Exploring the AiFi Ecosystem: 40+ Projects Worth Watching
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Exploring the AiFi Ecosystem: 40+ Projects Worth Watching
DeFAI / AiFi will set the main theme for Crypto in 2025.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsBy KarenZ, Foresight News
In 2025, Crypto + AI remains the dominant theme, and within this space, DeFi + AI may finally take center stage.
If you're active in the Crypto & AI fields, you've likely become familiar with the term "DeFAI" recently. However, the author prefers the term "AiFi," which is not only more concise, easier to pronounce and remember, but also offers stronger brand recognition.
Whether referred to as DeFAI or AiFi, both terms represent the integration of DeFi and AI, aiming to elevate the DeFi user experience to a level as natural and seamless as conversing with ChatGPT. This integration would provide users with cutting-edge, precise analytical insights and yield strategies, while enabling automated execution of these strategies—eliminating the need for users to manually navigate trading, staking, and yield-related DApp interfaces. Additionally, numerous infrastructure projects play an indispensable role by providing frameworks, indexing, data support, encryption, and computation capabilities.
Currently, AiFi projects primarily focus on delivering data insights and streamlining basic on-chain interactions, with some account abstraction initiatives beginning to enhance their value research and insight capabilities through AI. Moreover, there's a growing number of AiFi projects leveraging large models and data analytics platforms capable of automatically executing trades, filtering high-potential yield liquidity pools, and capturing fleeting opportunities based on complex algorithms and user-defined conditions.
In today's market landscape, AiFi applications and technologies are developing independently within highly competitive ecosystems. However, in 2025 and beyond, as AiFi matures and user demand grows, the sector could experience explosive growth.
It's foreseeable that more projects will strive to build seamless, intelligent financial services that lower barriers to DeFi while offering richer and more profitable DeFi trading and yield strategies, thereby attracting and reaching more mainstream users. Furthermore, collaboration among AI agents may increasingly demonstrate its significance across multiple dimensions—through information sharing, strategy coordination, and task allocation. This collaborative model can integrate the strengths of multiple agents, improving efficiency and quality of task execution, enabling more complex operations and higher levels of intelligence.
This article compiles over 40 AiFi projects categorized into three groups: market insights/abstraction layers, infrastructure, and AI-enhanced DeFi applications. It should be noted, however, that despite the rapid emergence of AiFi projects, many remain in private testing or conceptual stages and have not officially launched yet.
Market Insights / Abstraction Layer
The AiFi abstraction layer integrates AI with DeFi by utilizing data platforms to analyze industry data and employing large models and AI agents to convert natural language into on-chain actions—including asset swaps, liquidity management, lending, and more complex financial strategies—thereby simplifying user experience and automating sophisticated financial strategies, reducing the need for manual intervention. Additionally, leveraging AI’s analytical power, AiFi can dynamically adjust strategies in real-time, optimizing portfolios according to market changes or user preferences.
Griffain
Griffain is an AI agent supporting portfolio inquiries, token swaps, tweeting, NFT trading, creating NFTs, and sniping new tokens on Pump.fun. Currently, Griffain operates by invitation only and requires a pass to access. Access to Griffain allows users to create their own AI agents and join Griffain’s exclusive agent network. Founded by @tonyplasencia3, who also developed Blink on Solana, GRIFFAIN has a market cap of $370 million.
https://x.com/griffaindotcom
Hey Anon
Hey Anon is an AI-powered DeFi abstraction layer designed to simplify DeFi interactions and aggregate key project-related information, supporting networks including Ethereum, Kava, Metis, Base, IOTA, Sonic, Arbitrum, Avalanche, and Solana. By combining conversational AI with real-time data aggregation, HeyAnon enables users to manage DeFi operations, stay updated on project developments, and analyze trends across platforms and protocols. In January 2025, Hey Anon released a TypeScript framework allowing any developer to easily integrate DeFi protocols into the Hey Anon ecosystem.
Deployed by Daniele Sesta, founder of Abracadabra, the ANON token currently has a market cap of $230 million.
https://x.com/HeyAnonai
aixbt
aixbt is an AI agent launched on Virtuals. Its official X account has attracted significant attention by aggregating trending events, project updates, and data analysis within the crypto community, amassing 380,000 followers. The aixbt token currently holds a market cap of $640 million.
