AI-focused cryptocurrency projects are witnessing a surge in online activity, with TAO leading the space by a significant margin. According to data from Phoenix Group and LunarCrush on April 22, 2025, TAO gained 5.9K engaged posts and over 1.3M total interactions, placing it as a number one project in terms of social activity.
TOP #AI PROJECTS BY SOCIAL ACTIVITY$TAO $RENDER $FET $INJ $QUBIC $NEAR $VRA $ARC $PAAL $DIA pic.twitter.com/pK67Nag4ar
— PHOENIX – Crypto News & Analytics (@pnxgrp) April 22, 2025
These figures indicate that there is growing interest in using AI in the blockchain, especially for projects promoting decentralized intelligence and data efficiency.
Render and Fetch.ai Compete for Market Attention
Render (RNDR) and Fetch.ai (FET) followed in the second and third positions, respectively, indicating that they still have considerable retail and developer support. Among them, Render collected 3,7K engaged posts with 570,7K interactions, and Fetch.ai had 3.4K engaged posts and 562K interactions.
After the first three platforms, Injective (INJ), Qubic, and NEAR, each had more than 2000 engaged posts, which shows they have consistently strong activity levels, though with considerably fewer users. INJ obtained 3K engaged posts and 430.9K interactions due to the expanding ecosystem of decentralized finance and the growth of AI-driven derivatives.
Qubic, a new AI blockchain, had 2.2K involved posts and more than 306k engagements. NEAR and VRA (Verasity) scored 2.1k posts and 495k interactions, respectively, VRA again surpassing both Qubic and NEAR.
ARC, PAAL, and DIA completed the list of the top ten rankings. Despite realised relatively low level of engaged posts in the range of 1.4K to 1.6K on average, their intensity of interaction did not slack. Decentralized Oracle DIA received 405K interactions, which suggests investing in quality AI data sourcing.
The uptick in social engagement aligns with the Q1 2025 research shared by CoinGecko, which pointed to AI tokens as one of the biggest trends in the crypto space. AI coins took 35.7% of the investors’ attention, while memecoins took 27.1%.
Source: Coingecko
Liquidity Surge Fuels AI-Led Rally
According to macroeconomic analysts, the increase in global liquidity is bolstering high-risk funds, including AI crypto. The Global M2 money supply has been on the rise, and people are moving back into more speculative markets.
Julian Bittel and GMI pointed out that crypto markets may have indeed bottomed, hinting at a new bull run. AI tokens are even more active now as they are actually surpassing other general altcoin categories in terms of price bounce back and activity.
This is primarily due to signs of optimism in traditional finance as well as in technology arenas, such as the recent $500 billion bet by NVIDIA on the AI backbone of the industry. Additional support came from U.S. President Donald Trump, who promised to begin expediting the permits that NVIDIA required.
Bobby Ong, the co-founder of CoinGecko, stated that two main trends, AI and memecoins, persist unanswered while no new narrative appears in 2025. In her April 17 post, Ong pointed out that the current trends look like those of previous quarters.
Analysts believe that barring a change in the technology or regulatory environment, positional dominance could remain with AI and meme sectors in the second quarter as well. Since NVIDIA is pushing the AI frontier and liquidity stays high, investors’ behavior seems to be in a continuous repetitive cycle.
