Theta and XYO add blockchain attestations for AI agents

Theta and XYO announced a technical integration that will record cryptographic attestations of uptime, latency and throughput for AI agent workloads running on Theta EdgeCloud. The attestations will be written to XYO Layer One and its Data Lakes infrastructure to produce a tamper-evident external record of infrastructure performance.

Under the partnership, XYO network nodes will monitor Theta EdgeCloud instances that host AI agents and independently measure service-level metrics, including service uptime, request latency and data throughput. Measured metrics will be encoded as cryptographic attestations and settled on XYO Layer One to create an auditable trail for each monitored workload.

Theta has deployed AI agents for sports and entertainment customers, including Olympique de Marseille and the Houston Rockets, and works with partners across Major League Soccer, the NBA, the NHL and Ligue 1. The companies said the verification layer will be applied to live deployments so customers and internal compliance teams can confirm infrastructure performance during real interactions.

Markus Levin, XYO co-founder, compared cloud providers to banks and said, “Cloud providers cannot independently verify their own infrastructure, in the same way a bank cannot audit its own accounts. Verification is what's been missing.” Levin added that independently verified, tamper-evident attestations settled on XYO Layer One are what procurement and compliance teams require when assessing agentic AI systems.

Mitch Liu, Theta Labs CEO, wrote that independent verification matters as AI agents handle large volumes of user interactions: “As our AI agents handle thousands of fan interactions across the NBA, NHL, MLS and beyond, independent verification of infrastructure performance is becoming a baseline expectation.” He described the attestation layer as providing customers confidence that interactions are backed by functioning infrastructure.

The companies cited a 2025 academic study reporting that organizational adoption of AI reached 88% that year and that 23% of those organizations were scaling agentic AI systems, defined as software that autonomously performs tasks and makes decisions. They said agentic systems taking on higher-value tasks create a need for undisputed records of infrastructure performance to limit operational and financial risk when errors occur.

Theta launched its edge network in 2019 and operates an enterprise validator and governance council that includes firms such as Google, Samsung, CAA and Binance. XYO began in 2018 and has developed cryptographic proof systems for verifying real-world data. Neither company provided a public timeline for when the full attestation integration will be available to all enterprise customers.