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Bittensor is doing something unusual right now.
AltRank #2. Engagements up 5,231% in a week. Price up 10.56% in 24 hours while most of crypto bleeds. And sentiment just cratered to 28%, against a daily average of 86%.
Record attention. Rising price. Bearish crowd. All at the same time.
Price: $194.70 (up 15.49% monthly, still 61% below its 1-year high)
Engagements: 60.1M today, all-time high of 93.5M hit March 5
Trading volume: up 133% vs. 6-month average
Sentiment: 28% (1-year low of 13% hit yesterday)
Low sentiment with rising price and volume is either old holders taking profits while new AI-narrative attention floods in, or a textbook accumulation signal. 99.9% of engagement is on X. News coverage is almost zero.
Watch what sentiment does this week. If it snaps back while price holds above $190, the setup gets interesting.
AltRank #2. Engagements up 5,231% in a week. Price up 10.56% in 24 hours while most of crypto bleeds. And sentiment just cratered to 28%, against a daily average of 86%.
Record attention. Rising price. Bearish crowd. All at the same time.
Price: $194.70 (up 15.49% monthly, still 61% below its 1-year high)
Engagements: 60.1M today, all-time high of 93.5M hit March 5
Trading volume: up 133% vs. 6-month average
Sentiment: 28% (1-year low of 13% hit yesterday)
Low sentiment with rising price and volume is either old holders taking profits while new AI-narrative attention floods in, or a textbook accumulation signal. 99.9% of engagement is on X. News coverage is almost zero.
Watch what sentiment does this week. If it snaps back while price holds above $190, the setup gets interesting.
Nasdaq just announced a partnership with Kraken to build a framework for tokenized stocks and ETFs, targeting a launch in early 2027.
The structure: 1-to-1 tokenized shares of Nasdaq-listed equities, with the same governance rights as traditional shareholders. Kraken handles global distribution, starting with Europe. Settlement moves to blockchain rails.
Kraken's xStocks platform has already logged $25B+ in transaction volume with $4B settled on-chain. This isn't a pilot. Nasdaq is building on infrastructure that's already running.
The same week Kraken secured a Federal Reserve master account, becoming the first crypto firm with direct access to the Fed's core payment system. Two moves in seven days.
The TradFi vs. crypto debate is structurally over. The question now is what gets built on top.
LunarCrush is tracking massive social momentum on this story today, with posts surging across X from accounts ranging from
WSJ (90K engagements) to Coinbureau
(77K engagements).
The structure: 1-to-1 tokenized shares of Nasdaq-listed equities, with the same governance rights as traditional shareholders. Kraken handles global distribution, starting with Europe. Settlement moves to blockchain rails.
Kraken's xStocks platform has already logged $25B+ in transaction volume with $4B settled on-chain. This isn't a pilot. Nasdaq is building on infrastructure that's already running.
The same week Kraken secured a Federal Reserve master account, becoming the first crypto firm with direct access to the Fed's core payment system. Two moves in seven days.
The TradFi vs. crypto debate is structurally over. The question now is what gets built on top.
LunarCrush is tracking massive social momentum on this story today, with posts surging across X from accounts ranging from
WSJ (90K engagements) to Coinbureau
(77K engagements).
$MOLT is up 302% today.
Meta just acquired Moltbook, the social network built for AI agents. Co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs, with the deal closing mid-March.
In sympathy, the market reacted fast on $MOLT
Price: $0.000088 (up 302% in 24h, up 518% on the week)
Trading volume hit $18.2M, up 203% above its daily average
Mentions jumped to 1,416, up 428% above averag
Engagements: 857K, nearly 12x the daily average
AltRank jumped to #2 across all of crypto
Galaxy Score hit an all-time high of 87.5
The narrative is simple: Big Tech is now acquiring crypto-native AI agent projects. Moltbook was sitting at a $4-5M market cap this morning with a $121M ATH.
Meta just acquired Moltbook, the social network built for AI agents. Co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs, with the deal closing mid-March.
