SKYAI

BUILDon

Aerodrome Finance

Virtuals Protocol

<p>SKYAI jumps 44% to top the day’s top‑100 gainers as ONDO sinks 10%, highlighting a rotation from RWA and yield infra into AI‑adjacent tokens riding the agentic AI narrative.</p>
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   <li>SKYAI is the top performer among the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap on Tuesday, surging 44.45% to $0.5792, while BUILDon and Humanity posted double-digit gains of 15.32% and 13.06% respectively.</li>
   <li>Ondo Finance’s ONDO token is the day’s biggest loser in the same cohort, dropping 10.28% to $0.3908, with Aerodrome Finance close behind at minus 10.16%, as RWA and DeFi infrastructure tokens give back recent gains.</li>
   <li>The divergence between AI-adjacent tokens like SKYAI and RWA platforms like ONDO captures a broader rotation dynamic playing out across the mid-cap crypto market on May 12.</li>
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<p>According to&nbsp;<a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/gainers-losers/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CoinMarketCap</a>&nbsp;data, SKYAI is Tuesday’s standout performer among the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, jumping 44.45% to a current price of $0.5792 as AI-themed tokens continue to attract disproportionate speculative interest in a market where the agentic AI narrative is building momentum. BUILDon followed with a 15.32% gain to $0.6454, and Humanity added 13.06% to reach $0.2646, rounding out a top three that is heavily skewed toward newer, narrative-driven tokens rather than established large-caps.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="skyai-s-44-surge-leads-an-ai-driven-top-100-sweep">SKYAI’s 44% surge leads an AI-driven top-100 sweep</h2>
<p>Injective posted a more measured 7.06% gain to $4.66, while JUST rounded out the top five with a 2.95% rise to $0.08974. The breadth of the gainers list — spanning AI infrastructure, DeFi tooling and cross-chain protocols — is consistent with the early-altseason rotation pattern that analysts have been flagging this week, as capital moves down the risk curve from Bitcoin and Ethereum into mid and small-cap tokens with higher beta and more compressed float. A previous&nbsp;<a href="https://crypto.news/sui-leads-top-gainers-as-open-interest-hits-all-time-high/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">crypto.news</a>&nbsp;story on SUI’s 31% single-session surge noted how open interest across derivatives venues jumped from $450 million to over $620 million in a single day as short squeezes and supply shocks amplified directional moves, a dynamic that appears to be repeating in Tuesday’s AI-token winners.</p>
<p>SKYAI’s move in particular reflects the broader agentic AI rally that has drawn institutional attention this week. As covered in a recent&nbsp;<a href="https://crypto.news/agentic-ai-crypto-gemini-bitget-neyro-139-billion/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">crypto.news</a>&nbsp;story on Gemini, Bitget and Neyro’s push into AI-driven trading, the global agentic AI market is projected to grow from $7.29 billion in 2025 to $139.19 billion by 2034 at a 40.5% CAGR, and tokens with credible exposure to that thesis are attracting flows that look less like speculation and more like early infrastructure positioning.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="ondos-10-drop-as-rwa-tokens-face-profit-taking">ONDO’s 10% drop as RWA tokens face profit-taking</h2>
<p>The losses side of Tuesday’s ledger tells an equally revealing story.&nbsp;<a href="https://crypto.news/price/ondo/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">ONDO</a>&nbsp;is down 10.28% to $0.3908, making it the top loser among the top 100 despite — or perhaps because of — a string of positive fundamental announcements this week. Ondo Finance bridged 35 tokenized assets including SPY, QQQ, NVDA, TSLA and BABA to Hyperliquid’s HyperEVM via a LayerZero bridge, as detailed in a&nbsp;<a href="https://crypto.news/ondo-layerzero-bridge-tokenized-stocks-2025/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">crypto.news</a>&nbsp;story, and participated in Ripple’s tokenized Treasury settlement test with JPMorgan and Mastercard. The sell-off on a day of positive news is a textbook “buy the rumor, sell the news” dynamic, with traders who accumulated ONDO ahead of the Hyperliquid and XRP Ledger announcements now rotating proceeds into higher-momentum plays like SKYAI.</p>
<p>Aerodrome Finance shed 10.16% to $0.4725, Ethena lost 7.57% to $0.1204, Sei fell 7.03% to $0.0695 and Virtuals Protocol dropped 6.99% to $0.8131, painting a picture of broad profit-taking across Base ecosystem tokens, yield infrastructure and AI-agent platforms that had run hard in recent weeks. The Virtuals Protocol decline is particularly notable given that AI-agent tokens are simultaneously among Tuesday’s biggest winners and losers, suggesting the market is differentiating sharply between projects it views as having durable infrastructure narratives and those it treats as pure momentum plays. For ONDO specifically, the 10% pullback after a week of landmark partnership announcements — Franklin Templeton’s Kraken integration, Ripple’s Treasury settlement test, and the broader RWA tokenization push covered across multiple recent&nbsp;<a href="https://crypto.news/blackrock-tokenized-fund-securitize-sec-filing-2026/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">crypto.news</a>&nbsp;stories — may ultimately read as a healthy consolidation in a token whose fundamental case is arguably stronger today than it was when it was trading 25% higher.</p>
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SKYAI leads top-100 gains at 44% while ONDO slides 10% on the same day

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