Proof of Quality is moving into its next phase and how our community can interact with it will be different from how it used to. Our community will always have a place in the protocol.
At ETHConf New York, we spent time with teams building and using AI assisted security workflows. Here’s what we learnt:
The short version
EthConf confirmed strong interest in AI-assisted security review, especially around false positives, severity calls, and expert validation.
Agentic wallet trading is raising the stakes for output quality and decision review.
Our latest blog, From 0 to 5, the Steps of Proof of Quality, explains the process behind PoQ from beginning to end.
Discord has a new format to help builders with more to come around technical posts, AMAs, demos, and discussions with the team.
Ali Malik and Lukas Grapentine spent the week in New York City to speak to developers right at the heart of ETHConf
Field notes from EthConf New York
AI is already changing how security teams find, triage, and review risk, but the review layer around those systems is still early.
Many teams are using prompt based systems to reduce false positives and move faster through large volumes of findings. Still, the final judgment often falls back to experienced reviewers who have to decide what matters, what gets escalated, and what should feed back into the model.
Another topic at EthConf was agentic wallet trading. More teams are exploring systems where models coordinate or influence financial action, often with open source components and quickly moving execution paths.
That creates a security problem. When an AI system moves closer to transaction flow, teams need stronger validation around model behavior, output quality, and decision risk.
That gap is where Proof of Quality fits.
A cleaner Discord for builders
The Sapien Discord has been readjusted to provide a better experience for the community. The goal is a smaller, more useful space for people who want to understand, test, and shape Proof of Quality.
The new structure is simpler. We massively reduced the amount of channels, and reworked the onboarding. The Sapien Discord will have more focus on:
Technical discussion, including demos and engineering sessions
Direct access to the team through AMAs
Early product discussions
Latest blog: From 0 to 5, the Steps of Proof of Quality
Our latest blog breaks down how Proof of Quality moves from a task to a verifiable record. The core idea is simple: quality claims become useful when teams can show how the review happened, which standards were applied, and how agreement was reached.
Read the full post: From 0 to 5, the Steps of Proof of Quality
Take the next step
The best place to start depends on where you sit. If you're building with AI where quality matters, and you see value in an independently verifiable record of how that quality was reviewed, send a rubric and 10 to 20 sample items to [email protected] and we'll come back within a week with a draft plan.
If you'd like to scope fit first, book a 30 minute call.
Keep an eye out for an upcoming AMA planned soon on our Discord.
Reach us at [email protected] or join the Proof of Quality waitlist for early access.
