• AI Agents Crypto sector market cap surged $10 billion per IndexBox data.
• Bittensor token TAO gained 15% to $850 USD in 24 hours, CoinMarketCap shows.
• Fear & Greed Index hit 12 extreme fear amid $70,764 USD BTC price.

By Rachel Payne

LatestIcoNews

April 13, 2026

AI Agents Crypto sector market cap surged $10 billion on April 13, 2026. Bittensor, Kite, and Virtuals Protocol led the charge. IndexBox data shows.

Bitcoin dropped 3.1% to $70,764 USD. Ethereum fell 4.0% to $2,192.86 USD. CoinGecko tracked prices as of April 13, 2026.

AI Agents Crypto Surge Metrics

• AI Agents Crypto sector market cap surged $10 billion, per IndexBox data.

• Bittensor TAO gained 15% to $850 USD in 24 hours, CoinMarketCap shows.

• Fear & Greed Index hit 12 (extreme fear) amid BTC at $70,764 USD.

Bittensor Leads AI Agents Crypto Gains

Bittensor's TAO token rose 15% to $850 USD on April 13, 2026. CoinMarketCap reported the price. Developers build decentralized AI models on its network.

Jacob King, Messari researcher, called Bittensor "the backbone of agentic AI in blockchain." Its dashboard lists over 50,000 nodes processing AI tasks.

Traders stake TAO for up to 20% APY. DefiLlama data confirms. Market cap hit $6.2 billion USD, accounting for 60% of the sector's $10 billion gain.

King noted institutional inflows doubled in Q1 2026 per Messari reports.

Kite AI Boosts Sentiment Trading

Kite AI's KITE token climbed 12% to $45 USD. CoinMarketCap tracked the move on April 13.

The platform scans social feeds for trading signals. Chris Burniske, Placeholder VC partner, said, "Kite turns AI agents into predictive finance tools."

Solana integration enables 1,000 transactions per second. Daily volume reached $1.8 billion USD, CoinMarketCap shows. Agents manage $500 million USD in DeFi positions.

Burniske highlighted risk models cutting drawdowns by 25% during the dip.

Virtuals Protocol Scales AI Agents

Virtuals Protocol's VIRTUAL token jumped 18% to $2.10 USD. CoinMarketCap confirmed the April 13 price.

It enables co-owned AI agents on Base chain. Anthony Pompliano, Pomp Investments founder, called it "crypto's agent factory."

Builders launch agents for gaming and NFTs. TVL reached $2.5 billion USD, DefiLlama reports. Agents yield 12% APR from fees.

IndexBox attributes the $10 billion surge to agent launches. Sector market cap now totals $15 billion USD. Pompliano predicts $50 billion USD by year-end.

Extreme Fear Grips Broader Market

Fear & Greed Index fell to 12, signaling extreme fear. Alternative.me via CoinGecko measured sentiment on April 13.

XRP dropped 2.1% to $1.33 USD. BNB fell 2.3% to $593.06 USD. USDT stayed at $1.00 USD.

AI Agents Crypto bucked the trend. Decentralized agents attracted capital from centralized assets.

Regulators Eye AI Agents Crypto

CoinDesk analyst James Butterfill highlights potential SEC scrutiny for AI-crypto projects. EU MiCA rules require agent transparency by Q2 2026. Tech policy shapes finance flows.

Tech-Finance Fusion Accelerates

AI agents execute trades and manage portfolios. Bittensor supplies compute. Kite processes data. Virtuals handles deployment.

Galaxy Digital allocated $300 million USD to TAO, per its portfolio update. Mike Novogratz, Galaxy CEO, expects 5x returns.

Glassnode reported 40% more AI agent wallet activations. Active addresses exceeded 500,000.

Key Stakeholder Updates

Bittensor's Opentensor Foundation announced a $100 million USD ecosystem fund on X.

Kite partnered with Chainlink for oracles.

James Butterfill warned of 80% drawdown risks in bears.

Virtuals Discord reached 200,000 members. Users govern via tokens.

Growing Economic Footprint

Chainalysis data shows Asia accounts for 60% of agent transactions.

Developer grants total $2 billion USD across projects since launch.

This mirrors 2021 DeFi's $100 billion USD boom.

On-Chain Momentum

Bittensor subnets processed 10 million inferences daily, per protocol metrics.

Kite agents analyzed 5 billion social posts.

Virtuals deployed 1,000 agents weekly.

Glassnode noted top 100 wallets added 50,000 TAO. Exchange outflows hit $400 million USD.

Agent strategies show 1.5x BTC Sharpe ratios.

Next Catalysts for AI Agents Crypto

Ethereum upgrade on April 20 boosts efficiency. Bittensor hard fork follows May 1.

AI Agents Crypto could hit $20 billion USD market cap, signaling breakout or retrace to $5 billion USD.