Coingecko: How do investors view the potential of crypto AI technology?

Source: Yuqian Lim, Coingecko; Translated by: Tao Zhu, Golden Finance

What is your current opinion on Crypto x AI?

In a recent survey, 46.9% of crypto participants said they were optimistic about crypto AI products in 2025. Specifically, 19.9% ​​were somewhat optimistic about crypto AI products, while 27.0% of respondents were completely optimistic. This is because the use cases that combine encryption with AI have been improved and have been adopted more widely.

Meanwhile, 24.1% of crypto participants are somewhat or completely pessimistic about this year 's crypto AI products. In other words, almost 1 in 4 respondents continue to be skeptical about the potential of crypto AI technologies and use cases, at least in the short term.

Cryptocurrency participants expressed similar consensus on the price of crypto AI tokens, with 44.3% of cryptocurrency participants being bullish and 26.4% of cryptocurrency participants being bearish. This may indicate that cryptocurrency participants did not distinguish between the investment or trading potential of crypto AI from the technology itself. This market sentiment may in turn reflect expectations that it is time for crypto AI to transcend conceptual stages and mature as an industry.

Nearly one-third of respondents have neither positive nor negative views on the price potential of crypto AI products and tokens in 2025, with 29.0% and 29.3% respectively expressing neutral positions. In fact, most respondents chose the “neutral” option, while the “bearish,” “somewhat bearish,” “somewhat bullish” and “bullish” options are fewer, suggesting that a considerable number of people have no opinions on the narrative of crypto AI, or have not had enough time to form any opinions.

Only 45% to 52% of those leading crypto AI applications are optimistic

Among the self-proclaimed “innovators” leading the application of crypto AI, unexpectedly less than half (only 46.8%) are optimistic about crypto AI products, while the pessimistic ones are as high as 28.9%. Similarly, only 44.8% of the “innovators” group are optimistic about the price of crypto AI tokens, while 30.0% are pessimistic.

Based on a relatively low share of bullish sentiment and a higher share of bearish sentiment, the “innovators” still seem to hold different views, even though they are the first to focus on crypto AI narratives.

On the other hand, the distribution of bullish, bearish and neutral sentiment is more in line with the expectations of the remaining "early adopters", "early majority", "late majority" and "laggard" groups.

The “early adopters” and “early majority” groups are the most bullish, and although slightly different, sentiment towards crypto AI products and token prices is also the least bearish.

Meanwhile, the "late majority" group was the least bullish on crypto AI products, with only 33.9% expressing positive sentiment.

That is, the “laggard” group is generally the most bearish, with 41.3% saying they are bearish on crypto AI products and 43.1% on token prices. It is worth noting that the “laggard” group also has the smallest proportion of neutral emotions, suggesting that although the group is the latest member of the crypto AI narrative, their views are strongest.

Encryption x AI market sentiment

The current sentiment in the crypto market for crypto AI products, i.e. use cases and technologies:

According to a recent CoinGecko study, the crypto market’s current sentiment status on the price of crypto AI tokens: