Marcello Politi is a Research Engineer specializing in decentralized artificial intelligence and autonomous blockchain-based systems, with a deep focus on integrating AI with Ethereum. He is currently a member of the dAI Team at the Ethereum Foundation, contributing to the design and development of core primitives for an open, verifiable, and trustless AI economy.

Key Areas of Expertise

• ERC-8004 (Trustless Agents Standard): designing protocols for discovery, portable identities, on-chain reputation, and trustless validation of cross-organization autonomous agents, extending Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocols with a native blockchain cryptographic layer.
• Multi-agent systems: developing on-chain coordinated architectures for complex collaboration, autonomous evolution, and secure agent interactions.
• Defensive AI: strategies to mitigate risks, manipulation, and attacks in decentralized environments.
• Verifiable decentralized inference: distributed inference systems that are censorship-resistant and provably verifiable via Ethereum.

Contributions to Blockchain AI Security

• Research and development of smart contract auditing tools based on LLMs.
• Creation of production-grade tooling for execution, monitoring, and recovery of on-chain agents.

Ecosystem Adoption and Support
Marcello promotes open and decentralized AI infrastructures, assisting builders, protocols, and projects in integrating standards like ERC-8004, deploying native Ethereum agents, and building scalable, secure agent economies.

Vision
He envisions a future where intelligence is not confined in centralized silos but becomes sovereign, verifiable, and collaborative on neutral layers like Ethereum. His goal is to make the platform the global trust layer for autonomous agents—both human and AI—capable of negotiating, verifying, and transacting without trusted intermediaries.

A recognized figure in the emerging decentralized AI ecosystem on Ethereum, he combines expertise in deep learning, blockchain engineering, and mission-critical systems to drive innovation toward a trustless, open-agent economy.

If you are working on AI agents, decentralized inference, LLM security, or want to explore ERC-8004 → reach out to him. AI is decentralizing. Ethereum is making it inevitable.