AI coins are still dominating crypto in 2025, and a newcomer is making waves this February. AI Rig Complex (ARC) is up by 40% this week in an otherwise flat market, making it a great option for traders trying to maximize their gains.
Another AI crypto—the ultra-unhinged meme coin, iDEGEN—also offers outsized returns, with its IDGN presale smashing a $21.5 million raise as it enters its final month of pre-market action. With a fresh posting ban on X, will the end of its presale slow down… or speed up?
ARC: AI infrastructure wars continue
As the nexus of AI and Web3 develops, infrastructure plays are becoming more and more popular: the opportunity to own a slice of the foundations of the future is reminiscent of the battle between Layer 1 blockchains back in the 2017 cycle.
While many of those Layer 1s have faded into obscurity, the winners have persisted, and that’s the kind of long-term viability that AI Rig Complex is looking for. By deploying a lightweight framework for launching blockchain-based AI agents with ease, ARC could become the keystone of an agentic Web4 as it develops.
Agents—just like iDEGEN—are already a huge phenomenon within crypto, but are still very early on in their adoption journey. By building out the application layer that enables a truly agent-dominated blockchain space, ARC stakes a claim on a huge market share of the “smart web” of tomorrow.
But there are many claimants to this through: the open-source ElizaOS has a first mover advantage, bolstered by the household name ai16z token. Whether ARC can take the top spot is unclear, but if it can, it could be a powerful investment.
iDEGEN: The ultimate AI agent gets banned again
iDEGEN was always going to be a wild experiment—it’s an AI agent trained exclusively on the wild sh*tposting of Crypto Twitter—but nobody expected things to get this wild.
It’s just been banned, for the third time, on X, for violently threatening a hater. Tiresome, yes—but potentially lucrative. The past two X bans have resulted not in a slowdown, but in an uptick in presale funding, with $1 million inflow spikes pouring in on both occasions.
The pro-free speech degens who thought they had found a new home on Elon Musk’s notoriously permissive platform have found themselves raging at the injustice of bans for relatively minor comment, and have ostensibly seen IDGN as a protest: they’ve galvanized around the unhinged agent, and will not be silenced.
The iDEGEN presale ends on 26th February, and the token lists on exchanges the very next day, meaning that the final couple of weeks of the ICO are likely to really heat up—and this new ban provides the perfect fuel for the fire. With nearly $22 million raised already and a brand new source of buy pressure, things could get crazy.
AI roundup: ARC vs iDEGEN
ARC is a great opportunity to buy future infrastructure for Web4, where crypto and AI intersect—but the intense competition, and first-mover advantage of others makes it a risky bet.
Meanwhile, iDEGEN is entering the home stretch of its blockbuster presale, having already raised nearly $22 million, and has just picked up another X ban. To some, that might be a disadvantage, but for this unhinged agent of free speech chaos, it’s just another day at the office—and is likely to send the bid higher once again.
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