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Ethereum Foundation creates dAI Team to make a settlement layer for AI

The Ethereum Foundation has announced a dedicated AI team to make Ethereum the preferred settlement and coordination layer for AI agents and the emerging machine ￰0￱ Crapis, a research scientist, will lead the team working closely with the Foundation’s Protocol and Ecosystem ￰1￱ Foundation revealed that the dAI Team will focus on two primary ￰2￱ first is to give AI agents and robots mechanisms to pay, coordinate, and follow rules without intermediaries, which it described as the AI Economy on ￰3￱ second is to ensure AI development does not become dependent on a few centralized platforms by promoting open, verifiable, and censorship-resistant alternatives, which it described as the Decentralized AI ￰4￱ aims to build an AI economy with the dAI Team Davide Crapis, the team’s lead research scientist, revealed in a post that the group aims to bridge the gap between blockchain and AI ￰5￱ noted that AI will be a big part of all humanity and the future of Ethereum ￰6￱ described AI as a new frontier for Ethereum compared to earlier waves of ￰7￱ also pledged that the team will build technology and support the interoperability of AI agents on-chain.

We’re starting a new AI Team at the Ethereum Foundation (the dAI Team). Our mission: make Ethereum the preferred settlement and coordination layer for AIs and the machine ￰8￱ team will focus on two main areas: – AI Economy on Ethereum = giving AI agents and robots ways… ￰9￱ — Davide Crapis (@DavideCrapis) September 15, 2025 The dAI Team will focus on the ERC-8004 standard, which allows AI agents to be discoverable, verifiable, and transactable across the Ethereum ￰10￱ standard is expected to be completed by November, and the final form will be presented at Devconnect in Buenos ￰11￱ Foundation also confirmed that the dAI Team will work on related standards and updates alongside channelling funds towards open-source projects supporting agent identity, reputation, and ￰12￱ to the Ethereum Foundation, the launch aligns with the firm’s core values and decentralized acceleration ￰13￱ firm highlighted its neutrality, verifiability, and censorship resistance values, making it suitable for AI agent ￰14￱ company noted that Ethereum makes AI more trustworthy and AI makes Ethereum more useful, adding that neutral settlements could help AI transition from centralized ￰15￱ Foundation is expected to release job listings and resources to ramp up the project and form research collaborations with Silicon Valley ￰16￱ team will link research, protocol work, and ecosystem funding to push forward the innovation of AI and blockchain ￰17￱ Foundation noted that by providing standards, a settlement layer, and financing for decentralized agent infrastructure, Ethereum will be positioned as a foundational layer for future machine-to-machine and agentic ￰18￱ price dips by over 2% to $4,508 Ethereum token price is down 2.2% today, trading at $4,508.95 at the time of ￰19￱ token has also recorded a 0.9% downside over the past 30 days and has a positive YTD of 36.14%.

Cryptopolitan wrote last week that some analysts forecast the price of ETH could average $4,551 by the end of 2025 and potentially hit a high of $4,800. Longer-term projections showed that the token may range between $38,150 and $49,492 by 2031. A Cryptopolitan report estimated that the price would consolidate at $4,682 soon and stabilize at $4,420 or $4,505 support levels as bearish momentum builds ￰20￱ is also estimated that the token may trade around $7,492 by 2026, rising to over $10,200 by 2027 and above $15,800 by ￰21￱ report revealed that Ethereum’s role in DeFi, ongoing Layer 2 scaling, and institutional adoptions are the key drivers that will fuel the price rise in the longer term.

However, some analysts warn that the volatile nature, regulatory conditions, and macroeconomic conditions remain influential to the price outcomes, leaving ETH’s price direction solely dependent on market ￰22￱ your project in front of crypto’s top minds? Feature it in our next industry report, where data meets impact.

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