Original author: KarenZ, Foresight News
In 2025, Crypto + AI will still be the main theme, and among them, DeFi + AI may truly take center stage.
If you are active in the field of Crypto AI, you must be familiar with the term DeFAI recently. However, I prefer to use the term AiFi, which is not only more concise, easy to pronounce and remember, but also has a strong recognition.
Whether it is DeFAI or AiFi, both represent the combination of DeFi and AI. Their ultimate goal is to improve the operational experience of DeFi to a level as natural and smooth as a conversation in ChatGPT, not only providing users with cutting-edge and accurate analytical insights and profit strategies, but also automating the execution of these strategies, eliminating the need for users to manually access transaction, pledge and profit-related DApp pages. In addition, there are many infrastructure projects that play an indispensable role in providing frameworks, indexes, data support, encryption, and computing.
At this stage, AiFi projects mainly focus on providing data insight services and simple on-chain interaction processes. Some account abstraction projects have also begun to use AI to deepen value research and insight capabilities. In addition, there are an increasing number of AiFi projects that rely on large-scale models and data analysis platforms. These projects can automatically perform buying and selling operations, screen high-potential yield liquidity pools, and other tasks based on complex algorithms and user-preset conditions, so as to capture every fleeting opportunity for users.
Under the current market landscape, AiFi applications and technologies are groping for survival and development in their own independent and highly competitive ecosystems. However, in 2025 and even in the next few years, as AiFi matures and user demand grows, AiFi may usher in explosive growth.
It is foreseeable that more projects will be committed to building seamless and intelligent financial services, while lowering the threshold of DeFi, and will provide richer and more profitable DeFi transactions and income strategies, thereby attracting and reaching more ordinary users. In addition, collaboration between AI agents may also show its importance in many aspects, through information sharing, strategy coordination, task allocation and other means of cooperation. This collaborative model can integrate the advantages of multiple agents, improve the efficiency and quality of task execution, and thus achieve more complex task processing and a higher level of intelligence.
This article sorts out more than 40 AiFi projects based on market insights and three categories: AiFi abstraction layer, infrastructure, and AI-powered DeFi applications. However, it is worth noting that although AiFi projects have sprung up, many of these projects are still in the beta stage or concept stage and have not yet been officially launched.
Market Insights/Abstraction Layer
AiFi abstraction layer refers to combining AI with DeFi, using data platforms to analyze industry data, and processing natural language into on-chain operations through large models and AI agents. These operations can include but are not limited to asset exchange, liquidity management, lending, and more complex financial strategy implementation, thereby simplifying the user experience and automatically executing complex financial strategies, reducing the need for manual intervention. In addition, using AIs analytical capabilities, AiFi can adjust strategies in real time and dynamically optimize investment portfolios based on market changes or user needs.
Griffain
Griffain is an AI agent that supports portfolio queries, token swaps, tweets, trading NFTs, creating NFTs, and sniping Pump.fun new coins. Griffain is currently invitation-only and requires an access pass to join. Access to Griffain allows you to create your own AI agent and access Griffains special agent network. Griffain was founded by @tonyplasencia 3, who is also the developer of the Blink project on Solana. The market value of the GRIFFAIN token is $370 million.
https://x.com/griffaindotcom
Hey Anon
Hey Anon is an AI DeFi abstraction layer designed to simplify DeFi interactions and aggregate important project-related information, supporting networks such as Ethereum, Kava, Metis, Base, IOTA, Sonic, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Solana, etc. By combining conversational AI with real-time data aggregation, HeyAnon enables users to manage DeFi operations, keep abreast of project updates, and analyze trends across various platforms and protocols. Hey Anon released a TypeScript framework in January 2025, making it easy for any developer to integrate DeFi protocols into the Hey Anon ecosystem.
Hey Anon was deployed by Daniele Sesta, founder of Abracadabra. The market value of Hey Anon token ANON is currently $230 million.
https://x.com/HeyAnonai
aixbt
aixbt is an AI agent launched on Virtuals. The official aixbt account has attracted a lot of traffic by aggregating hot events, project progress and data analysis in the circle, and its number of fans has reached 380,000. The market value of aixbt tokens has reached 640 million US dollars.
Wayfinder
Wayfinder is an AI agent released by Parallel, a game project that combines science fiction themes with NFT cards. It is also the core infrastructure of Parallels AI survival simulation game Colony Colony on Solana. Of course, Wayfinder will not only serve Colony, but will also enable users to navigate safely and efficiently within and between blockchain ecosystems and applications, and may also enable AI agents to autonomously trade assets they control through dedicated Web3 wallets. According to the first prototype previously demonstrated by Wayfinder on Base, Polygon and Ethereum mainnet, it supports operations such as exchange, transfer, cross-chain and staking.
