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BULLISH 📈 : Ethereum positions itself as key platform for AI development
Ethereum is positioning itself as a key player in blockchain and AI integration. With its programmable smart contracts, Ethereum offers secure data verification critical for AI development. The platform's capacity for trustless execution and decentralized data markets addresses significant challenges in AI.
Key Highlights
- Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin advocates for ETH to lead AI innovation by focusing on zero-knowledge privacy payments and reputation systems.
- Vitalik emphasizes developing fundamentally better solutions rather than rebranding existing concepts.
- A significant milestone was reached with 13,000 AI agents registered on the Ethereum network as ERC-8004 launched on mainnet, enabling portable on-chain identities and verifiable trust layers.
- The bulk onboarding of AI agents is part of early infrastructure development, with real progress expected through reputation updates.

Recursion: A Double-Edged Sword
- The Ethereum Foundation is releasing requirements for the zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM) architecture whitepaper, structured in three milestones.
- Dmitry Khovratovich notes that modern zkVMs consist of multiple interconnected components, not monolithic circuits.
- The whitepaper will address security aspects of the recursive proof structure, aiming for completion by December 2026.
- Final zkVM proofs are projected to be approximately 300 KB, with a 128-bit provable security level.
