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Business Insider
06-08-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
GAIB Secures Dollars 10M to Accelerate AI Infrastructure Growth in Strategic Investment Round Led by Amber Group
GAIB, the economic layer for AI and compute, today announced a $10M USD strategic investment, led by leading global digital asset company Amber Group, with participation from other Asia-based investors. The investment will be deployed directly into tokenized GPU assets on GAIB's platform, strengthening institutional participation in the AI compute economy. This round reflects the growing flow of institutional capital into AI infrastructure through onchain financial rails. As the AI, crypto, and capital markets converge, GAIB and its strategic backers—including Amber Group—are unlocking direct access to AI yields for everyday investors. By bringing more compute assets onchain, this investment fuels a virtuous cycle where more capital powers more infrastructure, and more participants benefit from the growth of the AI economy. 'Compute is the new oil. As such, it should be accessible, productive, and tradable onchain,' said Kony, CEO and co-founder of GAIB. 'Amber's investment signals the beginning of institutional capital actively backing the economic backbone of the AI era.' Wayne Huo, CEO and Director of Amber International （Nasdaq: AMBR), the Nasdaq-listed subsidiary of Amber Group, said, 'The investment in GAIB reflects our belief in a future where AI, blockchain, and capital markets converge to redefine opportunities. By powering the next wave of onchain compute infrastructure, we're excited to fuel growth with the capital needed to enhance the infrastructure and build an inclusive AI economy for all.' The investment amplifies GAIB's 2025 growth thus far, including $28M in deposits across AID Alpha vaults and new integrations with DeFi protocols. As AI and crypto rails converge, GAIB is building the financial infrastructure to support the next generation of autonomous economies. For more information, users can visit About GAIB GAIB is the first economic layer for AI and compute, transforming GPU-backed assets into yield-generating opportunities. Through AID, GAIB's AI synthetic dollar, investors can seamlessly access the AI economy while earning real yield from AI-powered compute. Staking AID (sAID) provides passive income while maintaining liquidity, enabling broader participation in AI-driven financial markets. GAIB also powers AI infrastructure by providing capital solutions for cloud providers and data centers, optimizing their access to compute resources. With integrations across DeFi protocols, including lending, borrowing, and structured products, GAIB bridges AI and blockchain finance—unlocking new opportunities at the intersection of technology and investment. For more information, users can visit About Amber Group Amber Group is a global digital asset leader headquartered in Singapore, offering full-stack solutions across wealth management, asset management, market making, advisory, investing, and infrastructure. Backed by top investors like Sequoia, Tiger Global Management, Pantera, Coinbase Ventures, and Fenbushi, we serve high-net-worth individuals, institutions, crypto funds, exchanges, and projects worldwide. With deep expertise in crypto and traditional markets, we leverage AI, blockchain, and quantitative research to deliver cutting-edge solutions, including the launch of an AgentFi platform pioneering the intelligent agent economy. Our institutional-facing brand, Amber Premium, was recently listed on Nasdaq under Amber International Holding Limited (Nasdaq: AMBR), focusing on regulated crypto financial services for institutions and HNWIs. GAIB
Economic Times
17-05-2025
- Business
- Economic Times
Why AI tokens are emerging as high-conviction investment theme in 2025
The AI sector continues to ride a strong upward momentum. Just this week, AI-focused crypto tokens added nearly $10 billion in market capitalization, with several top assets rallying over 100% in seven days. Backed by real advancements in AI agent technology and token utility, this surge is more than just market noise—it reflects a broader convergence of artificial intelligence and decentralized finance that investors can no longer afford to ignore. ADVERTISEMENT The buzz isn't limited to price action. Several real-world projects are bringing the power of AI to everyday users in simple and useful ways. For instance, Magic Labs, backed by PayPal, has launched Newton—an AI assistant that can automatically manage DeFi investments like trading and earning interest, all while keeping users' information secure and private. Another example is Pixel AI, a game built on the Solana blockchain, where players can earn rewards by competing for digital space using the $PIXAI token. And then there's GAIB, which has introduced AID Alpha—a digital asset backed by income from high-performance computer chips (GPUs), giving investors a new way to earn returns from the growing demand for AI computing. AI tokens are digital assets that combine artificial intelligence and blockchain to power decentralized applications such as data processing, intelligent indexing, autonomous trading strategies, and GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) sharing. GPUs are high-performance processors optimized for parallel computations, making them essential for training and running advanced AI the Web3 ecosystem, these tokens serve multiple roles—they are used to pay for services, reward contributors, and participate in protocol governance through voting mechanisms. Their utility across various functions fuels demand, which in turn can drive up token value. Simply put, the more an AI platform is used, the greater the potential value of its native token—making AI tokens central to the evolution and economic sustainability of decentralized AI networks. ADVERTISEMENT In essence, AI tokens are functional instruments that back real use cases in the evolving Web3 powerful forces are driving the rise of AI tokens. First, mainstream AI adoption is accelerating—companies like Nvidia have surpassed a $3 trillion market cap, while generative AI tools such as ChatGPT have become household names, firmly establishing AI as a core layer of the future tech stack. ADVERTISEMENT Second, blockchain is emerging as the ideal infrastructure for AI—transparent, decentralized, and programmable—enabling autonomous AI agents to operate with verifiable accountability through smart contracts. Third, the surge in AI token valuations—averaging over 2,900% in 2024—has captured the attention of both retail traders and institutional investors, including hedge funds, who are now exploring AI-linked crypto assets as a high-growth frontier beyond traditional are only as strong as the technology they are built upon—and in the case of crypto, that foundation is everything. AI tokens are emerging as high-potential digital assets precisely because they are rooted in powerful, rapidly advancing technologies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and blockchain. One of the most compelling use cases is autonomous AI agents—platforms like Virtuals enable users to create tokenized agents that perform predefined tasks such as executing trading strategies or managing cross-chain interactions with minimal human intervention. Beyond automation, these tokens are facilitating the rise of decentralized marketplaces for data, compute power, and AI model sharing, laying the groundwork for a more open and inclusive AI economy. ADVERTISEMENT AI tokens are also being used to power predictive analytics platforms, which apply machine learning models to forecast crypto market trends—providing traders, funds, and institutions with timely, data-driven insights. At the infrastructure layer, projects like GAIB are tokenizing access to income-generating GPU supply chains, allowing investors to earn yield from AI compute resources—essentially unlocking exposure to the hardware that fuels AI tokens are no longer a side story—they are fast becoming the main plotline in both crypto and tech investing. For equity investors looking to diversify, and for crypto traders seeking fundamentally-backed narratives, AI tokens offer exposure to one of the most promising intersections of technology today. ADVERTISEMENT (The author Paras Malhotra is SVP - Trade, Custody and BizOps, CoinDCX. Views are own) (You can now subscribe to our ETMarkets WhatsApp channel) (Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this column are that of the writer. The facts and opinions expressed here do not reflect the views of
