PANews reported on November 11 that Davide Crapis, head of dAI, the AI team under the Ethereum Foundation, announced that he is working with the Ethereum Foundation management to develop dAI's 2026 development plan. The goal is to build Ethereum into the core supporting architecture for global decentralized settlement and coordination for AI, enabling autonomous agents and bots to transact, prove their work results, and collaborate under open and transparent rules. These rules can be audited and extended by anyone, thereby protecting users' sovereignty over identity, assets, and data.

The planning document mentions that ERC-8004 and x402 are emerging as neutral standards for smart agent commerce, but fully realizing their potential still requires collaborative efforts from all parties; similar work is needed in other areas with extremely high trust requirements. If Ethereum does not play a leading role, closed platforms or centralized institutions will dominate and thus control the emerging AI economy.