Treasure

Echelon Prime

AI Companions

SUPRA

tokenbot

Tagger

KAITO

Sahara AI

Newton Protocol

<h2 id="header-0">TL;DR:</h2><ul><li>The AI token sector rebounded, market cap gained 9.2% to reach $27.8 billion.</li><li>Most tokens green; standouts include Tagger, AIC, and CLANKER, gaining 50-96%.</li><li>Headlines: Noya exploit, Bittensor subnet Stripe, CoreWeave talks, &amp; Grok 4 teased.</li></ul>The cryptocurrency market is once again surging, with the vast majority of popular assets seeing growth this week.<a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/">Bitcoin (BTC)</a> is hovering around the $108,000 price point and looks primed for higher. With its <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/glossary/dominance">dominance</a> cooling off, altcoins have clawed back some market share, and some have begun to break out of short-term downtrends.<h2 id="header-1">AI Sector Recap</h2>Following <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/week-in-ai-sector-plunges-as-bitcoin-continues-takeover">last week’s sell-off</a>, the <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/view/ai-big-data/">AI sector</a> has recovered almost completely.<img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdpshGP37gR_U8TAXuWNELsTaJw8vclWCnGFIw6IN3yxsVY0bF83FBwOWs0I27sA0nIpSWJGTrEfWtQbHW_19Sw3U63E1u0rBn_oaPmN7QkOH3llJpClhkkNjCS2Sr5EAQmaLmr?key=dXZC_J4K9zEef4Ha0Btueg"/>Source: <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/view/ai-big-data/">Top AI Tokens Page</a>The sector added 9.2% to its market capitalization (mcap) this week, adding almost $2.4 billion to bring the total to $27.8 billion.As it stands, around 89% of the top 100 AI tokens by mcap are in the green this week, with some of the best performers tacking on more than 50% in this time.Some of this week’s standout projects include:<ul><li><a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tagger/">Tagger (TAG)</a>: +92.4% (after being added to Binance Alpha)</li><li><a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ai-companions/">AI Companions (AIC)</a>: +96.1%</li><li><a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tokenbot-2/">tokenbot (CLANKER)</a>: +62.6%</li><li><a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/echelon-prime/">Echelon Prime (PRIME)</a>: +31.6%</li><li><a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/kaito/">KAITO (KAITO)</a>: +27.2% (ahead of rumored launchpad plans)</li></ul>A similar story is seen in the <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/view/ai-agents/">AI Agents subsector</a>. Most prominent AI agent tokens are in the green this week, but gains and trading volumes are low in comparison to the broader AI sector.<a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/botify/">BOTIFY (BOTIFY)</a> and <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/game-by-virtuals/">Game by Virtuals (GAME)</a> stand out among AI agent tokens, with a 71.8% and 48.2% seven-day gain, respectively. Meanwhile, <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/fartcoin/">Fartcoin (FARTCOIN)</a> is up 22.1%.<img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXedmvzK_CjDFFtiYQKvygvjXIoLmtor7fMLHEURV2noONV2S_kjTIU-VmTjUcwsrY_sSc0WQADlnP0E2uYPFybvMzkKkx2xPAGlCoKvxq2S5K27NS8sohlAz4VU7qyujHU74FruYQ?key=dXZC_J4K9zEef4Ha0Btueg"/>A small cohort of AI tokens failed to benefit from the broader market recovery. Some of this week&#x27;s worst performers include:<ul><li><a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/sahara-ai/">Sahara AI (SAHARA)</a>: -72.3%</li><li><a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/newton-protocol/">Newton Protocol (NEWT)</a>: -24%</li><li><a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/supra/">SUPRA (SUPRA)</a>: -17.3%</li><li><a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/aethir/">Aethir (ATH)</a>: -7%</li><li><a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/magic-token/">Treasure (MAGIC)</a>: -6.8%</li></ul>Despite the growth, the AI sector still lags behind others in terms of seven-day performance. The NFT applications sector currently leads the market with a 17.2% increase in fully diluted mcap this week, while the Data Availability Layer sector is the worst performer, with a 34.7% decline.<h2 id="header-2">AI Sector News Roundup</h2>Another week, another wave of major updates to the AI space. Here, we’ve summarized some of the most significant stories to bring you up to speed.Noya AI Pauses Service Amid Exploit Probe: <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/glossary/decentralized">Decentralized</a>-AI platform Noya.ai revealed on June 28 that an internal exploit may exist, urging users to stop interactions while engineers investigate.<tweet-embed url="https://twitter.com/NetworkNoya/status/1938601833469198350"></tweet-embed>Bittensor Adds Stripe for TAO-and-Fiat Payments: Bittensor’s Hippius storage subnet has activated direct Stripe checkout, letting users pay in TAO <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/glossary/token">tokens</a> or regular fiat from its web console—an early real-world commerce bridge for decentralized AI infrastructure.<tweet-embed url="https://twitter.com/hippius_subnet/status/1938703318379122704"></tweet-embed>CoreWeave Re-Enters Talks to Buy Core Scientific: AI cloud giant CoreWeave is again negotiating to acquire Bitcoin-miner-turned-compute-provider Core Scientific, eyeing its 1 GW data center footprint to meet surging AI model demand. The deal could close within weeks.<tweet-embed url="https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1938329880216600951"></tweet-embed>AI Agent Funding Hits $1.39B, On-Chain Usage Soars: Investors have poured $1.39 billion into autonomous-agent projects so far in 2025, and active wallets interacting with AI DApps now average 4.5 million per day. AI’s share of all Web3 activity now sits at ~19%. (<a href="https://cryptorank.io/news/feed/77475-1-39-billion-floods-into-ai-agents-as-investors-race-to-keep-up-dappradar">source</a>)Elon Musk Teases Grok 4 Launch After July 4: On June 27, Elon Musk tweeted that xAI will leapfrog 3.5 to Grok 4, targeting release “just after July 4.” A fresh “big run” already shows the best real-world results and adds a specialized coding model for developers.<tweet-embed url="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1938561602640605363"></tweet-embed>&gt;&gt; Hungry for more? 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