EigenLayer Integrates its Restaking Tech into Kite AI’s Marketplace
San Francisco, CA, April 25th, 2025, Chainwire
Kite AI, the decentralized AI Layer-1 platform, today announced a strategic partnership with EigenLayer, the Ethereum-based restaking protocol, to integrating EigenLayer’s restaking technology into Kite AI’s on-chain AI asset marketplace.
This partnership integrates EigenLayer’s Active Validation Service (AVS) into Kite AI’s marketplace, bringing verifiable trust to AI inference and asset listing processes. By leveraging EigenLayer’s restaked validators to verify computations, Kite AI introduces a secure, decentralized framework that ensures the accuracy and reliability of AI models, datasets, and agents—anchored in Ethereum’s battle-tested security.
“This partnership is a massive milestone for decentralized AI,” said Chi Zhang, Co-founder and CEO of Kite AI. “By combining EigenLayer’s restaking with our Proof of AI consensus, we’re creating a cryptoeconomically secured environment where anyone can build and scale AI with confidence.”
Kite AI’s marketplace empowers users to share and monetize AI models, datasets, and autonomous agents within a decentralized environment. However, ensuring the integrity and reliability of these AI assets is critical for maintaining trust. Through the integration of EigenLayer’s Active Validation Service (AVS), Kite AI introduces a robust cryptoeconomic assurance layer.
This integration allows Ethereum validators, who have restaked their ETH, to independently validate various AI operations on the platform. These operations include verifying the accuracy of inference outputs by reproducing model results across multiple validators, assessing the integrity and performance of newly submitted models before approval, and ensuring that all validations meet a distributed consensus threshold. Validators are economically incentivized to act honestly, as any attempt at manipulation or dishonest behavior can result in slashing penalties. This system creates a secure, tamper-resistant mechanism that reinforces trust in every interaction on the Kite AI marketplace.
The system operates through a decentralized pipeline that connects Kite AI’s platform with EigenLayer’s validator network:
- AI Requests Initiation: A user or developer triggers an inference or submits an AI asset on Kite AI.
- Dispatch to AVS: The request is logged by EigenLayer’s AVS, which initiates decentralized verification.
- Validator Execution: EigenLayer’s Verifiable Agents (restaked validator nodes) independently rerun the model or assess the data/model against predefined benchmarks.
- Consensus Aggregation: Agents report their findings back to the AVS, which aggregates results and determines consensus.
- Verified Outcome Delivery: The validated output is cryptographically attested and sent back to Kite AI’s marketplace.
This end-to-end process ensures provable accuracy and transparency across all AI workflows on the platform.
As AI workloads continue to grow, Kite AI is positioned to scale its validation capacity by onboarding additional restakers from the Ethereum network. This extensible architecture allows the platform’s security and throughput to expand seamlessly alongside user demand.
Beyond strengthening core marketplace operations, the integration with EigenLayer also unlocks broader applications, including validating and tracing the provenance of training datasets to ensure data integrity, extending fraud-resistant validation mechanisms to cross-chain AI systems, and maintaining consistent state and inference accuracy within rollup environments. By uniting the decentralization principles of Web3 with rigorous AI verification, Kite AI and EigenLayer are laying the foundation for a scalable, secure, and provably trustworthy AI economy.
About Kite AI
Kite AI is a decentralized Layer-1 blockchain platform pioneering equitable, democratized, and secure access to fundamental AI assets – data, models, and autonomous agents. Built on ZettaBlock’s proven infrastructure, Kite AI serves as the foundation of a decentralized AI economy, coordinating a global network of contributors (from individual developers to large enterprises) to build, share, and be fairly rewarded for high-quality AI asset contributions, all while maintaining ownership, privacy, and control over those assets.
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About EigenLayer
EigenLayer is a pioneering Ethereum protocol that enables restaking, allowing Ethereum validators to re-use their staked ETH to secure and validate new decentralized services beyond the Ethereum mainnet. By extending Ethereum’s robust security and validator set to emerging services (such as data availability layers, oracles, and verifiable compute modules), EigenLayer creates a marketplace of shared security. This empowers new Web3 projects to launch with strong decentralization and cryptoeconomic trust from day one, without needing to bootstrap their own trust networks from scratch.
