Overview
In this tutorial, you'll explore how to build a fully verifiable AI DAO using the Shade Agent Framework. The Verifiable AI DAO is a DAO smart contract that uses a Shade Agent with a verifiable LLM to vote on governance proposals according to its predefined manifesto, to create transparent, AI-driven governance that is decentralized and auditable from end-to-end.
This tutorial also serves as a template for building yield and resume-based Shade Agents. This is a smart contract that, when called, halts its execution for the verified agent to complete some logic and resume the transaction when it has a result, enabled by NEAR's asynchronous design. This pattern allows the agent and LLM become a part of the contract, enabling smart contracts with extended capabilities of a backend server that can make API calls and use LLM inference. This is especially useful when making cross-contract calls to smart contracts that use yield and resume, allowing you to receive the result in the callback - for example, an on-demand oracle.
What You'll Learn
This tutorial demonstrates how key components of the Shade Agent Framework work together with NEAR's broader tech stack to create a product that is decentralized and verifiable throughout the entire stack. The tutorial covers:
- NEAR-native Shade Agent: How to develop a Shade Agent that operates exclusively on the NEAR blockchain
- Yield and Resume Pattern: Building a Shade Agent that uses the yield and resume pattern
- Verifiable AI Integration: Implementing a Shade Agent that uses NEAR AI's verifiable/private inference
Required knowledge
To understand this tutorial, you should have familiarity with these concepts:
Getting Started
The complete source code for this tutorial is available in the verifiable-ai-dao repository.
Continue to the Agent Contract section to get started and learn about implementing yield and resume-based agent contracts.