In sympathy, the market reacted fast on $MOLT
Price: $0.000088 (up 302% in 24h, up 518% on the week)
Trading volume hit $18.2M, up 203% above its daily average
Mentions jumped to 1,416, up 428% above averag
Engagements: 857K, nearly 12x the daily average
AltRank jumped to #2 across all of crypto
Galaxy Score hit an all-time high of 87.5
The narrative is simple: Big Tech is now acquiring crypto-native AI agent projects. Moltbook was sitting at a $4-5M market cap this morning with a $121M ATH.
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PIXEL jumped from average rank 1,005 to LunarCrush AltRank #1 today. Trading volume up 7,419% week-over-week.
QUBIC climbed 600+ AltRank positions in a week.
HUMA went from average AltRank of 665 to top 5.
You would have missed all three if you were checking manually.
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QUBIC climbed 600+ AltRank positions in a week.
HUMA went from average AltRank of 665 to top 5.
You would have missed all three if you were checking manually.
We just published a guide showing how to use the LunarCrush MCP server to automate this kind of monitoring inside Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI client.
Check out the new guide:
How to Use the LunarCrush MCP Server to Build Real-Time AltRank Monitoring Into Any AI Workflow
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Bittensor just trained a 72B parameter language model across a decentralized network. No central company or data center, just a global mesh of permissionless compute nodes processing 1.1 trillion tokens.
The model, Covenant-72B, was trained on Bittensorβs subnet 3 and is the largest decentralized LLM pre-training run so far. The market noticed.
TAO is up 40% in 30 days.
Trading volume is up 167% in 6 months.
LunarCrush engagements jumped 114% MoM.
Galaxy Score sits at 70.4 vs a 55 average, with 86% sentiment. Grayscale also expanded its TAO trust for institutional access.
Most AI-crypto projects sell the idea of decentralized compute. Bittensor just shipped a working model.
TAO is still 57% below its $497 November high, leaving open the question: is Covenant-72B the beginning of decentralized AI infrastructure or the ceiling?
View the data
https://lunarcrush.com/topic/bittensor?section=metrics&metric=volume&interval=1d
The model, Covenant-72B, was trained on Bittensorβs subnet 3 and is the largest decentralized LLM pre-training run so far. The market noticed.
TAO is up 40% in 30 days.
Trading volume is up 167% in 6 months.
LunarCrush engagements jumped 114% MoM.
Galaxy Score sits at 70.4 vs a 55 average, with 86% sentiment. Grayscale also expanded its TAO trust for institutional access.
Most AI-crypto projects sell the idea of decentralized compute. Bittensor just shipped a working model.
TAO is still 57% below its $497 November high, leaving open the question: is Covenant-72B the beginning of decentralized AI infrastructure or the ceiling?
View the data
https://lunarcrush.com/topic/bittensor?section=metrics&metric=volume&interval=1d
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AAVE is getting talked about like crazy today but not for the reason you'd expect.
Someone just swapped $50.4M USDT for AAVE on Ethereum and received $36,200 back. They bypassed every slippage warning on mobile and MEV bots ate the rest.
That one transaction sent AAVE social engagements to 2.1M in 24 hours, over 7x the daily average. LunarCrush is showing a 1K% spike. The whole chart you're looking at is basically one catastrophic trade going viral.
To be clear on where the $50M actually went: roughly $36K to the user, $619K to CoW Swap fees, $9.9M to MEV bots, and $34M+ to the block builder. Stani Kulechov confirmed the team will refund the $600K in fees and try to reach the wallet.
Someone just swapped $50.4M USDT for AAVE on Ethereum and received $36,200 back. They bypassed every slippage warning on mobile and MEV bots ate the rest.
That one transaction sent AAVE social engagements to 2.1M in 24 hours, over 7x the daily average. LunarCrush is showing a 1K% spike. The whole chart you're looking at is basically one catastrophic trade going viral.
To be clear on where the $50M actually went: roughly $36K to the user, $619K to CoW Swap fees, $9.9M to MEV bots, and $34M+ to the block builder. Stani Kulechov confirmed the team will refund the $600K in fees and try to reach the wallet.
