Is This a Real Deal or Just Hype? $7 Million Goes Into AI Tokens
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- AI tokens surged 24.44% year-to-date, but this momentum appears fleeting.
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The question remains: Are they here to stay, or are they simply a passing trend?
Currently, artificial intelligence tokens lead the market gains with ARC and ai16z showing significant increases. After the recent AI Summit in France, over $7 million has been injected into these tokens, adding to Trump’s monumental $500 billion stake in AI.
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Despite their upward trajectory, AI tokens’ collective market cap constitutes only 1.5% of the extensive $3.15 trillion cryptocurrency market – which indicates substantial growth potential.
The surge is also underscored by increasing real-world applications bolstered by billions in investments and Nvidia’s heightened valuation alongside persistent community backing; strides towards a bullish outlook for AI-related cryptocurrencies remain compelling.
An example is ai16z – experiencing a remarkable increase of 30% just this week due to investor whale activities. Notably, one prominent investor acquired an impressive 6.508 million ai16z tokens at approximately $0.546 each — totaling around $3.56 million immediately following the conclusion of the AI Summit.
Source: TradingView
Puzzlingly though, despite an aggregate increase of 24.44% among AI token market caps coupled with last year’s staggering $500 billion infusion into artificial intelligence initiatives — that surge quickly waned away.
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Once peaking at around $70 billion back in Q4 of 2017 , this segment has since shed more than half its value . The true shockwave reverberated through January when revelations regarding DeepSeek led to an astounding loss topping out at roughly$3 billion within just one day .
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