Which AI-based tokens would you buy in 2026?

[Abiky]

We've entered a new year, full of hopes and promises to make crypto bigger and stronger than ever. The AI hype still hasn't shown signs of wearing down, so I came to wonder if there are any good AI-based crypto projects worth considering? Like tokens or coins that are tied to AI with potential of going all the way to the moon soon.

Feel free to share your findings below. Explain why you think your coin of choice would be the best investment for 2026. Thanks for your input in advance. 🙂

[TastyChillySauce00]

It would be the on-chain infrastructure for AI that i'd choose much more than those AI agents or chatGPT wrapper coin.

RNDR is good since it provides decentralized GPU, we all know how scarce GPU is as well as RAM these days. TAO is also good for its decentralized machine learning network.
But I haven't invested in even single one of them for 2026. From what I've observed the AI bullrun only stay strictly in the stock market. So, even if AI is hot right now I'm still doubtful if these coins really gonna pump.

[Publishmee]

Hi,


In my opinion, the good investment about AI it´s clearly near protocol, a L1 which uses AI agents i can see a very good potencial, important  people behind the project too.


Thanks

[Charles-Tim]

The problem about this altcoins is that you will not know the coin when it will start rising, it will be a new coin most likely, before you know about it, it might have increased. Later the coin price will start to fall, many people will lose. This is not happening just to AI tokens but it is happening to many altcoins and it makes them dangerous because they are not store of value.

[gogarza63@hotmail.com]

It would be the on-chain infrastructure for AI that i'd choose much more than those AI agents or chatGPT wrapper coin.

RNDR is good since it provides decentralized GPU, we all know how scarce GPU is as well as RAM these days. TAO is also good for its decentralized machine learning network.
But I haven't invested in even single one of them for 2026. From what I've observed the AI bullrun only stay strictly in the stock market. So, even if AI is hot right now I'm still doubtful if these coins really gonna pump.

That's good stuff thank you. I'm looking for a good link between TastyChillySauce00 and iot. Not sure why or how we skipped iot and went straight AI. Maybe AI brings us iot better than we could. lol. Understanding that AI is in the eye of the beholder. That being said Jasmy seemed or seems promising. Not a genius but I try to be economically mathematical, and they say it's Japans Bitcoin.

[wozzek23]

The problem about this altcoins is that you will not know the coin when it will start rising, it will be a new coin most likely, before you know about it, it might have increased. Later the coin price will start to fall, many people will lose. This is not happening just to AI tokens but it is happening to many altcoins and it makes them dangerous because they are not store of value.

It can happen as well in BTC. This is why they are speculative and has a risk. If only we know all their moves, then that was an easy money already, lol but looks impossible at the same time. There are signs though and patterns but sometimes they still fail to give us a proper direction. New coins are still not fully analysed, so the excitement or the hype is still there, hence they are usually the ones that will increase at any moment.

We can still monitor the coins closely, so that we can see every inch of their movements. Many new coins are pump and dump, and they are bit tricky to navigate, which makes many people to lose. Any coins are a store of value but not until they have no value or they got delisted.

[Victorybit1]

We've entered a new year, full of hopes and promises to make crypto bigger and stronger than ever. The AI hype still hasn't shown signs of wearing down, so I came to wonder if there are any good AI-based crypto projects worth considering? Like tokens or coins that are tied to AI with potential of going all the way to the moon soon.

Feel free to share your findings below. Explain why you think your coin of choice would be the best investment for 2026. Thanks for your input in advance. 🙂

Well am not a fan of buying altcoins that I haven't fully done my research on and especially that the base support behind this thought of buying the coin is AI related, I don't know but I would feel better in buying all other top altcoins that I know can do better than fully relying on an AI coin. But then again the market this year is what we should consider because many people have the believe that this year can be bear season.

[Juse14]

This is an AI token that has seen a significant increase over the past 7 days. Has anyone invested in it? The start of a new year usually brings interesting technology to invest in, which presents a significant opportunity for profit. Render and IP led the way, seeing a significant price increase, reaching 50%. If you bought at $10,000, it would now be worth $15,000, a significant profit.

However, I know no one is willing to invest more money this year because it's the end of the Bitcoin cycle and the market is preparing for a bear market, so few are willing to take risks in this year's market.

[execijutiere]

As with other areas, I believe the key tokens in this field are TAO and RNDR. We can say that these two coins, in particular, will once again make people take notice of the AI hype. While we believe they are currently undergoing an accumulation phase, it is possible to acquire a small amount of each of these two coins and set them aside. TAO has a broader and more distinct area of interest compared to its competitor, but RNDR has just as much potential to deliver results.

