Blockchain and artificial intelligence sparked similar levels of controversy with their advent. Being disruptive technologies, they revolutionized several industries – blockchain is particularly disrupting traditional financial systems, while AI is bringing a makeover to healthcare, biological research, media and entertainment, real estate, among others.
Not only are these tech titans reshaping their individual industries, they now intersect to amplify their offerings to the world. These tech giants are not only transforming industries on their own, but are also collaborating to enhance their offerings to the world. They complement each other in several ways, addressing their limitations and unlocking new possibilities. For instance, AI integrates blockchain decentralization to reduce control by a few entities, while blockchain enhances its operational efficiency through AI-powered smart contracts, security, and trading bots.
This article will explore this intersection by highlighting some of the top AI crypto projects every crypto user should watch out for.
Antix
With Antix, there is a third dimension to the AI-blockchain intersection: the digital human dimension. Antix merges advanced AI with immersive environments to allow people explore new standards for digital engagement by creating hyper-realistic digital versions of themselves. This has been leveraged by entertainment giants like EA Sports, FIFA, Game of Thrones, Warner Bros, and HBO. By integrating game engines and generative AI, Antix transforms faces into volumetric 3D models and analyzes lip-sync and movement from people to create accurate facial and hand animations.
Aside from capturing the attention from companies with global repute, Antix also opens its wide window of opportunities to regular people. This is particularly useful in this age of content creation and monetization. Previously, major Hollywood studios required weeks of production time and budgets of up to $500,000 to create digital avatars. With Antix, the same process takes just hours and costs 90% less.
Through Antix, social media users, content creators, and NFT and metaverse enthusiasts can create enhanced forms of digital content, rent created characters to brands, and sell unique digital assets on different marketplaces. Some may suggest that Antix’s offering may not be new. And they’d be right if only the AI aspect is considered. However, Antix is bringing something extra with its blockchain-based design that protects intellectual property by giving creators total autonomy, security, and creative freedom over their avatar. Every digital human on Antix is embedded with a unique passport that proves the authenticity and ownership of their digital identity.
With the prediction that 40% of new games and 50% of VR content featuring digital humans in 2025, the ANTIX token is geared to make this future accessible and interactive. The token will introduce hyper-realistic digital twins for film, content, e-commerce, customer support, and beyond while focusing on community involvement, equitable access, and transparent distribution. ANTIX boasts a broad-spectrum utility and is used for: subscriptions – to unlock premium digital creation tools; governance – to vote on creators and rewards; staking – to boost rewards; marketplace – for trading and customising digital humans (skills, gestures, accessories, languages, and so on); NFT auction and promos – for lending or selling avatars and other assets, as well as for exclusive discounts.
ANTIX has a maximum supply of 1 billion tokens, with 24.4% allocated to ecosystem growth, 15.8% to community rewards, and 8.0% to liquidity, alongside other allocations. Early ANTIX holders will participate in shaping the future of the ecosystem and gain first access to new features, including asset tuning, staking rewards, and voting rights. Furthermore, they can earn rewards through the Reward Pool, support charitable endeavors through the Charity Pool, and earn an enhanced token value through its in-built burning mechanism.
Grok
GROK aligns strongly with the Grok AI, a chatbot built by Elon Musk to leverage real-time data and rival ChatGPT which he believes to be a politically leaning platform directed at destroying humanity. The conversational chatbot is said to provide responses to controversial questions usually rejected by other generative AI systems.
Like other large language models (LLMs), Grok-1, the LLM that powers Grok, was trained using vast text data collected from different internet sources, including Wikipedia and scientific data. However, what distinguishes Grok is its access to X posts. And since X has become the powerhouse of real-time information, Grok has “real time knowledge of the world,” a perk unavailable to other AI systems. Additionally, Grok doesn’t pander to political correctness as it is unapologetic in maximally seeking the truth.
Grok’s network architecture and base model is open-sourced, allowing other developers to use and build on the model for various purposes, including commercial. However, this open-source version is from Grok’s pre-training developmental stage and so would require honing the model before getting it to work.
It is on the backdrop of these features and the buzz generated from them that the GROK token was created. As a meme token, GROK has no direct affiliation with Grok AI but was created to establish a community of Grok AI enthusiasts who love making memes and saving the world at the same time. Built on the Ethereum blockchain, the ERC-20 token benefits from Ethereum’s scalability and security. When it launched, GROK spiked by 13,000% within a week, reaching a market capitalization of $160 million.
ai16z
This project brands itself as the first AI-led venture capital DAO out to redefine venture capitalism in this era of artificial intelligence. Led by an AI agent known as Marc AIndreessen (@pmairca), ai16z leverages artificial intelligence and collective intelligence to invest in technology-focused projects and crypto assets. ai16z is a humorous reference to AIndreessen Horowitz, a leading tech investment firm, while Marc AIndreessen is a punny reference to the firm’s co-founder, Marc Andreessen.
ai16z’s AI agent was developed using ElizaOS, a common framework for developing AI agents. ElizaOS has been used to build complex AI agents that perform a myriad of functions – from social media personas to interactive gaming characters. This is why Marc AIndreessen is capable of making and executing investment decisions by analyzing on-chain data and transactions, confirming orders, and evaluating project proposals presented by members of the DAO.
