According to a recent survey by CoinGecko, nearly half of cryptocurrency experts are optimistic about the price of crypto AI tokens - which may bode well for the $23.6 billion cryptocurrency market sector. Of the 2,632 respondents surveyed between February and March, 25% said they were "completely optimistic" and 19.3% said they were "somewhat optimistic" about crypto AI tokens in 2025. About 29% of respondents were neutral, while a total of 26.3% said they were "somewhat pessimistic" or "pessimistic". Yuqian Lim, a cryptocurrency research analyst at CoinGecko, said that when it comes to crypto AI products, the findings are similar, as the application cases that combine cryptocurrency with AI have improved and are gaining wider adoption, which may indicate that cryptocurrency participants do not distinguish between investment or trading potential of crypto AI from the technology itself. This market sentiment may in turn reflect that it is time for crypto AI to transcend the concept phase and mature as a sector.