[jossiel]

This is an AI token that has seen a significant increase over the past 7 days. Has anyone invested in it? The start of a new year usually brings interesting technology to invest in, which presents a significant opportunity for profit. Render and IP led the way, seeing a significant price increase, reaching 50%. If you bought at $10,000, it would now be worth $15,000, a significant profit.

However, I know no one is willing to invest more money this year because it's the end of the Bitcoin cycle and the market is preparing for a bear market, so few are willing to take risks in this year's market.

I haven't invested with any of them but we'll see if the AI tokens are still significant for this year of 2026.

Because many of them looks good to invest with but, if it's about profitability. We'll never know if this year is great for that.

Like what you said, we know what's coming for this year and that's why we have to look if the AI tokens are still desirable to have.

[o48o]

Even if i thought that there's any change for any token to make gains in 2026, i would avoid every project that's even flirting with the idea of AI. I know it might rise for a while, but when it crashes it will crash so hard.

It's so overused hype term for EVERY product that doesn't really mean anything. And it's not just in crypto. At some point there's going to be so much annoyance against he whole concept and it backfires, and whole industry bubble breaks. With that investors will avoid everything AI hype related.

It already seems to be more hated concept then NFTs were in their hay day. And that's something i didn't see coming.

Even though i understand that it's a broad umbrella of different applications, i don't trust that majority will. Energy usage of it can't be sustainable either. At least with NFTs Ethereum went PoS, so they aren't as hated by public.

[Kavelj22]

As with other areas, I believe the key tokens in this field are TAO and RNDR. We can say that these two coins, in particular, will once again make people take notice of the AI hype. While we believe they are currently undergoing an accumulation phase, it is possible to acquire a small amount of each of these two coins and set them aside. TAO has a broader and more distinct area of interest compared to its competitor, but RNDR has just as much potential to deliver results.

I would like if you can define the concept of TAO and RNDR projects and what product they are and what use case they offer. I don't guess your opinion is only based on trading perspectives.
The whole concept of IA based tokens in my opinion is another useless trend similar to past trends like ICO based tokens and DEFI wave. They don't worth attention out from the trading perspective.

[Odusko]

The problem about this altcoins is that you will not know the coin when it will start rising, it will be a new coin most likely, before you know about it, it might have increased. Later the coin price will start to fall, many people will lose. This is not happening just to AI tokens but it is happening to many altcoins and it makes them dangerous because they are not store of value.

Yes and since we can tell which of them will be profitable or not, that is the reason we always wait for the hypes in the market to jump on it's in other to take our portion of the market before the hype fades and the dump will happen, most AI tokens are in the memecoins categories who like real life usage feature or an ecosystem that supports their existence.

[execijutiere]

As with other areas, I believe the key tokens in this field are TAO and RNDR. We can say that these two coins, in particular, will once again make people take notice of the AI hype. While we believe they are currently undergoing an accumulation phase, it is possible to acquire a small amount of each of these two coins and set them aside. TAO has a broader and more distinct area of interest compared to its competitor, but RNDR has just as much potential to deliver results.

I would like if you can define the concept of TAO and RNDR projects and what product they are and what use case they offer. I don't guess your opinion is only based on trading perspectives.
The whole concept of IA based tokens in my opinion is another useless trend similar to past trends like ICO based tokens and DEFI wave. They don't worth attention out from the trading perspective.

In short, what both want to do is create a decentralized marketplace.
TAO collects AI models developed by companies in a network and tries to show which ones are good by imposing a scoring system on them.
Render, on the other hand, is GPU-oriented. It activates idle GPUs on its own network and directs AI tasks such as visual, video, and 3D rendering to these GPUs, thereby shortening the process. In other words, it creates an AirBNB-like mechanism for GPUs.
For more detailed information, it would be best to check their documentation.

[nelson4lov]

I think only TAO and probably Render does actual "AI" stuff in the crypto. The rest are just masquerading under the umbrella but have no real impact or AI innovation. I personally think that anyone that needs exposure to AI would probably just needs those two or if they had to pick only one, I'd say Bitssensor (TAO). I think right now, the number 1 way to get exposure to AI growth is just to buy/lomg Nvidia.

[Kavelj22]

As with other areas, I believe the key tokens in this field are TAO and RNDR. We can say that these two coins, in particular, will once again make people take notice of the AI hype. While we believe they are currently undergoing an accumulation phase, it is possible to acquire a small amount of each of these two coins and set them aside. TAO has a broader and more distinct area of interest compared to its competitor, but RNDR has just as much potential to deliver results.

