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This is the 86th edition of The Web3 + AI Daily - your definitive guide to the intersection of blockchain and AI. Last week, I shared the first bunch of Web3 + AI industry groups that emerged in 2025. Today come two more alliances collectively building, advocating, and educating across crypto AI benchmarks and decentralized AI agents.
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Crypto AI Benchmark Alliance (CAIBA)
In June 2025, 14 organizations in blockchain and artificial intelligence launched the Crypto AI Benchmark Alliance (CAIBA) to establish transparent, reliable benchmarks for crypto‑specific AI tasks.
CAIBA’s founding members included Alchemy, EigenCloud, Goldsky, IOSG Ventures, LazAI Network, Newton Foundation, MyShell.ai, OpenGradient, RootData, Sentient Labs, Surf (inactive), and thirdweb. Kite, GM Agents (inactive), FLock.io, Codatta, Buzzing, Nexus, Ormi Labs, and DMind joined at a later stage.
For a short period of time between June and July 2025, CAIBA was extremely active and managed to release three important benchmarks:
Crypto AI Agents (CAIA) - the first benchmark for crypto AI agents. CAIA builds on general-purpose benchmarks like GAIA and incorporates domain-specific adaptations to test whether AI agents can perform real, analyst-level tasks in crypto.
The benchmark evaluates agents across three core crypto workflows. Scoring well on CAIA indicates that an agent has the practical skills of a junior crypto analyst. High performing models are able to parse onchain data, explain tokenomics, and navigate projects with context and accuracy, much like a human would.
CAIA evaluates both foundational models (like GPT-4o, Claude 3.7, Gemini 2.5, DeepSeek-1) and crypto-native agents. Model scores are published on a public leaderboard, and those meeting a performance threshold receive a Crypto-Ready badge to signal of reliability for builders and users alike.
CAIA v0.2, a major update that increases both the breadth and difficulty of the benchmark, was published soon after the inaugural version. CAIA is still being cited as a substantive benchmark in research articles in 2026.
Onchain Execution Benchmark (OCE), evaluating whether agents actually translate natural language commands into onchain transactions.
OCE contained 70 real-world tasks, spanning DEX swaps, staking, transfers, multi-step DeFi workflows, ENS registration, and composite operations featuring several tasks at once.
Crypto Named Entity Recognition (NER) Benchmark, evaluating whether models can correctly identify crypto projects, tokens, their X handles, and VC backers. The Crypto NER Benchmark aims at testing how well agents perform in sourcing high-level insights from crypto-specific data like tweets, news clips, and research threads.
However, although CAIBA’s website remains active and the alliance appears to welcome new members, there have been no new public announcements or releases for over a year.
Decentralized AI Agent Alliance (DAIAA)
The Decentralized AI Agent Alliance (DAIAA) is the first industry association I’m reviewing here that’s actively working and pursuing its mission today. And its mission is:
DAIAA is made up by a diverse array of 200+ projects building at the intersection of Web3 and AI. It includes Yuma, Polkadot, Lava Network, iQube, Chromia, Spheron AI, PublicAI, Space and Time, Koii, Mind Network, gumi Cryptos Capital, human.tech by Holonym Foundation, DappLooker AI | Agent Intelligence, io.net, Secret Network Foundation, NEAR AI, and many others.
According to its blog, the alliance was founded primarily in response to the growing centralization of AI:
The DAIAA members collaborate and share knowledge in three distinctive subgroups:
Community Building, chaired by CryptoMondays Meetups
Data Ownership, chaired by iQube
Legal Matters, chaired by MIDAO
As evident from the DAIAA YouTube channel, the alliance has established recurring meetings, project and agent showcases, and maintains a regular presence at crypto industry events. Its discussions are increasingly focused on the practical infrastructure needed for the emerging agent economy, while advancing its broader objectives of educating and expanding the Web3 + AI community.
This was Part II from a series of publications exploring the Web3 + AI industry groups and alliances. Find Part I here and expect Part III coming soon!
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