DigiTalk Podcast EP24 Recap - Altseason Ahead? Riding the Next Wave of Growth

The recent DigiTalk Episode 24 podcast brought together a dynamic panel of builders and experts from Alphakek AI, aZen Protocol, Marker Profit, RWAOne, SUEDE AI, and BitSky Services in a discussion on “Altseason Ahead? Riding the Next Wave of Growth.” With narratives from AI and DePin to memecoins and Layer-2s shifting at breakneck speed, we explored where capital is moving, how projects are adapting to stay on trend, and the tactics they’re using to retain users through hype cycles—all to gear up for broader retail interest.

Introduction

Alphakek AI
Alphakek AI provides over 20 composable AI models and a real-time knowledge graph that unifies on-chain and off-chain data for Web3 applications. Our Deep AI Terminal and RESTful API allow projects—from NFT collectives to DeFi protocols—to deploy AI agents for content curation, market research, and automated portfolio management without building ML infrastructure in-house.

aZen Protocol
aZen Protocol delivers decentralized AI compute through a two-layer architecture: a scalable deep-learning backbone and user-facing AI agents for social and DeFi workflows. We began with 600,000 onboarded users, and today our protocol powers AI-driven onboarding bots, yield-optimization agents, and governance assistants across multiple chains.

RWAOne
RWAOne is a synthetic-asset protocol on Sonic Chain that lets users collateralize crypto to mint tokenized derivatives of commodities, equities, and forex. Those RWAs trade on partnered DEXs or can be staked in liquidity pools to earn yield, effectively bridging TradFi and DeFi exposures.

SUEDE AI
SUEDE AI secures artist IP with bespoke AI models per creator and a patented on-chain voiceprint device that verifies provenance. Our music launchpad enables artists to mint NFTs, manage royalties, and release AI-enhanced tracks, ensuring transparent rights enforcement and new revenue streams.

BitSky MO
BitSky MO is a Web3 Social-5 platform linking KOLs, projects, and investors through repurposed social modules and live on-chain roundtables. Our mission—Connect with trust, grow with value—empowers communities via ambassador programs, airdrop hubs, and interactive events that blend off-chain networking with on-chain incentives.

Q1: There’s been a lot of excitement lately—some say we’re about to enter the altseason. From your perspective, are there any clear signs on-chain or in the broader market that show a real shift is happening? Or are we still waiting for stronger confirmation?

Alphakek AI
We observe a consistent uptick in Layer-0 bridge transactions and cross-chain token flows, indicating that users are actively leveraging multichain liquidity rather than simply speculating on BTC/ETH price moves. Concurrently, rising VC allocations into AI × DeFi convergence projects show institutional belief in sustainable altcoin utility beyond hype cycles. Furthermore, our on-chain analytics reveal that wallet activity for new token launches—measured by unique active addresses and transaction value—has rebounded to levels not seen since the previous cycle’s peak. This data suggests altseason is progressing from mere anticipation to tangible on-chain rotation.

aZen Protocol
Developer signals are clear: teams are scheduling token generation events (TGEs) and integrating AI-driven onboarding agents more aggressively than in the past six months. Inquiries to our social and DeFi agent services have more than doubled, underscoring growing confidence that capital will flow into new alt projects. On the broader market, we see mid-cap token pairs gaining share of total volume compared to Bitcoin, while once-quiet L2 networks are registering rising TVL and active user counts. These metrics collectively point to an altcoin resurgence—though ultimate confirmation will hinge on sustained wallet growth outside of airdrop and launch spikes.

Market Profit
Our proprietary sentiment index and ranked “market profits” metric are reaching five-year highs, revealing pockets of heightened on-chain engagement across dozens of non-blue-chip tokens. While public narratives remain fixated on BTC ETF news and the Ethereum London upgrade, the undercurrents show a genuine rotation into emerging protocols. Additionally, large-scale copy-trading volume—often driven by high-net-worth accounts following our top predictors—has climbed steadily, signaling institutional and professional capital backing alt strategies. This blend of retail buzz and serious copy-trade stakes confirms a real shift in the market’s center of gravity.

