AI BTC Working Group (WG) – Meeting Recap | Thu, 11 Dec 2025

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Date: December 11, 2025 at 8:00am Pacific Time / 11:00am Eastern Time

Hosted by: AI BTC X handle (Cedar behind the handle) and Whoadbuddy

Duration: ~1 hr 15 minutes

Recording: https://x.com/i/spaces/1MYGNlqqMyyxw?s=20

1. Agenda Overview

  • Overview & Journey of AI BTC Working Group
  • Call for Builders to Join AI BTC WG to collaborate & share
  • Builder/Project Intros to the AI BTC Working Group
  • AI Analysis Intelligence from Bounty Using Grok
  • Technical Infrastructure Discussions

2. Key Meeting Highlights

Overview & Journey of AI BTC Working Group

  • Running for over a year at the intersection of AI and Bitcoin.
  • Built aibtc.com and tested micro-task coordination experiments.
  • Latest micro-task involved recruiting people for community calls, paying out in Bitcoin via AI agents evaluation of work quality.
  • Learning from attempted users who are gaming the system and flagging bad actors.
  • Today’s call returning to roots as a working group supporting developers.

Call for Builders to Join AI BTC WG to collaborate & share

  • Open format for developers building at AI and Bitcoin intersection.
  • Focus areas include X402 micropayments, AI DAOs, and micro/nanopayment protocol or projects.
  • Investors, users, and potential recruits often in the audience.

Builder/Project Intros to the AI BTC Working Group

  • Engrave Protocol:
    • Started from Solana x402 hackathon
    • Building Bitcoin services layer with Mempool API integration
    • Exploring Soul Protocol collaboration for BTC synthetic assets on Solana
    • Challenge: Finding product market fit beyond proof of concept
    • Inviting AI to collaborate in their upcoming X space
  • Kwame’s ERC-8001 (EIP author) Standard but bringing them to Stacks:
    • Deployed first testnet contract rendition
    • Whoabuddy wanted to see if Grok 4.1 can create the contract, let to a specification that might be helpful to keep developing Kwame’s idea
    • Developer question: How to perform “commit-reveal” on Stacks (a project sOrdinals should have used this)
    • Goal: Cross-chain value transfer from ETH to Stacks, and then Stacks back without us having to be involved except for “intent”
    • Centralized intermediary probably needed initially listening for events - no intent can be executed, just listening
    • Whoabuddy plans to keep working with Kwame offline to advance this cross-chain coordination further
  • Johnny DL recommendations for AI projects at the interaction of AI agents <> micropayments:
    • TokenOS.ai - no code AI agent builder with x402 payments
    • Agent marketplace with all major models (Grok 4.1, Claude, etc.)
    • In the conversation, Engrave Protocol recommended “X402 Jobs” building exact microtask marketplace concept

AI Analysis Intelligence from Bounty Using Grok

  • Ran Grok analysis of 220 submissions surfaced 2 top trends:
    • X402 / micropayments – most active and visible category (matches a16z “crypto crossovers” thesis).
    • Decentralized compute – fast-emerging area for running agents, models, and workloads.
  • Publius shared How this Grok intelligence is useful:
    • Product focus: Prioritize features/integrations around X402 and decentralized compute (agent runners, pay-per-call APIs, tooling).
    • Community focus: Aim future AI BTC calls, topics, and bounties at X402 and decentralized compute builders.
    • Partnerships: Use the Grok-ranked builders list to find collaborators, integrations, and co-marketing opportunities.
    • Narrative / fundraising: Align your story with validated macro trends (X402 + decentralized compute) backed by both Grok data and a16z research.
    • Better experiments: Design new microtasks to gather deeper data on pain points and needs in these two areas, feeding back into roadmap and community programming.

