Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin-focused platform Spiral is taking its biggest step yet beyond cryptocurrency, announcing an expansion into artificial intelligence by bringing on the core engineering team behind Block’s open-source AI framework, Goose.
The move signals a new chapter for Spiral which has traditionally been centred around supporting open-source development of Bitcoin. The organization now is focusing on AI, and plans to build tools that would allow developers to build intelligent software that can act on its own.
Goose is at the center of that push, an open-source framework that Spiral wants to turn into a larger platform for agentic AI.
While traditional AI chatbots are designed to respond to prompts, agentic AI is designed to get things done by itself. Such AI agents can plan, decide and execute multi-step actions with minimal human input, making them useful for everything from software development and research to customer support and business automation.
Goose to power open-source AI development
Spiral wants to build a platform that allows developers to build these autonomous digital agents, and to keep the technology open and accessible.
The announcement also points to a growing convergence between artificial intelligence and bitcoin.
In the long-term, Spiral hopes to integrate decentralised intelligence in the Bitcoin ecosystem and build AI systems that can operate in a permissionless environment without having to rely on centralised platforms or gatekeepers.
That vision fits very well with Bitcoin’s philosophy. Similar to how the Bitcoin network enables users to transfer value freely without intermediaries, Spiral envisions a future where AI agents can execute tasks, interact with decentralised applications, and even transact using Bitcoin, all without centralised control.
A number of these use cases are still nascent, but interest in marrying AI and blockchain technology has grown exponentially over the past year. More and more developers are looking into the possibility of autonomous AI agents managing digital assets, interacting with smart contracts, or conducting transactions on decentralised networks.
Spiral’s latest move shows its interest in helping to build the infrastructure behind that next wave of innovation. The project also adheres to the open source principles that have long defined both Spiral and Goose.
Instead of developing proprietary AI software, Spiral aims to develop a platform on which others can develop, so developers around the world can contribute to, improve and customise AI agents for different applications.
Dorsey extends open-source vision to AI
The approach reflects Jack Dorsey’s long-standing commitment to open technologies. He’s been funding developers via Spiral over years working on Bitcoin’s core infrastructure but with a focus on keeping the network decentralised and community-driven.
That philosophy is now being applied to artificial intelligence. Instead of viewing AI and Bitcoin as separate technologies, Spiral is pursuing another path, wagering that the two can work hand in hand, matching open-source AI with decentralised networks to create software that is both smart and self-sufficient.
While the company hasn’t detailed a roadmap for future releases, the fact that it has recruited Goose’s core engineering team shows Spiral is serious about becoming a player in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
With autonomous AI gaining traction, Spiral is positioning itself to build the tools that could power a new generation of open, permissionless digital agents, bringing together two of the technology industry’s biggest trends under one roof.
