The AI token market has seen a significant decline over the past week, even as Bitcoin (BTC) remains stable and trades around $93,000.
AI Tool Tokens Experience Sharp Market Correction Amid Broader Crypto Stability
The decline highlights the volatility in the emerging AI-powered crypto niche and raises questions about the sustainability of the recent hype.
Significant Drops in AI Tokens
- ai16z Token: The token, which powers a DAO-run venture fund and the Eliza OS framework, saw its price drop by 50% in the past week, from $2.26 to $1.10. Its market cap currently stands at $1.1 billion, with another 10% drop in the past 24 hours.
- Virtuals Protocol: The token of Virtuals, a platform that enables decentralized AI-driven digital assistants, fell 48% last week from $5 to $2.60, reducing its market value to $2.6 billion.
- Swarms Framework Token: Another major AI project, Swarms, experienced a 55% drop in price from $0.50 to $0.20, leaving its market cap at $200 million.
- Goatseus Maximus (GOAT): Even niche projects were affected, with this AI-inspired meme token falling 40% from $0.50 to $0.33.
Market Trends and Context
AI tool tokens are starting to gain traction in 2024 with innovations like Truth Terminal, an AI-powered framework that is integrated with crypto wallets and capable of witty interaction on social platforms like X (formerly Twitter).
This inspired the launch of numerous AI-themed tokens, pushing the total market value of AI tool tokens to over $15 billion as of early January 2025. However, the current downturn has brought the market value down to $12.55 billion.
*This is not investment advice.