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LunarCrush AltRank Top 10 - March 13
Top coins with leading combined social and market movement today.
Two stories dominate today's leaderboard.
$TRUMP is up 50%+ after the team announced a Mar-a-Lago gala luncheon on April 25 for the top 297 token holders. One dormant wallet woke up after 5 months, bought $7M, and pocketed $2.5M in 10 hours. $8M in shorts got liquidated.
$PIXEL is up 139% over 7 days on a product announcement from the Pixels founder, a new SDK for sustainable play-to-earn economies in any game, plus an AI game economist trained on their own player data. Volume hit $248M vs a $18M daily average. GameFi is catching a bid.
The rest of the list $MICHI, $RENDER, $KMNO, $SOS, $DEGO, $RIVER, $HTR is riding the broader altcoin sentiment lift as shorts get squeezed across the board.
Top coins with leading combined social and market movement today.
Two stories dominate today's leaderboard.
$TRUMP is up 50%+ after the team announced a Mar-a-Lago gala luncheon on April 25 for the top 297 token holders. One dormant wallet woke up after 5 months, bought $7M, and pocketed $2.5M in 10 hours. $8M in shorts got liquidated.
$PIXEL is up 139% over 7 days on a product announcement from the Pixels founder, a new SDK for sustainable play-to-earn economies in any game, plus an AI game economist trained on their own player data. Volume hit $248M vs a $18M daily average. GameFi is catching a bid.
The rest of the list $MICHI, $RENDER, $KMNO, $SOS, $DEGO, $RIVER, $HTR is riding the broader altcoin sentiment lift as shorts get squeezed across the board.
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NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Super, Open-Source MoE Model for Agentic AI
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Super on March 12, an open model built on a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture designed for enterprise agentic AI. Artificial Analysis ranks it the most open and efficient model in its class. NVIDIA simultaneously launched NemoClaw, an open-source platform for building enterprise AI agents that reason and act autonomously.
This matters because NVIDIA
is no longer just selling chips. It is building the software stack those chips run, which creates a lock-in moat similar to what CUDA did for GPU computing a decade ago.
Social signal: NVDA saw 38.3M engagements (24h) across 23,060 mentions from 12,394 creators. AltRank #73, Galaxy Score 47.4. Engagements up 55% month-over-month. X and YouTube dominate the conversation.
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Super on March 12, an open model built on a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture designed for enterprise agentic AI. Artificial Analysis ranks it the most open and efficient model in its class. NVIDIA simultaneously launched NemoClaw, an open-source platform for building enterprise AI agents that reason and act autonomously.
This matters because NVIDIA
is no longer just selling chips. It is building the software stack those chips run, which creates a lock-in moat similar to what CUDA did for GPU computing a decade ago.
Social signal: NVDA saw 38.3M engagements (24h) across 23,060 mentions from 12,394 creators. AltRank #73, Galaxy Score 47.4. Engagements up 55% month-over-month. X and YouTube dominate the conversation.
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Have you seen Zcash today? π
$ZEC is up 13.7%, trading at $258.91, and the move has real fuel behind it.
Three catalysts hit in the past week: ZODL raised $25M from a16z and Paradigm, Foundry is launching an institutional mining pool in April, and the shielded pool just hit a new all-time high at 5.1M ZEC.
Sentiment sits at 88% bullish. AltRank jumped to #10, up from an average of 522 over the past year. The conversation is focused on one thesis: privacy as infrastructure for AI agents, and $ZEC is the most mature option on that shortlist.
30-day return is still -11%. Whoever bought the dip last month is having a good Monday.
$ZEC is up 13.7%, trading at $258.91, and the move has real fuel behind it.
Three catalysts hit in the past week: ZODL raised $25M from a16z and Paradigm, Foundry is launching an institutional mining pool in April, and the shielded pool just hit a new all-time high at 5.1M ZEC.
Sentiment sits at 88% bullish. AltRank jumped to #10, up from an average of 522 over the past year. The conversation is focused on one thesis: privacy as infrastructure for AI agents, and $ZEC is the most mature option on that shortlist.
