At DAS London, Eigen Labs’ J.T. Rose argued that crypto’s next leg won’t be DeFi but “verifiable AI” — agentic systems whose off-chain work can be proven on-chain. 

Rose cast Eigen’s stack as a cloud-like trio of services (data, compute, inference) backed by crypto-economic security and proofs, letting developers keep public-cloud flexibility while adding verifiability before funds move or state updates land on Ethereum.

Three promising use cases are coming to the fore, according to Rose:

Autonomous trading agents that must prove they followed risk rules;

Agent-to-agent (A2A) payments where work receipts trigger settlement and;

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