AI Sector Rebounds as Agent Payment Systems Gain Traction

The small-cap coin trenches have been struggling since the TRUMP memecoin launch in January, but there are renewed signs of life in the artificial intelligence (AI) coin space, driven by the Virtuals ecosystem and the rise of x402 protocols.

VIRTUAL is up 84% over the last week, and leading coins in its ecosystem, such as TIBBIR and AIXBT, are up 27% and 54% in the same timeframe, likely catalyzed by Coinbase providing its users access to all Virtuals-based AI agent tokens on Oct. 24.

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