Ethereum Foundation launches dAI Team to make Ethereum the core settlement and coordination layer for AIs—bridging decentralized infrastructure with the machine economy to build a more open, verifiable, and censorship-resistant AI future.

The Ethereum Foundation has created a new dAI Team to position Ethereum as a core settlement and coordination layer for artificial intelligence agents and the broader “machine economy.” Announced by Ethereum Foundation contributor Davide Crapis on X and accompanied by a dedicated dAI Team page, the initiative focuses on defining standards and infrastructure rather than building end-user AI apps, with the goal of enabling AI agents and robots to pay, coordinate, and follow rules on-chain without intermediaries. According to Crapis and subsequent coverage, the team’s work is organized around two pillars: an AI economy on Ethereum and a decentralized AI stack. On the economy side, the dAI Team is working on standards like ERC‑8004, which defines identity and trust primitives for AI agents so other agents and users can verify “who” an AI agent is and whether it can be trusted. On the infrastructure side, the team aims to support open, verifiable, and censorship-resistant AI systems that do not depend on a small set of centralized providers, positioning Ethereum as neutral infrastructure for machine-to-machine coordination across payments, reputation, and rule enforcement. This move aligns Ethereum with a broader wave of Web3 efforts to integrate AI, from decentralized compute networks to AI-agent protocols on other chains, but with an emphasis on protocol standards and public-goods research. The Foundation presents itself as a coordinator and standard-setter—working with both Ethereum protocol teams and ecosystem projects, and engaging large tech and crypto firms interested in ERC‑8004—rather than as a commercial AI platform. The dAI Team’s agenda underscores Ethereum’s strategic bet that as AI agents become more autonomous and economically active, they will require a neutral, programmable base layer for value transfer and coordination, a role Ethereum aims to fill.

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