Artificial intelligence agents need to prioritize their intrinsic utility, not the launch of their in-house native tokens to raise funds.
Zhao wrote in a March 17 X
Zhao’s comments come during a significant downtrend for AI cryptocurrencies, which lost over 61% of their peak $70.4 billion market capitalization in the three months since they started to decline on Dec. 7.
AI agent tokens, market cap, 1-year chart. Source:
Industry watchers foresee a year of significant upside for the emerging field of AI cryptocurrencies.
AI agents launch platform ai16z and decentralized trading protocol Hyperliquid are “poised for growth in 2025,” Alvin Kan, chief operating officer of Bitget Wallet, told Cointelegraph. “Emerging narratives like AI-driven investments, decentralized AI agents and tokenized assets hint at a tech-driven shift, though with added risk,” he said.
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