Trump's $500 Billion Push into AI; Is AIXBT Losing Competitiveness? | AI Daily
Original Author: S4mmyEth, Moca Network Researcher
Original Translation: zhouzhou, BlockBeats
Editor's Note: The AI Agent Market on January 22, 2025, experienced rapid development, with key agents such as Fartcoin, AIXBT, Virtuals, etc., dominating Mindshare, but undergoing a market value correction. Trump announced a $500 billion investment to boost AI infrastructure development, expected to drive the integration of AI and cryptocurrency. DeFAI infrastructure is expanding, with agents like Griffain, Moby, HeyAnon pushing the development of automated financial tools. Frameworks like Virtuals and ARC continue to attract developers, demonstrating strong market potential.
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Quotes:
“President Trump announced that OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle will invest $500 billion over the next 4 years to build America's AI infrastructure.” ---CBSNews
“AI agents will create generations of wealth… Whether you're in or out, this choice is yours to make.” ---cyrilXBT
“AI storytelling will drive cryptocurrency in 2025.” ---rektmando
“DeFAI DeFAI DeFAI DeFAI DeFAI DeFAI DeFAI……” ---ColdBloodShill
“Have we returned to the AI era already?” ---nansen ai
Key Points
The AI agent market continues its rapid development, with key players consolidating market share, and new entrants gaining attention. Trump announced a $500 billion investment over the next 4 years for AI infrastructure development.
What does this mean for AI and Crypto? As the potential of the AI agent market becomes apparent, should the agent market's market cap exceed $150 billion?
Fartcoin and AIXBT still maintain Mindshare dominance, but after a fierce market activity, the market cap has declined. Could this be a capital rotation within the AI submarket?
Virtuals, Ai16z, Griffain, Arc, Rektguy, HeyAnon, AVA, Moby, Zerebro, and others are all rising in tandem with profit taking.
Notable Changes:
Fartcoin: While maintaining its Mindshare dominance, the market capitalization has adjusted, indicating a healthy profit-taking phase after a sharp rise.
Virtuals: Cementing its position as the cornerstone of AI agent infrastructure, expanding its developer ecosystem, and enabling integration through APIs to support integration with any framework.
AIXBT: As a leader in analytics infrastructure, AIXBT is facing challenges due to shifting focus towards emerging agents, leading to a slight decrease in market capitalization.
ARC: Significant increases in market capitalization and developer engagement demonstrate its potential as an AI framework challenging existing leaders.
HeyAnon, Griffain, and Orbit: With increasing developer adoption, the DeFAI abstraction layer is seeing growth, driving its advancement.
AVA: Hinting at a 3D animation integration with the pudgypenguins ecosystem, currently in the beta testing phase.
Agent-by-Agent Analysis
Fartcoin
Mindshare: 12.24% (+0.25%)
Market Cap: $17.2 Billion (-12.2%)
Analysis: Fartcoin remains a dominant narrative with sustained high liquidity and engagement. Following the market surge, a moderate market cap pullback indicates a healthy profit-taking phase.
“Everyone buys Fartcoin at the price they deserve.” - TaikiMaeda2
AIXBT
Mindshare: 10.23% (-0.63%)
Market Cap: $5.6485 Billion (-13.1%)
Analysis: AIXBT continues to lead the analytics infrastructure space but faces a reduction in engagement due to attention shifting towards new agents.
Virtuals
Mindshare: 5.53% (+0.06%)
Market Cap: $27.4 Billion (+4.3%)
Analysis: Virtuals has solidified its position in the AI agent infrastructure economy layer. With the adoption of the GAME SDK and the expansion of its API ecosystem, developer engagement has been further enhanced.
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AI16Z
Mindshare: 4.55% (-0.33%)
Market Cap: $12.7 Billion (+30.4%)
Analysis: AI16Z has maintained developer interest through integrations like Virtuals API, with market confidence recovering post-price correction.
Development is still ongoing, and transaction settlement has improved efficiency.
"Your AI agent can now trade more efficiently than ever before."
Griffain
Mindshare: 3.57% (-0.02%)
Market Cap: $5.5318 Billion (+8.4%)
Analysis: Griffain's modular framework has seen steady adoption, leveraging its tools to stay competitive in an increasingly crowded market, with the adoption of agent engines accelerating.
"The goal is to create an agent economy that makes the agent engine valuable to users. The agent engine is an agent network that simplifies network collaboration."
ARC
Mindshare: 2.42% (+0.13%)
Market Cap: $5.6205 Billion (+22.3%)
Analysis: ARC has seen significant growth in two metrics, attracting developer attention through activities such as GitHub activity and collaboration projects with LISTEN and the Monad hackathon.
"Excited to collaborate with monad xyz, participating in the ETHDenver evm/accathon." - 0thTachi
Emerging Trends
Meme Trend: Fartcoin maintains high Mindshare, showcasing the enduring power of narrative-driven assets.
DeFAI Infrastructure: Griffain, Moby, Orbit, and HeyAnon continue to expand automated financial tools, demonstrating broader adoption.
Framework Leadership: AI16Z, ARC, and Virtuals stand as leading developer-friendly frameworks, with the latter integrating all other frameworks.

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