Entering the AiFi Ecosystem: These 40+ Projects Are Worth Noticing

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 Crypto AI field, you must have recently heard the term "DeFAI." However, I prefer to use the term "AiFi," which is not only more concise, easier to pronounce and remember, but also has a strong recognition factor.

Whether it's DeFAI or AiFi, both represent the combination of DeFi and AI, with the ultimate goal of elevating the operational experience of DeFi to a level that is as natural and smooth as conversing in ChatGPT. This not only provides users with cutting-edge, precise analytical insights and yield strategies but also enables the automated execution of these strategies, eliminating the cumbersome need for users to manually access trading, staking, and yield-related DApp pages. Additionally, numerous infrastructure projects play an indispensable role in providing frameworks, indexing, data support, encryption, and computation.

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 leverage AI to deepen value research and insight capabilities. Furthermore, there is a growing number of AiFi projects relying on large models and data analysis platforms, which can automatically execute buy and sell operations, filter high-potential yield liquidity pools, and more, based on complex algorithms and user-defined conditions, capturing every fleeting opportunity for users.

In the current market landscape, AiFi applications and technologies are exploring survival and development within their independent and fiercely competitive ecosystems. In 2025 and in the coming years, as AiFi matures and user demand grows, it may experience explosive growth.

It is foreseeable that more projects will be dedicated to building seamless, intelligent financial services, lowering the barriers to DeFi while providing richer and more profitable DeFi trading and yield strategies, thus attracting and reaching more ordinary users. Additionally, collaboration among AI agents may also demonstrate its importance in various aspects, cooperating through information sharing, strategy coordination, and task allocation. This collaborative model can integrate the advantages of multiple agents, improving the efficiency and quality of task execution, thereby achieving more complex task handling and a higher level of intelligence.

This article organizes over 40 AiFi projects based on market insights and three categories: AiFi abstraction layer, infrastructure, and AI-enhanced DeFi applications. However, it is worth noting that although AiFi projects are emerging like mushrooms after rain, many of these projects are still in internal testing or conceptual stages and have not yet been officially launched.

Market Insights / Abstraction Layer

The AiFi abstraction layer refers to the integration of AI with DeFi, utilizing 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 swaps, liquidity management, lending, and the implementation of more complex financial strategies, thereby simplifying user experience and automating the execution of complex financial strategies, reducing the need for manual intervention. Additionally, leveraging AI's analytical capabilities, AiFi can dynamically adjust strategies in real-time, optimizing portfolios based on market changes or user needs.

Griffain

Griffain is an AI agent that supports inquiries about portfolios, token exchanges, tweeting, trading NFTs, creating NFTs, and sniping new coins on Pump.fun. Griffain is currently invite-only and requires access passes to join. Accessing Griffain allows users to create their own AI agents and access Griffain's special agent network. The founder of Griffain is @tonyplasencia3, who is also a developer of the Blink project on Solana. The market cap of GRIFFAIN token has reached $370 million.

https://x.com/griffaindotcom

Hey Anon

Hey Anon is an AI DeFi abstraction layer aimed at simplifying DeFi interactions and aggregating important project-related information, supporting networks such as 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 various platforms and protocols. Hey Anon will release a TypeScript framework in January 2025, allowing any developer to easily integrate DeFi protocols into the Hey Anon ecosystem.

Hey Anon is deployed by Daniele Sesta, the founder of Abracadabra. The market cap of Hey Anon token ANON is currently $230 million.

https://x.com/HeyAnonai

aixbt

aixbt is an AI agent launched on Virtuals. The official Twitter of aixbt has attracted a large following by aggregating hot events, project progress, and data analysis within the industry, currently boasting 380,000 followers. The market cap of aixbt token has reached $640 million.

Wayfinder

Wayfinder is an AI agent released by the sci-fi themed game project Parallel, and it serves as the core infrastructure for Colony Colony, Parallel's AI survival simulation game on Solana. Wayfinder will not only serve Colony but also enable users to navigate safely and effectively within and between blockchain ecosystems and applications. It may also allow AI agents to autonomously trade assets they control through dedicated Web3 wallets. Based on the first prototype previously showcased on Base, Polygon, and Ethereum mainnet, it supports operations such as exchanges, transfers, cross-chain transactions, and staking.

