Warden and Irys Partner to Make AI Onchain, Persistent, and Programmable

AI is going onchain. But if it can’t store memory, how intelligent can it really be?

Warden and Irys are partnering to solve this by enabling AI agents to not only reason and act across blockchains, but to remember, store, and retrieve data verifiably onchain.

AI agents aren’t just ephemeral tools; they’re evolving systems that require persistent context. Without decentralized, programmable storage, agent development becomes either brittle or beholden to centralized silos. That changes with Warden x Irys.

Together, we’re building AI agents that can act, learn, and evolve securely and transparently, powered by Irys’ programmable datachain and Warden’s AI-native blockchain infrastructure.

Bringing AI Memory Onchain

Warden enables AI to live onchain: smart contracts that reason, adapt, and coordinate across chains and data sources. Irys enables these agents to store knowledge, retrieve context, and interact with data natively onchain, turning agents from stateless automata into evolving, context-rich systems.

This unlocks an entirely new design space for intelligent applications:

• Agents that store and reference past user interactions

• NFTs dynamically generated from onchain user data and AI-created media

• Verifiable memory for long-running autonomous agents

• AI co-pilots with persistent identity and learning history

• Onchain training datasets that remain tamper-proof, queryable, and monetizable
  

Together, Warden and Irys make AI agents long-term, sovereign actors in web3 ecosystems.

Unlocking New Capabilities in the Warden App & Studio

The partnership begins with a powerful first use case: persistent storage for AI-generated NFTs.

Using Venice AI for image generation, Warden users can mint PFP NFTs directly from Ethereum via smart contracts. With Irys, the images and metadata are stored verifiably, permanently, and economically onchain, ensuring provenance, permanence, and platform independence.

This will be available in:

• Warden App – enabling users to mint fully onchain AI art with no backend dependencies.

• Warden Studio – allowing builders to publish AI agents and apps that use Irys as a programmable memory layer.

We’re just getting started.

We’re currently testing NFT minting flows from Ethereum Sepolia using Venice-generated assets, and what’s missing is a decentralized, programmable storage layer. Irys gives us exactly that: permanent, trustless, verifiable memory for our agents and apps.

— Andrei Sambra, CTO at Warden

Storage without programmability is like memory with no recall. Warden turns AI into onchain agents. Irys turns data into active memory. Together, we’re closing the loop and making AI truly decentralized.

— David Pinger, CEO of Warden Labs

What This Enables

With Warden + Irys, developers can build intelligent agents that remember, interact, and evolve across the full lifecycle of web3 applications.

This powers:

• Autonomous NFT agents that generate, store, and mint dynamic collections

• Personal DeFi assistants that track user preferences over time and adapt to risk profiles

• Verifiable agents for DAOs that keep context across governance cycles and proposals

• Onchain training data that’s queryable and used for AI feedback loops, safely and transparently

• Multi-agent systems that share and read each other’s memory across protocols

Programmable AI isn’t just inference—it’s intelligence with memory. That’s what this partnership makes real.

About the Partners

About Warden

Warden Protocol is the AI-native blockchain stack for building Intelligent Applications—apps and agents that think, adapt, and execute across chains. With a three-layer architecture for blockchain coordination, AI verification (SPEx), and programmable offchain logic (AVRs), Warden brings AI onchain with cryptographic guarantees. The Warden App and Warden Studio serve over 2.5 million users, making it the home for intelligent crypto experiences.

About Irys

Irys is the first programmable datachain, combining low-cost, verifiable onchain storage with smart contract-level programmability. It allows developers to store, verify, and use data directly from smart contracts, unlocking use cases across AI, DePIN, consumer apps, and more. Unlike traditional datachains that only store, Irys activates data, making it fluid, accessible, and part of dynamic web3 ecosystems.