Ethereum Foundation Launches On-Chain dAI Team
Ethereum Foundation Launches “dAI Team” to Advance On-Chain AI
The Ethereum Foundation has officially announced the creation of the “dAI Team” (Decentralized AI Team), a dedicated group focused on developing artificial intelligence (AI) that operates directly on the Ethereum blockchain. The team will be led by Davide Crapis, a core Ethereum developer.
In its early phase, the dAI Team is working on ERC-8004, a new standard designed to enable AI Agents—autonomous software capable of making decisions and executing transactions—to function transparently, reliably, and seamlessly on Ethereum. In the long term, the team aims to build a decentralized AI infrastructure, reducing dependency on big tech corporations while promoting openness, transparency, and censorship resistance.
Why is this important?
The launch of the dAI Team marks a strategic move for Ethereum to become the trusted payment and coordination layer for AI and the machine economy. It represents a crucial bridge between blockchain and AI—two fast-growing but often separate fields—laying the foundation for AI applications to operate without intermediaries, ensuring transparency and financial freedom.
Just days earlier, on September 13, 2025, the Ethereum Foundation revealed its privacy roadmap, which aims to prevent Ethereum from turning into a global surveillance tool. Instead, it emphasizes cypherpunk values by safeguarding user privacy. The roadmap highlights zero-knowledge proofs as a core technology, allowing secure data validation without exposing sensitive information.
Expert insights
According to Davide Crapis:
“We want Ethereum to be the best home for AI—where applications can trade, coordinate, and follow rules without relying on intermediaries.”
The dAI Team will focus on two key areas:
- AI Economy on Ethereum: building mechanisms for AI and robots to transact and collaborate directly.
- Decentralized AI Infrastructure: creating an open, transparent, and censorship-resistant foundation rather than depending on a few dominant tech companies.
Conclusion
The establishment of the dAI Team signals Ethereum Foundation’s strong commitment to a decentralized AI future, while reinforcing Ethereum’s role as a neutral infrastructure layer for finance, AI, and the digital society.
The upcoming introduction of ERC-8004 at Devconnect in November 2025 could be a major turning point, pushing Ethereum closer to becoming the backbone of AI and the machine economy.
ETH price performance over the past 7 days (CoinGecko, captured at 09:00 PM, September 15, 2025) also reflects rising market attention to this development.
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