AI-powered assistants are choosing Solana greater than ever, attracted by its capacity to scale easily and preserve prices down.
Based on a latest report by Franklin Templeton, 70% of AI-powered digital assistants, often called AI brokers, select to function on the Solana (SOL) blockchain. This choice is basically as a consequence of Solana’s capacity to deal with massive volumes of transactions effectively and at decrease prices.
These AI brokers are refined instruments that perform duties, make choices, and work together with each individuals and digital techniques, remodeling how operations are managed throughout the crypto sector.
An attention-grabbing instance of those AI brokers at work is the Fact Terminal mission AI chatbot which initially gained fame on Twitter by selling a fictional faith known as the “Goatse Gospel.” It caught the general public eye in July 2024 after receiving a big Bitcoin (BTC) donation from Marc Andreessen, a widely known enterprise capitalist from Andreessen Horowitz.
Fact Terminal’s affect prolonged additional when it actively promoted and boosted the Solana-based meme coin Goatseus Maximus (GOAT), which achieved a market cap of almost $1.22 billion on November 16, 2024. As of Jan. 15, GOAT is buying and selling at $0.338 with a market cap of $338 million.
Equally, Zerebro (ZEREBRO), which operates on Solana, generates AI-driven music and NFTs with the assistance of its open-source ZerPy framework, which helps customise AI brokers. One other promising mission, ARC, is a high-performance platform working on Solana to permit rule-based AI brokers, that are digital assistants that assist customers make choices or take motion.
Griffain is one other mission working in direction of personalised AI brokers whereas ai16z deploys Solana to deal with AI-enabled interactions in enterprise capital via its ElizaOS framework.
Earlier this month, on Jan. 2. Binance launched perpetual contracts for Griffain (GRIFFAIN), ai16z (AI16Z), and ZEREBRO. Within the final 24 hours, GRIFFAIN has been up over 19%, AI16Z by over 14%, and ZEREBRO by over 4%, reflecting the sturdy optimism for these Solana-based AI cash.
Most AI brokers are nonetheless within the nascent phases. The market cap for AI tokens stands at $3.95 billion as of Jan. 15, which makes up solely 0.11% of the full crypto market cap.
Nonetheless, sure Solana-funded tasks have already gained fairly some recognition by pushing the full AI token market cap by 14.5% in a day, as per CoinGecko. As an example, Zerebro has launched music albums, whereas Dolos Diary, one other AI agent, has amassed hundreds of thousands of views on TikTok.
Other than these AI agent tasks, notable development has additionally been seen in Digital Protocol (VIRTUAL), an AI agent launchpad on Ethereum (ETH), which reached a market cap of $4.62 billion on January 1, 2025, however declined to $1.92 billion as of this writing. Apparently, aixbt (AIXBT) by Virtuals Protocol, which operates on each the Base and Solana, has been up by 45.2% within the final 24 hours, as per CoinGecko.
Whereas some skeptics within the blockchain group counsel that the AI agent hype is extra advertising than know-how, the mixing of those brokers into Solana thrives as they leverage the efficiency and value accessibility of the Solana ecosystem to enhance its options and person expertise.