This year, the number of users of AI encryption applications has nearly doubled, with funding exceeding the total amount for 2024.

Gate News bot reports that, according to CoinTelegraph, data from the Blockchain analysis platform DappRadar shows that on-chain artificial intelligence (AI) activity has nearly doubled since the beginning of this year, with more and more funds and users pouring into this popular technology.

In a report on Thursday, DappRadar stated that by 2025, on-chain activities related to AI will have surged by 86%, with an estimated 4.5 million unique active wallets participating in AI decentralized applications (DApps) daily.

The daily user growth has increased the market share of AI applications from 9% at the beginning of the year to 19%, second only to blockchain games at 20%.

DappRadar analyst Sara Gherghelas stated that the growth of AI is not "just hype," but rather reflects a "structural change" in the way users interact with decentralized applications.

"Whether through decentralized finance (DeFi) co-pilots, social agents, or autonomous game assistants, AI agents are becoming the new on-chain interface layer."

In May, DappRadar predicted that the use of AI agents (programs capable of autonomously executing transactions and other blockchain operations) will soon surpass the games that traditionally dominate the DApp ecosystem.

The Gherghelas report states that by 2025, the AI agent projects will have raised $1.39 billion, a 9.4% increase compared to 2024.

She added that although this figure still lags behind the AI funding of companies like OpenAI, "it is worth noting that funding in the AI agent space is now comparable to or even exceeds that of other Web3 verticals such as blockchain gaming."

She stated: "In Web3, investors are increasingly viewing AI agents as a new primitive that can reshape the way users interact with protocols, navigate DApps, and even automate personal finance strategies."

Gherghelas stated that 2025 could be the year when AI agents attract more capital than any other Web3 vertical industry for the first time.