#TAO $TAO

The top AI infrastructure crypto project as of January 2026 is widely considered Bittensor (TAO).It leads the AI & Big Data category on major trackers like CoinMarketCap, with a market cap around $2.6B (often ranking in the top 30-50 overall cryptocurrencies). Bittensor is a decentralized machine learning network that incentivizes participants to contribute compute, models, and intelligence through subnets, creating a peer-to-peer marketplace for AI. It's frequently highlighted as the purest play on decentralized AI infrastructure, rewarding useful machine intelligence contributions.