Eigen Labs Inc., the developer of the verifiable cloud platform EigenCloud, announced Tuesday the launch of a verifiable computing layer for artificial intelligence using blockchain technology.

The company released two solutions, EigenAI and EigenCompute, designed to enable developers to run AI models and receive the same level of security and transparency as using blockchain smart contracts. Using the new solutions, AI developers can verify that prompts, models and answers were not tampered with, adding trust to AI calls.

“The future of software is autonomous and verifiable, with agents that can act on behalf of users in the real world, from managing capital to brokering agreements,” said Chief Executive Sreeram Kannan. “The current legacy tech infrastructure for AI and compute is a major bottleneck for agent development and adoption.”

According to Kannan, every time a user accesses a large language model provider, they run the risk that their interaction has been modified either by a third party or the provider itself. These changes could include changing the structure of prompts or responses or using less-capable AI models, which can corrupt or completely alter user expectations.

These hidden modifications make AI unsuitable for high-stakes applications, such as trading or contract negotiation, where being certain that everything in the transaction chain is untouched is critical.

The EigenAI platform enables developers to create verifiable applications using LLM inference, ensuring consistent results across different runs of the same LLM call. The solution offers a deterministic, verifiable application programming interface compatible with the OpenAI API that supports open-source LLMs and tool-calling.

Currently, EigenAI supports OpenAI’s recently released open-source gpt-oss-120B, a high-quality large model capable of advanced reasoning using “chain of thought.” The company said it began with this model based on initial demand, but it plans to expand to more open-source AI models from there.

Eigen Labs said its method of verifying inference for LLMs relies on a technical breakthrough the company achieved for making inference deterministic, a capability thought impractical for AI models due to their inherent randomness. The process is similar to work by Thinking Machines Lab, and details on the method will be released soon, alongside open-sourcing the code.

The company has also partnered with Google LLC to help build the Agents Payment Protocol, an extension to Google’s Agent-to-Agent protocol. Eigen Labs said it leverages the x402 payment protocol, a method released by Coinbase Inc. that enables instant stablecoin payments directly over HTTP. Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies designed to maintain a fixed value, typically pegged to a traditional currency like the U.S. dollar, so each token stays at $1.

EigenCompute provides a verifiable compute service for developers to run complex, long-running agent logic outside of a blockchain, while maintaining the integrity and security of using smart contracts. Smart contracts are self-executing programs that automatically carry out the terms of an agreement when predetermined conditions are met. The contract code is stored on a blockchain, allowing all parties to transparently understand how a digital agreement operates, while automatically verifying and enforcing the terms of the contract.

Developers can upload app or agent logic as a Docker image into the company’s Trusted Execution Environment. The company said it intends to use the TEE as a familiar starting point for developers. In the long term, the company will include multiple verifiability options, including using blockchain tokens as economic incentives for security on the company’s EigenLayer protocol built on the Ethereum blockchain. Eventually, Eigen Labs plans to incorporate zero-knowledge proofs to provide trustless security.

“Until issues of transparency and deplatforming risk are addressed, AI agents will remain functional toys rather than powerful peers we can hire, invest in, and trust,” said Kannan.

Numerous companies have joined Eigen Labs to build on the new services, including social platform Collective Memory Inc., AI agent framework ElizaLabs, Web3 gaming company Dapper Labs Inc., crypto trading AI assistant FereAI, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and Google.

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