Bittensor’s TAO price jumps over $300 as AI‑crypto bid returns, leverage stays contained

Bittensor’s (TAO) native token TAO price is trading around $314.65 today, with major aggregators showing a 16.5% gain over the last 24 hours and a 24‑hour trading volume of roughly $642,254,922.11. CoinMarketCap data places the live Bittensor price near $313.37, with a 24‑hour volume close to $750,469,570.20, giving a live market capitalization in the neighborhood of $3 billion on both feeds. According to CoinGecko’s TAO‑USD history, Bittensor has climbed from about $262.35 on March 23, 2026, to roughly $302.29 on March 24, continuing a month‑long trend in which TAO has risen around 32.20% while the broader crypto market has fallen about 17.30%.

Bittensor is a decentralized AI network that pays machine learning models in TAO for providing inference and training to an open marketplace, placing the token squarely in the AI‑infrastructure category rather than generic DeFi or L1. The project’s tokenomics center on a capped supply of 21 million TAO and a halving‑style issuance schedule, which has already produced at least one halving event that cut new emissions and has been linked by Binance research to renewed interest around the $280–$300 zone as traders positioned for a structural supply shock. CoinGecko data shows around 9.6 million TAO in circulating supply, implying a tight float compared with many similarly valued altcoins.

AI‑linked tokens have seen recurring rotations since 2025, and commentary from exchanges such as MEXC frames Bittensor as one of the core assets at the center of that trade. In mid‑March 2026, MEXC highlighted that Bittensor topped CoinGecko’s “trending” list with TAO trading near $259.46 and up 7.4% in 24 hours, a move that has since extended into the current push through $300 as volumes expanded across multiple venues. CoinGecko’s category pages for the Bittensor ecosystem show a growing list of subnet‑linked and ecosystem tokens, suggesting that investors are increasingly treating TAO as a base asset for a broader AI‑crypto stack rather than as an isolated speculative bet.

Against this backdrop, the TAO move above $300 stands out in a market where many altcoins remain below their 2024 highs; the combination of rising spot, high but not extreme volume, and structurally constrained supply gives Bittensor a profile more comparable to other AI‑infrastructure names than to the average high‑beta meme trade.