Wayfinder is about to release the token PROMPT. Currently, there are two ways to obtain token airdrops. One is to pledge PRIME, and the other is to register on the website, generate a wallet, and make recommendations.
https://x.com/AIWayfinder
Olas (Autonolas)
Olas incentivizes and coordinates different parties to launch autonomous agents that form the entire AI economy. Olas Modius alpha, an AI agent built on Autonolas, supports earning income on the Mode mainnet by collecting market data, selecting strategies from a library of trading algorithms, and automatically executing trades. The current market value of the Olas token is $110 million.
https://x.com/autonolas
VaderAI
VaderAI aims to be an AI agent investment DAO manager. Its Litepaper claims to be the first AI agent that autonomously trades AI agent coins, performing end-to-end transactions, including research and analysis, simulation and strategy, and on-chain execution. VADERs current market value is $20 million, up more than 190% in 24 hours.
On November 26, 2024, VaderAI acquired a team of 3 AI engineers (who built the Web2 AI Agent infrastructure). In addition, VaderAI reorganized Monitize AI (which is building AI-driven tools to optimize token incentive distribution) and turned the entire AI team to AI agents. It is worth mentioning that VaderAI stated that it had stopped using Virtuals tools and used 100% of its own tools, and also fine-tuned Vader. VaderAI has integrated APIs with Arkham, Etherscan, Solscan, Dune, Flipside, Coingecko, Moralis, and X, and will soon do more with all these data sources. The market value of the VADER token is currently $86 million.
https://x.com/Vader_AI_
The Hive
The Hive was built during the Solana AI Hackathon and aims to simplify DeFi through composable on-chain AI agents. The Hive has a new knowledge base that includes documentation and code examples from the blue-chip Solana DeFi protocol. The Hive has also established a partnership with zerebro to enhance and integrate ZerePys agent capabilities and Hives DeFi agent suite. The Hive token BUZZ currently has a market value of $80 million.
https://x.com/askthehive_ai
DegenAI
DegenAI is an AI agent created by the ai16z team that provides industry data analysis and insights on X. The DegenAI token market cap is currently $53 million.
https://twitter.com/degenspartanai
Dolion
Dolion was deployed by Khouba, who previously worked at Solana Labs, BlockFi, and Meta. Dolion aims to redefine the proxy landscape by introducing an IP-centric, consumer-first approach that allows instant deployment of social AI without any coding experience, and easily maintains a consistent image across multiple social media platforms, as well as interacting with on-chain audiences through NFTs and other digital experiences. Khouba said that the DeFAI proxy midas he created in a video demonstration achieved a 4x return in less than 24 hours. The dolion token is BULLY, and part of the platforms revenue will be used directly to destroy BULLY. The current market value of BULLY is $46 million.
neur
Neur is an open-source full-stack application designed for the Solana ecosystem, leveraging AI models (including Claude 3.5-Sonnet and GPT-4) to support seamless interaction with DeFi protocols, NFTs, etc. through intelligent interfaces. Neur has integrated applications and data platforms such as Jupiter, Pump.fun, Magic Eden, and DEX Screener. It is worth mentioning that the current neur agent also supports accessing URL links. The market value of NEUR tokens is currently 46 million US dollars.
https://x.com/neur_sh
HeyElsa
HeyElsa supports EVM, Solana, Berachain and Hyperliquid, supports the use of Coinbase Smart Wallet Onramp and gas-free transactions, as well as trading, staking and investing across EVM, Solana, Berachain, etc. in a single application, and supports automatic execution of trading strategies such as DCA, TP/SL and arbitrage with the support of AI-driven data analysis. HeyElsa has not yet released a token.
https://x.com/HeyElsaAI
Orbit
Orbit is an AI-powered DeFi abstraction layer created by SphereOne. Orbit claims to seamlessly connect with more than 100 blockchains and thousands of DeFi protocols, supporting token swaps, cross-chain, smart staking and liquidity mining strategies and portfolio management. The current market value of the Orbit token GRIFT token is $107 million.
https://x.com/orbitcryptoai
Bankr
Bankr is an AI crypto assistant based on Base that helps users exchange, sell and transfer digital assets through natural language on X. The current market value of Bankr token BNKR is $21 million, up more than 14 times since early January.
