The team behind iDEGEN, a widely recognized AI meme coin, confirmed the project will become available on public exchanges on the 27th of February. This news could further support its ongoing presale momentum as it nears its end.
iDEGEN has repeatedly made headlines as the world’s first AI agent to be trained entirely by the crypto community, without the censorship safety net. This strategy has resulted in significant returns for some early investors with 75,000% gains and even led to controversial posting bans on X (Twitter) for “violent speech.”
Now with 1.44 million total impressions and a presence across multiple social platforms, including X, Telegram, and RedNote, iDEGEN’s ICO raise has passed $20 million as it prepares for its DEX launch. And as the project’s recent DeepSeek launch is priced in, the iDEGEN team anticipates further interest in the AI coin.
iDEGEN becomes a household name
The team behind iDEGEN has had a clear and robust strategy from the start. Their approach involves launching a blank-slate AI, allowing it to learn everything it knows from crypto degens, with zero moderation, while also accelerating its growth with progressive tech upgrades in an effort to outpace its AI meme coin rivals.
At times, the results have been unconventional, from controversial discussions to iDEGEN responding strongly to prospective investors in a way that has led to content restrictions.
For a brief period of time, the iDEGEN team became concerned that this increasingly unpredictable AI might begin operating independently and become difficult to control. But, backed by community demand, rather than neutering iDEGEN, they further empowered it with technical upgrades in an effort to strengthen its position against competitors in the $7 billion market. The latest of these updates has been iDEGEN’s integration with the Chinese AI model that’s ‘breaking the internet’—DeepSeek R1.
iDEGEN presale passes $20m as DeepSeek launch attracts attention
DeepSeek’s recent emergence hasn’t just sent a shockwave through the stock market, it has also had AI crypto projects racing to integrate with this new AI model.
iDEGEN recently won this race, launching a second variant of its AI powered by R1 on X. This new version has already risen to prominence, with its follower count quickly rising to 11,500.
Eventually, in a continuation of iDEGEN putting complete control of the project’s evolution in the hands of the community, Crypto X will decide which version of iDEGEN stays for the long haul. It’s a decision already attracting much debate and is expected to draw further attention to the project’s presale.
The future of iDEGEN
iDEGEN continues to gain momentum. In just a few months, it has transformed from an empty AI framework into a widely recognized social experiment that has spread across the internet and can now even generate video content—an innovation among AI agents. This is one of the main reasons it has been consistently trending on X, as seen below.
iDEGEN is expected to continue advancing toward greater autonomy, with Degen Singularity remaining a core component of its whitepaper. An unexpected development for investors is iDEGEN’s introduction of highly competitive dynamic staking, offering rates of up to 10,000% APY.
Currently priced at $0.0214 in stage 9 of 15, IDGN tokens are expected to reach a final price of $0.038 on 26th February. With a listing date confirmed, there is growing interest in the potential inclusion of the token on additional major exchanges.