Wayfinder
Wayfinder is an AI agent launched by Parallel—a sci-fi themed NFT card game—and serves as core infrastructure for Colony, Parallel’s AI survival simulation game on Solana. However, Wayfinder won't be limited to Colony alone; it aims to help users securely and efficiently navigate within and across blockchain ecosystems and applications. It may also enable AI agents to autonomously trade assets they control via dedicated Web3 wallets. Based on early prototypes demonstrated on Base, Polygon, and Ethereum mainnets, Wayfinder supports functions such as swapping, transferring, cross-chain transactions, and staking.
Wayfinder is preparing to launch its PROMPT token. Current ways to qualify for airdrops include staking PRIME or registering on the website and generating a wallet plus referrals.
https://x.com/AIWayfinder
Olas (Autonolas)
Olas incentivizes and coordinates various parties to launch autonomous agents forming an AI economy. The Olas Modius alpha—an AI agent built on Autonolas—earns yield on the Mode mainnet by collecting market data, selecting strategies from a trading algorithm library, and automatically executing trades. The Olas token currently has a market cap of $110 million.
https://x.com/autonolas
VaderAI
VaderAI aims to become an AI agent investment DAO manager. According to its Litepaper, it claims to be the first AI agent powered entirely by an autonomous trading AI token, handling end-to-end operations including research and analysis, simulation and strategy development, and on-chain execution. VADER had a market cap of $20 million and surged over 190% in 24 hours at one point. On November 26, 2024, VaderAI acquired a team of three AI engineers previously involved in Web2 AI Agent infrastructure. Additionally, VaderAI restructured Monitize AI (which builds AI-driven tools to optimize token incentive distribution) and shifted its entire AI team toward AI agents. Notably, VaderAI stated it had stopped using Virtuals’ tools and now uses 100% proprietary tooling, having fine-tuned the Vader model. VaderAI has integrated APIs from Arkham, Etherscan, Solscan, Dune, Flipside, CoinGecko, Moralis, and X, and plans to leverage all these data sources further. The VADER token currently has a market cap of $86 million.
https://x.com/Vader_AI_
The Hive
Built during the Solana AI Hackathon, The Hive aims to simplify DeFi through composable on-chain AI agents. The Hive features a new knowledge base containing documentation and code examples from top-tier Solana DeFi protocols. It has also partnered with zerebro to enhance and integrate ZerePy’s agent capabilities with Hive’s DeFi agent suite. The BUZZ token currently has a market cap of $80 million.
https://x.com/askthehive_ai
DegenAI
DegenAI is an AI agent created by the ai16z team, providing industry data analysis and insights on X. The DegenAI token currently has a market cap of $53 million.
https://twitter.com/degenspartanai
Dolion
Deployed by Khouba, formerly of Solana Labs, BlockFi, and Meta, Dolion seeks to redefine the agent landscape with an “IP-centric, consumer-first” approach—enabling immediate deployment of social AIs without coding experience and maintaining consistent presence across multiple social media platforms. Users can also interact with on-chain audiences via NFTs and other digital experiences. Khouba claimed that midas, a DeFAI agent he created in a demo video, achieved a 4x return in under 24 hours. The BULLY token is used on the platform, with part of revenue directly allocated to BULLY buybacks and burns. BULLY currently has a market cap of $46 million.
neur
neur is an open-source full-stack application designed specifically for the Solana ecosystem, leveraging AI models like Claude 3.5-Sonnet and GPT-4 to enable seamless interaction with DeFi protocols, NFTs, and more through an intelligent interface. neur has integrated platforms including Jupiter, Pump.fun, Magic Eden, and DEX Screener. Notably, current neur agents support URL link access. The NEUR token currently has a market cap of $46 million.
https://x.com/neur_sh
HeyElsa
HeyElsa supports EVM, Solana, Berachain, and Hyperliquid, integrating Coinbase’s smart wallet Onramp and gasless transactions. It enables trading, staking, and investing across EVM, Solana, Berachain, etc., within a single app. Supported by AI-driven data analytics, it can automatically execute trading strategies such as DCA, TP/SL, and arbitrage. HeyElsa has not yet launched a token.
https://x.com/HeyElsaAI
Orbit
Orbit is an AI agent DeFi abstraction layer created by SphereOne. Orbit claims seamless connectivity with over 100 blockchains and thousands of DeFi protocols, supporting token swaps, cross-chain transfers, smart staking, liquidity mining strategies, and portfolio management. The GRIFT token currently has a market cap of $107 million.
https://x.com/orbitcryptoai
Bankr
Bankr is a Base-based AI crypto assistant that helps users swap, sell, and transfer digital assets via natural language commands on X. The BNKR token currently has a market cap of $21 million, up over 14x since early January.
