Eliza Labs and Stanford University’s FDCI To Explore AI Agents Impact on Digital Currency Systems

December 16, 2024 – Palo Alto, California

This partnership establishes the first AI x Web 3.0 lab at Stanford University’s ‘Future of Digital Currency Initiative.’

Stanford University’s FDCI (Future of Digital Currency Initiative) and Eliza Labs, creators of the open-source Eliza agent framework, today announced a groundbreaking research partnership to explore how autonomous AI agents will transform digital currency systems.

The collaboration, set to begin in Q1 2025, brings together Stanford’s expertise in digital currency research with Eliza Labs’ cutting-edge capabilities in autonomous agent development.

Leveraging Eliza Labs’ open-source Eliza framework for autonomous agent development, the partnership will tackle fundamental questions about how AI agents can establish trust, coordinate actions and make decisions within decentralized financial systems.

This research comes at a critical moment as autonomous agents increasingly influence economic systems and financial services – with the Eliza framework providing a proven foundation for developing reliable and scalable agent-based systems.

Professors Dan Boneh and David Mazières, who will oversee the research fellowship program, said,

“This collaboration represents a unique opportunity to shape how AI agents will interact within digital economies.

“By combining FDCI’s established infrastructure with Eliza Labs’ expertise in multi-agent systems, we’re positioning ourselves at the forefront of this transformative technology.”

Shaw Walters, founder of Eliza Labs, said,

“We are incredibly excited to partner with Stanford’s [FDCI] – one of the most prestigious programs for digital currency research – to explore how AI agents can reshape the future of financial systems.

“Together, we’re combining Stanford’s academic rigor with our widely used Eliza AI agent framework to drive trust and governance in decentralized economies.”

The research program will unfold across three phases throughout 2025, focusing on three core areas.

• Agent trust mechanisms – Developing new frameworks for how autonomous agents establish and verify trust within digital currency networks, building upon Eliza Labs’ existing agent trust architecture.
• Multi-agent economic systems – Investigating how agents interact and coordinate in economic contexts.
• Decentralized agent governance – Creating new protocols for managing autonomous agent communities.

The initiative will…