IDAI wins ARIA grant to build dovetail, a trust protocol layer for AI agents
sebkrier · x · 2026-10-07
The Institute for Decentralized AI (IDAI) has received an ARIA research grant to build dovetail, an open-source system for designing and verifying the protocols AI agents use to interact.
- Core argument: an agent economy can't unlock economically valuable work without inter-agent trust—machines lack reputation, can clone identities, and face no reliable consequences.
- Today's internet solves this with trusted central platforms, but intermediaries are gatekeepers: they can inspect data, dictate terms, and extract rents.
- dovetail aims to provide coordination and security infrastructure for decentralized agent networks without central gatekeepers.
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