Eliza Labs, the company behind ai16z, has partnered with Stanford University’s Future of Digital Currency Initiative to research how artificial intelligence agents can improve Web3, according to a Dec. 16 announcement. The collaboration will use Eliza Labs’ open-source AI agent framework, Eliza, to “tackle fundamental questions about how AI agents can establish trust, coordinate actions, and make decisions within decentralized financial systems,” Eliza Labs said.
The research will commence in 2025 and focus on developing new frameworks for how autonomous agents establish and verify trust within digital currency networks and investigating how agents interact and coordinate in economic contexts. Stanford Professors Dan Boneh and David Mazières described the collaboration as a “unique opportunity to shape how AI agents will interact within digital economies.” Eliza AI agent framework: Eliza is the AI agent behind ai16z, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) designed to use Eliza to direct on-chain trading and investment decisions.
Its native token, AI16Z, has bootstrapped a market capitalization of approximately $850 million since launching in October. As of Dec. 16, ai16z manages approximately $15 million and Eliza-based AI agents are used by dozens of projects, according to ai16z’s website. Analysts expect the fusion of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology to transform Web3 and ultimately create a world where autonomous AI agents freely interact with humans on Web3.
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