That’s according to a report Saturday from CoinDesk, which says that 40 cents of every venture capital (VC) dollar invested in crypto companies last year went to companies building products that merge AI and crypto, compared to 18 cents of every dollar in 2024.

The report quoted recent findings from Binance Research arguing that “AI is increasingly entering crypto not as a parallel narrative, but as part of crypto’s own product and infrastructure stack.” The Binance study cited data from Silicon Valley Bank, and added that this shows “how quickly AI is becoming embedded within crypto roadmaps.”

That pressure, CoinDesk…