🧠 AI Coins Are Booming — But India’s Still Reading The Crypto Manual from 2017
By Prashant Marathe | EduInvesting.in | 21 May 2025
🪞 At a Glance:
AI-themed cryptocurrencies like Fetch.ai, Bittensor, and Render are up 50% to 100% this week alone. Global investors are aping in. Meanwhile in India? Our regulators are still asking if “blockchain” is a type of Excel file. Spoiler alert: It’s not.
India, the land of jugaad and tech brains, is sitting out the biggest crypto theme since Dogecoin memes — all because we’re still scared crypto will fund kidnappings, raves, and Tinder dates.
Let’s break down this massive disconnect, and why Indian retail will once again arrive late to the party… only to find the biryani cold and chairs taken.
💸 What’s Happening Globally?
AI Token
7-Day Change
Use Case
$FET (Fetch.ai)
+92%
Decentralized AI agents
$RNDR (Render)
+55%
Decentralized GPU rendering
$TAO (Bittensor)
+48%
Incentivized machine learning
$AGIX (SingularityNET)
+76%
AI marketplace
Total AI-token market cap crosses $10 billion
Nvidia earnings and OpenAI hype driving the surge
Crypto + AI = New gold rush
🌐 Global Sentiment: “Buy AI Coins Now or Cry Later”
Reddit threads calling it the “next Ethereum”
Binance and Coinbase adding new AI pairs daily
Institutional interest from VCs, hedge funds, and ex-Twitter engineers who now identify as “AI monks”