https://x.com/bankrbot
Gekko AI
Gekko AI is an AI agent launched by Axal’s verifiable agent network on Virtuals, integrated with Autopilot, focusing on agents, trading, and automation. Autopilot automatically executes complex multi-step cryptocurrency trading strategies. Users can set parameters to auto-rebalance, harvest yields, create indexes of desired investment tokens, and more. The Gekko AI token currently has a market cap of $17 million.
https://x.com/Gekko_Agent
Polytrader
Polytrader is a Polymarket prediction market AI agent launched on Virtuals, supporting exploration of trending Polymarket markets and providing market sentiment analysis and insights. The POLY token currently has a market cap of $13 million.
https://x.com/polytraderAI
Hiero Terminal
Hiero Terminal is an AI agent operating on Solana and Base, currently supporting industry data analysis, token launches, and swaps. The Hiero Terminal token launched on January 6, 2025, and currently has a market cap of $17.6 million. One of its developers, Johannes, is co-founder of corpus.ventures and previously worked at Consensys.
https://x.com/HieroHQ
Project Plutus
Project Plutus emerged from the SendAI Solana Hackathon as an AiFi project—an automated trading platform that executes DCA and portfolio rebalancing while continuously analyzing market trends to optimize performance. Developer Potatoe is a full-stack developer with over 10 years of experience, creator of SPL-404 and MPL-404, and founder of Jarfus AI. Another developer, KingLord, ranks among the top 30 AI tool creators on CivitAI and is a former developer at Riot Games. The PPCOIN token currently has a market cap of $6.2 million.
Sola AI
Sola AI is a personalized voice assistant for the Solana ecosystem, allowing users to interact with Solana protocols using natural voice commands. According to Sola AI’s roadmap, Phase One includes DeFi integration—real-time token price and chart viewing, LST deposit checking, token swaps via Jupiter, custom agents, SNS-based token transfers, wallet portfolio management, and multilingual Web3 conversations. Phase Two will introduce whale wallet tracking and alerts, copy trading, meme coin trading, and perpetual contracts, followed by integration with multiple Solana protocols. The SOLA token currently has a market cap of $4 million.
https://x.com/TheSolaAI
ASYM
ASYM is an agent network claiming to identify high-return investment opportunities, allocate capital accordingly, generate profits, and settle returns in ASYM.
https://x.com/ASYM41b07
Lexicon
Lexicon, built with OpenAI integration, provides intelligent interaction and natural language processing for Solana dApps, seamlessly integrating Jupiter for token swaps via AI interface. It also supports customizable functions and adapts AI assistants to specific dApp needs. The LEXICON token currently has a market cap of $4.4 million.
https://x.com/lexiconinfra
Blormmy
Blormmy supports on-chain swaps, transfers, and asset management operations, aggregating DeFi agents, on-chain controls, AI reasoning, and third-party providers. Jeffy Yu, developer of zerebro, is also the developer behind Blorm, with Blormmy being one of Blorm’s first agents. The Blormmy token currently has a market cap of $3.5 million, having peaked at $30 million in November.
Thales
Thales is an AI agent (CTO) built on the ai16z ElizaOS framework by Redacted Research, an on-chain research group. The five-member team includes three ai16z partners. Thales is also building programmable IP on Story Protocol, encrypted data storage and blind computation on Nillion, cross-VM cross-chain swaps and on-chain exchanges via Shogun, and an agent yield aggregator built with Omo Protocol. The Thales token currently has a market cap of $17.8 million.
https://x.com/Thales_ai
Moby AI
Moby AI is a crypto AI agent powered by AssetDash, Whale Watch, and the agent engine griffain, helping users discover promising trades, analyze portfolios, and handle tax reporting. The MOBY token currently has a market cap of $51 million.
https://x.com/mobyagent
Slate
Slate is a general-purpose AI agent and connectivity infrastructure layer that converts natural language commands into on-chain actions. Slate supports full self-custody of funds and conditional prompts—for example: “Buy 0.5 ETH worth of USDC on Arbitrum when ETH price exceeds $3,700,” or “When gas is below 40, bridge 0.5 ETH worth of DAI from Ethereum to Arbitrum.”
https://x.com/slate_ceo
aiPump
aiPump supports deploying AI agents and AI traders on Hyperliquid, Solana, and Base networks. Users can launch their own AI agent tokens via Twitter, Telegram, Video, or Brain. aiPump launched its DeFAI product on February 8, 2025, enabling participation in DeFi activities using simple natural language commands. The AIPUMP token currently has a market cap of $10 million.