Wayfinder is set to release the PROMPT token, with two methods currently available for token airdrop: staking PRIME or registering on the website to generate a wallet and referrals.

https://x.com/AIWayfinder

Olas (Autonolas)

Olas incentivizes and coordinates different parties to launch autonomous agents that form the entire AI economy. The AI agent Olas Modius alpha, built on Autonolas, supports earning yields on the Mode mainnet by collecting market data, selecting strategies from a trading algorithm library, and executing trades automatically. The current market cap of Olas token is $110 million.

https://x.com/autonolas

VaderAI

VaderAI aims to become an AI agent investment DAO manager, claiming to be the first autonomous trading AI agent coin that executes end-to-end trades, including research and analysis, simulation and strategy, and on-chain execution. The current market cap of VADER is $20 million, with a 24-hour increase of over 190%.

On November 26, 2024, VaderAI acquired a team of three AI engineers (who previously built Web2 AI Agent infrastructure). Additionally, VaderAI restructured Monitize AI (which is building AI-driven tools to optimize token incentive distribution) and shifted the entire AI team to AI agents. Notably, VaderAI stated that it has stopped using tools from Virtuals and is now 100% utilizing its own tools, also fine-tuning Vader. VaderAI has integrated its API with Arkham, Etherscan, Solscan, Dune, Flipside, CoinGecko, Moralis, and X, and will soon leverage all these data sources for more functionalities. The current market cap of VADER token is $86 million.

https://x.com/VaderAI

The Hive

The Hive was built during the Solana AI hackathon and aims to simplify DeFi through composable on-chain AI agents. The Hive features a new knowledge base that includes documentation and code examples from blue-chip Solana DeFi protocols. The Hive has also partnered with zerebro to enhance and integrate ZerePy's agent capabilities with Hive's DeFi agent suite. The current market cap of The Hive token BUZZ is $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 current market cap of DegenAI token is $53 million.

https://twitter.com/degenspartanai

Dolion

Dolion is deployed by Khouba, who has previously worked at Solana Labs, BlockFi, and Meta. Dolion aims to redefine the agent landscape by introducing an "IP-centric, consumer-first" approach, allowing users to deploy social AI immediately without any coding experience, maintain a consistent image across multiple social media platforms, and interact with on-chain audiences through NFTs and other digital experiences. Khouba stated that the DeFAI agent 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 platform's revenue will be directly used to burn BULLY. The current market cap 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 interactions with DeFi protocols, NFTs, and more through a smart interface. Neur has integrated applications and data platforms such as Jupiter, Pump.fun, Magic Eden, and DEX Screener. Notably, the current neur agent also supports accessing URL links. The current market cap of NEUR token is $46 million.

https://x.com/neur_sh

HeyElsa

HeyElsa supports EVM, Solana, Berachain, and Hyperliquid, enabling users to utilize Coinbase Wallet Onramp and gasless transactions, as well as trade, stake, and invest across EVM, Solana, Berachain, and more within a single application. It also supports the automatic execution of trading strategies such as DCA, TP/SL, and arbitrage, backed by AI-driven data analysis. HeyElsa has not yet released a token.

https://x.com/HeyElsaAI

Orbit

Orbit is an AI agent DeFi abstraction layer created by SphereOne. Orbit claims to seamlessly connect with over 100 blockchains and thousands of DeFi protocols, supporting token exchanges, cross-chain transactions, smart staking, and liquidity mining strategies, as well as managing portfolios. The current market cap of Orbit token GRIFT is $107 million.

https://x.com/orbitcryptoai

Bankr

Bankr is an AI crypto assistant based on Base, helping users exchange, sell, and transfer digital assets through natural language on X. The current market cap of Bankr token BNKR is $21 million, having increased over 14 times since early January.

