The Crypto Barry Silbert’s investment magnate bets very well on a decentralized AI, the appellant “the next big era of crypto” which could be greater than even Bitcoin.
In a letter to the shareholders of his group of digital currencies of Conglomerate of Crypto, Silbert went to Deai for a long time: the effort of the cryptographic industry to merge the innovations of the AI with blockchain technology. He thinks that the technological mashup can pay better dividends for humanity than the closed systems developed by Openai and other giants.
“We are going from digital property of assets to decentralized property of intelligence and the availability of large decentralized calculation resources,” wrote Silert in the fourth quarter letter examined by Coindesk.
The configuration recalled Silbert de Bitcoin, the best known and by far the greatest cryptocurrency, and the one where he first made his crypto fortune. But instead of a money revolution, Deai could announce a revolution in power with crypto as a mechanism to distribute property and governance on powerful AI models.
DCG certainly thinks. The company has already invested $ 105 million in more than a dozen Deai projects, “and we are delighted to repel this in 2025,” wrote Silbert.
He underlined DCG’s investment in Bittensor – a cryptographic network specializing in automatic learning and AI applications – as a portfolio company closest to “exhaust speed”. The Bittensor Tao token has many similarities with Bitcoin, he wrote.
In particular, Tao’s market capitalization is 2.7 billion dollars, a rounded error against the valuation of nearly 2 billions of dollars of bitcoin.
DCG plans to invest powerfully in the support of the Bittensor ecosystem. Silbert pointed out that in November, he turned a company called Yuma which incubates bittensers’ infrastructure projects. And Grayscale, another DCG company, now offers investment products that give an exhibition to Tao.
Silbert’s letter Q4 crowned a year of “reconstruction” at DCG after a long period of tumult caused by the FTX implosion, which has shot its loan activity, Genesis. DCG is also a former owner of Coindesk, who sold up the end of 2023. The five wings of DCG had a “success in 2024”, he said.
“The discipline required in the past two years has resulted in an improvement in infrastructure and more mature processes, better governance and stronger organization focused on the execution of our growth initiatives,” Silbert wrote.
