Bitget CEO forecasts fourfold growth in AI-token sector

The total market capitalization of tokens linked to AI agents will reach $60 billion in 2025, Bitget CEO Gracy Chen told Cointelegraph.

Initial use cases for neural networks will include trading and wallet management, she said. Exchanges will launch their own agents to automate operations and improve customer service.

“The technology is not yet mature enough for large-scale investment due to the need for human oversight,” she said.

Chen added that investors should choose instruments backed by practical solutions, such as replacing programmers or automating tasks.

AI tokens jumped 322% at the end of 2024

CoinGecko published its “2024 Annual Crypto Industry Report,” noting a 322% surge in AI-agent tokens in the fourth quarter. Their market capitalization increased from $4.8 billion to $15.5 billion.

AI agents are autonomous programs that use artificial intelligence to perform tasks. They can be trading bots or systems for social-media interaction.

These solutions gained a standalone category after the launch of the GOAT project on Solana in early October. For now, well-known AI agents exist only on the Solana and Base blockchains. The Coinbase L2 captured a sizable market share late last year thanks to the emergence of projects such as Aixbt and Virtuals Protocol.

Solana accounts for $8.44 billion, or 56.48%, of AI-agent market cap; Base has 40.57%.

AI agents will transform Web3

Industry participants expect the Web3 sector to be reshaped by artificial-intelligence assistants.

In its own report, VanEck noted that AI agents could significantly strengthen their presence in the financial sector. Experts forecast more than 1 million new solutions by 2025.

Despite the expected rise in the capitalization of neural-network-linked coins, they will still lag memecoins, Chen believes. “Joke tokens” will post another growth cycle this year, the Bitget CEO added.

In December, a16z analysts named the integration of artificial intelligence with blockchain as one of the crypto market’s future trends. The direction is expected to yield AI-agent-powered wallets, decentralized autonomous chatbots and identity-verification solutions.

In January, Franklin Templeton published a report in which the investment firm’s experts predicted a “revolution” in content creation thanks to AI agents. The AI tokens mentioned in the document, Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) and ai16z (AI16Z), rose by 7% and 20%, respectively.

Earlier, Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley compared AI agents to corporations at the dawn of their emergence 200 years ago. Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qureshi considers these solutions the main narrative in 2025.

Contrary to popular belief, a developer known as Kyle said that AI-based assistants will cease to be the dominant narrative in the crypto industry within the next few months.