30-day return is still -11%. Whoever bought the dip last month is having a good Monday.
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Polkadot just did its first-ever halving, capped supply at 2.1 billion, and the market barely noticed.
Polkadot's tokenomics overhaul went live on Pi Day (March 14), slashing emissions by 53% and introducing a hard cap of 2.1 billion $DOT. The price surged 12% today, trading volume is up 304% month-over-month, and the first U.S. spot DOT ETF $TDOT launched on Nasdaq just 10 days ago. Social dominance spiked 146% week-over-week, yet DOT sits 97% below its all-time high. This is a structural repricing event flying under most people's radar.
AltRank: #6 (up from #109 one month ago)
24h price change: +13.5%
Trading volume: $415M (up 304% from prior month)
Emissions cut from 120M DOT/year to 55M DOT/year
Social dominance: +146.87% week-over-week
21Shares $TDOT ETF saw $544K in first-week inflows
Polkadot's tokenomics overhaul went live on Pi Day (March 14), slashing emissions by 53% and introducing a hard cap of 2.1 billion $DOT. The price surged 12% today, trading volume is up 304% month-over-month, and the first U.S. spot DOT ETF $TDOT launched on Nasdaq just 10 days ago. Social dominance spiked 146% week-over-week, yet DOT sits 97% below its all-time high. This is a structural repricing event flying under most people's radar.
AltRank: #6 (up from #109 one month ago)
24h price change: +13.5%
Trading volume: $415M (up 304% from prior month)
Emissions cut from 120M DOT/year to 55M DOT/year
Social dominance: +146.87% week-over-week
21Shares $TDOT ETF saw $544K in first-week inflows
Gigachad posted 161.9M engagements in 24 hours. That's 740% above its daily average. Price moved 5%.
TikTok: 154.5M engagements (95.4% of total)
Weekly engagement: up 208% WoW
Two reads: either TikTok is flooding $GIGA with views that don't convert to buys (engagement is real, economically empty), or smart money is absorbing supply against the retail attention wave (the 18% Coinbase custody number supports this).
How to tell: watch trading volume over the next 3-5 days. If volume catches up to engagement, accumulation. If it stays flat while engagement fades, the TikTok wave was content, not conviction.
TikTok: 154.5M engagements (95.4% of total)
Weekly engagement: up 208% WoW
Two reads: either TikTok is flooding $GIGA with views that don't convert to buys (engagement is real, economically empty), or smart money is absorbing supply against the retail attention wave (the 18% Coinbase custody number supports this).
How to tell: watch trading volume over the next 3-5 days. If volume catches up to engagement, accumulation. If it stays flat while engagement fades, the TikTok wave was content, not conviction.
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Top large cap coins w/ the most social + market momentum right now:
APT +14% SEC/CFTC just classified it a commodity. Supply cap locked. Fees now burned.
ZRO +15% $47.5M whale buy. Cardano integration. Building its own L1 with Citadel Securities backing.
CSPR +40% Native DEX live. Token launchpad live. Fee burning active. Three launches at once .
TAO +9% Nvidia's AI agent platform + Grayscale ETF filing. Institutional infra forming around decentralized AI.
JTO +20% 59% off its all-time low from 6 weeks ago. Powers MEV for 80% of SOL validators. SOL activity = JTO upside.
HUMA +17% PayFi narrative, small float, accelerating social. One of the cleaner RWA stories.
AR +14% AWS data center fire reminded everyone why permanent decentralized storage exists.
AERO +14% 180M+ tokens bought back and max-locked. Base DEX king reducing its own supply.
FET +11% ASI Alliance + TAO's AI rally = whole sector lifted. Liquid large-cap AI proxy.
ZRO, APT, CSPR are the 3 with the clearest fundamental catalysts today.
APT +14% SEC/CFTC just classified it a commodity. Supply cap locked. Fees now burned.
ZRO +15% $47.5M whale buy. Cardano integration. Building its own L1 with Citadel Securities backing.
