{"id":92647,"date":"2025-12-25T16:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=92647"},"modified":"2025-12-25T16:05:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T13:05:53","slug":"ai-token-market-capitalisation-plummets-by-75-over-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ai-token-market-capitalisation-plummets-by-75-over-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Token Market Cap Plummets by 75% Over the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since December 2024, the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/why-ai-tokens-exist-and-the-investment-risks-of-hype-driven-projects\">AI token<\/a> sector has shed over $53 billion in value, according to data shared by the analytical resource <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopresales.com\/ai-tokens-lost-75-of-their-value-in-a-year\/\">CryptoPresales<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-ec4728275e4db4cf-1884035078675851-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-272554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-ec4728275e4db4cf-1884035078675851-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-ec4728275e4db4cf-1884035078675851-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-ec4728275e4db4cf-1884035078675851-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-ec4728275e4db4cf-1884035078675851-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-ec4728275e4db4cf-1884035078675851.png 1376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: CryptoPresales.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Assets that had previously shown triple- and quadruple-digit growth have now returned to a deep correction. The most significant decline occurred at the end of the year, with market capitalisation dropping by $14 billion in November and December combined.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/view\/ai-big-data\/\">CoinMarketCap<\/a>, the market volume currently stands at $16.8 billion\u2014four times lower than last year&#8217;s figures. On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/categories\/artificial-intelligence\">CoinGecko<\/a>, the figure is higher at $25.4 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From Record Highs to Collapse\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>The capitalisation of AI tokens reached an all-time high of $69.9 billion in December 2024 amid a surge of interest in neural networks. However, by the first quarter of 2025, sentiment had shifted: by April, the sector had lost 63% of its value, or $44 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the second half of the year, the market attempted to stabilise at around $30 billion, but a general correction in the fourth quarter nullified these efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The downturn hit the segment leaders hard: eight out of the top ten coins fell by more than 70% from their December peaks.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest loser was Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (ASI), which dropped by 84%. Render (RNDR) and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-graph-grt\">The Graph<\/a> (GRT) each lost 82%.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-a37e6d08fac637fa-1884054617600588-1024x687.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-272555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-a37e6d08fac637fa-1884054617600588-1024x687.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-a37e6d08fac637fa-1884054617600588-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-a37e6d08fac637fa-1884054617600588-768x515.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-a37e6d08fac637fa-1884054617600588-1536x1031.png 1536w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-a37e6d08fac637fa-1884054617600588.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Top 10 AI tokens by capitalisation. Source: CoinGecko.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL), which soared by 3500% in 2024, plummeted by 73% over the past 12 months. Similar declines were seen in Injective (INJ), Filecoin (FIL), <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/internet-computer-the-swiss-army-knife-for-cloud-computing\">Internet Computer<\/a> (ICP), and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-near-protocol-blockchain-and-cryptocurrency\">NEAR Protocol<\/a> (NEAR).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, popular language models <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ai-identifies-key-fears-of-crypto-investors-in-2025\">identified<\/a> the most common cryptocurrency questions from users in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since December 2024, the AI token sector has shed over $53 billion in value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"AI token sector loses over $53 billion since December 2024.","creation_source":"ai_translated","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,596],"class_list":["post-92647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-tokens"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"182","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"AI token sector loses over $53 billion since December 2024.","is_update":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92649,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92647\/revisions\/92649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}