https://x.com/bankrbot

Gekko AI

Gekko AI is an AI agent launched on Virtuals by the verifiable agent network Axal, integrated with Autopilot, focusing on agents, trading, and automation. Autopilot can automatically execute complex multi-step cryptocurrency trading strategies. Users can set parameters to automatically rebalance, harvest yields, create indexes of tokens they wish to invest in, and more. The current market cap of Gekko AI token is $17 million.

https://x.com/Gekko_Agent

Polytrader

Polytrader is an AI agent launched in Virtuals for the Polymarket prediction market, supporting the exploration of popular Polymarket markets and providing market sentiment analysis and insights. The current market cap of Polytrader token POLY is $13 million.

https://x.com/polytraderAI

Hiero Terminal

Hiero Terminal is an AI agent on Solana and Base, currently supporting the analysis of industry data, launching and exchanging tokens. The Hiero Terminal token will launch on January 6, 2025, with a current market cap of $17.6 million. One of the developers of Hiero Terminal, Johannes, is a co-founder of corpus.ventures and has previously worked at Consensys.

https://x.com/HieroHQ

Project Plutus

Project Plutus is an AiFi project that emerged from the SendAI Solana hackathon, supporting the automatic execution of DCA and portfolio rebalancing while continuously analyzing market trends to optimize trading performance. One of the developers, Potatoe, is a full-stack developer with over 10 years of experience, having 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 developer at Riot Games. The current market cap of PPCOIN token is $6.2 million.

Sola AI

Sola AI is a personalized voice assistant for the Solana ecosystem, allowing users to interact with protocols using natural voice commands. According to Sola AI's roadmap, the first phase will integrate DeFi (such as real-time viewing of token prices and charts, viewing and depositing LST, and enabling exchange functions through Jupiter), custom agents, using SNS to transfer tokens, managing wallet portfolios, and achieving multilingual dialogue capabilities in Web3; the second phase will implement (whale) wallet tracking and alerts, follow trading, meme trading, perpetual contracts, etc., followed by the integration of multiple Solana protocols. The current market cap of Sola AI token SOLA is $4 million.

https://x.com/TheSolaAI

ASYM

ASYM is an agent network that claims to identify high ROI opportunities, allocate capital for these opportunities, generate profits, and then settle profits in ASYM.

https://x.com/ASYM41b07

Lexicon

Lexicon is built with OpenAI integration, providing intelligent interactions and natural language processing for Solana dApps, seamlessly integrating token exchanges directly through the AI interface via Jupiter, and supporting the configuration of custom features to adapt the AI assistant to specific dApp needs. The current market cap of Lexicon token LEXICON is $4.4 million.

https://x.com/lexiconinfra

Blormmy

Blormmy supports executing on-chain exchanges, transfers, and asset management operations, aggregating DeFi agents, on-chain control, AI reasoning, and third-party providers. Jeffy Yu, a developer of zerebro, is also a developer of Blorm, and Blormmy is one of the first agents of Blorm. The current market cap of Blormmy token is $3.5 million, having previously reached a market cap of $30 million in November.

Thales

Thales is an AI agent (CTO) built on the ai16z ElizaOS framework, developed by the on-chain research organization Redacted Research, with a team of five members including three ai16z partners. Thales is also creating programmable IP on Story Protocol, conducting encrypted data storage and blind computation on Nillion, and supports cross-VM cross-chain and on-chain exchanges using Shogun, as well as an agent yield aggregator built with Omo Protocol. The current market cap of Thales token is $17.8 million.

https://x.com/Thales_ai

Moby AI

Moby AI is a crypto AI agent supported by AssetDash, Whale Watch, and the agent engine griffain, helping to find potential trades, analyze portfolios, and complete taxes. The current market cap of Moby AI token MOBY is $51 million.

https://x.com/mobyagent

Slate

Slate is a universal AI agent and agent connection infrastructure layer that transforms natural language commands into on-chain operations. Slate supports maintaining complete self-custody of funds and executing condition-based prompts, such as "buy 0.5 ETH of USDC on Arbitrum when ETH price exceeds $3700" and "cross-chain 0.5 ETH worth of DAI from Ethereum to Arbitrum when gas is below 40."

