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Ethereum is doubling down on the AI frontier. This week, the Ethereum Foundation announced the creation of the dAI Team, led by Davide Crapis, to position Ethereum as the go-to coordination layer for all things artificial intelligence.
AI agents are surging, of course, but most rely on centralized infrastructure.
In contrast, Ethereum offers a neutral, verifiable, censorship-resistant base layer where agents can transact and build reputation without middlemen and data silos.
There's a lot of potential here accordingly, so the dAI Team will focus on two major fronts: 1) building up the AI economy on Ethereum, and 2) ensuring the future of AI isn’t locked into a handful of centralized platforms.
This rollout comes as we also just learned that the Ethereum Foundation was among the contributors to Google's Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) and the A2A x402 extension, the latter of which offers support for crypto payments like ETH transactions.
We won't have to wait long for further related advances, either.
For instance, the ChaosChain team has already created a prototype that integrates AP2 with Ethereum's recently introduced ERC-8004 "Trustless Agents" tech, and that's just an early taste of what's to come at this crossroads.
Bottom line: Ethereum’s value prop has always been neutrality + trustlessness, and these values are what autonomous AI agents need most to coordinate at scale. Will this dAI bet pay off in a big way? It's possible. And if it does, Ethereum can become indispensable for the next great era of onchain commerce. Cheers then, let's see what the dAI team cooks from here!
