Crypto AI Benchmark Alliance

What Crypto AI Benchmark Alliance does

CAIBA (Crypto AI Benchmark Alliance) is an open industry alliance founded in June 2025 that builds benchmarks, datasets, and leaderboards for evaluating AI systems in crypto and blockchain applications. Its product surface includes CAIA (Crypto AI Agent Benchmark), which scores AI agents on junior-analyst tasks such as onchain transaction analysis, project discovery, and tokenomics diagnostics; OCE (Onchain Execution Benchmark), which validates whether AI-initiated transactions produce exact state changes on a forked mainnet; Crypto NER, a named-entity-recognition suite spanning 750 passages and 7,400+ entity mentions; and CHANCERY, a corporate-governance reasoning benchmark co-developed with Sentient. All evaluation code is published open-source on GitHub, results surface on Hugging Face leaderboards, and models that clear defined thresholds receive a "Crypto-Ready" badge.

The alliance serves three user constituencies: AI/ML builders and researchers who need standardized, crypto-domain evaluation harnesses; crypto enthusiasts and traders who rely on the leaderboards and badge to identify trustworthy AI tools; and protocols, DAOs, and governance teams that require verifiable AI for execution and onchain decisioning. Governance and contribution are distributed across 22 member organizations — 14 founding members (Cyber, Alchemy, EigenLayer, RootData, Goldsky, Sentient, IOSG Ventures, Newton, Thirdweb, Metis, OpenGradient, MyShell, Surf, LazAI) joined at launch on June 3, 2025, followed by an 8-organization second cohort (Kite AI, GM Agents, FLock, Codatta, Buzzing, Nexus, Ormi Labs, DMind AI) on July 17, 2025.

CAIBA operates a non-commercial, community-driven model: all benchmarks, leaderboards, and the badge program are free, there are no disclosed pricing tiers or paid product lines, and there is no reported headcount, funding round, or revenue. Distribution is entirely through open-source channels (GitHub, Hugging Face), with awareness generated by blog content and a Telegram community. No single controlling entity or parent company is disclosed in the available material.

Name

Crypto AI Benchmark Alliance

Legal name

Crypto AI Benchmark Alliance

Website

https://caiba.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Short description

CAIBA (Crypto AI Benchmark Alliance) is an open, community-driven alliance that builds free benchmarks, datasets, and leaderboards for evaluating AI systems in crypto and blockchain, serving AI builders, researchers, and protocol teams.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations

Revenue model

1. No Commercial Revenue Model: CAIBA operates as an open, non-profit alliance focused on establishing industry standards for crypto AI evaluation. The organization provides free, open-source benchmarks and tools to the entire ecosystem. Revenue generation is not described as a current objective; the alliance is community-driven with participation open to projects, researchers, developers, and crypto enthusiasts at no cost.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Crypto AI Benchmark Alliance (CAIBA) builds and publishes open benchmarks, datasets, and leaderboards for evaluating AI agents and models on crypto-native tasks. Core products include CAIA (Crypto AI Agent Benchmark) for analyst-level reasoning, OCE (Onchain Execution Benchmark) for verifying real transaction execution on forked mainnets, Crypto NER for entity recognition, and CHANCERY for corporate governance reasoning. The alliance distributes all evaluation frameworks, datasets, and leaderboards as free open-source tools via GitHub and Hugging Face.

Product overview

Crypto AI Benchmark Alliance (CAIBA) operates a platform of benchmark products for evaluating crypto-specific AI capabilities. The core offering includes CAIA (Crypto AI Agent Benchmark) for evaluating agent performance on analyst-level tasks, OCE (Onchain Execution Benchmark) for testing real transaction execution, and Crypto NER for entity recognition. These are supplemented by public leaderboards, open-source evaluation toolkits, and planned expansions including Blockchain-Use Benchmark and Crypto LM Arena. The platform is governed as an alliance with contributions from founding members and the broader crypto community.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CAIA: Crypto AI Agent benchmark - evaluates AI agents on tasks reflecting daily responsibilities of an entry-level crypto analyst across onchain analysis, tokenomics diagnostics, and project research.
• OCE
• Crypto NER
• CHANCERY