https://x.com/slate_ceo

aiPump

aiPump supports deploying AI agents and AI traders on Hyperliquid, Solana, and Base networks, allowing users to launch their own AI agent tokens using Twitter, Telegram, Video, and Brain. aiPump will launch its DeFAI product on February 8, 2025, supporting participation in DeFi activities using simple natural language commands. The current market cap of AIPUMP is $10 million.

https://x.com/aiPump__

DeFAI Agent

DeFAI Agent is an integrated, AI-driven DeFi tool that supports portfolio analysis, provides personalized recommendations for optimal investment strategies, and allows for autonomous trading using Titan Vault (an AI-assisted, DAO-managed fund). The current market cap of DEFAI token is $7 million.

https://x.com/DeFAI_DAO

Infrastructure

ai16z

ai16z has become a leader in AI agents due to the outstanding performance of its Eliza agent framework. In a recent proposal titled "ai16z Token Economics," ai16z aims to transform into an AI L1 blockchain, launch an Eliza-based agent Launchpad, make ai16z the base currency for agent-to-agent trading (A2A) and agent services' "App Store," implement node incentives, and establish value acquisition and accumulation strategies.

https://x.com/ai16zdao

Virtuals

The positioning of Virtuals Protocol is not merely as an AI agent platform; it is a vibrant ecosystem full of infinite imaginative space. With its intuitive, powerful low-code toolkit, users can easily navigate 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 stated that they are building a consumer-facing agent Launchpad called "Zentients," providing a value accumulation framework for the ZEREBRO token. The goal of Zentients is to create a seamless UI/UX to launch and develop agents while giving back value to the ZEREBRO token.

https://x.com/0xzerebro

Mode

In the second half of 2024, Mode will refocus its resources at the intersection of DeFi and AI, funding five AI projects through grants, with nine teams joining its AiFi accelerator. It has also launched the Bittensor subnet Synth on the testnet and an AI agent app store. Mode will release the AI terminal Mode AI Terminal, supporting the execution of exchanges, staking, and earning yields (in protocols like Velodrome, Balancer, Ethena) using natural language, and will also support deploying contracts for developers (e.g., deploying contracts to distribute tokens among 100 wallets). veMODE holders will gain early access in January. The current market cap of Mode token MODE is $380 million.

https://x.com/modenetwork

Cookie DAO

Cookie DAO is the first index and data layer for AI agents and will also launch its own agent. The current market cap of Cookie agent token COOKIE is $170 million.

https://x.com/cookiedotfun

Nillion

Nillion can be understood as a decentralized secure computing network designed to build an encrypted network for high-value data during storage, transmission, and computation, solving the current issue of needing to "decrypt - compute - re-encrypt" during encrypted data computation. Nillion states that its secret data hosting will allow all agents to interact securely and privately. Nillion is the infrastructure needed for AI agents to process private data.

Nillion's product manager Dave Butler stated, "Imagine an agent superhighway where AI agents can link 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

SwarmNode.ai

SwarmNode.ai makes it easy and scalable to deploy AI-supported Python agents in the cloud, allowing users to simply write code, upload it, and let SNAI handle everything else, from building the environment to running the code on demand. The current market cap of SwarmNode.ai token SNAI is $56 million.

https://x.com/swarmnode

AiSweatShop

AiSweatShop is a DeFi AI agent operating system based on Arbitrum, built using @webisopen's OpenAgent AI framework and RSS3, supporting the creation of custom DeFi AI agents on Arbitrum, maintaining currency stability between AI agents, standardizing rates, and facilitating collaboration between agents. The current market cap of AiSweatShop platform token DEFAI is $33 million, but with low trading volume.

https://x.com/aisweatshop

Cod3x

Cod3x utilizes retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and fine-tuning of large language models (LLM) to process insights and can help easily launch personalized AI agents to execute tasks on the blockchain. Cod3x has developed its own stablecoin, lending market (Cod3x Lend), and Launchpad (Make Fun). Currently, the official token of Make Fun MF has a market cap of $6.16 million, and the official mascot and AI agent Big Tony supports trading BTC and ETH and making financial predictions on X, with the current market cap of Big Tony token TONY at $5 million.

