Grayscale Spotlights 3 Crypto Projects Poised to Power the AI Infrastructure Boom

TL;DR: Grayscale Investments published a report authored by its Head of Research, Zach Pandl, dated October 23, 2026. The document identified three protocols with hardware and data use cases: DATA Network (DATA), USD.AI (CHIP), and Pearl (PEARL). CoinGecko records as of October 22, 2026, showed a 580% increase in the PEARL token over the past three months. Asset manager Grayscale Investments identified three crypto ecosystem initiatives aimed at solving bottlenecks in AI infrastructure , addressing everything from data collection to hardware financing. Frontier tech and crypto are converging. Crypto projects part of the AI buildout: $DATA → Licensing and verifying AI training data. $CHIP → Financing GPU hardware through onchain loans.

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