Moreso, ai16z utilizes the virtual marketplace of trust to enhance its decision making process by creating and managing trust scores assigned to DAO members. The marketplace of trust is governed by three components: trust extraction (user recommendation), trust evaluation (AI betting market), and social reinforcement (public trust profiles). User recommendations are the bases of trust scores as they evaluate track records and historical performance of members. After this, Marc AIndreessen bets on the outcome of a user’s recommendation vis-a-vis its confidence in its recommendation accuracy. Finally, the scores are displayed publicly to enhance user reputation, status, and influence.
DAO members can only access these features if they hold the DAO’s native token, AI16Z. Built on the Solana blockchain, the token enables community members to participate in democratic governance and propose projects for consideration by Marc AIndreessen. The token was launched in October 2024 and hit a market cap of $2 billion two months later. By January 2025, the token became the third highest-capped cryptocurrency in the AI Agents category.
REVOX
With a permissionless machine learning infrastructure, REVOX provides a shared AI interface that enables the creation of decentralized AI applications with autonomous agents. It aims to be the go-to tool for building apps with AI usage, an essential platform for sharing third-party data and logic for open integration, and a common interface to connect with Web3.
Super-apps launched on REVOX like Web3 GPT Lense, Smart Wallet, and ReadON DAO have attracted over 21 million users. REVOX has, so far, made some significant strides. For instance, it leads the dApp market with more than two million daily active users and a peak of 13 million monthly active users. Also, with 3.5 million downloads, its mobile app secured the top spot in Google Play’s news.
Other achievements include being selected for Binance’s MVB Season 8; Winner, Solana Riptide Hackathon Community Choice Award; 1st Prize, Web3 Infra Hackathon sponsored by Arweave; 3rd Prize, Best SocialFi dApp on the BNB Chain. It was the largest AI project in the BNB ecosystem, contributing 40% of opBNB’s transactions to become the top dApp on opBNB last June. Moreso, it achieved record participation with over 700,000 KYC-verified users when it collaborated with Binance Web3 Wallet.
REX is the governance token of REVOX and has a total supply of 3 billion. The tokens can be used to pay for AI credits in REVOX’s proprietary products (e.g. Lense, Smart Wallet, Studio, Agent Marketplace) and third-party AI products that support REVOX AI payment. REX can also be converted to sREX to participate in REVOX ecosystem benefits; sREX is REVOX’s special non-tradable, staking token that grants its holders daily AI credits and participation in staking spoils for extra rewards.
AgentLayer
AgentLayer is another project found at the intersection of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence. It is a one-stop store for customizing, deploying, and subscribing to different AI applications. It allows developers to build, on a decentralized network, independent AI agents that can collaborate and perform different levels of tasks.
Its uniqueness lies in its open-source large language model, TrustLLM that performs functions such as customized auditing, sequential tuning, and iterative decision making. It also enhances efficiency, stability, and performance by demonstrating high accuracy and utilizing fine-tuning techniques like multi-prompt and parameter-efficient methods. AgentLayer’s architecture puts it on the path to transform industries, boost human creativity and productivity, and create a symbiotic atmosphere where AI-human relationships can thrive.
AgentLayer stands out because unlike other marketplaces that just list pre-built tools, it takes its offering a notch further by enabling collaboration and governance of autonomous AI agents. Thus, it is possible to mint, deploy, and trade AI assets on-chain. Although AgentLayer facilitates the customization and deployment of autonomous AI agents, it does not do away with human oversight as it uses a multi-sig wallet to override issues that challenge the ethical operations and reliability of the AI agent.
At the heart of AgentLayer is its token, AGENT. Utilities of the token include transaction fees, node incentives, governance rights, agent purchases and transactions, and user incentives. It can also be used for staking and liquidity mining. As a result, users can enjoy benefits like economic incentives, innovation and growth, efficient scalability, and efficient governance. Generally, AGENT will be the new AI currency that will power the blockchain-based AI Agent economy.
Summary
As AI and blockchain intersect, there is an unveiling of new dimensions of digital identity, governance, venture capitalism, entertainment, and more through projects like Antix, Grok, ai16z, REVOX, and AgentLayer. These highlighted projects are leading the charge in the way humans interact with technology. They offer features like hyper-realistic humans, AI-driven investment DAOs, permissionless machine learning, and autonomous AI agents. And this is not peak. It is expected that as adoption grows, there will be more groundbreaking innovations that push the envelope of decentralization, automation, and human-machine collaboration.