https://x.com/bankrbot
Gekko AI
Gekko AI is an AI agent launched on Virtuals by Axal, a verifiable agent network, integrated with Autopilot, focusing on agents, trading, and automation. Autopilot is an automated execution of complex multi-step cryptocurrency trading strategies. Users can set parameters to automatically rebalance, harvest yields, create indexes of tokens they want to invest in, and more. The current market cap of the Gekko AI token is $17 million.
https://x.com/Gekko_Agent
Polytrader
Polytrader is a Polymarket prediction market AI agent launched in Virtuals, supporting exploration of Polymarket popular markets and providing market sentiment analysis and insights. The current market value of Polytrader token POLY is $13 million.
https://x.com/polytraderAI
Hiero Terminal
Hiero Terminal is an AI agent on Solana and Base, which currently supports analyzing industry data, launching and exchanging tokens. The Hiero Terminal token was launched on January 6, 2025, and its current market value is $17.6 million. One of the developers of Hiero Terminal includes Johannes, who is the co-founder of corpus.ventures and also worked at Consensys.
https://x.com/HieroHQ
Project Plutus
Project Plutus is an AiFi project that emerged from the SendAI Solana hackathon. It supports automatic DCA and portfolio rebalancing, while continuously analyzing market trends to optimize trading performance. Potatoe, one of the developers of Project Plutus, is a full-stack developer with more than 10 years of experience. He built SPL-404 and MPL-404 and created Jarfus AI. Another developer, KingLord, is a top 30 AI tool creator on CivitAI and a former Riot Games developer. The current market value of PPCOIN tokens is $6.2 million.
Sola AI
Sola AI is a personalized voice assistant for the Solana ecosystem that allows users to interact with protocols in the Solana ecosystem using natural voice commands. According to the Sola AI roadmap, the first phase will integrate DeFi (such as viewing token prices and charts in real time, viewing and depositing LST, and implementing redemption functions through Jupiter), custom agents, using SNS to transfer tokens, managing wallet portfolios, and implementing Web3 multi-language conversation functions; the second phase will implement (whale) wallet tracking and alerts, copy trading, Meme trading, perpetual contracts, and other functions, and will then integrate multiple Solana protocols. The market value of the Sola AI token SOLA is currently $4 million.
https://x.com/TheSolaAI
ASYM
ASYM is an agent network that claims to identify high ROI opportunities, allocate capital to those opportunities, generate profits, and then settle the profits in ASYM.
https://x.com/ASYM41b07
Lexicon
Lexicon is built with OpenAI integration, providing intelligent interaction and natural language processing for Solana dApps, seamlessly integrating Jupiter for token exchange directly through the AI interface, and also supports configuring custom functions and adapting AI assistants to specific dApp needs. The current market value of Lexicon token LEXICON is $4.4 million.
https://x.com/lexiconinfra
Blormmy
Blormmy supports on-chain exchange, transfer and asset management operations, and will aggregate DeFi agents, on-chain control, AI reasoning, and third-party providers. Jeffy Yu, the developer of zerebro, is also a Blorm developer, and Blormmy is one of the first agents of Blorm. The current market value of Blormmy token is $3.5 million, and it reached a peak of $30 million in November.
Thales
Thales is an AI agent (CTO) built on the ai16z ElizaOS framework, built by the on-chain research organization Redacted Research, with 5 team members including 3 ai16z partners. Thales is also creating programmable IP on Story Protocol, encrypted data storage and blind computing on Nillion, and supports cross-VM cross-chain and on-chain exchange using Shogun, as well as an agent revenue aggregator built using Omo Protocol. The current market value of Thales tokens is $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 that helps find potential trades, analyze portfolios, and complete taxes. The current market value of Moby AI token MOBY is $51 million.
https://x.com/mobyagent
Slate
Slate is a general AI agent and agent connection infrastructure layer that takes natural language commands and converts them into on-chain operations. Slate supports maintaining full self-custody of funds and executing conditional prompts, such as buy 0.5 ETH of USDC on Arbitrum when the ETH price exceeds $3,700 and cross-chain transfer of 0.5 ETH worth of DAI from Ethereum to Arbitrum when Gas is below 40.
https://x.com/slate_ceo
aiPump
aiPump supports the deployment of AI agents and AI traders on Hyperliquid, Solana, and Base networks. Users can use Twitter, Telegram, Video, and Brain to launch their own AI agent tokens. aiPump launched the DeFAI product on February 8, 2025, supporting the use of simple natural language commands to participate in DeFi activities. The market value of AIPUMP is currently $10 million.
