• Through this collaboration, Kite AI’s marketplace integrates EigenLayer’s Active Validation Service (AVS).
  • Ethereum validators who have restaked their ETH may now independently validate different AI activities on the platform thanks to this integration.

The Ethereum-based restaking protocol EigenLayer and Kite AI , the decentralized AI Layer-1 platform, today announced a strategic cooperation to integrate EigenLayer’s restaking technology into Kite AI’s on-chain AI asset marketplace.

Through this collaboration, Kite AI’s marketplace integrates EigenLayer’s Active Validation Service (AVS), giving AI inference and asset listing processes verifiable trust. Kite AI offers a secure, decentralized framework that guarantees the precision and dependability of AI models, datasets, and agents by using EigenLayer’s restaked validators to verify computations. This framework is based on Ethereum’s proven security.

Chi Zhang, Co-founder and CEO of Kite AI stated:

“This partnership is a massive milestone for decentralized AI. By combining EigenLayer’s restaking with our Proof of AI consensus, we’re creating a cryptoeconomically secured environment where anyone can build and scale AI with confidence.”

In a decentralized setting, Kite AI’s marketplace enables users to share and monetize from AI models, datasets, and autonomous agents. But maintaing trust depends on making sure these AI resources are trustworthy and reliable. Kite AI adds a strong cryptoeconomic assurance layer by integrating EigenLayer’s Active Validation Service (AVS).

Ethereum validators who have restaked their ETH may now independently validate different AI activities on the platform thanks to this integration. These operations involve evaluating the performance and integrity of recently submitted models prior to approval, making sure that all validations satisfy a distributed consensus threshold, and reproducing model findings across several validators to verify the accuracy of inference outputs. Since attempts at manipulation or dishonest conduct might result in severe sanctions, validators have an economic incentive to perform honorably. Every interaction on the Kite AI marketplace is made more trustworthy by this system’s creation of a safe, impenetrable mechanism.

The system functions via a decentralized pipeline that links the validator network of EigenLayer with the platform of Kite AI:

  • AI Request Initiation: An AI asset is submitted to Kite AI by a user or developer, which initiates an inference.
  • Dispatch to AVS: EigenLayer’s AVS logs the request and starts the decentralized verification.
  • Validator Execution: Now, validator execution is carried out by EigenLayer’s Verifiable Agents, which are restaked validator nodes. These agents independently rerun the model or evaluate the data and model in comparison to predefined benchmarks.
  • Consensus Aggregation: After agents submit their findings, the AVS compiles the data and establishes consensus.
  • Verified Outcome Delivery: After being cryptographically attested, the verified output is returned to Kite AI’s marketplace.

Provable accuracy and transparency are guaranteed across all AI workflows on the platform thanks to this end-to-end process.

By enrolling more restakers from the Ethereum network, Kite AI will be able to expand its validation capacity as AI workloads continue to increase. The platform’s security and throughput may grow in tandem with user demand thanks to its expandable architecture.

In addition to enhancing core marketplace functions, the EigenLayer integration opens up new possibilities, such as extending fraud-resistant validation techniques to cross-chain AI systems, preserving consistent state and inference accuracy in rollup environments, and verifying and tracking the origin of training datasets to guarantee data integrity. The basis for a scalable, secure, and demonstrably reliable AI economy is being laid by Kite AI and EigenLayer, which combine the decentralization tenets of Web3 with rigorous AI verification.