Wikipedia has an unusually narrow view of which crypto projects count as notable, and that may increasingly shape how AI systems like ChatGPT describe the industry.
- Chainstory, a crypto public-relations agency led by co-chief executives Afik Rechler and Tal Shmuel Harel, reviewed the 10,000 largest tokens on CoinGecko between June 1 and June 4.
- They found that only 84 had dedicated English-language Wikipedia articles.
- Among the top 1,000 projects, just 67 (or 6.7%) qualified.
Top sources cited by ChatGPT. Source: Chainstory
The omissions included Hyperliquid, a crypto peprs platform valued at roughly $15 billion in the report, as well as Sui, a Layer-1 blockchain worth about $5 billion. EigenLayer, Monad Labs and Berachain were also missing despite each raising at least $100 million.
- Yet, for some reason, Firo, a privacy token with just about $15 million of market cap and ranked 959th, had a page.
The problem, according to the report, is that Wikipedia's crypto-specific guidance generally requires substantial coverage from mainstream news outlets, "which usually ignore most of the space."
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Chainstory also pointed to several independent studies that ranked Wikipedia as the most frequently referenced domain in ChatGPT answers.
- One analysis by AI-search company Profound attributed about 8% of all ChatGPT citations to Wikipedia, while another review of nearly 3.3 million citations gave it the largest share of any single domain.
So while lacking a Wikipedia page doesn't make a company invisible to AI, it forces models to piece together basic facts from scattered sources, raising the chances of misidentified founders or being left out entirely.