14 Crypto x AI Projects on Our Radar

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Telling terminally online strangers to unplug from memes is a bit like expecting Phineas and Ferb to finally listen to Candace and stop building impossible contraptions. It simply isn’t going to happen.

Once again, the memes have taken over, pushing genuinely innovative work into the background. 

And it isn’t just the memes. The World Cup dominated timelines too, drowning out product launches, protocol upgrades, AI breakthroughs, and the steady stream of interesting projects quietly building at the frontiers of crypto and frontier tech.

So we’re revisiting some of the projects we think deserve another look, teams exploring genuinely novel ideas, builders iterating in relative obscurity, and even a few more established names whose work we believe will prove increasingly important as these industries evolve.

With that said, let’s get into today’s platter.

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What’s worth keeping an eye on in crypto 

Lora Finance 

Lora lets users collect yield upfront by setting a higher sell price on an asset. 

Users open a position, get paid, and either settle if the market hits their target or keep the asset. 

Lora currently runs on Solana for speed and liquidity access after moving off MegaETH. 

The entire idea is targeted at providing capital-efficient exposure without traditional leverage liquidations. 

Reppo

Reppo is a decentralized network for generating and curating AI training data through domain-specific prediction markets called datanets. 

Publishers submit data as pods, voters lock veREPPO to signal quality, and both sides earn emissions. 

The protocol is built on Base with stake-backed feedback instead of traditional labeling contracts.

Strata

Strata is a risk-tranching protocol that splits any yield strategy into senior and junior tokens. 

Senior offers more protection and steadier yields; junior takes first-loss risk for higher returns. 

Strata’s live markets include Ethena USDe and others, with its TVL in millions. The protocol is fully onchain and composable.

Miden

Miden is a zero-knowledge architecture protocol focused on practical privacy and scalability. 

Miden enables use cases like onchain payroll systems by ensuring that transactions and state stay private by default with client-side proving, using an accounts-and-notes model for parallel execution. 

The protocol offers support for full smart contracts and post-quantum cryptography.

Kizzy

A lot of conversations around Monad in the past few days. However, there are cool use cases. 

Kizzy is not new, but still falls on our radar. It’s is a licensed social media speculation platform. 

Users speculate on creator performance metrics alongside standard games. The next time you see a post with viral potential early, you should think about Kizzy.

Kizzy is built to handle no KYC, enable instant crypto deposits and withdrawals, plus currently runs a points system (Purple K) for volume and referrals. 

The protocol is mobile-first and built around real-money social betting.

Hyro Network

Hyro brings prop trading onchain on Solana. 

For perspective, “prop trading” (short for proprietary trading) is when a firm provides its own capital for traders to trade financial markets.

It works via liquidity providers’ fund trader vaults, with performance being oracle-verified and payouts settled in USDC. 

Hype is built by the existing HyroTrader team. The goal is to bring to the market transparent and verifiable capital allocation instead of opaque traditional prop firms.

TruYields

TruYields provides institutional-grade onchain yield infrastructure, primarily on Solana. 

Its flagship product, TruBILL, offers tokenized US Treasury yield with permissioned access and T+0 redemptions. 

TruYields also covers liquid staking and curated vault strategies designed for regulated capital.

Glow Foundation

On the RWA scene, Glow is a protocol that incentivizes real-world solar farm deployment through token rewards. 

Glow functions through contributors funding installations or staking GLW to earn based on verified energy production. 

The protocol runs operations via installation, mining, and delegation layers and is focused on measurable clean-energy impact.

Silent Swap

Silent Swap is a non-custodial private cross-chain swap protocol. 

If you still do some work onchain, Silent Swap allows you to route your trades through private pools, allowing order intent to stay hidden until settlement, using zero-knowledge proofs. 

Silent Swap execution typically takes 1-5 minutes. It is built for users who want to avoid front-running and public mempool leakage.

Auki

Lastly, Auki is building the “real-world web” for robots and intelligent machines via something called “Poshmesh” - a decentralized machine perception network and spatial computing. 

Auki turns physical environments into AI-accessible data layers, allowing millions of devices to share spatial data and compute resources so robots, smart glasses, phones, and AI agents can collaboratively map, position, and understand physical environments with “shared awareness.”

What’s worth keeping an eye on in AI

Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect is first on our list, and is a full-stack platform that lets teams train, evaluate, and run their own self-improving agents end-to-end. 

The project bundles compute, reinforcement-learning environments, sandboxes, and inference into one loop so you can take a base model, point it at your actual workflows, and keep refining it without stitching five different tools together.

Pretty useful stuff. 

Placer AI

Placer is a location intelligence layer that turns anonymized mobile signals into clear pictures of real-world foot traffic, trade areas, and consumer movement. 

Retailers, landlords, and civic teams use it to see which doors people walk through, how long they stay, and what competing spots are doing, without ever touching personal data.

It is a genuinely interesting approach to entrenched data without the parasitic invasiveness. One to definitely watch, and potentially do a deeper dive into, all things considered. 

Helix DB

This might be a technical bite if you’re non-technical, but it’s not the monster it seems. 

‍Helix DB is simply an open-source graph-vector database built specifically for AI memory and retrieval augmented generation (RAG). 

What it does is that it stores both relationships and embeddings in the same engine, so agents can traverse knowledge graphs and do semantic search without duct-taping a vector store on top of a separate graph database.

Tilt App

Tilt is a great example of AI and humans working together. It’s a live shopping app where sellers stream products in real time, and buyers swipe through live auctions, TikTok-style.

AI powers almost every step of the experience. Sellers can point their camera at an item and have it listed in under a second, a real-time copilot provides coaching throughout the stream, and buyers can use agentic search to find products across every live auction simultaneously instead of hopping between rooms.

Concluding thoughts 

Ayy! For what it’s worth, nothing we’ve covered here should be taken as financial advice. Do your own research, dig deeper into these protocols, and decide whether they’re worth your time and attention.

That said, in an industry where everyone’s trying to cut through the noise, it might be time to start paying attention again. 

Some of the protocols we’ve highlighted could very well be among the next wave of opportunities.

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