Sahara AI Token Price Peaked at Launch, What’s Next for Its Price Trend?
On June 26, 2025, the highly anticipated AI concept Token Sahara AI (SAHARA) was launched on nine major exchanges including Gate. However, the expected surge in the market did not unfold - SAHARA experienced a high dive, with its price plummeting 50% from a peak of $0.15, hitting a low of $0.0769, evaporating hundreds of millions in market capitalization in a single day. This “listing and then crashing” drama exposed the speculative bubble and growing pains of the current AI Token market.
The Culprit Behind the Plunge: The Feast of Liquidity Turns into “Poison”
Behind the price collapse of SAHARA, there are three hidden drivers:
- Airdrop Selling Pressure and Early Cashing Out: The project lacks a strict token lock-up mechanism, leading to a concentrated sell-off by a large number of airdrop recipients and early investors once the exchange opens, overwhelming the buying pressure in an instant;
- Excessive Liquidity Triggers a Volatility Vortex: The rare simultaneous listing on multiple top exchanges was intended to inject liquidity into the token, but due to a lack of sufficient real demand in the short term, it became a price instability amplifier instead;
- Leveraged Contracts Add Fuel to the Fire: Some trading platforms launched high-leverage perpetual contracts for SAHARA, attracting many short-term traders and quantitative bots, exacerbating price fluctuations.
Idealism vs. Reality: Narrative-Driven Struggles Against Fundamental Vacuum
Although Sahara AI has painted a grand vision of building a “decentralized AI development platform” and has endowed the SAHARA Token with diverse scenarios such as payment, governance, and model profit sharing, the reality is that the mainnet is still not online, and core functionalities remain on paper. The token price had previously surged by 40,000% due to the narrative of being the “first AI-native blockchain”, but ultimately could not escape the value reassessment brought about by “underwhelming implementation.”
Future Forecast: Stability Needs to Be Driven by Substantial Progress
Currently, SAHARA is weakly consolidating in the $0.08 - $0.09 range, with the technical indicator MACD showing a death cross and RSI hovering in the neutral zone, indicating that market sentiment remains bearish. Analysts have divergent views on the future path:
- Short-term (1-4 weeks): If selling pressure continues, the price may test the support range of $0.065 - $0.075; if it can stabilize above $0.09, a rebound testing the resistance at $0.115 is possible;
- Medium to long-term (1-3 months): Whether the price can return to the $0.15 - $0.18 range entirely depends on the progress of the mainnet deployment and the actual adoption rate of AI tools. If ecological development lags behind, the risk of a prolonged decline to $0.05 cannot be ruled out.
“The current predicament of SAHARA is not an isolated case. Data shows that nearly 88% of AI Token projects declare failure within 17 days, highlighting the fatal flaw of the industry being ‘heavy on concepts, light on delivery.’”
Investor Strategy: Cautiously Positioning as an “Observer”
For investors focusing on SAHARA, it is essential to adhere to three principles:
- Avoid leveraged buying and selling: Initial volatility is extremely high, and leverage can easily trigger liquidation;
- Build positions in batches to control risk: Positions can be gradually built below $0.08, but individual position size should not exceed 5%;
- Keep a close eye on milestone events: Mainnet launch time, developer ecosystem growth, and on-chain trading volume are key observables.
The crypto market is never short of narrative feasts, but the crash of Sahara AI confirms an unbreakable truth: the long-term value anchor of a Token must ultimately return to technological delivery and user growth. When the tide of speculation recedes, only projects that solidly build AI and blockchain integration application scenarios can win the next ticket in the reshuffle.
