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Ethereum announces double investment in AI field and establishdAI(DecentralizedAI)teamThe news was beyond the expectations of most people.
The team, led by Davide Crapis, is committed to “making Ethereum the preferred settlement and coordination layer of AI.”
In practice,dAIThe team will focus on two specific directions:
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Infrastructure decentralization:With the rise of AI giants, it is necessary to avoid over-reliance on a few centralized entities to ensure that AI operates on the decentralized technology stack.
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AIDecentralization of the economic system:In addition to the underlying infrastructure, it is urgent to ensure that the execution, coordination and alignment between agents are implemented in a decentralized, licensing-free and third-party intervention.
The two cores of Ethereum’s unique value proposition are its credible block space neutrality and censorship resistance; therefore, it will be of great significance to observe the creation of AI agents that conform to this concept.
In terms of the team’s official statement, its goal is to “connect two areas of long-term parallel development.”
Through this move, both parties can achieve mutual benefit and win-win results:
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AI agents become safer, more trustworthy, and more decentralized.
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Ethereum has become the main settlement layer, opening a new era of efficiency led by AI agents.
So this is not only another way to release AI agents… it also creates fully neutral, verifiable and censor-resistant agents.
The dAI team will not operate in isolation, but will work closely with the Ethereum Foundation’s protocol and ecosystem team to ensure far-reaching impact.This will open up interesting design spaces—AI agents can eventually be entrusted to tasks such as asset management and applied to more use cases.
The plan has had a ripple effect and we have seen the clues.For example,dAIThe team releasedERC-8004The supplementary proposal aims to achieve a trustless agent architecture.
The newly deployed x402 adds native crypto payment function to Google’s recently launched A2A agent communication protocol
rightAIFor agents, this means:
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Have on-chain settlement capabilities
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ERC8004 can be used without trust and verified credentials
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Common standards for crypto payments between agents
The proposal has received extensive support from eco-participants such as MetaMask, which announced a close collaboration with Google.
“We believe that unified interoperability payment standards are crucial for agents to buy and sell digital resources and services“.
MetaMaskHow will this technology be used?
ConsenSys also promises to “implement multi-asset, multi-chain and self-custodial support for x402 in our product stack”.
Currently, there are examples that have been implemented – DINBuild supports “x402 micro payment function, allowing the intelligent body to independently purchase RPC access rights on demand.”
Some hackathon projects have begun to revolve around the ERC8004 construction tool.
In addition, Ethereum has partnered with Virtuals to launch a series of official seminars for developers and deploy new agents using the Virtual platform.