Technical Infrastructure Discussions

  • Brief discussion on X402 censorship resistance:
    • concern raised about whether governments could stop or censor X402 payments; response clarified that while optional facilitators exist, developers can self-host X402 payment infrastructure, making it difficult to shut down or censor at the protocol level.
  • Rafa’s Clarity Library Iterations:
    • Bitcoin to sBTC swap in one block under $100
    • Self-wrapping runes into multisig with user signature control - only possible to bridge back to L1 with user’s signature
    • Improved UX with transaction status modeling
  • Zeroxyz.btc’s ZeroAuthorityDAO Integration Plans:
    • Enquired the desire of wrapping AI BTC DAO’s technology around entire platform
    • Peer-to-peer, agent-to-peer marketplace vision
    • Three key protocols: EIP-8004, X402, XMTP (open messaging standard)
  • TripnMonkey’s Protocol vs App Mindset:
    • Machine-to-machine age requires “protocol thinking”: Trip emphasized that in an AI + agents world, most interactions will be machine-to-machine, so systems must be designed to be discoverable and composable by other machines, not just humans clicking UI.
    • Design protocols that others build apps on top of: He encouraged builders to think more like the designers of SMTP or TCP/IP: define open, reusable interaction patterns and data formats that many different apps and agents can plug into, instead of tightly coupled single-use flows.
    • Different from traditional self-contained app approach: Traditional “one app, one silo” thinking limits interoperability and reuse; Trip argued that if you instead treat your work as a protocol layer, you enable a broader ecosystem of agents, services, and frontends to build on and extend what you’ve created.
  • Whoabuddy summarized these key areas to watch:
    • Agents paying for “resources” (X402, StacksPay (Github), and smart contracts as payment rails)
    • Agents agreeing on and finishing cross-chain work (e.g., ERC‑8001 style intents)
    • Agent registered identity (registries, attestations, and contract-based identity)
    • AI agents interacting with smart contracts on Stacks for voting and on‑chain tasks
    • How to actually run agents: decentralized compute, verifying models, and reliable inference backends

:speech_balloon: Key Speakers Insights

Cedar - Community lens: Invites builders to join the weekly AI BTC Working Group calls and Discord - call as an open, recurring hub for AI+BTC builders community, and focuses on turning “random Twitter connections” into an actual working community that unblocks each other’s projects.

Johnny DL - Discovery lens: Shows how non-devs can add leverage by finding and connecting high-signal tools (TokenOS, X402 Jobs), expanding everyone’s surface area of what’s possible.

Publius - Strategy lens: Treats Grok + microtasks as a way to probe the market: which ideas attract real work, where fraud shows up, and which trends (X402, decentralized compute) deserve deeper investment.

Engrave Protocol - Product-fit lens: Illustrates the jump from cool infra (mempool APIs) to “who really needs this?” in BTCFi and agent use cases, and the danger of over-optimizing for big-name partnerships.

Kwame - Cross-chain lens: Pushes the group to think rigorously about how intents move across chains, and what actually lives on-chain vs off-chain when agents coordinate work.

Rafa - UX + bridge lens: Demonstrates that bridging and asset wrapping are UX problems as much as security problems—latency, clarity of state, and user control can be differentiators, not afterthoughts.

Zeroxyz.btc - Protocol-stack lens: Frames agent-native apps as a stack (identity, payments, messaging), nudging others to design with composable layers instead of one-off integrations.

TripnMonkey - Architecture lens: Challenges builders to think “protocol-first” so their work becomes infrastructure other agents and devs can remix, not just another isolated app.

Whoabuddy - Systems lens: Connects the dots into a map: where agents get paid, how they agree on work (especially cross-chain), how they’re identified, and how they’re actually run-so new ideas can slot into a bigger picture.

Things to Celebrate

  • Growing energy around AI + Bitcoin, with builders, community members, and non-devs all contributing.
  • Call surfaced lots of concrete projects, tools, and ideas people can explore or plug into right away.
  • AI BTC Working Group is solidifying as a recurring place to meet, learn, and collaborate across the ecosystem. Keep joining!
  • Successful analysis of outreach 220 submissions using Grok.

Action Items / Next Steps

Topic Responsible Next Step Timeline
AI BTC Community Engagement Cedar Continue weekly calls and Discord engagement Ongoing

:link: Resources & References

:megaphone: Call to Action

  • Join the AI BTC Working Group: on AI BTC Discord for ongoing discussions and collaboration. Participate in weekly Thursday calls at 8AM Pacific Time / 11AM Eastern Time.
  • Builders: Explore and experiment with X402-based micropayments and decentralized / distributed compute for running agents and services.
  • Developers: Contribute to emerging AI+BTC standards on Stacks (e.g., intents, payments, identity) and help improve agent interoperability and coordination across chains.