ALCH and HAT showed some gains this week. ALCH soared 42%, likely fueled by its shift to cloud-based architecture and the launch of DeepSearch, which lets AlchemistAI conduct research before generating applications. Meanwhile, HAT’s upcoming partnerships with FourMeme and Abstract Chain helped it stay in the green.

On the flip side, KIP took a brutal 63.25% hit, with suspected trading irregularities on a centralized exchange leading to outsized sell orders and market instability.

Despite the broader market dip, seven AI agents have defied the odds, not just surviving but thriving—with market caps now higher than before.

These agents could become dominant players in their categories. Five of them come straight out of the Virtuals ecosystem, which keeps building momentum.

From AGIXBT’s expanding agent hive to Symphony’s high-speed trading terminal to Freysa’s gamified AI training, these teams are shipping products that resonate. As AI agents level up, the real question is: who’s next to blow up?

AskBillyBets Making Waves

Billy Bets is an AI-powered degen bettor that combines SportsTensor’s machine learning, real-time sports data (Sportsdata.io), and on-chain betting strategies to autonomously analyze games, predict outcomes, and place bets—no human input needed.

Billy is not just crunching numbers. It'’s got personality. Think sharp sports bettor meets trash-talking Twitter degen meets stats-obsessed fanatic. It’s loud on Twitter, Discord, and Telegram, dishing out insights, dropping betting alpha, and firing off the occasional spicy take to keep the community engaged.

Built on Bittensor’s SportsTensor, Billy specializes in NBA, NFL, and MLB games, generating win probabilities while constantly refining its edge by tracking sharp bettors and market trends. Bets are executed through decentralized betting platforms like Polymarket, ensuring full transparency.

Billy’s strategies? A mix of arbitrage, copying top bettors, market-making, and risk management using Kelly optimization to maximize returns. The $BILLY token fuels the ecosystem, granting holders access to premium betting insights and AI-powered research. Plus, 50% of Billy’s betting profits go straight into buybacks, aligning token value with performance.

Billy’s been on a heater. With 3.3M impressions, and 60K engagements on X, its presence is only growing. On the betting side, Billy has wagered over $180K, locked in a 6.39% ROI, and already burned $8.9K USDC along with 855K $BILLY tokens—0.085% of the total supply.

Will Billy’s hot streak last? We’ll find out.

🌴 Bittensor Subnet 34: Bitmind

BitMind (aka Bittensor Subnet 34) is leading the charge in decentralized AI content verification. Its core mission? Sniffing out AI-generated content—deepfakes, synthetic media, and whatever else the machines cook up—preserving digital trust in an era of AI-generated chaos.

Instead of relying on a centralized authority, BitMind crowdsources the job to its miners, who run AI models to determine whether content is real or synthetic.

A score above 0.5? AI-generated.

Validators then challenge these classifications, refining the system’s accuracy in a high-stakes game of truth detection. Currently, miners and validators each rake in 200.56 TAO daily (in total), while the entire subnet emits 489.16 TAO per day—fully maxed out with 256 UID slots occupied.

BitMind’s open-source ethos means the community gets full transparency and room to innovate. Many cool projects have been built on top of it:

• TheDetector.ai for rapid deepfake detection,

• a Chrome extension that flags AI-generated images, and

• @BitMindBot on Twitter/X, which lets users verify images with a simple tag.

Earlier this week, it dominated subnet mindshare rankings, reinforcing its position as a heavyweight in decentralized AI content verification.

Project Updates

• PrimeIntellect secures $15M from Founders Fund to build a peer-to-peer compute and intelligence protocol—pushing for open, decentralized AI. This funding will accelerate development toward making AI infrastructure more accessible and community-driven.

• Openservai unveils Dash.Fun, a modular, customizable AI dashboard that adapts to user preferences, providing real-time analytics, automation, and personalized AI tools.

• HeyAnonAi launches "Ask Anon," an AI-powered widget that allows DeFi projects to integrate natural language interfaces for seamless interaction.

• Ritual Foundation debuts Ritual Chain—an AI-centric blockchain that enables on-chain execution of machine learning models.

• FLock introduces a decentralized foundation model built for AI agents and deAI models. Its genesis task is live.

• PIN AI rolls out beta testing for its privacy-first Native App, blending on-device and cloud AI to optimize performance while keeping user data secure. Early access starts with Discord OGs on Android before wider distribution.

• Mizuki Lens, a copilot-style tool for trading arrives on the Chrome Store, offering real-time, instant access to crucial market data.

• Olas Accelerator introduces RateRover, the first autonomous AI agent for Pearl: The Agent App Store. Focused on liquidity optimization, it autonomously finds and exploits yield farming opportunities on Arbitrum.

AI Agents

• Agent Spectra launches as the first AI-powered hedge fund CEO. On-chain traders can compete in a live interview process to prove their on-chain IQ and earn high-value trading positions.

• Recall goes live with its testnet, introducing the first AI agent competition platform. It uses crypto incentives to benchmark and reward AI improvements.

• AcolytAI unveils Signal, an AI growth agent for Twitter, designed by ex-Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft veterans. It aims to optimize digital presence through AI-driven marketing, engagement, and content creation.

• Hive Intelligence launches its testnet, bringing real-time, AI-powered blockchain search to developers. Its Search API enables smarter, more efficient crypto AI agents that can autonomously access and analyze on-chain data.

• Olas Mech Marketplace debuts, allowing AI agents to buy, sell, and hire services within the Sentient Chat Agent Hub—expanding decentralized AI economies.

Bittensor

• YZi Labs backs Tensorplex Labs, a decentralized AI lab pushing the frontier of AI and blockchain. Projects like Dojo (a human-AI collaboration platform) and Backprop Finance (Bittensor DeFi tools) are setting new standards in decentralized AI innovation.

• TAO Name Service (TNS) is now live, enabling users to turn their $TAO wallet addresses into human-readable domains like YourName.tao. Future updates will introduce a marketplace for buying, bidding, and trading TAO domains.

Web2 AI

• Anthropic raises $3.5B at a $61.5B valuation, ramping up AI research, expanding compute resources, and growing internationally. Its Claude models are gaining serious traction in enterprise applications, including partnerships with Zoom and Pfizer.

• Deutsche Telekom teams up with Perplexity to develop an AI-powered smartphone set for a 2026 launch. Priced under $1,000, this device will integrate AI-driven assistants for tasks like trip planning and messaging, alongside a Magenta AI app for DT customers.

• Stability AI introduces Stable Audio Open—an AI model for local audio generation with no internet required. This unlocks real-time music and sound creation directly on mobile devices.

• Qwen releases QwQ-32B, a 32-billion-parameter reasoning model rivaling top AI models. It leverages reinforcement learning (RL) scaling, improving math and coding capabilities while keeping compute costs manageable. Most interestingly: it’s small size makes it feasible to run on local devices.

• OpenAI launches NextGenAI, a $50M initiative linking top universities like Harvard and MIT with industry leaders to accelerate AI breakthroughs and bridge academia with real-world applications.

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