Three tokens tied to artificial intelligence — NEAR, RENDER, and Worldcoin — posted double-digit weekly gains through May 25, riding a wave of technical breakouts and renewed interest in AI-adjacent blockchain projects. NEAR Protocol led the pack with a 55% rally that pushed its price to $2.35, while RENDER hit $1.98 and Worldcoin climbed to $0.29.
NEAR's AI pedigree and parabolic week
NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin co-authored Google's landmark 2017 paper 'Attention Is All You Need,' the foundational work behind modern transformer-based AI. That connection helped fuel a 101.72% surge from $1.24 to $2.51 between May 21 and May 24, before the token settled slightly to $2.35 on May 25. The rally came without any new protocol announcement, suggesting traders are betting on the long-term narrative around decentralized AI infrastructure.
RENDER's NVIDIA tailwind and chart setup
RENDER, which powers a decentralized GPU rendering network, rose 11% in the week to May 25. The token sits squarely in the path of NVIDIA's projected 10x annual increase in GPU demand, a factor that has drawn attention to compute-focused blockchain projects. On the charts, RENDER is forming an inverse head and shoulders pattern. A daily close above $2.44 would confirm the breakout, with the measured move targeting $2.88. That's a potential 45% gain from the May 25 price, if the pattern plays out.
Worldcoin's cup and handle, backed by Sam Altman
Worldcoin, the iris-scanning identity project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, added 22% in the week to May 25. The token has been building a cup and handle formation since May 10 and recently reclaimed both its 20-day and 50-day exponential moving averages — a technical signal that often precedes further upside. Worldcoin's Orb devices, used to verify humanness for AI services, give it a distinct angle in the AI-crypto crossover space.
Broader AI funding frenzy
The token rallies come amid a massive wave of AI-related capital raising. On May 24, Anthropic announced it had raised $30 billion at a $900 billion valuation. Meanwhile, OpenAI has filed its S-1 for an initial public offering, and SpaceX is reportedly seeking a $75 billion IPO. These moves point to a market that is pouring money into AI at every layer — and crypto tokens with AI ties are catching the spillover.
The question now is whether the technical patterns on RENDER and Worldcoin will hold. RENDER needs to close above $2.44, and Worldcoin must sustain its EMA reclamation. For NEAR, the question is whether the momentum can carry it past the recent high of $2.51. Each token has a clear next level to watch.
