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What’s up
Fears Deepen, Oil Climbs, Stocks Wither But Crypto Holds Its Own
Hope for a resolution to hostilities in the critically strategic Persian Gulf has dimmed. President Trump on Monday touted constructive talks with Iranian leaders. Iran denied this and later launched a fresh barrage of attacks on Israel.
It’s possible the Islamic Republic has splintered into ideologically moderate/hardcore factions jockeying for post-war relevance. Last night, The Wall Street Journal, citing sources, reported Middle Eastern intermediators have been trying to get talks going and that these efforts were a long way from fruitfulness.
Brent crude futures fell to as low as $99 per barrel on Monday after a potential off-ramp seemed to materialize, if only flimsily. But the global oil price benchmark has since climbed back to $101. Brent has recently been as high as $112. Stock indexes in the U.S. were considerably in the red as of 10 a.m. (EST) Tuesday morning.
As of 8:15 a.m. (EST), Bitcoin was parked close to $71,000 after a 24-hour advance of 1%, according to CoinGecko. However, one hour later, as of 9:15 a.m. (EST), BTC had pulled back slightly, shedding that $71K handle. At 10 a.m. (EST), BTC was $70,091, per CoinGecko.
Ethereum at one point earlier today had gained 2%. The second-largest crypto is looking to crawl its way back above $2,200, a place it hasn’t visited since the middle of last week.
Among Big Ten coins, Dogecoin (DOGE) and Solana (SOL) also each gained about 2%. Some of the gains dissipated later in the morning.
The best-performing coin among the Top 100 is Bittensor (TAO), up 10% to $311. TAO remains 60% off its all-time high of $758 reached in March of 2024.
Said AMBCrypto of TAO, “it's positioned to capture AI-crypto momentum.”
At a recent event, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang gave a shout out to Bittensor’s latest AI model which is said to be the largest one ever trained on fully decentralized infrastructure.
What's down
SIREN Strikes Rocky Shore
Volatile Siren (SIREN) plummeted by as much as 70% just in the past 24 hours, making it CoinGecko’s biggest loser today.
SIREN still has a spot within the Top 100. The No. 83 coin has a market cap of about $730 million. Two days ago, SIREN attained an ATH of $3.61. As of last check this morning, it was $1.01.
The BNB Chain token is touted as an AI Agent for investors. Somehow there's a meme sensibility in there too, supposedly.
According to Cointelegraph, the steep descent occurred at the same time as some analysts (Bubblemaps and EmberCN, among others) flagged up wallet data indicating the token’s holdings were extremely concentrated, although this outsized risk factor was widely known prior to the recent pump.
What's next
The High Cost Of AI Take-Up
All across Silicon Valley, lavish “token budgets” have become the perk of choice for elite coders as an AI utilization trend storms across the economy. In tech parlance, these AI tokens refer not to AI-related cryptos like FET or TAO but, rather, to an atomic unit of measurement for AI utility, or the equivalent of a handful of keyboard pecks.
“Artificial intelligence was supposed to help tech companies boost productivity and cut costs,” the New York Times said on March 20. “But it has also created an expensive new status game, known as ‘tokenmaxxing’ among AI-obsessed workers who are desperate to prove how productive they are.”
At Meta and OpenAI, employees compete on internal leaderboards that show how many tokens each worker consumes, two people familiar with those companies’ practices told the Times.
Token consumption has exploded, according to TechCrunch.
“Where someone writing an essay might use 10,000 tokens in an afternoon, an engineer running a swarm of agents can blow through millions in a day,” TechCrunch explained.
Nvidia has even floated the notion that engineers should receive roughly half their annual base salary in tokens. Top people might burn through $250K in AI compute. Nvidia’s perpetually cool-leather-jacketed CEO Jensen Huang has called AI tokens “a recruiting tool.”
The rationale, Huang insists, per TechCrunch, is that access to more compute makes engineers more productive, and that more productive engineers are more valuable. “The idea,” said TechCrunch, “is that it’s an investment in the person holding the tokens.”
