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HomeCrypto NewsQuack AI Leads Four Crypto AI Tokens Post 20% Weekly Gains
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Quack AI Leads Four Crypto AI Tokens Post 20% Weekly Gains

CoinGecko's crypto AI category fell 1.1% in 24 hours, but four tokens are up 20% or more on the week, led by Quack AI's 288% gain with no confirmed catalyst.

SShitij Gupta•Oct 19, 2026
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CoinGecko's artificial intelligence category held about $24.3 billion in market value at its 19 October reading. That is down 1.1% over the previous 24 hours. Four tokens inside it are running the other way on a weekly basis. None of the four has a confirmed reason for the move.

Quack AI (Q) leads at +288.3% over seven days, per the category page. Pearl (PRL) follows at +29.5%, then Grass (GRASS) at +25.8% and Akedo (AKE) at +24.8%. Ranked by 24-hour volume and market cap, they look like this:

Token

7-day change

24h volume

Market cap

Category rank

Quack AI (Q)

+288.3%

$56,354,226

$591,128,229

103

Grass (GRASS)

+25.8%

$25,465,728

$417,251,723

125

Akedo (AKE)

+24.8%

$7,479,220

$684,980,496

94

Pearl (PRL)

+29.5%

$4,877,767

$647,901,656

99

Treasure (MAGIC) also clears the 20% weekly bar at +20.7%. Its $33.3 million market cap is a fraction of the other four.

Quack AI's 288% Week Has No Confirmed Catalyst

The gap between Quack AI and the rest is wide enough to need explaining. Nothing yet does. No project announcement or filing was found to account for the week.

Weekend coverage of the move tied it to futures activity. More short positions were liquidated than long ones. The same coverage described the market-cap gain as having no specific fundamental catalyst.

A second reading, at 16:45 on 19 October, put Q's market cap at $605.7 million. Its 24-hour volume was $94.3 million. Both sit above the category-page snapshot.

Grass, Akedo and Pearl: Gains Without a Dated Cause

Grass pairs its +25.8% week with a +76.1% 30-day change. It carries $25.5 million in 24-hour volume against a $417.3 million market cap. No dated news story explaining this week's move was found. The figure stands on CoinGecko's category page.

Akedo's +24.8% week comes with a $686.8 million market cap. The only Akedo explanation the reporting could read is dated 20 September, a month before this move. It does not account for it. The 16:45 reading put AKE's 24-hour volume at $10.9 million. That is up 45.1% over the six minutes since the prior read.

Pearl's +29.5% week leaves it with a $647.9 million market cap. Its $4.9 million in 24-hour volume is the thinnest of the four. No explanation for the move was found either.

What would settle any of these is a project announcement, a filing or an on-chain figure. Any of those would tie the move to something other than the chart. Until one appears, the four weekly gains stand on CoinGecko's category page alone.

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$Q is up over 4x in the past week, scaling from $140M to $920M market cap. AI pump or crime? What's your take?

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