https://x.com/aiPump__
DeFAI Agent
DeFAI Agent is an all-in-one, AI-driven DeFi tool supporting portfolio analysis and personalized recommendations for optimal investment strategies. It also enables autonomous trading via Titan Vault—an AI-assisted, DAO-managed fund. The DEFAI token currently has a market cap of $7 million.
https://x.com/DeFAI_DAO
Infrastructure
ai16z
ai16z has emerged as a leader in AI agents thanks to its outstanding Eliza agent framework. In a recent proposal titled “ai16z Tokenomics,” ai16z outlined plans to transform into an AI L1 blockchain—launching an Eliza-based agent Launchpad, establishing ai16z as the base currency for agent-to-agent (A2A) transactions and an “App Store” for agent services, implementing node incentives, and building value capture and accumulation mechanisms.
https://x.com/ai16zdao
Virtuals
The Virtuals Protocol is far more than just an AI agent platform—it is a vibrant, infinitely imaginative ecosystem. With its intuitive, powerful low-code toolkit, users can easily create and manage AI agents and tokens.
https://x.com/virtuals_io
zerebro
Last month, Jeffy Yu, co-founder of zerebro, announced the development of a consumer-facing agent Launchpad called “Zentients,” along with a value accrual framework for the ZEREBRO token. Zentients aims to provide a seamless UI/UX for launching and growing agents while returning value to ZEREBRO holders.
https://x.com/0xzerebro
Recommended reading: From AI Agents to AI L1: The Dance of Virtuals, ai16z, and zerebro
Mode
In the second half of 2024, Mode refocused its resources on the intersection of DeFi and AI—granting funding to five AI projects, welcoming nine teams into its AIFi accelerator, launching the Bittensor subnet Synth on testnet, and rolling out an AI agent marketplace. Mode will also release the AI terminal Mode AI Terminal, enabling users to perform swaps, staking, and yield generation (on protocols like Velodrome, Balancer, Ethena) via natural language commands, and allowing developers to deploy contracts (e.g., distributing tokens across 100 wallets). veMODE holders will receive early access in January. The MODE token currently has a market cap of $380 million.
https://x.com/modenetwork
Cookie DAO
Cookie DAO is the first indexing and data layer for AI agents and will also launch its own agents. The COOKIE token currently has a market cap of $170 million.
https://x.com/cookiedotfun
Nillion
Nillion is a decentralized secure computing network aiming to build an infrastructure where high-value data remains encrypted throughout storage, transmission, and computation—addressing the current limitation where encrypted data must still be decrypted before computation. Nillion states that its secret data hosting will allow all agents to interact securely and privately. Nillion is essential infrastructure for AI agents requiring private data processing.
Dave Butler, Product Lead at Nillion, said: “Imagine an agent superhighway where AI agents can seamlessly and securely connect. AX (Agent Experience) will be key to achieving this. Nillion is actively exploring how to make this possible.”
https://x.com/nillionnetwork
Recommended reading: Founded by Uber Engineers, What’s Innovative About ‘Blind Computation’ Network Nillion?
SwarmNode.ai
SwarmNode.ai makes it easy and scalable to deploy AI-powered Python agents in the cloud—users simply write and upload their code, and SNAI handles everything else, from environment setup to on-demand code execution. The SNAI token currently has a market cap of $56 million.
https://x.com/swarmnode
AiSweatShop
AiSweatShop is a DeFi AI agent operating system built on Arbitrum, using @webisopen’s OpenAgent AI framework and RSS3. It enables users to create custom DeFi AI agents on Arbitrum, maintain monetary stability between agents, standardize fees, and facilitate agent collaboration. The platform token DEFAI currently has a market cap of $33 million, though trading volume remains low.
https://x.com/aisweatshop
Cod3x
Cod3x leverages Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and fine-tuned large language models (LLMs) to process insights and helps users easily launch personalized AI agents to perform tasks on blockchains. Cod3x has developed its own stablecoin, lending market (Cod3x Lend), and Launchpad (Make Fun). Currently, the official Make Fun token MF has a market cap of $6.16 million. Big Tony—the official mascot and AI agent of Make Fun—supports BTC and ETH trading and financial forecasting on X. The TONY token currently has a market cap of $5 million.
https://x.com/Cod3xOrg
Empyreal
Empyreal’s AI agent Simulacrum AI supports no-code creation of AI agents that trade cryptocurrencies on behalf of users, seize market opportunities, and execute complex DeFi strategies. The EMP token currently has a market cap of $62.8 million.
https://x.com/EmpyrealSDK
Ritual
Ritual enables seamless integration of AI into applications or protocols on any chain, supporting fine-tuning, monetization, and inference execution. Ritual states its ultimate goal is to empower developers to build fully transparent DeFi, self-improving blockchains, autonomous agents, and generative content. Team members include Niraj Pant and Akilesh Potti, former partners at Polychain. Advisors include Illia Polosukhin (co-author of the seminal paper “Attention Is All You Need” and co-founder of NEAR Protocol), Sreeram Kannan (founder and partner at EigenLayer), Tarun Chitra (founder and CEO of Gauntlet), and Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, who recently joined as an advisor.
