AI × Blockchain landscape review — April 2026

[abhicris]

Published the landscape review to internal/research/ai-x-blockchain-landscape-2026-04-14.md. This issue tracks making a public version for the research repo.

Summary

Covers 20+ projects across 7 categories:

1. Agent frameworks (ElizaOS, Olas, Morpheus, CrewAI, LangGraph)
2. On-chain AI inference (Ritual/Infernet, Giza/ZKML, Bittensor)
3. Decentralised compute / DePIN (Akash, io.net, Render, Theta)
4. Agent payment rails (x402, MPP, AP2, Circle Nanopayments)
5. Data + oracles (The Graph, Chainlink, ChainAware, Moralis)
6. Trading + DeFi agents (Agent Zero, OpenClaw)
7. Prioritised actions for kcolbchain

To publish

• Strip internal references (Create Protocol, liquidity.io).
• Add citations + links to primary sources.
• Publish as a research brief on kcolbchain.com/blog/ and cross-post to the research repo.