Kite AI and Eigen Layer are excited to announce a strategic partnership aimed at reinforcing trust, security, and scalability within the decentralized AI ecosystem. By integrating Eigen Layer’s innovative re-staking technology into Kite AI’s on-chain AI asset marketplace, this collaboration establishes a new standard for decentralized AI infrastructure, one that prioritizes trustless verification of AI computations and scalable network security. The result is a more robust environment where AI models, data, and autonomous agents can operate with guaranteed integrity and performance, backed by Ethereum’s proven security mechanisms.
Kite AI’s marketplace is a decentralized platform for AI assets (such as AI models, datasets, and AI agents), and ensuring the reliability of these assets and their outputs is paramount. Eigen Layer, a leading Ethereum-based protocol for re-staking, offers a solution by allowing Ethereum stakers to secure additional services beyond Ethereum. Through this partnership, Kite AI leverages Eigen Layer’s Autonomous Verifiable Service (AVS) framework to validate AI assets and inference results in a decentralized manner. Eigen Layer-powered validators running specialized verification tasks now play a crucial role in confirming that AI model outputs are correct and that listed AI assets meet specified criteria. This means users and developers on Kite AI’s platform gain an added layer of assurance, every AI result or asset can be independently verified by a distributed network of staked validators, rather than relying solely on the asset provider’s claims.
“This partnership is a massive milestone for decentralized AI,” said Chi Zhang, Co-founder and CEO of Kite AI. “By combining Eigen Layer’s re-staking with our Proof of AI consensus, we’re creating a crypto economically secured environment where anyone can build and scale AI with confidence.”
“At Eigen Layer we’re excited to collaboratively push the frontier of the decentralized AI stack with Kite AI by combining the power of crypto economically-sound verifiable AI AVSs with Kite AI’s Proof of Attributed Intelligence geared towards data, models, and agents, thereby ushering in the new permissionless, verifiable AI economy”, said Nima Vaziri, Head of AI at Eigen Labs.
Integrating Re-staking with Decentralized AI Infrastructure
At the core of this integration is a verifiable workflow that ties Kite AI’s marketplace with Eigen Layer’s re-staked validator network. In practice, whenever an AI service on Kite’s platform requires validation, be it checking the integrity of a newly uploaded model or verifying the accuracy of an on-chain inference, the system uses Eigen Layer’s AVS and its verifiable agents to perform decentralized verification.
By integrating Eigen Layer in this way, Kite AI aims to utilize Ethereum’s security through the AI services provided in the Eigen Layer ecosystem. The marketplace gains the ability to handle far more complex AI workloads without sacrificing trust, as demand grows, additional Ethereum validators can re-stake and join as verifiers, scaling the validation capacity in tandem with usage. Meanwhile, users and developers benefit from transparent assurance that AI computations are being checked by multiple independent parties, not just a single provider.
This crypto economic verification model combines advanced blockchain security with AI operations, addressing the long-standing challenge of verifying AI outcomes in a decentralized context. Unlike a centralized AI platform where trust in results depends on the platform’s credibility, Kite AI’s planned Eigen Layer-powered approach is designed to offer provable correctness for every output. Each inference result will be independently reproduced or cross-checked by multiple validators with their stake on the line, and each model will be vetted by a decentralized community rather than a single authority. This heightened security creates a stronger assurance and encourages more users and developers to participate, which in turn drives greater scalability and a richer AI ecosystem.
The integration between Kite AI and Eigen Layer has far-reaching potential beyond the current marketplace offerings by bringing some of the below benefits to the De-centralised AI ecosystem:
AI Inference Validation: Guarantee that each AI inference output is correct, verifiable, and reproducible.
AI Training and Data Verification: Ensure training data integrity and trace the provenance of model outputs.
Data Availability & Rollups: Extend validation capabilities maintaining consistency and trust in rollup computations.
Cross-Chain Operations: Use fraud resistance mechanisms to validate operations across interoperable chains and multi-chain AI ecosystems.
As decentralized AI continues to advance, this partnership sets a new precedent for combining blockchain and AI. Kite AI and Eigen Layer share a vision of an open AI ecosystem that is both powerful and provably trustworthy, a vision that this integration actively realizes.
About Kite AI
Kite AI is a purpose-built, EVM-compatible L1 designed to power the AI economy. At its core is Proof of Attributed Intelligence (Proof of AI), an innovative consensus mechanism that ensures fair attribution and transparent rewards for contributors across agents, models and data.
Our innovative architecture establishes a universal framework with purpose-built identity and attribution mechanisms, empowering contributors — from enterprises to individuals — to collaboratively build, own, and monetize AI, fostering a transparent and interoperable ecosystem.
Backed by top VCs such as General Catalyst, Samsung Next and Hashed, Kite AI is led by AI and Web3 pioneers from industry leaders like Databricks, Uber, and Near, and trusted by partners like Avalanche, Eigen layer, Story Protocol, Sui, zkSync, Polygon, AWS, Stellar, Chain-link, Crypto.com and many more.
About Eigen Layer
Eigen Layer is the world’s first verifiable cloud, enabling a new generation of applications that can make and keep credible commitments to users. By extending Ethereum’s security model, Eigen Layer allows developers to build autonomous verifiable services (AVSs) that inherit Ethereum’s trust properties while unlocking new capabilities.
With over $8B in staked assets and 57+ AVSs deployed, Eigen Layer has created a thriving marketplace where stakers, operators, and developers come together to build the future of decentralized infrastructure. Eigen Layer’s primitives, including EigenDA — a high-throughput data availability solution — provide the foundation for applications across AI, DeFi, gaming, and more.
At its core, Eigen Layer’s mission is to accelerate human coordination through verifiable commitments, acting as humanity’s coordination engine in the digital age.