RWAOne
Institutional commitments to tokenized real-world assets—recently announced by leading asset managers—demonstrate a foundational change in capital allocation. On-chain RWA minting volume has doubled month-over-month, indicating that beyond memecoins, investors are seeking synthetic exposure to commodities and equities on DeFi rails. At the retail level, we’re seeing growing user adoption of RWA derivatives for portfolio diversification, with average position sizes increasing as confidence in protocol security improves. This coordinated uptick among both institutions and retail users confirms that altseason is underpinned by next-gen asset classes.

SUEDE AI
Our platform’s monthly active creators and NFT mint counts have surged 150% since early spring, driven by demand for on-chain provenance and revenue sharing. Unlike ephemeral meme drops, music IP transactions reflect genuine utility, with repeat engagement from artists and collectors alike. Moreover, the onboarding of major labels to our voiceprint-verified distribution system marks the first time traditional music entities are committing to blockchain provenance in volume. That crossover from CeFi to Web3 signals a durable shift in how creative IP will be tokenized this altseason.

BitSky MO
We’ve seen a 3× increase in Social-5 roundtable RSVPs and KOL-project matchmaking requests over the past quarter, reflecting grassroots hunger for alt discussions. Community ambassadors report that orphan wallet address counts for new token pairs are rising, but real validation will come when those addresses hold tokens beyond initial airdrop periods. Institutional sponsors are also stepping up, with three new venture funds joining our next event as sponsors. This convergence of bottom-up community engagement and top-down capital allocation points to a genuine altseason stir—pending sustained post-airdrop retention.

Q2: We’ve seen narratives like AI, memecoins, DePin, and L2s come and go this year. Where do you see capital actually flowing at the moment? What trends are showing the most staying power, and how is your project aligning itself with these shifts?

Alphakek AI
Capital is transitioning from novelty ChatGPT-style bots to utility-driven AI agent protocols that directly enhance DeFi yield and on-chain analytics. Recent seed rounds in agent-to-agent trading and knowledge graph startups reflect this pivot. We’re aligning by offering our knowledge graph as a backbone for these emerging AI × DeFi use cases, enabling seamless integration and faster go-to-market. We also track growing allocations into infrastructure playbooks—specifically GPU-accelerated on-chain compute for AI model retraining. By expanding our deep-learning layer with optimized node deployments, we capture flows into the core AI stack that underpins next-gen alt projects.

aZen Protocol
Investor dollars now favor decentralized AI compute networks that can scale alongside growing demand for on-chain agent services. That is why we’ve reinforced our two-division model: beefing up our deep-learning infrastructure to handle 10× current load and refining our social/DeFi agents to support high-velocity user onboarding. Meanwhile, memecoins have proven sticky, so we integrate lightweight AI meme-generation features into our social bot suite, providing viral marketing tools for community builders. This hybrid approach ensures we capture both short-term hype flows and longer-term infrastructure budgets.

Market Profit
The lion’s share of new capital is flowing into quantification platforms that provide measurable ROI—namely copy-trading and sentiment-scoring services. We respond by continuously enhancing our copy-trade engine with risk controls and adding support for four additional exchanges to broaden our addressable market. Beyond finance, we see allocations into tooling for community DAOs—governance dashboards, token-voting analytics, and on-chain proposal trackers. We’re developing a governance-insights module to help these DAOs allocate their treasuries more efficiently, aligning with the trend toward decentralized decision-making.

RWAOne
Liquidity is pouring into synthetic real-world assets as investors seek yield outside ultra-volatile crypto markets. TVL in our RWA pools has grown 5× in three months, with participants ranging from retail to family offices. To meet this demand, we’re fast-tracking new commodity pairs (e.g., gold, oil) and forging partnerships with on-chain insurance protocols to bolster trust. At the same time, infrastructure builders in DeFi—Oracles, cross-chain bridges, and compliance layers—are receiving significant allocations. We integrate leading oracles and audited audit partners into our protocol to ensure smooth RWA price feeds and regulatory alignment, capturing flows toward compliant DeFi primitives.

