2025 Milestones of AI Protocols:

$TAO : First halving (Dec) cuts daily emissions (−50%), institutional treasury (Oblong) expanded by 21,531 TAO (~$8M), ecosystem subnets/miner capacity grew

$NEAR : NEAR Intents added Cardano swaps, 1M TPS benchmark tests, triple-digit growth in intents/revenue, NEARCON 2025 ~12,000 attendees, DeFi TVL ~$154.7M (Aug)

$ICP : Sub-50ms block times (Dec), Caffeine AI app-builder launched, Magnetosphere milestone for TEEs, Chain Fusion + canister upgrades shipped, canister/cycles usage hit 2025 highs.

$LINK: ISO 27001 & SOC 2 certified (Q3), $27T+ total value facilitated, selected by U.S. Dept. of Commerce to bring macro data on-chain, Confidential Compute + Chainlink Runtime Environment announced, CCIP/enterprise pilots scaled across dozens of institutions.

$SAHARA: $50M ICO (Jun 26), $SAHARA TGE (Q3), Sahara Studio AI tool suite launched (Q2), early enterprise partnerships (e.g., big-tech/consumer apps)

$KITE: $263M volume in first 2h, listed on Binance/Upbit/Bithumb, MiCAR whitepaper for EU compliance, EVM-compatible L1 upgrades (Dec) for stablecoin-native AI txs, mainnet launch upcoming

$FET: ASI Chain testnet live + migration progress, $55M treasury reserve program focused on $FET, partnership with Zus Network, agent tooling/deployments scaled to thousands.

$RENDER: 60M frames rendered, node/GPU supply up, creator/dev grants to 100s of recipients, Octane X on Apple Silicon momentum, Compute Network trial for AI workloads (US nodes onboarding).

$INJ: Launched on-chain Pre-IPO perps, weekly burns/fees hit yearly highs, TVL +14% in Oct alongside buybacks, on-chain digital asset treasury (SBET) launched.

#VIRTUALS: rumoured $75M annualized revenue, Genesis token distribution (Apr) for agent tokens, planned Apple Health/Oura/Fitbit/Whoop integrations

$IO: >$20M annualized on-chain revenue, 139,000 GPUs on the network, 49M $IO distributed to 101,000 workers, Incentive Dynamic Engine launched (Dec), collab with Wondera AI (to ~200k users).