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Cryptoverse: Investors pick their AI race horses
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Cryptoverse: Investors pick their AI race horses

[ad_1] What do you get when you cross cryptocurrencies with artificial intelligence?A seemingly sentient bitcoin that codes itself in the style of Japanese haikus? Alas not, though you do get billions of dollars of trading in a new class of crypto tokens. The machine mania sweeping the tech world amid the launches of bots like ChatGPT and Bard has reached the cryptoverse, with interest in tokens tied to AI blockchain projects surging. Average daily volumes for the biggest coins including SingularityNET, Fetch.AI and Render topped $1 billion in early February, hitting a two-year high, according to data firm Kaiko.AI-linked blockchain products cover a gamut of services including payments, trading models, machine-generated non-fungible tokens and blockchain-based marketplaces for AI applic...
A Closer Look at Bitcoin’s Rally Suggests the Depth of Demand Is Deceptive
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A Closer Look at Bitcoin’s Rally Suggests the Depth of Demand Is Deceptive

[ad_1] Crypto trading volumes seem to have surged last quarter as token prices spiked higher. But looking at the data more closely paints a different picture.When looking at overall trends, Bitcoin trade volumes seem to have spiked, with two trading pairs standing out during that stretch — Bitcoin-Tether and Bitcoin-BUSD, a relatively little-known stablecoin trading on the Binance platform that has since halted issuance, according to crypto market data provider Kaiko. Those two were the top-traded duos on that exchange in the first three months of the year. But isolating just the Bitcoin-dollar trade pair — which trades on exchanges like Coinbase and Gemini — shows volume was the lowest since 2020, the researcher said. During that time, regulators cracked down on the industry with a num...