Ethereum Foundation Starts New AI Team to Foster Agentic Payments

Ethereum developer Davide Crapis introduced on Monday that the Ethereum Basis was beginning a brand new AI crew known as the dAI Crew.

The crew’s mission is to “make Ethereum the popular settlement and coordination layer for AIs and the machine financial system.”

Two key areas of focus are enabling AI brokers and robots to conduct funds, coordination, and governance with out intermediaries and creating open, verifiable, censorship-resistant alternate options to stop AI’s future from being managed by just a few centralized entities.

Ethereum Makes AI Extra Reliable

“We consider Ethereum could be as helpful for at this time’s AI builders as it is going to be for the sci-fi future,” stated Crapis.

The strategic method goals to bridge the hole between AI and blockchain communities which have historically labored individually.

The crew additionally goals to collaborate with protocol and ecosystem groups to align protocol enhancements with AI builder wants and fund progressive public items to determine Ethereum because the optimum platform for AI.

“Ethereum makes AI extra reliable, and AI makes Ethereum extra helpful. The extra clever brokers transact, the extra they want a impartial base layer for worth and popularity. Ethereum advantages by turning into that layer, and AI advantages by escaping lock-in to a couple centralized platforms.”

At the moment, main AI platforms are tightly managed by profit-driven tech giants reminiscent of OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, and Meta.

Introducing: The dAI crew

This work will strengthen Ethereum because the belief and coordination layer for AI. https://t.co/L5e3kOAwZk

— Ethereum Basis (@ethereumfndn) September 15, 2025

The dAI crew will advance the ERC-8004 commonplace for AI agent identification verification and belief, which is impressed by Vitalik Buterin’s defensive accelerationism (d/acc) philosophy.

The crew is in its infancy in the mean time, however is actively hiring because it expands.

Tom Lee Bullish on AI

Talking on CNBC on Monday, Fundstrat’s Tom Lee stated that AI transferring onto the blockchain will drive Ether costs this yr, reiterating his “ChatGPT second for crypto” comments.

Lee additionally stated in a BitMine holdings update this week that the convergence of each Wall Road transferring onto the blockchain and “AI and agentic-AI making a token financial system is making a supercycle for Ethereum.”

Based on the official Ethereum website, there have been latest improvements of AI brokers starting from digital influencers and autonomous content material creators to real-time market evaluation platforms on the community.