Introducing the Open Agents Alliance
By Jay Zalowitz
At ETHDenver 2025, the NEAR AI team introduced an exciting collaboration of forward-thinking teams including NEAR AI and Coinbase Onramp & AgentKit: the Open Agents Alliance (OAA), an initiative to deliver powerful, open source AI services to all users by combining infrastructure. With secure infrastructure powered by TEEs, an innovative and inclusive payment rail, and cutting-edge AI technology, the OAA teams’ shared mission is to ensure secure, open source, economical, and fair AI access for humanity, prioritizing user privacy and economic inclusivity for over 5.5 billion web users worldwide.
“As the global web continues to shift toward mobile users, we believe AI must be accessible to everyone,” said Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder of NEAR AI. “In partnership with leaders in hosting, privacy, and payments, we’re building a globally distributed network that can provide AI services securely, confidentially, and at no cost to end users. This effort spans far beyond the current 350 million blockchain users, extending the power of crypto to deliver accessible AI tools to all.”
Through the OAA, participating organizations will offer end-to-end solutions — including multiple agentic AI frameworks, traffic sources, cloud hosting, secured by TEEs, and frictionless on/off-ramps to both fiat and crypto. By allowing developers to seamlessly build and deploy AI, and by sharing revenue with the contributors, the Alliance is paving the way for free AI inference at scale. This united front aims to replace the traditional “pay-to-play” model with a user-first approach for the benefit of all 5.5 billion people connected to the internet.
The following teams are already working together and will share progress in the coming months. For more updates and to join the alliance, you can visit openagentsalliance.org.
The alliance includes: NEAR AI, Coinbase Onramp & AgentKit, Eliza Labs, Aethir, Bitte Protocol, Akash, Phala Network, Hyperbolic, Exabits, SWEAT Economy, HOT, Frax Finance, Arc and MotherDAO
