Why We Started The Decentralized AI Agent Alliance
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..” ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Centralized institutions are failing us. And it’s not just governments. While we live in a time of incredible technical innovation, it’s a double edge sword. Tech innovation has lead to massive tech monopolies that are now the most powerful centralized entities. The six largest tech monopolies have captured 70%+ of all tech market cap created in the NASDAQ 100 over the last 10 years. That’s great for them and their shareholders, but horrific for the rest of the world. And these tech monopolies are investing MASSIVELY in AI in 2025 and beyond, with the hope of garnering ever larger share of tech value creation, and ever greater control of humanity.
Crypto is the leading force against centralization. And while we’ve created ~$3.2T in value since the first bitcoin was mined in 2009, that is dwarfed by the $11T+ in value created by the six largest tech monopolies over just the last five years. With AI emerging as the most impactful technology ever, both sides of the centralization war now have a new weapon to deploy.
AI Is Poised To Change Human Coordination
In Ronald Coase’s seminal work on human coordination, “The Nature of the Firm” (1937), Coase posits that the firm exist as a coordination mechanism to reduce transaction costs compared to open market exchanges. In a 2018 post, ”Cryptonetworks and the Theory of the Firm,” that builds on Coase’s work, Qiao Wang concluded that
Cryptonetworks have the potential to bridge the gap between the market and the firm. It complements the firm by bringing the meritocracy of the market. It complements the market by offering the transaction cost benefits of the firm.
Now, AI is providing alternative ways to coordinate economic activity at scale, including decentralized coordination. Today, AI can serve as a highly efficient market participant and organizer, providing intelligence and automation into cryptonetworks. AI’s efficiency reduces the cognitive and administrative burdens of coordination, making decentralized networks more viable across a larger swath of our economic activity.
But the AI tools themselves need to be decentralized, across the entire stack, including compute, storage, models, and AI agents.
Introducing The Decentralized AI Agent Alliance (the “DAIAA”)
The best way for crypto as an industry to compete against centralization is to compete collectively. Working together with others in the decentralized AI agent ecosystem will accelerate the pace of our learning and optimize our ability to compete against centralized firms and agents.
The DAIAA Mission: To foster the development and proliferation of decentralized AI Agents through education, activism, research, and events
Our Founding Members are a geographically diverse group of crypto and AI companies, including startups and industry veterans:
The DAIAA is launching with 30 Founding Members. We’re organized into to sub-groups to foster well defined discussions, research, and events. The initial sub-groups include:
- Legal Issues — Chaired by MIDAO
- Data Ownership— Chaired by iQube
- Community Management— Chaired by CryptoMondays.
AI Is Going To Revolutionize Our Ability To Grow & Optimize Crypto Communities
In addition to starting the DAIAA, CryptoMondays is chairing the Community Management subgroup. We’re also building MondAI, an open sourced AI Agent for community management. The DAIAA website highlights numerous efficiencies to be gained by leveraging AI to better manage communities, including:
- Better Decision-Making — By processing vast amounts of data, AI can provide data-driven recommendations, which humans can interpret with broader context, ensuring that decisions are technically sound and contextually appropriate.
- Scalability and Adaptability — AI-driven systems can handle the scalability challenges of growing communities, processing large volumes of data and making real-time decisions. Humans can focus on strategic oversight and long-term planning, ensuring that governance remains adaptable to changing circumstances
Other efficiencies highlighted include improved bias mitigation, better security, greater transparency & accountability, and higher community engagement. And we’re just scratching the surface!
The DAIAA will evolve per the community. CryptoMondays has a laundry list of other aspirations for the DAIAA, as do all the Founding Members. And we look forward to working together to grow the DAIAA and to provide humanity with a better decentralized world.
To learn more about, or to join, the DAIAA, visit us at DAIAA.org.
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