CSPR +40% Native DEX live. Token launchpad live. Fee burning active. Three launches at once .
TAO +9% Nvidia's AI agent platform + Grayscale ETF filing. Institutional infra forming around decentralized AI.
JTO +20% 59% off its all-time low from 6 weeks ago. Powers MEV for 80% of SOL validators. SOL activity = JTO upside.
HUMA +17% PayFi narrative, small float, accelerating social. One of the cleaner RWA stories.
AR +14% AWS data center fire reminded everyone why permanent decentralized storage exists.
AERO +14% 180M+ tokens bought back and max-locked. Base DEX king reducing its own supply.
FET +11% ASI Alliance + TAO's AI rally = whole sector lifted. Liquid large-cap AI proxy.
ZRO, APT, CSPR are the 3 with the clearest fundamental catalysts today.
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Four AI tokens just clustered in the top 10 of LunarCrush AltRank at the same time. Why? These assets all have leading combined social and market momentum vs. the entire crypto market.
Bittensor jumped from an average rank of #398 to #2. Venice Token vaulted from #415 to #4. Fetch went from #467 to #6. Render holds at #8.
$TAO hit a 52-week engagement high of 9M interactions in a single day. $FET's engagements are up 232% month-over-month. $VVV is up 24% on the week. $RENDER is climbing steadily at +8% over seven days while its social-market alignment quietly tightens.
Four AI tokens in the top 10 AltRank is not a coincidence. That is a sector rotation happening in real time, with social momentum and market momentum converging around one narrative: decentralized AI infrastructure.
When you see this kind of AltRank clustering within a single sector, the pattern matters more than any individual token.
https://lunarcrush.com/home?category=cryptocurrencies&metric=alt_rank&sort=alt_rank&reverse=0
Bittensor jumped from an average rank of #398 to #2. Venice Token vaulted from #415 to #4. Fetch went from #467 to #6. Render holds at #8.
$TAO hit a 52-week engagement high of 9M interactions in a single day. $FET's engagements are up 232% month-over-month. $VVV is up 24% on the week. $RENDER is climbing steadily at +8% over seven days while its social-market alignment quietly tightens.
Four AI tokens in the top 10 AltRank is not a coincidence. That is a sector rotation happening in real time, with social momentum and market momentum converging around one narrative: decentralized AI infrastructure.
When you see this kind of AltRank clustering within a single sector, the pattern matters more than any individual token.
https://lunarcrush.com/home?category=cryptocurrencies&metric=alt_rank&sort=alt_rank&reverse=0
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While most of the crypto market is treading water, Zcash social velocity is accelerating today.
ZEC is sitting at AltRank #2 across the crypto market today. Price up 9.6% to $272, engagements up 20.8%, 24.2K mentions, 81% positive sentiment.
There are a few catalysts behind it. Foundry, the world's largest BTC mining pool, just announced Zcash support. That's a significant institutional signal from a pool that has historically mined only Bitcoin.
The quantum-resistant angle is also getting louder. Google recently demonstrated a 20x more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm, which reignited conversations about Bitcoin's long-term vulnerability to quantum attacks. Zcash has been building post-quantum cryptography in its roadmap.
Then there's the "Tachyon" upgrade that Zcash developers are pushing toward, which is designed to bring sub-second private transactions to mobile.
https://lunarcrush.com/topic/zcash
ZEC is sitting at AltRank #2 across the crypto market today. Price up 9.6% to $272, engagements up 20.8%, 24.2K mentions, 81% positive sentiment.
There are a few catalysts behind it. Foundry, the world's largest BTC mining pool, just announced Zcash support. That's a significant institutional signal from a pool that has historically mined only Bitcoin.
The quantum-resistant angle is also getting louder. Google recently demonstrated a 20x more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm, which reignited conversations about Bitcoin's long-term vulnerability to quantum attacks. Zcash has been building post-quantum cryptography in its roadmap.
Then there's the "Tachyon" upgrade that Zcash developers are pushing toward, which is designed to bring sub-second private transactions to mobile.
https://lunarcrush.com/topic/zcash
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