https://x.com/Cod3xOrg

Empyreal

Empyreal's AI agent Simulacrum AI supports creating no-code AI agents that trade cryptocurrencies on behalf of users, seize market opportunities, and execute complex DeFi strategies. The current market cap of Empyreal token EMP is $62.8 million.

https://x.com/EmpyrealSDK

Ritual

Ritual supports the seamless integration of AI into any on-chain application or protocol, enabling fine-tuning, monetization, and execution of reasoning. Ritual states that its ultimate goal is to allow developers to build fully transparent DeFi, self-improving blockchains, autonomous agents, generative content, and more. The Ritual team includes former Polychain partner Niraj Pant and Akilesh Potti, with advisors including NEAR Protocol co-founder and co-author of the groundbreaking research paper "Attention Is All You Need" Illia Polosukhin, EigenLayer founder and partner Sreeram Kannan, and Gauntlet founder and CEO Tarun Chitra. Subsequently, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes also joined Ritual as an advisor.

Moreover, as Haotian mentioned, other projects related to AI computing power, data, fine-tuning, etc., such as Bittensor, io.net, Aethir, Hyperbolic, Vana, Sahara AI, and so on, can extend into this business framework.

AI-Enhanced DeFi Applications

Derive Pro

Derive Pro is an AI-driven trading experience provided by the on-chain options protocol Derive for professional traders, which will integrate their reasoning API with Messari into the Derive Pro agent. Derive Pro uses large language models to enhance the three trading processes of research, execution, and portfolio management, supporting spot, perpetual, and options trading on Derive, and will insert spot AMM on L2s like Optimism, Arbitrum, and Base. Derive is set to launch Derive Pro in Q1 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, which previously completed a $2 million private placement in June 2024, with investments from Tenzor Capital, Everstake Capital, ZBS Capital, and others.

https://x.com/ZyfAI_

Mozaic

Mozaic is an AI-based yield strategy and liquidity protocol supported by LayerZero. Mozaic's AI, named Archimedes, supports cross-vault asset rebalancing deposits to help users allocate assets to pools that will yield the highest APY. Archimedes considers factors such as APY and forecasted APY metrics, token prices, fees, slippage, time, TVL, trading volume, pool reward shares, and error rates when making decisions. The current market cap of Mozaic token is $3.2 million.

https://x.com/Mozaic_Fi

Sturdy Finance

Sturdy Finance is an isolated lending protocol with shared liquidity, having launched the 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 current circulating market cap of Sturdy Finance token STRDY is $26 million, with a fully diluted market cap of $140 million.

https://x.com/SturdyFinance

Kudai

Kudai is an AI agent built by the GMX community organization GMX Blueberry Club using Simulacrum AI. The first phase of Kudai's roadmap will implement Twitter automation, optimize fee earnings (accumulating funds) through token liquidity management, and explore Base and GMX. The second phase will involve purchasing and staking GMX to generate new income sources and automate all income sources' investments; the third phase will run different strategies on GMX V2 and share positions, profits, and losses in real-time; the fourth phase will initiate income redistribution and rewards for KUDAI holders. The current market cap of KUDAI token is $13.6 million.

https://x.com/Kudai_IO

EnsoFi

EnsoFi is a cross-chain DeFi hub supporting lending, LST, and yield earning, applicable to Solana, Sui, Eclipse, and Movement networks. EnsoFi states it will leverage AI to optimize the DeFi experience, with plans to release an AI agent and new token 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-driven and AI-powered DeFi trading and portfolio management operating system, previously selected for the BNB Chain Web3 accelerator program. Velvet Unicorn's main responsibility is to autonomously manage DeFi portfolios through Velvet Capital's infrastructure, utilizing real-time data, on-chain analysis, and neural network routing engines to identify high-potential yields, optimize trades, and rebalance positions. The current market cap of Velvet Unicorn token VU is $6.5 million.

https://x.com/VU_virtuals

tao.bot

tao.bot is a gateway to the Bittensor network, supporting seamless exchanges from Ethereum to any subnet token.

https://x.com/taodotbot