Products and services

• CAIA (Crypto AI Agent Benchmark) Primary benchmark that gauges whether a model can perform the day-to-day work of a junior crypto analyst, including onchain transaction analysis, project discovery, tokenomics diagnostics, and trend analysis. Agents are scored across three dimensions: answer accuracy, reasoning quality, and tool use.
• OCE (Onchain Execution Benchmark) Benchmark measuring whether crypto agents can execute real onchain transactions that produce exact state changes as requested. Evaluates agents by signing and broadcasting transactions in forked Ethereum mainnet environments and validating resulting states against acceptance tests.
• Crypto NER (Named Entity Recognition) Benchmark Benchmark measuring how well AI models identify and classify crypto entities in text passages, including protocols, tokens, Twitter handles, and VC firms. Evaluates boundary detection and type classification accuracy across a labeled corpus of crypto-related content.
• Live Leaderboard System (CAIA Leaderboard) Public leaderboard displaying model scores across CAIA benchmark dimensions including overall percentage, answer accuracy, reasoning quality, and tool use scores. Models meeting performance thresholds receive a Crypto-Ready badge.
• CHANCERY Benchmark Benchmark evaluating whether AI models can determine if proposed corporate actions comply with company charters and relevant corporate law. Developed in collaboration with Sentient for governance reasoning capabilities.
• Open-Source Evaluation Toolkit Open-source evaluators, watermarked datasets, and public leaderboards enabling ecosystem participants to audit evaluation processes, submit patches, and iterate. Includes reproducible scoring scripts published under permissive licenses.

Quantifiable outcome

• Best current model (OpenAI o3) achieves 45% on CAIA v0.2, leaving ~40-point gap to human junior-analyst level
• +3 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability8 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

21 partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• Kite AIcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 July 2025Purpose-built Layer 1 for the agentic internet with native support for real-time payments, programmable governance, and cryptographic trust. Second cohort partner expanding alliance capabilities.
• GM AgentscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 July 2025Platform for managing multiple AI agents in one app with earn-more functionality. Second cohort partner contributing agent platform perspective.
• FLockcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 July 2025Pioneering decentralized AI training via federated learning on blockchain rails. Second cohort partner contributing decentralized AI training expertise.
• CodattacoreTechnology or Integration · 17 July 2025Building a decentralized Knowledge Layer for post-training agent fine-tuning through high-quality community data. Second cohort partner contributing data curation expertise.
• BuzzingcoreTechnology or Integration · 17 July 2025Real-time betting engine and truth oracle across social channels, turning noise into insight. Second cohort partner contributing social signal analysis capabilities.
• NexuscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 July 2025A world supercomputer to enable the AI economy. Second cohort partner contributing computational infrastructure expertise.
• Ormi LabscoreTechnology or Integration · 17 July 2025Hyperscale data platform delivering live, historical, and AI-enriched data at sub-second latency. Second cohort partner contributing high-performance data infrastructure.
• DMind AIcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 July 2025Open-source AGI institute bridging real world crypto data with foundational AI research and open benchmarks. Second cohort partner contributing AGI research expertise.
• CyberflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 June 2025Cyber combines AI and social context to make crypto easier to use, understand, and build on. Founding member of CAIBA driving the alliance's mission to create open, unbiased scoreboards for crypto AI evaluation.
• AlchemyflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 June 2025Complete developer platform to build AI agents that manage wallets, execute secure transactions, and move assets across every chain. Founding member providing infrastructure expertise.
• EigenLayerflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 June 2025On-chain compute infrastructure for AI workloads. Founding member collaborating on verifiable AI for crypto governance through CHANCERY benchmark development.
• RootDatacoreTechnology or Integration · 3 June 2025Comprehensive blockchain data provider for model training. Founding member contributing data infrastructure for benchmark evaluation.
• GoldskycoreTechnology or Integration · 3 June 2025High-performance indexing via subgraphs and realtime data streaming pipelines. Founding member providing data infrastructure for live benchmark evaluation.
• SentientflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 June 2025AI research network for decentralized intelligence. Founding member that developed the CHANCERY benchmark for evaluating AI governance reasoning capabilities.
• NewtoncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 June 2025Crypto UX platform focused on simpler, verifiable crypto experiences. Founding member contributing user experience perspective to benchmark design.
• ThirdwebcoreTechnology or Integration · 3 June 2025Developer tools for seamless AI and blockchain integration. Founding member providing development framework expertise for benchmark tool use evaluation.
• MetiscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 June 2025AI-aligned Layer 2 blockchain platform. Founding member contributing to benchmark development for crypto AI agent evaluation.
• OpenGradientcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 June 2025The Layer 1 blockchain for AI models. Founding member providing AI and blockchain infrastructure expertise to the alliance.
• MyShellcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 June 2025The first AI consumer layer for building, sharing, and owning AI applications. Founding member contributing AI consumer perspective to benchmark development.
• SurfcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 June 2025Crypto insights platform providing shortcut access to alpha without tabs or fluff. Founding member that contributed 30,000+ community questions for benchmark datasets.
• LazAIcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 June 2025Web3-native AI network redefining data for the AI era with verifiable data solutions. Founding member contributing data verification expertise.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Artificial Analysis: Independent AI model benchmarking platform publishing head-to-head comparisons across frontier LLMs. Directly comparable as a transparent, leaderboard-style evaluation service targeting AI builders and enterprise buyers — the same audiences CAIBA serves in crypto.
• LMSYS Org: Berkeley-affiliated research group operating Chatbot Arena, the most analogous public, community-driven LLM leaderboard. Closely mirrors CAIBA's model of open crowdsourced evaluation, public ranking, and reproducible scoring on Hugging Face.