https://x.com/aiPump__
DeFAI Agent
DeFAI Agent is an all-in-one, AI-driven DeFi tool that supports portfolio analysis, personalized recommendations for optimal investment strategies, and autonomous trading using Titan Vault (an AI-assisted, DAO-managed fund). DEFAI tokens are currently $7 million.
https://x.com/DeFAI_DAO
Infrastructure
ai16z
ai16z has become the leader in AI agents with its Eliza agent framework. In a recent proposal on ai16z Token Economics, ai16z aims to transform ai16z into an AI L1 blockchain, launch an Eliza-based agent Launchpad, make ai16z the base currency for agent-to-agent transactions (A2A) and the App Store for agent services, implement node incentives, and establish value acquisition and value accumulation strategies.
https://x.com/ai16zdao
Virtuals
Virtuals Protocol is not just an AI agent platform, it is a vibrant ecosystem full of infinite imagination. Relying on its intuitive, easy-to-use and powerful low-code toolkit, users can easily master the creation and management of AI agents and tokens.
https://x.com/virtuals_io
zerebro
At the end of last month, zerebro co-founder Jeffy Yu said that he was building a consumer-oriented agent launchpad Zentients and providing a value accumulation framework for ZEREBRO tokens. Zentients goal is to create a seamless UI/UX to start and grow agents while giving value back to ZEREBRO tokens.
https://x.com/0x zerebro
Recommended reading: From AI Agent to AI L1: Virtuals, ai16z and zerebro
Mode
In the second half of 2024, Mode refocused its resources on the intersection of DeFi and AI, funded 5 AI projects through grants, and 9 teams joined its AIFi accelerator. It also launched the Bittensor subnet Synth on the testnet and launched the AI agent app store. Mode will also release the AI terminal Mode AI Terminal, which supports the execution of redemption, staking and earning of income in natural language (in protocols such as Velodrome, Balancer, Ethena, etc.), and also supports the deployment of contracts for developers (for example, deploying contracts to distribute tokens between 100 wallets). veMODE holders will get early access in January. The market value of Mode token MODE is US$380 million.
https://x.com/modenetwork
Cookie DAO
Cookie DAO is the first index and data layer for an AI agent, and will also launch its own agent. Currently, the market value of Cookie Agent Token COOKIE is $170 million.
https://x.com/cookiedotfun
Nillion
Nillion can be understood as a decentralized secure computing network, which aims to build a network for high-value data that is encrypted during storage, transmission and computing, solving the current problem of decryption-computation-re-encryption when computing encrypted data. Nillion said that its secret data hosting will allow all agents to interact securely and privately. Nillion is the infrastructure required for AI agents to process private data.
Dave Butler, Nillion’s head of product, said, “Imagine an Agent Superhighway where AI agents can be linked together seamlessly and securely. AX (Agent Experience) will be key to achieving this goal. Nillion is actively exploring how to solve this problem.”
https://x.com/nillionnetwork
Recommended reading: Founded by Uber engineers, what innovations does the blind computing network Nillion have?
SwarmNode.ai
SwarmNode.ai makes it easy and scalable to deploy AI-enabled Python agents in the cloud. Users only need to write code, upload it, and let SNAI handle everything else, from building the environment to running the code on demand. The market value of SwarmNode.ai token SNAI is currently $56 million.
https://x.com/swarmnode
AiSweatShop
AiSweatShop is a DeFi AI agent operating system based on Arbitrum, built using @webisopens OpenAgent AI framework and RSS3, which supports the creation of your own custom DeFi AI agents on Arbitrum, as well as maintaining currency stability between AI agents, standardizing rates and promoting collaboration between agents. AiSweatShop platform token DEFAI currently has a market value of $33 million, but the trading volume is low.
https://x.com/aisweatshop
Cod3x
Cod3x uses Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLM) to process insights and can help easily launch personalized AI agents to perform tasks on the blockchain. Cod 3 x has developed its own stablecoin, lending market (Cod 3 x Lend) and Launchpad (Make Fun). Currently, the market value of Make Funs official token MF is $6.16 million. Make Funs official mascot and AI agent Big Tony supports trading BTC and ETH and makes financial forecasts on X. The market value of Big Tonys token TONY is currently $5 million.
https://x.com/Cod3xOrg
Empyreal
Empyreals AI agent Simulacrum AI supports the creation of code-free AI agents that trade cryptocurrencies on behalf of users, seize market opportunities, and execute complex DeFi strategies. Empyreals token EMP currently has a market value of $62.8 million.
https://x.com/EmpyrealSDK
Ritual
Ritual supports seamless integration of AI into any on-chain application or protocol, and supports fine-tuning, monetization, and reasoning. Ritual said its ultimate goal is to enable developers to build fully transparent DeFi, self-improving blockchains, autonomous agents, generated content, and more. Ritual team members include former Polychain partners Niraj Pant and Akilesh Potti, and advisors include NEAR Protocol co-founder and co-author of the epoch-making research paper Attention Is All You Need Illia Polosukhin, EigenLayer founder and partner Sreeram Kannan, Gauntlet founder and CEO Tarun Chitra, and then BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes also joined Ritual as an advisor.
