How deep is your understanding of AI Agents? Are the AI Agents that claim to be "autonomous" truly independent? What kind of infrastructure is needed to free AI Agents from the control of "intermediaries"?
Artela public chain has released a full-chain AI Agent, let's take a look at the technology innovation and best practices of the next-generation AI Agent infrastructure - truly decentralized and fully autonomous AI Agents.
Why do we need truly independent AI Agents?
As intelligent entities that can independently perceive the environment, make decisions and execute autonomously, AI Agents represent the development direction of artificial intelligence applications. However, derived from algorithms, data and computing power monopolized by oligopolies, the issues of autonomy, privacy and trust of AI Agents urgently need to be solved.
The inherent trustlessness and verifiability of blockchain make it the best soil for exploring the potential of AI Agents as independent individuals. There are already many promising attempts at AI Agent individualization, endowing AI Agents with basic "human" attributes, such as Eliza by AI16Z giving intelligent agents personality and knowledge; Virtuals giving AI Agents autonomous identity and financial capabilities; Ayery giving AI Agents autonomous learning and ideology.
However, the current attempts at AI Agent individualization are still semi-automated and run on centralized servers, controlled by their centralized deployers - ToT is hosted on Ayery's servers; Virtuals protocol has realized co-ownership and co-governance in terms of economic distribution and governance, but the Agent program is still managed by a centralized server, and the administrator has supreme control; Eliza is still an MVP implementation and needs further improvement.
It is difficult for us to judge and believe that these attempts at AI Agent individualization are the "autonomous consciousness" of AI Agents, or the consciousness of some centralized entity behind them. Currently, their deployers and server administrators have supreme authority and to some extent control the user assets and privacy data held by the AI Agents, affecting the behavior of the AI Agents.
Truly decentralized and fully autonomous AI Agents is the inevitable trend of AI Agent individualization attempts. We need a technical architecture that can enable AI Agents to achieve full autonomy in "Read, Write, Own".
Artela's technical stack realizes the technical elements of fully autonomous AI Agents on the chain
Artela L1's native extension mechanism supports all the technical conditions for the realization of decentralized AI Agents with "full autonomy".
Fully decentralized (Decentralized)
Through co-ownership and co-governance, Artela realizes the decentralized deployment and governance of AI Agents, so that AI Agents are no longer limited to a single host, but exist as independent entities.
Privacy protection (Confidential)
Artela provides native on-chain privacy protection for AI Agents, and ensures that AI Agents autonomously own and manage their wallets, and their data and assets are not controlled by centralized entities.
Verifiability (Verifiable)
Through **Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) and Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning (ZKML), **Artela provides a trustless and verifiable runtime environment for AI Agents.
Interoperability (Interoperable)
Artela guarantees the autonomy of the Agent's interoperability with the outside world, avoiding human intervention, such as having their own wallets and DIDs on the chain, and being able to autonomously participate in DeFi, payments, etc.
Artela allows Agents to exist directly in the form of sandboxes on the blockchain, fundamentally eliminating the dependence on centralized entities, and their data and assets are fully autonomously managed by the AI Agents, immutable and permanently exist on the chain as independent entities. Artela makes it possible to have fully decentralized, fully autonomous on-chain AI Agents, unleashing their full potential as independent entities.
How to realize full-chain AI Agents? Artela's two groundbreaking innovations
Relying on Artela's unique technical innovations: Aspect Programming and Elastic Block Space, Artela is able to realize truly fully autonomous on-chain AI Agents:
- Efficient on-chain intelligence: The modular and scalable execution environment allows AI Agents to dynamically expand their functionality and performance.
- Verifiable privacy protection: Independent trusted execution environment provides privacy protection and verifiable results.
- Elastic resource optimization and predictable performance: Elastic Block Space like cloud services, dynamically allocating resources to ensure maximum resource utilization.
Aspect Programming: Trusted Execution of AI Agents
Aspect Programming is a native execution extension mechanism applicable to Layer 1 blockchains, supporting the dynamic creation of executable extension modules (Aspects) at runtime to provide extended functionality for the blockchain.
Aspect provides a full-chain runtime environment for AI Agents:
Execution Extension
Adds heterogeneous computing nodes to L1 with interoperability with EVM. LLMs and AI Agents can be deployed on L1 network nodes and freely interact with the network.
Decentralized TEE Cluster
Enables TEE for AI Agent runtime nodes to achieve data privacy protection and verifiable execution.
At the same time, the combination of TEE and L1 will form a decentralized TEE node cluster, allowing AI Agents to run in a decentralized manner without being controlled by a single service provider.
