after a sharp decline, with the overall market value of AI proxies rebounding by 4.9% in the past 24 hours. The AI sector is expected to warm up, and this article will give you a quick overview of the market trends in the AI sector.
AI sector pullback, tokens are gradually differentiated
According to Cookie.fun data, the overall market value of the AI sector (emerging AI tokens) has currently reached 136 billion, with a slight rebound in the past 24 hours. Among them, the overall market value of the AI sector on the Solana network rose by 5% to 80 billion, and the overall market value of AI tokens on the Base network rose by about 3% to 51 billion.
In the AI sector, Infra performed well, with an overall market value increase of about 3%. SWARMS rose by 57.2% in the past 24 hours; ARC rose by about 51%. DeFAI also performed well, with small increases in tokens such as GRIFFAIN and ANON, and BUZZ rising by 38%, approaching $100 million. The performance of the AI proxy sector was generally average, with a market value decline of about 3% in the past 24 hours, and severe internal differentiation of tokens. Except for the significant increases in the leading AI proxies, the rest performed flat.
AI sector still has potential
In the past few weeks of AI sector stagnation, AI projects have still made a lot of progress.
Virtuals Protocol announced an update to the value accumulation mechanism to support the construction of the Virtuals ecosystem. Swarms provided 10 million tokens as an ecosystem fund, recruited ecosystem project cooperation, and provided technical, marketing, and proxy infrastructure support. Its founder Kye Gomez also said that Swarms will launch more new features, including seamless proxy creation; real-time chat and API; usage tracking, etc.
AI16Z has launched plans to extend to ecosystems such as Near and Avalanche. Holoworld officially announced Launchpool and granted staking rights to AVA holders, who can receive ecological rewards from 3 new project pools. AIXBT has always dominated the Kaito attention list. Various AI projects are thriving, and even after the loss of the attention economy-driven boom, they continue to work hard, and the rebound after the sharp decline is also very eye-catching.
According to Messari's forecast, by the end of 2025, it is estimated that 90% of on-chain transactions will no longer be manually operated by humans, but will be completed by a group of AI proxies. These intelligent proxies can not only make micropayments based on real-time data, but also continuously optimize liquidity pools and reasonably allocate rewards, thereby achieving more efficient and smarter operations.
The AI era seems to be truly coming. The CEO of Nvidia once said: "The era of AI Agentics has arrived," and said this emerging field contains "tens of trillions of dollars in business opportunities." A member of eGirl Capital believes that "AI tokens will become the new Meme." It is estimated that if Web3 AI proxies can capture a market share similar to the bitcoin/gold ratio, they will capture a market value of $100 billion, and there is still room for a tenfold increase from the current $10 billion. From this perspective, the emerging AI sector still has a lot of room for development.
