AI-driven crypto agents are gaining remarkable traction, but Sygnum questions whether the market has fully determined their value.
While agentic AI for crypto remains a speculative field, Sygnum Bank researchers suggest that the market could attract more interest in the near future.
Switzerland’s Sygnum Bank believes that crypto AI agents could see rising interest in 2025, but they still debate their long-term value.
“Interest in AI-related crypto projects has grown substantially with the emerging niche of crypto AI agents,” wrote researchers from Sygnum in a recent quarterly investment outlook report.
According to the researchers, despite the rapid adoption of AI agents, these agents have yet to establish their value beyond speculative interest.
It added that while the AI agent niche “remains mostly speculative,” AI infrastructure projects — such as Bittensor, the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance and Phala Network — “are addressing the more practical challenges by attempting to integrate AI services and their data requirements with decentralized applications.”
According to the report, platforms like aixbt and other AI-powered crypto research agents are gaining rising traction in the market.
Sygnum stated that tokens linked to major AI agent-creation platforms, such as Virtuals and ai16z, “may continue to benefit as the potential for AI agents to create value continues to be explored.”
Over the last quarter, the AI agents sector has seen remarkable growth, with its market capitalization soaring past $10 billion, the report stated.
The sector’s valuation exceeded $15 billion in the final quarter of 2024, as per CoinGecko’s report.
Agentic AI makes decisions and operations less dependent on human help by understanding detailed goals, using multi-step reasoning, and acting on its own.
Several companies, including Sygnum, have shown a forward-looking approach toward agentic AI in recent times.
According to researchers at Franklin Templeton, AI agents will “revolutionize“ social media, while OpenAI’s Sam Altman predicts that they will integrate into the workforce by 2025. Google has introduced a “new agentic era,” and Mark Zuckerberg of Meta expects AI assistants to serve more than a billion people in 2025.
According to Alvin Kan, the chief operating officer at Bitget Wallet, AI projects and tokens are “poised for growth in 2025.”
“Emerging narratives like AI-driven investments, decentralized AI agents, and tokenized assets hint at a tech-driven shift, though with added risk,” he said in December.
Despite the increasing optimism surrounding decentralized AI, Sygnum’s researchers pointed out that “the emergence of cheap and efficient Chinese AI also led to a sell-off among crypto AI projects.”
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