The true holy grail of DeAI: Talus's "full-chain" solution

Talus proposes a "full-chain AI" solution to achieve true decentralized AI (DeAI), where an AI agent's entire logic, state, and decision-making process are written into smart contracts and executed directly on the blockchain. This makes the agent's behavior fully verifiable and eliminates the "black box" problem common in hybrid "off-chain compute, on-chain settle" models.

Core Innovation: The project, built on its self-developed Nexus framework and the Sui blockchain, anchors all key agent actions on-chain. This ensures decentralization, verifiability, and accountability.
Addressing the Trilemma: Talus navigates the DeAI trilemma—balancing decentralization, performance, and cost—by leveraging Sui's parallel transaction processing to handle concurrent AI agents without major performance bottlenecks.
Current State: While Talus fills a significant gap in decentralized AI infrastructure, the report notes that the full decentralization of AI agents remains a long-term challenge.

Product feasibility is the gold standard for measuring the potential of crypto AI projects, but true decentralization is its holy grail.

A few days ago, the Talus research report released by Messari, a top cypto research institution, prompted me to think more deeply.

In the crypto AI sector, projects with core products already implemented are not rare; projects like Fetch and Olas are highly mature. However, the vast majority of them adopt a hybrid model of "off-chain computation + on-chain settlement." Because the logic of AI decision-making is not fully on-chain, the entire decision-making process is a "black box," and outsiders cannot verify whether the decision follows the preset logic.

This is not true decentralization, nor is it true DeAI.

True DeAI: AI on the entire blockchain

Talus fills the gap in the DeAI infrastructure sector, transforming AI agents from black-box tools into a fully decentralized, on-chain verifiable, and on-chain-accountable independent economy.

Talus's core concept is "full-chain AI," which means that the entire process of an AI agent—from logic and state to decision-making steps—is written into smart contracts and executed directly on the blockchain. Under this architecture, anyone can verify the historical behavior and decision-making path of the AI agent without needing to trust a third party.

DeAI's Trilemma

Similar to the classic blockchain trilemma, the DeAI field also faces a trilemma: the trade-off between decentralization, performance, and cost. Talus cannot eliminate this trilemma, but it cleverly balances the three based on its Nexus core framework.

Decentralization requires all AI agent logic, state, and decisions to be fully on-chain. Pure on-chain execution of computationally intensive tasks can easily cause performance bottlenecks, especially in scenarios with multiple agents running concurrently.

Talus is based on Nexus, the first self-developed full-chain AI agent framework. It anchors all the key behaviors of the AI agent (decision logic, workflow status, settlement results) on the chain and ensures that they are verifiable and free of black boxes through smart contract execution and recording on Sui.

This is also why Talus chose Sui as its underlying chain: Sui's MoveVM supports parallel transaction processing and allows multiple AI agents to execute concurrently.

Talus has found a viable path in the three-fold dilemma of the DeAI field, filling the gap in decentralized AI infrastructure to some extent, but the road to decentralization of AI agents is still long and arduous.