DGrid AI’s native token DGAI nearly doubled on its first day of trading. The token changed hands at about $0.73 on Tuesday, up nearly 93% over the past 24 hours, with a market cap of about $110 million and more than $165 million in trading volume. DGrid AI is expanding a decentralized AI network, and it also sold more than 140 DClaw Boxes in a matter of hours. Each unit was priced at 1,580 USDT, bringing in more than 221,000 USDT. The network uses a “Proof of Quality” mechanism, and node operators must stake DGAI to participate.

DGrid AI’s native token, DGAI, surged in its first day of trading as the project pushed ahead with its decentralized AI inference network and hardware rollout. CoinGecko data showed DGAI trading at about $0.73 on Tuesday, up nearly 93% over the past 24 hours, with a market capitalization of roughly $110 million and trading volume above $165 million. The token sits at the center of DGrid’s network design, where it is used for payments, staking and node rewards. According to the project’s litepaper, AI requests are routed across models hosted by distributed nodes, while a "Proof of Quality" mechanism is used to assess results. Node operators stake DGAI to provide computing resources and can earn token rewards, while poor performance or misconduct can trigger penalties. DGrid also told Cointelegraph that it sold more than 140 DClaw Boxes within a few hours at 1,580 USDT each, totaling more than 221,000 USDT in sales. The physical devices are built to run DGrid’s DClaw personal AI agent through a decentralized network of independently operated nodes instead of a single centralized provider.

Decentralized AI infrastructure network DGrid AI completed its token generation event at 16:00 yesterday, with its native token DGAI going live at the same time on OKX Boost, Gate, Bitget, KuCoin, Kraken, MEXC, and PancakeSwap, according to ChainCatcher. CoinMarketCap data shows the token opened at $0.1 and climbed to as high as $0.85 within 12 hours of listing, marking an 8.5x increase from its opening price. As of 16:00 today, DGAI was quoted at $0.72, giving it a fully diluted valuation of about $720 million. DGAI is the native token of the decentralized AI network DGrid and is used for node staking, AI service payments, ecosystem incentives, and governance.

Decentralized AI infrastructure network DGrid AI said it will launch validator nodes and DGAI staking at 16:00 today. Users will be able to stake DGAI with either a 180-day or 360-day unlock period, with annualized yields set at 60% and 90%, respectively. Stakers must delegate their tokens to a selected validator node, and rewards will begin accruing after staking is completed. DGrid AI said its validator nodes will run a PoQ, or Proof of Quality, verification program to continuously assess all LLM Providers on the network. The review covers output quality, response latency, stability, and format compliance, with results recorded on-chain and used in incentive allocation. The company said the system is designed to help ensure users access reliable AI model services. DGrid AI also noted that it completed its token generation event, or TGE, on Aug. 24. DGAI is now listed on OKXBoost, Kraken, Bitget, Gate, KuCoin, MEXC, and PancakeSwap. The token has a total supply of 1 billion, with 50% allocated to node network operations and node incentives.

DGrid said more than 140 units of its DClaw Box were sold within hours today, bringing the company’s reported revenue for the past seven months to more than $20 million. The company said each device supports local deployment of AI agents and can access more than 200 AI models. The update was carried by Techub News and attributed to Cointelegraph. No additional sales breakdown, regional details, or pricing information was disclosed in the brief. The statement focused on the speed of sales, the cumulative revenue figure over seven months, and the product’s AI deployment and model-access capabilities.

Gate will add DGrid AI (DGAI) trading in two stages on Aug. 24, according to an official announcement cited by Odaily. The exchange said spot trading for DGAI is scheduled to go live at 16:00 UTC+8. One hour later, at 17:00 UTC+8, DGAI will also be listed on Gate’s swap platform. The update covers both the token name and ticker, and sets out the launch times for each trading venue. No other listing details were provided in the announcement excerpt.

DGrid AI is positioning itself as a decentralized AI infrastructure protocol built around three pieces: a unified access layer for model calls, an on-chain quality verification system called Proof of Quality, and an open marketplace for model providers. In the report cited by Foresight, the project argues that today’s centralized AI platforms still leave developers and enterprises exposed to three structural problems: opaque service quality, vendor lock-in, and closed value distribution. The article says DGrid has already served more than 15,000 paying users as of the first half of 2026 and generated $23 million in verification revenue, while its AI Arena has drawn more than 500,000 users to take part in model evaluation. With the release of the $DGAI token model and an upcoming token generation event, DGrid is presented as moving from an AI service product toward a decentralized infrastructure protocol. The piece also details DGrid’s broader product lineup, including AI Gateway for developers, Model Marketplace for suppliers, AI Arena for preference and evaluation data, and DClaw for agent deployment and on-chain identity. It describes $DGAI as a coordination token for staking, payments, incentives, and governance, while framing the next test for the project around whether existing revenue and user activity can translate into sustained decentralized network usage.

PANews’ Aug. 18 roundup put a wide range of crypto, regulatory, and AI-linked developments on the tape, led by a proposed U.S. Treasury rulemaking tied to the GENIUS Act. The Treasury said it is seeking public comment on the implementation framework for Section 3 of the law. Under the timeline described in the notice, payment stablecoin issuance in the U.S. would generally require a federal or state license starting Jan. 18, 2027, while digital asset service providers would generally be barred from offering U.S. users payment stablecoins issued by unlicensed issuers starting July 18, 2028. Public comments can be filed within 60 days after the proposal is published in the Federal Register. Elsewhere, Bitmine added 9,926 ETH last week, lifting its total holdings to more than 5.81 million ETH. Strategy said it repurchased $132.2 million of STRC and raised its U.S. dollar reserves by $149.1 million to $4.8 billion, while keeping its Bitcoin holdings unchanged at 840,447 BTC. Unitree Robotics said its shares will begin trading on Shanghai’s STAR Market on Aug. 19, with initially unrestricted float accounting for 7.44% of total post-offering shares. The daily digest also covered the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust probe into Andreessen Horowitz, Ethereum Foundation warnings tied to the coming Glamsterdam upgrade, and a slate of funding, exchange, and tokenization updates.