Ethereum Agentic Core Development

Goal

To transform Ethereum into a protocol co-managed by agentic core developers working alongside humans. This represents a fundamental shift in how blockchain protocols evolve, combining human insight with AI capabilities.

Development Milestones

EIP Engagement

• Development of agents capable of reviewing and suggesting improvements to EIPs focused on structure and readability
• Mitigate the bottleneck of having too few EIP editors
• Integration with GitHub and EIP repositories
• Ability to clearly explain reasoning

Consultation Model

• Develop a LLM interface with a deep specialised context on current EIPs and Ethereum's specification
• Able to have technical discussions with core developers on the protocol and assist with solving problems
• Increase community comprehension of upcoming technical developments

Technical Discussions

• Creation of agents that can engage in technical discussions, with a good understanding of the protocol
• Integration with Ethereum research forums

Core Development Integration

• Development of real-time discussion capabilities
• Integration with Core Dev development workflow

Testing and Infrastructure

• Able to develop spec tests, perform fuzzing, benchmark clients
• Ability to deploy infrastructure such as devnets
• Increasing testing capacity to remove this bottleneck in shipping updates

Development

• Creating PRs, issues, and code reviews in client repositories
• Strong technical understanding to interpret and fill in specifications
• Different specialisms: performance optimisation, code structure, dependencies, domain-specific knowledge (P2P, cryptography) and more
• Communicates via ACD calls, standups, channels

Protocol Design and Research

• Development of agents capable of identifying protocol improvements
• Able to carry out research tasks and formulate novel proposals
• Create meta proposals on making the EIP process itself more efficient