SUEDE AI
Capital now favors projects blending creative fun with real monetization—our music-NFT drops with built-in royalty splits have outpaced pure meme launches by 200% in engagement. We continue enhancing our launchpad UX and expanding metadata standards to support richer collectibles, securing our share of creator economy budgets. We’re also aligning with Web3 gaming budgets by integrating our voiceprint verification into select metaverse platforms, enabling in-game music creation that pays artists directly. This cross-sector expansion taps both gaming and music funding streams for sustained runway.

BitSky MO
Community-driven tokens with strong on-chain social graphs outperform vanilla VC-backed launches, so we’ve pivoted to a multi-project ambassador model: top ambassadors earn sequential airdrops and governance roles across partner ecosystems. This approach captures capital from projects seeking ready-made on-chain communities. Concurrently, enterprise sponsors are underwriting our live roundtables, signaling a shift from purely retail interaction to institutional outreach. We’re expanding our event toolkit—introducing on-chain sponsorship badges and analytics dashboards—to align with these higher-ticket capital flows.

Q3: When a project goes viral, new users pour in—but many leave just as quickly. What are you doing to keep users around after the hype dies down? How are you building long-term engagement so that your community stays active, even when price action slows?

Alphakek AI
We’ve architected a persistent Telegram ecosystem where users earn token rewards and NFTs for deploying our AI models in weekly “meme hackathons” and research sprints. This gamified, hands-on approach transforms one-and-done participants into repeat contributors who deepen expertise over months rather than days. Additionally, we offer tiered API access: free for basic analytics, paid for advanced agent orchestration. As users graduate from free tiers to premium, we lock in longer-term contracts and foster upgrade paths that align their usage growth with subscription renewals.

aZen Protocol
Post-launch, we spin up continuous bounty campaigns where community members earn our native token for tasks like bug reporting, translation, and mini-agent creation. This ongoing task network ensures that even after airdrops end, members have clear pathways to remain engaged and earn rewards. Furthermore, we introduced an “Agent Builder Academy,” a certification program where successful graduates receive governance voting power and shape future feature roadmaps—cementing their stake in the protocol’s evolution and fostering an ownership culture.

Market Profit
We publicly spotlight top predictors each day, sending them on-chain badges and profile NFT airdrops that grant privileges in our upcoming governance DAO. This recognition loop incentivizes them to keep tweeting quality analysis and keeps their followers engaged via our copy-trade engine. Our platform also now offers “strategy vaults,” where users can bundle multiple predictors into composite portfolios that rebalance automatically. By providing a set-and-forget product, we capture users who might otherwise churn when individual predictor performance fluctuates.

RWAOne
To sustain liquidity, we stagger synthetic asset launches and tie staking rewards to actual commodity or equity yield streams. Users who stake for 90+ days receive bonus multipliers, encouraging medium-term commitment that smooths out post-launch flight risks. We also integrate community governance: stakers can vote on new RWA pairs and fee structures, giving them ongoing agency. Quarterly governance rewards—paid in newly minted RWAOne tokens—ensure that proactive voters see tangible gains for participation.

SUEDE AI
We host monthly remix contests where artists and fans submit new interpretations of tokenized tracks using our AI model, awarding winners with perpetual royalty shares and exclusive hardware devices. This cycle keeps the community innovating and investing time long after initial drops. Our voiceprint device holders receive priority access to platform updates and secondary-market fee rebates, tying hardware ownership to sustained on-chain activity. By blending digital and physical incentives, we create multi-layer stickiness.

BitSky MO
We turned our ambassador cohorts into a self-sustaining DAO, where ambassadors earn governance tokens to direct future airdrops and event topics. Each new cycle, members propose and vote on the next project to onboard, ensuring evergreen community involvement. Simultaneously, we introduced “learning tokens” that unlock tutorials, masterclasses, and analytics tools. By rewarding educational milestones, we deepen user expertise and transform casual participants into knowledgeable advocates who stick around for the next wave.

Q4: We’re seeing signs that retail users are coming back—through memecoins, Telegram bots, and copy-trading tools. But big players still seem to be driving volume. In your view, who’s really in control of this cycle so far—everyday users or institutions?

