@OpenGradient is one of those projects where the more you dig, the more you realize the market hasn't caught up to what's actually being built.
Most AI crypto projects slap "decentralized" on a pitch deck and call it infrastructure. OpenGradient actually had to solve a real problem how do you prove an AI model ran exactly as intended, without trusting anyone? That's not a marketing angle. That's a genuinely hard technical problem, and they built a working answer around cryptographic attestations settled on-chain.
What I find underrated...the products existed before the token did. Users were already inside the ecosystem before $OPG ever launched. That sequencing is rare and it matters — it tells you the team was building, not fundraising.
Only 19% of supply is circulating right now. The inference count is already accelerating past 3 million. Those two facts sitting next to each other is the entire thesis — real usage compounding before unlock pressure arrives.
Is it a guaranteed winner? No. External developer adoption still needs to scale beyond the team's own apps. But the foundation is honest. And in this space, honest foundations are rarer than people admit.