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The market is still valuing TAO and LINK like narrative assets, but the real inflection point is whether either token becomes a required operating input for a repeatable commercial workflow. TAO has the cleaner reflexivity if subnet demand proves durable: usage creates token demand, token demand incentivizes supply, and that can self-fund ecosystem growth without needing venture-style equity adoption. The catch is that a single impressive technical demo does not translate into recurring procurement; until there are multiple subnets with persistent fee generation, TAO remains a call option on decentralized AI labor rather than a cash-flow proxy.

LINK’s AI angle is more institutional and therefore slower-moving, but potentially stickier if it turns into middleware for regulated workflows. The second-order risk is that large financial institutions may validate AI outputs internally and only use third-party infrastructure at the margins, which caps token capture even if the software is useful. If LINK’s AI efforts do not translate into on-chain volume or oracle demand, the market may eventually re-rate them as marketing optionality rather than a monetizable expansion of the core product.

The main timing variable is months, not days: adoption curves here need at least two to three quarters of evidence before the market can distinguish real usage from proof-of-concept theater. Consensus is probably underestimating how quickly a handful of high-utility subnets or agent workflows could concentrate demand in one or two tokens, but also overestimating how broad the monetization will be across the whole ecosystem. The highest-probability catalyst is not model quality; it is evidence of recurring paid transactions, rising active users, and token velocity that does not collapse after the initial novelty wears off.