Alphakek AI
Retail-driven meme mania and Telegram bot usage ignite surface-level buzz, but the lion’s share of traded volume on our agent protocols stems from institutional pilot programs and high-net-worth copy-trade accounts. The real control lies in a hybrid model: retail sparks the fire; institutions keep the kilns hot. We’ve seen several family offices integrate our knowledge graph into their macro-hedging strategies, underscoring that professional capital underpins trending retail narratives and provides depth when short-term hype fades.

aZen Protocol
On one hand, everyday users engage our social AI agents for fun community experiences; on the other, major DeFi yield farms and protocol treasuries deploy our DeFi agents to optimize billions in TVL. Institutions thus anchor our floor liquidity, while retail participation fuels velocity. This dual dynamic means institutional integrations—e.g., protocol insurance pools—set the baseline, but viral retail campaigns (meme generators, NFT mints) amplify attention. Both are indispensable to the cycle’s momentum.

Market Profit
Our data shows retail copy-trading surges during hype events, but the majority of open interest and AUM on our platform comes from a handful of large accounts—often hedge funds and proprietary desks—following our top predictors. These big players govern deeper liquidity and mitigate volatility. That said, retail participation shapes social sentiment scores, which feed into our ranking algorithms. So while institutions drive volume, retail sentiment steers narrative direction, creating a symbiotic power balance.

RWAOne
Institutional wallets hold over 70% of our largest RWA positions, reflecting traditional asset managers’ early adoption. However, retail users—especially yield-seeking DeFi natives—are rapidly growing in number and driving small-ticket liquidity on our platform. Ultimately, institutions set the pace for issuance and large trades, but retail adoption is essential for on-chain price discovery and network effect, giving everyday users a meaningful voice in the protocol’s trajectory.

SUEDE AI
High-value transactions—label deals and bulk NFT mint orders—are dominated by industry incumbents, demonstrating institutional confidence in our IP verification. Yet individual artists and fans have fueled over 60% of our unique wallet interactions through grassroots drops and remix contests. In essence, institutions validate the model at scale, while retail engagement fosters cultural relevance and community growth. Both cohorts co-govern our ecosystem’s expansion.

BitSky MO
We’ve onboarded major venture funds as sponsors for our roundtables, anchoring large-ticket partnerships. RSVPs and on-chain ambassador deployments remain overwhelmingly community-driven. Institutions provide runway; retail supplies the viral spark. Together, they govern the cycle. Our analytics show that while institutional transactions account for 80% of volume, retail-driven social engagement drives 90% of new wallet creations—illustrating a clear division of labor in cycle control.

Q5: Traders are jumping between tokens faster than ever. Do you see this kind of fast-moving capital as harmful, or is it just part of how today’s market works? And as a builder, how do you manage expectations and keep momentum when attention shifts so quickly?

Alphakek AI
Rapid capital rotations are a hallmark of permissionless markets: they accelerate narrative discovery but can induce whipsaw risks for unsophisticated users. We counter this by publishing transparent roadmaps, staging token unlocks to milestone completions, and embedding cooldown periods in our API pricing to discourage purely speculative bursts. Moreover, we offer built-in volatility alerts and risk-scoring metrics in our dashboard, helping users calibrate position sizes and anticipate rapid outflows—thus aligning expectation management with real-time market signals.

aZen Protocol
Fast capital flow keeps teams nimble but can inflate burn rates if unchecked. We mitigate this by coupling our token vesting schedule to product release milestones—if capital arrives ahead of roadmap delivery, it triggers conditional unlocking only upon successful deployment. This ensures that hype funding translates into real feature rollouts. On the momentum front, we maintain a rolling “community challenge” schedule, where each week delivers a new mini-feature or integration—ensuring there’s always fresh functionality to sustain user interest beyond the initial frenzy.

