While loads of crypto traders are hedging their bets on what AI crypto tokens will soar in the next bull run, 0G Labs co-founder and CEO Michael Heinrich believes the most promising ones haven’t hit the market yet.
“I think most of the best decentralized AI tokens are still to list,” Heinrich tells Hall of Flame.
However, he is “bullish” on three particular AI crypto tokens that are already floating around on the major crypto exchanges.
“Some public ones I’m following are Goat, Turbo and Aethir,” he explains.
“Goat and Turbo are experiments in AI memes, which is fun to watch as a movement.”
Aethir (ATH), meanwhile, has been compared to Airbnb for GPU computing, and Heinrich is “hoping they can unlock full permissionless [access] to” its decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN).
But he’s “not so interested” in Bittensor (TAO), the second-biggest AI crypto token by market capitalization.
While Heinrich believes the token may do well, he says the project doesn’t “solve for true AI onchain.”
He explains that it’s more of a “coordination mechanism,” allowing people to collaborate and share AI models rather than truly solving the problem of making AI fully accessible to everyone.
Heinrich is an East Berlin native who grew up in San Francisco. He first bought Bitcoin in 2013, and by the “first major bull market” in 2017, he had already been running Bitcoin mining operations.
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In 2023, he launched infrastructure firm 0G Labs — which is creating a modular AI blockchain — with serial entrepreneur Fan Long and his former Stanford University classmate Thomas Yao.
“It was inevitable that I would be drawn just as quickly to AI, and when an opportunity came to combine these two emerging technologies, I leaped at the chance,” he says.
“I didn’t have a complete idea of how Web3 and AI were going to coalesce;…
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