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As the new year began, Dragonfly Capital’s managing partner spoke out on AI agent currencies and memecoins. He asserts that AI agent tokens will continue to beat memecoins in 2025. However, momentum may dissipate by 2026. In an X post, Haseeb Qureshi wrote,  “Memecoins will continue to lose market share to “AI agent” coins. I consider this a migration from financial nihilism to financial over-optimism.” However, he explained that they won’t last long because as more advanced AI products come along, people will lose interest in social media chatbots. He continued to reason that CT will be obsessed with it because it’s the most social.  He claimed, “The “AI agent” craze will continue probably throughout 2025. But it will die off eventually.” Total market cap for top AI and data crypto tokens. Source: CoinMarketCap Notably, over the past 24 hours, total memecoin trading volume dropped almost 21.5%, while trading volume among the top AI and data tokens rose by 10.36% to $3.86 billion. Still, the total market cap of the top AI and data tokens declined by 1.66% over the past 30 days, whereas the total memecoin market cap experienced a 17.7% decline during the same period. ‘AI agents are chatbots with memecoins attacked’  According to Haseeb Qureshi, AI agents aren’t really agents. They are chatbots that are linked to memecoins. Other than writing on Twitter, they don’t do much else. He claimed, “Current “AI agents” are also mostly “Wizard of Oz” agents[…]there are humans behind the scenes ensuring the AI doesn’t go off the rails.” In addition, he said that it’s easy to get current agents to say crazy things that hurt their brands, or they can be hacked to take all of their resources. He explained that if an AI isn’t getting jailbroken, it’s because it’s from The…

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