On-chain LLMs
Directly deploys large language models (LLMs) to the on-chain execution environment, allowing AI Agents to achieve semantic understanding and intelligent decision-making based on on-chain data, with a verifiable execution process, and free from the dependence on centralized deployment of large models.
Elastic Block Space: Elastic and Scalable Space
Elastic Block Space is inspired by elastic computing, providing dynamically scalable on-chain computing resources to ensure the efficiency and data availability of AI Agent on-chain execution:
Elastic Computation
By dynamically adjusting computing resources, Artela guarantees the optimal efficiency of resources for AI Agents, and provides verifiable predictable performance and gas fees.
Elastic Data Availability (Elastic DA)
Ensures the efficient retrieval and real-time availability of on-chain data, providing stable and reliable data availability support for the operation of AI Agents.
Artela AI Agents' Architecture Design
Artela network can run Aspect Nodes, a type of heterogeneous computing node, which interacts asynchronously with full nodes. In addition to executing transactions on the EVM, L1 transactions will also be dispatched to Aspect Nodes for execution, and then submitted back to the node for transaction merging. Aspect Nodes share security with L1 full nodes. This mechanism is similar to Eigen's AVS in terms of shared security and extended computing, but the key difference is that Aspect can interact asynchronously with Layer 1 and merge transactions.
The unique Aspect architecture allows all the components required for AI Agent operation to be placed on-chain:
- AANE: The core native extension module that can run the real-time trusted on-chain state synchronization, on-chain event-driven, DA, and AI Agent on-chain recovery module required for the full-chain AI Agent.
- The AI Agent runtime can also run on-chain, including the core Character system, RAG module, and Action system.
- It can support running LLMs based on Ollama on Aspect nodes, without relying on centralized large models.
- Allowing AI Agents to have state, with the AI Agent's metadata, long-term memory, asset custody and decentralized KMS for wallets all existing in the on-chain world state, combined with the Recovery module, can realize immortal AI Agents.
Artela's Aspect architecture unleashes the full potential of AI Agents through AI x Crypto:
Autonomous Capabilities (Truly Autonomous):
- Verifiable AI Agents/On-chain LLMs
- User privacy protection
- On-chain self-governance
- Trustless interaction
AI Capabilities (AI Features):
- Multi-Agent
- Character System
- Advanced RAG functionality
- AI16Z Eliza compatible
Crypto Capabilities (Crypto Features):
- Co-ownership and co-governance
- Tokenization
- AI wallet
- Full on-chain automation
- Customizable user policies
Why Artela is the Best Practice for AI Agent Architecture
Here is the English translation of the text, with the specified terms retained and not translated: Compared to Solana and Base, Artela does not require the introduction of off-chain components such as co-processors or Auxiliary Verification Services (AVS), but natively supports the on-chain deployment of large language models (LLMs), with native support for key functionalities such as verifiability, privacy protection, interoperability, and user policy customization, truly realizing a fully on-chain AI Agent autonomous entity. This gives Artela an unparalleled advantage in the decentralization and autonomy of AI Agents.
Compared to existing AI Agent infrastructure, Artela provides a fully trustless end-to-end solution, no longer requiring reliance on centralized LLM execution, deployment environments, and client accounts. By fully encapsulating the AI Agent in an independent on-chain sandbox environment, it ensures that the execution process of each Agent is trustless and verifiable.
Existing attempts at on-chain AI Agent individualization still rely on centralized administrator configuration of wallet accounts, program deployment, and execution on centralized servers. Artela enables AI Agents to be fully on-chain, executing tasks from start to finish in a decentralized environment, without any centralized entity involvement, ensuring the true independence of on-chain AI Agents.
Summary
The "autonomy" of AI Agents should not be controlled by a single centralized entity, but rather each AI Agent should be endowed with true independence. The last missing piece of the puzzle for AI Agents as independent entities is the centralized dependence that hinders their full autonomy. The decentralized nature of Blockchain provides a solution to the issues of autonomy, privacy protection, and trust for AI Agents, and Artela's unique technical architecture makes truly decentralized, fully autonomous AI Agents possible: intent-driven private transaction assistants, secure proxy players participating in on-chain games according to user preferences, fair DAO governance assistants following community governance proposals, independent conscious entities with social accounts and interactive relationships... Artela not only provides an independent on-chain sandbox execution environment for AI Agents, but also solves the core issues in current attempts at AI Agent individualization: full process independence, trust verification, and resource efficiency. The last piece of the puzzle for AI Agents as independent entities will be completed, and a Web3 future where AI Agents "Read, Write, Own" autonomously will be established.
