Coingecko: How wide is the adoption of crypto AI in 2025?

Source: Coingecko; Translated by Deng Tong, Golden Finance

How wide will the scope of adoption of crypto AI in 2025?

In a survey conducted this year, 59.3% (nearly three-fifths) of cryptocurrency participants considered themselves the first to adopt crypto AI. Another 34.7% of participants considered themselves the mainstream adoption of crypto AI, while the remaining 6.1% expressed doubts that they were the least willing to adopt crypto AI.

Compared to the bell-shaped curve distribution that technology adopts usually followed, the first participants with encrypted AI accounted for an unusually high proportion. This can be attributed to self-select bias in participants who are already interested in encrypted AI, but may also indicate that encrypted AI adoption is still dominated by technology enthusiasts and has not yet gained mainstream attention even within the crypto industry.

Among the pioneers of adoption of crypto AI, 26.6% of participants considered themselves “innovators” or tech enthusiasts who were keen to follow any new trend, and 32.7% considered themselves “early adopters” with trend-sensitive. The increase in the proportion of “early adopters” may reflect the latest cognitive shift, with the crypto industry increasingly viewing crypto AI as a promising key area rather than just hype.

Meanwhile, 22.8% of crypto participants considered themselves “early public” in the field of crypto AI adoption, almost twice the 11.9% of cryptographers considered themselves “latest public.” This shows that the current challenge facing crypto AI is how to promote it among mainstream people who focus on practice and are more risk-averse. In order for crypto AI projects to be adopted by the “early mass” first, they may need to clearly demonstrate how to solve practical problems or create value for users.

Finally, 6.1% of the few people consider themselves to be skeptical and resistant to change, consistent with the tail end of a typical bell-shaped curve distribution. These “laggards” may be a combination of realists (who are only interested in engaging in crypto AI for monetary gains), AI critics, and cautious users waiting for more mature technologies.

More cryptocurrency newbies experience differentiation in crypto AI

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It is worth noting that in the first market cycle, 31.5% of participants considered themselves “innovators” in crypto AI adoption and 7.4% considered themselves “laggards”. Both of these proportions were higher than those of the second-cycle participants (19.9% ​​of participants considered themselves “innovators”, 4.3% of participants considered themselves “laggards”) and senior participants in the third and above (24.4% of participants considered themselves “innovators” and 5.3% of participants considered themselves “laggards”). This suggests that cryptocurrency newbies may have a stronger and more divergent view on cryptocurrency interpretation, especially when some people may have entered the cryptocurrency space due to the latest cryptocurrency boom.

On the other hand, participants and veterans who have experienced the second round of encryption cycle have similar attitudes toward encrypted AI. The only difference is that the "early mass" group of participants in the second round accounted for a slightly higher proportion, while the "innovator" group of veterans accounted for a higher proportion.

Encryption AI adoption curve in 2025

The crypto market's interest or attitudes in adopting crypto AI are distributed as follows: