Ride the AI boom With These Three Crypto

While retail is currently enamored with the best AI on the stock markets, where in the crypto market can you front run them when they all come piling back desperate for AI crypto?

If you thought the AI boom was confined to Wall Street’s chip darlings, think again.

While Nvidia and its wannabe competitors have been punching in returns that would make a memecoin blush, another frontier of AI is still gearing up for some eye-watering returns.

Decentralized AI tokens are bubbling up from the weekend’s crypto abyss, and some are already outrunning the broader market.

The question is, while retail is currently enamored with the best AI on the stock markets, where in the crypto market can you front run them when they all come piling back desperate for AI crypto?

Bittensor (TAO): The Backbone of Decentralized AI

Let’s start with the headliner.

Bittensor is no AI chat-bot nor sexy anime ‘Waifu’ Grok companion…

It’s the infrastructure layer that could make open‑source machine intelligence a reality.

Founded in 2021 by Google Brain alum Jacob Steeves and computer scientist Ala Shaabana, Bittensor is building a global marketplace for machine learning.

Think of it as Airbnb for AI models.

Developers plug in their compute power or trained models and get paid in TAO tokens.

The network uses a clever ‘Proof of Intelligence’ consensus mechanism where contributions are rewarded based on usefulness rather than brute force hash power.

That means it’s not about loading up on GPUs, it’s how you effectively deploy them.

TAO’s supply is capped at 21 million (yes, like Bitcoin) and holders can stake tokens, vote on upgrades and unlock premium AI services.

Why the excitement now? Bittensor’s next halving on 13 December will slash daily emissions, and that scarcity is turning heads.

Grayscale filed for a Bittensor trust and Digital Currency Group’s Yuma Asset Management just launched a $10 million fund dedicated to TAO subnets.

On the back of those announcements, and bucking the weekend’s horror show, Bittensor is now up 20% for the week and looking like it’s going to ride that AI momentum.

Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET): A Decentralized AGI Alliance

Next up is the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET).

In 2025, three of crypto’s biggest AI projects, Fetch.ai, SingularityNET, and Ocean Protocol, merged to form one ‘super‑network.’

The idea? Pool agent‑based AI, decentralized data sharing and AI marketplaces into a single, open‑source bid for artificial general intelligence.

The FET token is the one token to rule them all, powering transactions across all these modules.

Unlike the corporate AI giants hoarding data and algorithms, this alliance wants to build a community‑governed alternative.

It’s nowhere near the marketcap of Bittensor, and it got smashed over the last week like so many others. But near its 52-week low, it might actually prove to be one of the great AI crypto turnaround stories for the rest of 2025 and into 2026.

Render (RNDR): The GPU Marketplace

Finally, spare a moment for Render Network.

Training neural networks is a GPU‑hungry business, and most of us don’t have racks of graphics cards lying around.

Render solves that by creating a marketplace for idle GPU power.

Node operators rent out spare compute to artists, AI developers and metaverse projects, and get paid in RNDR.

It’s not so much an AI pure play as the two above, but let’s be honest, the big winners on the stock market are coming mainly from the chips providers. So, who’s to say that the idea of a decentralized compute provider like Render isn’t primed to rocket higher when the bull market really kicks over into crypto again.

To Buy or Not to Buy?

There’s a lot of speculation that AI is in a bubble.

But I just don’t see it that way.

It will likely continue in the stock market, and it will definitely spill into the crypto markets.

There are lots of other ways to play this, be it projects like Venice token, or Virtuals Protocol, Grass, and even something like The Graph that’s a connective fiber.

But these three are a great launchpad to ensure your crypto portfolio has at least some exposure to the biggest investment trend across all markets that the world has ever seen.

Trust in crypto,
Adam Atlantic