The Ethereum Foundation, a non- profit group that supports the Ethereum ecosystem is setting up a full-time team that will focus on just artificial intelligence. This group will be called the dAI Team, a name that shows Ethereum’s values of decentralization and democracy
The purpose of this team is to bring together developers from both blockchain and artificial intelligence.
“We want to bridge the gap between blockchain organizations and AI organizations,” said Davide Crapis, an Ethereum core developer who will lead the group.
He explained that creating a dedicated AI unit shows how important the sector is for the foundation’s future. “We are realizing that AI is going to be a big part of the lives of all humans. And it’s going to be a large part of Ethereum usage in the future,” Crapis added.
The dAI Team will start small, with three full-time positions, and the Ethereum Foundation is already hiring for the roles. According to Crapis, this is only the beginning of a longer plan to make sure Ethereum is ready for the AI wave. “Ethereum’s infrastructure has so far been focused mostly on finance,” he said. “It needs to be very usable for AI as well”
The first project for the team is working on ERC-8004, which is a new standard that will let AI agents find each other, verify identities, and carry out transactions across Ethereum. The proposal is expected to be presented in its final form at Devconnect, the Ethereum developer conference scheduled for Buenos Aires in November.
Crapis said the initial mission is to create a decentralized AI stack to avoid control by “a few very powerful corporations.” He compared the effort to the rise of decentralized finance. He said that just as DeFi began small and later attracted big institutions, decentralized AI could follow the same path.
The Ethereum Foundation confirmed that the dAI Team will also support standards like ERC-8004 and continue funding public projects at the point where AI and blockchain meet.
Crapis explained on X that the group will push for AI systems that are neutral, verifiable, and resistant to censorship “Ethereum makes AI more trustworthy, and AI makes Ethereum more useful,” he wrote.
The foundation is already working with large Silicon Valley companies on research projects, though details are not yet public (Decrypt). “The focus needs to be on building the best decentralized technology we can offer,” Crapis said.