Others

• Glassnode: On-chain market intelligence platform providing standardized crypto metrics and indicators. Adjacent as a crypto data/benchmarking vendor with comparable 'standardized scoreboard' framing for the crypto ecosystem, though oriented to market analytics rather than AI.
• Messari: Leading crypto research and analytics firm producing standardized industry reports. Thematically adjacent as a standards-setting organization in crypto, with overlapping audience of protocols and builders, though focused on financial/regulatory rather than AI evaluation.
• RootData: Comprehensive blockchain/crypto data provider for model training — a founding CAIBA member. Related as a crypto-data infrastructure contributor to the CAIBA ecosystem, though its primary product is investment/research data rather than AI benchmarking.
• Chainalysis: Blockchain analytics and on-chain data platform for institutions and regulators. Tangentially comparable as an established crypto evaluation/data infrastructure vendor, though focused on transaction analytics and compliance rather than AI agent benchmarking.

Emerging players

• Vellum AI (LLM Leaderboard): Maintains a popular public LLM leaderboard and evaluation tooling aimed at enterprise AI adopters. Comparable in leaderboard-driven evaluation, but focused on general enterprise LLM selection rather than domain-specific crypto agent capability.

Broad incumbents

• Hugging Face: Hosts both CAIBA's leaderboard and the Open LLM Leaderboard; operates as broader AI/ML infrastructure. Comparable as a multi-vertical evaluation venue and open-source model/dataset distribution platform, though at vastly greater scale and breadth.
• Scale AI (SEAL Leaderboards): Operates Scale Evaluation and Annotation Labs (SEAL) leaderboards for frontier AI model evaluation. Comparable as a paid, expert-driven AI benchmarking program serving enterprise model buyers, though not crypto-specialized.
• Stanford CRFM (HELM): Academic consortium behind the HELM (Holistic Evaluation of Language Models) benchmark — the canonical general-purpose LLM evaluation suite. Comparable as a multi-stakeholder standards initiative for AI evaluation, but covering all domains rather than specializing in crypto.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/caiba-ai/caia-benchmark

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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