Chainlink Confidential AI Attester enables a whole range of applications, including a bunch in this recently released paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2606.03771. (See below) As a judge at tomorrow's hackathon conclusion, I'm eager to see what other ideas the teams there dream up.
Our @initc3org team of over 20 authors spent the last 6 months wading through a huge body of work to systematize what we know (and what we don't!) in the space of AI x crypto. A few main takeaways:
Twenty-five experts from academia and industry put together this (monster, 150 -page) survey on the bidirectional impact of crypto and AI. Visit AIC3.io to read it, peruse the executive summary—or chat with a chatbot about it.
We cover everything from DePIN to rogue agents, with stops along the way for TEEs, ZK, agentic payments, oracles, AI-powered investment funds, decentralized data markets and much else besides.
πCreds is out!! Come see how to prove things about yourself to third parties — your health status, financial reliability, or that you're actually good at your job — without giving up your data 👇
πCreds is out!! Come see how to prove things about yourself to third parties — your health status, financial reliability, or that you're actually good at your job — without giving up your data 👇
1/ Privacy-preserving credentials can prove you're over 18, but not much else.
New IC3 research changes that.
𝜋Creds introduces verifiable credentials generated by trusted LLM inference over authenticated data.
An excellent account of hack of The DAO, authored by my former colleague @el33th4xor, recounting the key roles he and @phildaian played.
Happily, it ended in champagne with plastic forks at an @initc3org bootcamp.
Or did it end?
fortune.com/2026/04/28/ten-y…
14 papers. 2 weeks. 1 mission: Turning academic research into real-world products & applications
Introducing Shape Rotator - a virtual hackathon and accelerator program by IC3, FlashbotsX, @theBBFund, @encodeclub, and The Convent. 🧵👇
My Smartcon 2025 talk on how oracles can support AI applications using Props (protected pipelines).
The short clip here was just released by Chainlink. An excellent follow-on demo by Philipp Schindler ran Props on the Chainlink Runtime Engine (CRE).
youtube.com/watch?v=9lZqio__…
New from @ForbesDAssets:
@jon_helgi reports on IC3 research, CoinAlgs, and interviews Professor @AriJuels about the counterparty risks our financial system may not be ready for: