LunarCrush, a platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze digital assets such as cryptocurrencies, has announced a list of the top 10 decentralized finance + artificial intelligence (DeFAI) projects based on social activity. Essentially, the (DeFAI) project is decentralized finance + artificial intelligence, a growing field in blockchain that integrates artificial intelligence (AI-powered) tools and agents into the DeFi ecosystem to solve complex tasks, simplify user interactions, and improve efficiency.
Top #DEFAI projects by social activities $PAAL $SWarms $SUPRA $PROMPT $CGPT $ALPHA $AITECH $AIXBT $GRIFFAIN $GURU pic.twitter.com/PvS8BXlt7m
— Phoenix – Crypto News and Analysis (@pnxgrp) January 18, 2026
Social activity consists of engaging posts and interactions. These two measures are used to check the social activity of cryptocurrencies. PAAL AI ($PAAL) leads the top 10 DeFAI projects by social activity. In this ranking list, PAAL AI ($PAAL) dominates the market with 1.2K engaged posts and 165.2K interactions.
At the same time, Swarms ($SARMS) took second place in this race with 1.1K engaged posts and 28.4K interactions. There is a difference of 0.1,000 in the number of engaged posts between these DeFAI projects, indicating that both are still in demand in the crypto market. Phoenix Group announced this news through the official X account.
Supra and Wayfinder perform well in interactions despite tight engagement numbers
Supra ($SUPRA) and Wayfinder ($PROMPT) came in 3rd and 4th place with 458.0 and 356.0 engaged posts, respectively. These DeFAI projects differed slightly in terms of the number of engaged posts, around 102. When we moved to interactions, the difference widened to 13.3,000. So for the interaction, ($SUPRA) is 24.0K and ($PROMPT) is 10.7K.
In addition, two more DeFAI projects gained hundreds of posts through social activity. The first of these is ChainGPT ($CGPT), which received 321.0 engaged posts and 6.8K interactions. ChainGPT ($CGPT) won by just 03.0 points over Alpha ($ALPHA), the closest DeFAI project in Engaged Post. Next up is Alpha ($ALPHA) with 318.0 engaged posts and 24.7K interactions on the market.
$AITECH and $AIXBT dominate interactions while GRIFFAIN and GURU follow suit
Solidus Ai Tech ($AITECH) and Aixbt ($AIXBT) were observed to be very close to each other in terms of the number of engaged posts with 305.0 and 267.0 respectively. Therefore, the difference between these DeFAI projects is 38.0. However, there is a big difference in interactions, about 2.4K, so ($AITECH) is 6.0K and ($AIXBT) is 8.4K in interactions.
Additionally, there are two DeFAI projects that made it to the end of this ranking list. Griffin ($GRIFFAIN) and Guru Network ($GURU) came in second-to-last and last place, respectively. In this race, both DeFAI projects received 200.0 and 132.0 engaged posts and 9.5,000 and 2.2,000 interactions, respectively.