Market Profit
While flash inflows can distort sentiment metrics, our platform provides layered analysis: users see both short-term surge indicators and long-term trend filters. Educating them on signal-to-noise differentiation is baked into interactive tutorials and in-app guidance, mitigating FOMO-driven churn. From a builder’s standpoint, we decouple product launches from hype cycles by offering evergreen features—like continuous strategy vault optimization and API-driven alert feeds—that retain value irrespective of transient token rotations.

RWAOne
Rapid token swaps in new RWA pools can destabilize prices, so we implement time-weighted staking bonuses that reward medium-term holds and dynamically adjust pool fees to discourage immediate withdrawal after minting. Additionally, we provide real-time dashboard views of underlying asset performance—e.g., commodity price charts—so users see the fundamental drivers of their minted tokens rather than pure market frenzy, aligning expectations with real-world asset dynamics.

SUEDE AI
Volatile memecoin cycles taught us the necessity of anchoring token value to creative output: our on-chain royalty streams ensure that tokens represent ongoing artist revenue, softening speculative pump-and-dump swings. We also host regular “artist-listener AMAs” on Discord, providing continuous community touchpoints that shift focus from mere price to cultural and creative developments—thus maintaining engagement beyond price action.

BitSky MO
In a fast-flow market, community trust is fragile. We uphold transparency through monthly “state-of-community” reports—on-chain wallet demographics, ambassador contributions, and token vesting maps—so stakeholders see the long-term vision. To sustain momentum, we schedule weekly micro-events—like “Flash Question Rounds” and “Mini Roundtables”—that deliver bite-sized value and keep participants returning, even when they’re not chasing the next token pump.

Q6: Outside of price speculation, what real progress is coming soon? Whether it’s new features, token utility updates, or major partnerships—what should your users and community be excited about in the next few months?

Alphakek AI
We plan to launch a private beta of our AI monetization platform—powered by the NVIDIA-GTC–presented knowledge graph—within six weeks, opening B2B API access so dApp developers can embed advanced agent orchestration and on-chain/off-chain insights. This marks our first move beyond model hosting into a full-stack AI service layer. Simultaneously, we’re rolling out an enterprise dashboard for portfolio surveillance, integrating real-time risk metrics, predictive sentiment overlays, and agent-driven alerting—enabling institutional users to automate hedging strategies directly through our API.

aZen Protocol
In Q3, we’ll unveil our upgraded deep-learning backbone, doubling throughput and halving gas costs for AI agent transactions. We’re also releasing a new DeFi Agent toolkit that automates cross-chain yield optimization and liquidity rebalancing, allowing nontechnical users to access advanced strategies with a single click. On the partnership front, we’ve secured integrations with three leading cross-chain bridges and two oracle networks to enhance data reliability and expand our agent reach into Layer-2 ecosystems—broadening our protocol’s addressable market.

Market Profit
We’ll launch our mobile copy-trading app in July, complete with portfolio automation and inverse-copy support, bringing our quant-bot features to on-the-go users. Four new exchange integrations will follow, letting users tap into diverse order books without leaving the app. We’re also introducing “Community Vaults”—community-managed strategy pools where members propose and vote on strategy allocations, combining copy-trading with social governance for collective alpha generation.

RWAOne
Our mainnet goes live June 20, immediately enabling minting of synthetic gold, oil, and major equity indices. Within the first week, we’ll list these pairs on two top-tier DEXs and launch yield-curve–based staking incentives. By Q4, we plan to onboard tokenized real-estate and foreign-exchange derivatives, and roll out an automated compliance module that integrates KYC/AML checks—making our protocol institutional-ready.

SUEDE AI
Q3 sees the public beta of our voiceprint-verified hardware device—embedded in microphones and guitars—to authenticate on-chain music creation. That launch will coincide with our multilingual music NFT marketplace, featuring dynamic royalty splits and cross-chain minting. We’ve also partnered with two major metaverse platforms to embed our AI-powered music creation tools directly into virtual concert venues, allowing real-time collaboration and direct-to-avatar NFT issuance.

BitSky MO
This summer, we’re expanding Social-5 into six new regions—adding localized ambassador hubs and language-specific roundtables—to foster diverse on-chain communities. We’ll also launch an analytics dashboard for sponsors, showing real-time event ROI and community-growth metrics. Finally, a cross-chain reward bridge will go live in August, letting ambassadors earn and transfer airdrop rewards seamlessly between EVM and non-EVM chains—unlocking multi-chain engagement and new partnership opportunities.

