ParaFi Partner Bets AI Capital Flees to Bitcoin After Crash

Jeff Park: Bitcoin Will Ultimately Benefit From the Rise of AI

While reports have established an inversely proportional relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and crypto, meaning that investors have been withdrawing funds from crypto and piling them up behind AI stocks, including chip makers and software companies, some are betting on the resilience of crypto.

Contemplating 2026 VC investment figures, AI has been eating into the funds available for all industries: According to Crunchbase, AI shattered records in Q1 2026, reaching 80% of all global venture funding. And while crypto and AI can merge in some projects, pure AI investments and compute companies like NVIDIA have been the prime beneficiaries of this trend.

This has contributed to the current stability in crypto prices, which have been ranging over the $60K support for some time, given that there is less interest and liquidity open to be injected into crypto markets.

Known crypto analyst and co-founder of BitMEX, Arthur Hayes, has openly backed this notion. “There’s no cash to go to crypto. AI sucked it all up and it’ll keep sucking it up until the bubble bursts,” he assessed in a June interview on the New Era Finance Podcast with Michaël van de Poppe.