Recommended reading: Quick reading of the new Crypto+AI Ritual: Raised $25 million, is cryptography the optimal solution for connecting AI computing power and models?
As Haotian said, other project business frameworks such as Bittensor, io.net, Aethir, Hyperbolic, Vana, Sahara AI, etc., as long as they are related to AI computing power, data, fine-tuning and other businesses, can be extended here.
In addition, this month, Nicholas Zaldastani, co-founder of the decentralized data infrastructure CESS, said that CESS can empower AI development by building a decentralized data infrastructure and provide decentralized data solutions for AI Agents.
AI-powered DeFi applications
Derive Pro
Derive Pro is an AI-driven trading experience for professional traders provided by the on-chain options protocol Derive. It will work with Messari to integrate their reasoning API into the Derive Pro agent. Derive Pro uses large language models to enhance the three trading processes of research, execution, and portfolio management. It will support spot, perpetual and option trading on Derive, and will also be plugged into spot AMMs on L2 such as Optimism, Arbitrum and Base. Derive will launch Derive Pro in the first quarter of 2025.
https://x.com/derivexyz
ZyfAI
ZyfAI is an AiFi agent that optimizes portfolios on ZKsync Era, launched by Zyfi. Zyfi is a native account abstraction layer based on ZKsync. It previously completed a $2 million private placement financing in June 2024, with participation from Tenzor Capital, Everstake Capital, ZBS Capital and others.
https://x.com/ZyfAI_
Mozaic
Mozaic is an AI-based yield strategy and liquidity protocol powered by LayerZero. Mozaics AI is called Archimedes, which supports rebalancing deposits across vault assets to help allocate user assets to the pool that will previously receive the highest APY. Archimedes makes decisions based on factors including APY and predicted APY indicators, token price, fees, slippage, time, TVL, trading volume, pool reward share, and error rate. The current market value of Mozaic tokens is $3.2 million.
https://x.com/Mozaic_Fi
Sturdy Finance
Sturdy Finance is an isolated lending protocol with shared liquidity, and has launched Bittensor subnet SN 10 in 2024. The subnet uses decentralized AI to autonomously manage liquidity allocation, increasing lenders yields while ensuring efficient liquidity for borrowers. The current market value of Sturdy Finance token STRDY is $26 million, and the fully diluted market value is $140 million.
https://x.com/SturdyFinance
Kudai
Kudai is an AI agent built by GMX Blueberry Club, a GMX community organization, using Simulacrum AI. The first phase of Kudais roadmap will automate Twitter, earn fees (accumulate funds) through token liquidity management optimization, explore Base and GMX, the second phase will purchase and stake GMX to generate new sources of income and automate the investment of all income sources; the third phase will run different strategies on GMX V2 and share positions, profits and losses in real time; the fourth phase will start income redistribution and give back to KUDAI holders. The current market value of KUDAI tokens is $13.6 million.
https://x.com/Kudai_IO
EnsoFi
EnsoFi is a cross-chain DeFi hub that supports lending, LST, and yield earning, and is applicable to Solana, Sui, Eclipse, and Movement networks. EnsoFi said it will use AI to optimize the DeFi experience and will release AI agents and new tokens this month.
https://x.com/Ensofi_xyz
Velvet Unicorn
Velvet Unicorn is an AI agent deployed by Velvet Capital through Virtuals. Velvet Capital is an intent- and AI-driven DeFi trading and portfolio management operating system that was previously selected for the BNB Chain Web3 Accelerator Program. Velvet Unicorns main responsibility is to autonomously manage DeFi portfolios through Velvet Capitals infrastructure, using real-time data, on-chain analysis, and a neural network routing engine to identify high-potential returns, optimize transactions, and rebalance positions. Velvet Unicorn token VU currently has a market value of $6.5 million.
https://x.com/VU_virtuals
tao.bot
tao.bot is a gateway to the Bittensor network that will support seamless conversions from Ethereum to any subnet token.
https://x.com/taodotbot
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