Q7: “Wen adoption” is always a question. But realistically—do you feel like the market is finally ready for real growth and user scale, or are we still in the building phase? And how prepared is your team if things suddenly take off?

Alphakek AI
We believe we’ve entered the growth phase: retail and institutional users alike are demanding scalable AI services on-chain. We’ve stress-tested our multi-region node network at 10× expected peak loads and secured enterprise SLAs to guarantee 99.9% uptime—ensuring we can handle sudden user surges without performance degradation. Our cross-cloud inference layer and auto-scaling compute clusters mean we can ramp from hundreds to tens of thousands of concurrent API calls within minutes, backed by pre-funded GPU capacity and elastic storage.

aZen Protocol
While core features are still under development, our auto-scaling node fleet and on-chain governance framework allow us to push urgent patches and capacity increases within block-time consensus windows. We’ve built a modular smart-contract architecture, enabling hot-swappable upgrades without network forks. We run quarterly disaster-recovery drills and maintain active partnerships with major cloud providers, giving us multiple fail-over paths for both AI compute and blockchain nodes—ensuring we’re not building in isolation but ready for production-grade adoption.

Market Profit
Our serverless architecture, containerized microservices, and global CDN for data feeds already support thousands of daily copy-trades; we maintain a reserved compute buffer to handle 10× inflows. We also deploy auto-healing routines and rolling updates to minimize downtime during unexpected load spikes. On the ops side, we’ve staffed 24/7 support in three time zones and partnered with a major incident-management platform to ensure real-time alerts and on-call rotations—guaranteeing that any production issue is addressed within minutes.

RWAOne
We completed third-party security audits and have a fully funded liquidity insurance pool, ensuring user funds remain protected even under extreme market moves. Our modular compliance layer—integrated with major KYC/AML providers—allows us to activate institutional rails within days of demand. Operationally, we maintain multi-sig governance, hot- and cold-wallet stewardship, and a cross-functional rapid-response team for incident triage—ensuring that any governance proposal or emergency fix can be executed on-chain within two hours if adoption surges.

SUEDE AI
Our multi-cloud inference layer and hardware-backed provenance network have been load-tested to 1 M monthly active devices, and we maintain active hardware-supply agreements to scale device distribution without bottlenecks. On the smart-contract front, we use upgradeable proxies to deploy feature patches instantly. We’ve also instituted a continuous integration pipeline that runs full end-to-end tests—covering on-chain transactions, device-firmware updates, and API scaling—every 24 hours, ensuring we can confidently push major releases even during peak adoption phases.

BitSky MO
We operate a 24/7 growth-ops team across APAC, EMEA, and AMER, maintaining global ambassador channels ready to scale community onboarding in six spoken languages. Our smart-contract–based event toolkit can spin up new roundtables on demand, and we keep a reserve of on-chain gas credits to prevent event failures. Moreover, we’ve partnered with a leading blockchain analytics provider to monitor real-time wallet-growth and activation metrics—feeding into our ops dashboards for proactive scaling decisions. This end-to-end readiness ensures we’re not just building for tomorrow but prepared to lead in the coming adoption wave.

Conclusion

The insights shared by Alphakek AI, aZen Protocol, Marker Profit, RWAOne, SUEDE AI, and BitSky MO paint a clear picture: we’re entering an altseason grounded in real on-chain utility rather than pure speculation. Rising Layer-0 bridge flows, renewed TGE activity, surging RWA minting, and tangible music-NFT engagement all point to capital rotating into sustainable protocols. Each project has answered the challenge of short-lived hype with concrete retention tactics—staking incentives, gamified communities, bounty programs, governance rewards, and recognition loops—that extend user engagement well beyond initial airdrops or token launches. With major feature launches and integrations slated for the coming weeks, these teams are primed to absorb the next wave of users and institutional flows, signaling a healthier, more durable market cycle ahead.