DePIN projects Theta (THETA) and XYO (XYO) have partnered to develop a cryptographic proof infrastructure that will independently verify AI agent workloads.
In a statement shared exclusively with The Block, Theta said its AI agent platform has helped sports and entertainment organizations — including Olympique de Marseille, the Houston Rockets, and partners across the MLS, NBA, NHL, and Ligue 1 — build customized customer service AI agents. The collaboration will see XYO's decentralized data verification network integrate performance attestations directly into these live deployments on Theta EdgeCloud.
The projects argue that AI agents are starting to make increasingly important business decisions with no independent record of whether the underlying infrastructure performed as programmed, which can create operational and financial risks when errors go undetected. Citing research from Stanford University, they said organizational adoption of AI reached 88% in 2025, with 23% of those companies now scaling agentic AI systems.
The projects said decentralized compute networks have largely competed on price and availability, but have not offered independent proof of infrastructure performance. "Cloud providers cannot independently verify their own infrastructure, in the same way a bank cannot audit its own accounts. Verification is what's been missing."
