The Ethereum Foundation strengthens its efforts to broaden the blockchain’s capacities and has unveiled a new team aimed at decentralized artificial intelligence.
This initiative is intended to make Ethereum a financial settlement layer and a trusted basis for intelligent systems and to protect digital interactions.
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In a September 15th after On X, Davide Crapis, the Lead of the DAI team, said the mandate of the group to ensure that Ethereum becomes the settlement layer where autonomous agents can transact, coordinate and build reputation without supervising centralized platforms.
He wrote:
“Ethereum + AI is going to ensure that people keep the agency and AI can reach their potential. Neutral, verifiable, censorship -resistant infrastructure means AI works for people, all.”
In view of this, the initiative will revolve around two priorities: building an AI economy on Ethereum and promoting a decentralized AI stack.
The priority focuses on enabling robots and AI agents to make payments and to follow management rules directly on the network. The second is intended to ensure that artificial intelligence systems are developed with open, verifiable and censorship-resistant infrastructure instead of its own silos.
Crapis emphasized that the relationship between Ethereum and AI is symbiotic because the blockchain network AI can make more reliable, while technology can make the second largest crypto more useful.
He emphasized that as intelligent agents grow in number and refinement, they need a neutral blockchain layer to anchor value and reputation. In turn, Ethereum benefits by becoming that base layer, while AI systems are given freedom of control of centralized technology companies.
It is remarkable that the Ethereum Foundation is already expanding this vision through work on ERC-8004, a proposed standard that enables AI agents to prove their reliability and carry out firm transactions.
To achieve his goals, the DAI team is planning to collaborate with ecosystem projects and academic researchers at the intersection of blockchain and AI.
According to him:
“We will work side by side with both the protocol and the ecosystem teams at the EF. The linking of protocol improvements with the needs of AI builders, and financing innovative public goods that make Ethereum best at home for AI.”