I would like if you can define the concept of TAO and RNDR projects and what product they are and what use case they offer. I don't guess your opinion is only based on trading perspectives.
The whole concept of IA based tokens in my opinion is another useless trend similar to past trends like ICO based tokens and DEFI wave. They don't worth attention out from the trading perspective.

In short, what both want to do is create a decentralized marketplace.
TAO collects AI models developed by companies in a network and tries to show which ones are good by imposing a scoring system on them.
Render, on the other hand, is GPU-oriented. It activates idle GPUs on its own network and directs AI tasks such as visual, video, and 3D rendering to these GPUs, thereby shortening the process. In other words, it creates an AirBNB-like mechanism for GPUs.
For more detailed information, it would be best to check their documentation.

What interests me the most, as a crypto enthousiast, is the role of the token within the network. Does this kind of marketplaces requires a token as a utility token? Most of crypto projects, which counted in tens of thousands nowadays, don't need to lunch the project in the crypto space at first place from a utility perspective. Most of them failed to provide a product or even a prototype despite the token is already in exchange. What I want to say is those projects, including AI based projects are just lunching new tokens claiming to be modern tech based, just to lunch a new token in trade just as a trading instrument, nothing more.

[execijutiere]

As with other areas, I believe the key tokens in this field are TAO and RNDR. We can say that these two coins, in particular, will once again make people take notice of the AI hype. While we believe they are currently undergoing an accumulation phase, it is possible to acquire a small amount of each of these two coins and set them aside. TAO has a broader and more distinct area of interest compared to its competitor, but RNDR has just as much potential to deliver results.

I would like if you can define the concept of TAO and RNDR projects and what product they are and what use case they offer. I don't guess your opinion is only based on trading perspectives.
The whole concept of IA based tokens in my opinion is another useless trend similar to past trends like ICO based tokens and DEFI wave. They don't worth attention out from the trading perspective.

In short, what both want to do is create a decentralized marketplace.
TAO collects AI models developed by companies in a network and tries to show which ones are good by imposing a scoring system on them.
Render, on the other hand, is GPU-oriented. It activates idle GPUs on its own network and directs AI tasks such as visual, video, and 3D rendering to these GPUs, thereby shortening the process. In other words, it creates an AirBNB-like mechanism for GPUs.
For more detailed information, it would be best to check their documentation.

What interests me the most, as a crypto enthousiast, is the role of the token within the network. Does this kind of marketplaces requires a token as a utility token? Most of crypto projects, which counted in tens of thousands nowadays, don't need to lunch the project in the crypto space at first place from a utility perspective. Most of them failed to provide a product or even a prototype despite the token is already in exchange. What I want to say is those projects, including AI based projects are just lunching new tokens claiming to be modern tech based, just to lunch a new token in trade just as a trading instrument, nothing more.

I believe both have a useful aspect on the network. I understand that even a small contribution to the network's GPU is rewarded, for example with RENDER, but I haven't researched it in great detail. Of course, TAO has a similar reward mechanism, or we could say it has a different reward mechanism. What you say makes sense, but sometimes we don't look for logic in crypto. An altcoin we dismissed as worthless might suddenly appear before us 4-5 months later having increased 1000x in value.

[bettercrypto]

I share the sentiment of most commenters regarding AI tokens; TAO stands out as having the most significant potential for further price appreciation.

Despite the recent price dip, TAO is quite unique because its price often surges unexpectedly, making market timing difficult. However, I personally believe it remains a strong candidate for a long-term hold.

[justinlamode]

Solidius AI Tech was the first AI project I got interest in which I would have love to buy but their team do not look honest as there were reports of them cheating people that helped them in their marketing. Apart from that, the project looks great and the have a supportive community that are passionate about the project. Apart from that act of dishonesty from them which is a red flag for me, I would have invested in that project. TAO is another one that caught my attention but I'm still studying them.

[allthebitandbobs]

None of them because I still do not trust any small company with AI focus. People forget that even the companies who spend hundred billion dollars or more, like open AI, with bunch of huge NVidia like companies behind it, even government help, they are still building AI that makes mistakes. If that is the case, something that gets the funding from the investors in the crypto world will not build anything that is sustainable and good, and the AI it may create (most even create one) will end up being a subpar terrible copy of it.

Some versions of AI are open source, so it won't start from scratch but will be terrible compared to what we already have so it will not be preferred and will not be used so won't make any money for the investor.