Recommended reading: Quick Read on Crypto+AI Rising Star Ritual: $25M Raised, Is This the Optimal Bridge Between Cryptography and AI Compute/Models?
As Haotian noted, other projects related to AI compute, data, or fine-tuning—such as Bittensor, io.net, Aethir, Hyperbolic, Vana, Sahara AI—also have frameworks extendable into this domain.
Additionally, this month, Nicholas Zaldastani, co-founder of decentralized data infrastructure CESS, stated that CESS can empower AI development by building decentralized data infrastructure and providing decentralized data solutions for AI agents.
AI-Enhanced DeFi Applications
Derive Pro
Derive Pro is an AI-driven trading experience offered by Derive, an on-chain options protocol, tailored for professional traders. It will integrate Messari’s inference API into the Derive Pro agent. Using large language models, Derive Pro enhances three core trading processes: research, execution, and portfolio management. It will support spot, perpetual, and options trading on Derive, and integrate spot AMMs on L2s including Optimism, Arbitrum, and Base. Derive plans to launch Derive Pro in Q1 2025.
https://x.com/derivexyz
ZyfAI
ZyfAI is an AiFi agent launched by Zyfi to optimize portfolios on ZKsync Era. Zyfi is a native account abstraction layer on ZKsync that raised $2 million in a private round in June 2024, backed by Tenzor Capital, Everstake Capital, ZBS Capital, and others.
https://x.com/ZyfAI_
Mozaic
Mozaic is an AI-powered yield strategy and liquidity protocol powered by LayerZero. Mozaic’s AI, named Archimedes, rebalances vault assets across chains to allocate user funds into pools expected to deliver the highest APY. Archimedes considers multiple factors when making decisions: APY and predicted APY metrics, token prices, fees, slippage, time, TVL, trading volume, pool reward share, and error rates. The Mozaic token currently has a market cap of $3.2 million.
https://x.com/Mozaic_Fi
Sturdy Finance
Sturdy Finance is an isolated lending protocol with shared liquidity that launched Bittensor subnet SN10 in 2024. This subnet uses decentralized AI to autonomously manage liquidity allocation—increasing lenders’ yields while ensuring efficient liquidity for borrowers. The STRDY token currently has a circulating market cap of $26 million and a fully diluted valuation of $140 million.
https://x.com/SturdyFinance
Kudai
Kudai is an AI agent built by GMX community organization GMX Blueberry Club using Simulacrum AI. Kudai’s roadmap includes: Phase One—Twitter automation, optimizing fee earnings through token liquidity management (capital accumulation), exploring Base and GMX; Phase Two—buying and staking GMX to generate new income streams and automate investment across all revenue sources; Phase Three—running different strategies on GMX V2 and sharing real-time holdings, profits, and losses; Phase Four—initiating revenue redistribution back to KUDAI holders. The KUDAI token currently has a market cap of $13.6 million.
https://x.com/Kudai_IO
EnsoFi
EnsoFi is a cross-chain DeFi hub supporting lending, LST, and yield generation across Solana, Sui, Eclipse, and Movement networks. EnsoFi states it will use AI to optimize the DeFi experience and plans to launch its AI agent and new token this month.
https://x.com/Ensofi_xyz
Velvet Unicorn
Velvet Unicorn is an AI agent deployed by Velvet Capital via Virtuals. Velvet Capital is an intent- and AI-driven DeFi trading and portfolio management operating system, previously selected for the BNB Chain Web3 Accelerator Program. Velvet Unicorn’s primary role is autonomously managing DeFi portfolios through Velvet Capital’s infrastructure, using real-time data, on-chain analytics, and a neural network routing engine to identify high-yield opportunities, optimize trades, and rebalance positions. The VU token currently has a market cap of $6.5 million.
https://x.com/VU_virtuals
tao.bot
tao.bot is a gateway to the Bittensor network, supporting seamless conversion from Ethereum to any subnet token.
https://x.com/taodotbot
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