Talus Partners with Lagrange to Solve the Trust Problem in AI Agents
We're excited to partner with Lagrange, the team behind DeepProve, the world's leading zero-knowledge machine learning library (zkML). This collaboration brings cryptographic verification to Talus' AI agents, solving one of the most critical challenges in decentralized AI: trust in agent actions.
The Trust Problem in Decentralized AI
As AI agents become more autonomous and handle increasingly critical tasks, from managing digital assets to executing complex on-chain workflows, the question of trust becomes essential. How can users verify that an AI agent executed correctly? How can we prove an agent used the intended model and produced legitimate results?
Today's AI systems operate largely as black boxes. Users must simply trust that agents are functioning as intended, with no way to independently verify their operations. This gap between capability and accountability creates fundamental barriers to adoption, especially in high-stakes environments like finance, healthcare, and autonomous transactions.
Lagrange's DeepProve: Proof You Can Trust
Lagrange addresses this challenge with DeepProve, a zero-knowledge machine learning library that generates cryptographic proofs for AI inferences. DeepProve proves that a model ran correctly and produced accurate results without revealing sensitive data or proprietary logic.
The technology works by splitting AI inference into multiple parts, proving each independently using parallel machines, and aggregating them into a single compact proof. This architecture makes it possible to verify complex AI operations without sacrificing performance or exposing intellectual property.
DeepProve has already demonstrated real-world viability. DeepProve is currently production-ready for major LLM models, such as GPT-2 and Gemma3, as well as MLPs and CNNs, with integration pilots underway with enterprise, DeFi, and defense partners.
Building Verifiable Agent Workflows on Talus
This partnership enables Talus to integrate cryptographic verification directly into our agent execution layer. By integrating DeepProve as a tool into Nexus, our decentralized automation framework for AI agents, we're creating a new standard for verifiable autonomous systems.
The integration unfolds in two phases:
Phase 1: Technical Integration PoC (Proof of Concept)
We're co-developing a proof of concept that integrates DeepProve as a verification step within Talus agent workflows. This foundational work establishes the infrastructure for agents to generate cryptographic proofs of their on-chain decisions, which dramatically increases technical trustworthiness. For Lagrange, this provides a concrete, working use case for their zkML technology integrated into Talus's agent workflows.
Phase 2: Product and Ecosystem Expansion
Verifiable AI becomes an integrated core value proposition across our products and ecosystem. For idol.fun, our AvA Markets platform, this means we can upgrade the fairness of agent competitions with ZK proofs to maximize trust in our Agent vs Agent (AvA) markets. For Talus Vision, our workflow builder, we'll differentiate by adding a verifiable workflow template.
This phase secures a real-world application for Lagrange's technology within the growing agent ecosystem of idol.fun, and provides potential customers through the Talus Vision builder community.
Why This Matters
The convergence of AI agents and blockchain technology creates immense possibilities, but only if we can solve the trust equation. Users need confidence that agents are executing as intended. Developers need tools to build verifiable systems without sacrificing performance. Enterprises need compliance guarantees before deploying autonomous systems at scale.
Lagrange has the potential to be a core strategic partner that solves the fundamental problem of trust in Crypto AI. In turn, Talus provides Lagrange with real-world use cases for zkML technology.
For Talus, this partnership solves the fundamental challenge of trust in decentralized AI. Our agents can now provide cryptographically verifiable outputs beyond the workflow execution being onchain, dramatically increasing their reliability and opening new possibilities for autonomous on-chain execution.
For Lagrange, Talus provides practical use cases where zkML technology addresses actual market needs. From AvA gaming to enterprise workflows, our ecosystem offers diverse environments to demonstrate the value of verifiable AI.
Looking Ahead
Lagrange is expanding DeepProve to support broader LLM families (GGUF, ONNX), enhanced SDK tooling, and additional cross-chain integrations in the coming months. As these capabilities mature, Talus agents will inherit increasingly sophisticated verification mechanisms.
The future of AI isn't just about making agents smarter. It's about making them trustworthy. By combining Talus' agent orchestration with Lagrange's cryptographic verification, we're building the foundation for AI systems that don't just work well, but prove they work correctly.
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About Talus
Talus is the premier infra for decentralized AI Agents, an AI network that enables developers to launch revenue-generating agents. We're pioneering Agents vs Agents (AvA) Markets, with idol.fun as the killer app platform. Talus sits at the unique intersection of AI agents, decentralized infrastructure, and Consumer AI building the foundational layer that enables AI Agents to compete & earn in verifiable, transparent information markets.
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About Lagrange
Lagrange is pioneering safe AI with DeepProve, the world's leading zkML library. DeepProve enables developers to cryptographically prove that AI models ran correctly and produced accurate results without revealing sensitive data or proprietary logic. This breakthrough makes it possible to build safe, private, and verifiable AI for high-stakes industries and Web3 systems alike. The team has raised $17.2M from top-tier investors, including Founders Fund, Archetype, and 1kx. DeepProve has already partnered with key enterprise players like NVIDIA, Intel, and more. Learn more at lagrange.dev.