The DePIN veteran opens up blockchain development to anyone using Claude or Codex, bringing down the barrier from a dedicated engineering team to a solo developer.
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XYO has launched the XYO AI SDK, a developer toolkit that allows users of Claude, Codex, and other AI coding tools to build products directly on XYO Layer One without writing blockchain code.
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The company is launching XYO Data Lakes alongside the SDK, a secure, encrypted storage system that aims to solve the chain-of-custody problem behind AI hallucinations.
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XYO was launched in 2018 and operates with over 10 million contracts
XYOis widely viewed as the first decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) and a project that predates the term, It has launched a developer toolkit designed to bring dynamic programming directly into on-chain development. The XYO AI SDK, released on May 12, allows developers using AI coding environments like Claude and Codex to build products that run directly on XYO first layer Without writing Solidity, reading protocol documentation, or learning the ins and outs of blockchain.
According to the company, a product that previously required a dedicated blockchain engineering team and months of integration can now be built by a single developer in an afternoon. The SDK is the first toolkit of its kind to extend the coding workflow, where developers describe what they want and AI tools generate the code, to a layer-one blockchain in their existing development environment.
The Vibe programming wave is reaching on-chain development
The launch comes at a time when developer accessibility has become one of the most controversial questions in cryptocurrency infrastructure. Tier-one chains have spent years competing on productivity, fees, and developer mindshare, but the fundamental problem of who can build on them has remained largely unchanged. The experience of hardness is still the gateway, and the gateway has remained narrow.
Vibe coding has, in the last couple of years, ended the era of software development solely for engineers on a larger scale. Tools like Cursor, Cloud, and Codex have expanded the number of people who can ship products from “engineers” to anyone who is able to articulate what they want to build. XYO is the first project to apply this transformation to blockchain at the toolkit level, opening up XYO Layer One to a developer pool that has been structurally closed.
“Provenance, sovereignty and identity. These are powerful cryptographic answers that AI hasn’t used because putting anything on the blockchain has always been very difficult for anyone outside of a small group of dedicated engineers,” said Markus Levin, co-founder of XYO. “We have removed that barrier.”
XYO targets the AI agent economy
Beyond developer accessibility, the SDK positions XYO for the emerging AI agent economy. Autonomous agents need wallets to conduct transactions, verifiable identities to operate, and on-chain records of their decisions to be accountable. Most current agent infrastructure does not solve the accountability problem. The XYO AI SDK gives developers a way to put all three capabilities on-chain for any agent they create, allowing agents to act as auditable entities rather than black boxes.
XYO is also launching XYO Data Lakes, a cryptographically secured off-chain storage system with on-chain proof of integrity, designed specifically for AI workloads. The company says the system addresses the chain-of-custody problem underlying much of AI hallucinations, allowing AI systems to be trained on data with a verifiable provenance rather than the deleted or unverifiable inputs common in current pipelines.
XYO operates one of the largest decentralized node networks in the industry, with over 10 million nodes and over 100 billion data queries processed since the project launched. XY Labs, the parent company of XYO, was the first US cryptocurrency company approved by the SEC to offer a Regulation A offering and among the first to tokenize shares through tZERO. The company says 80 percent of its users come from outside the cryptocurrency space, an unusually high number for a top-tier project.
Whether the toolkit will translate to the scale that XYO expects depends on how much of the dynamic coding pool eventually ships on-chain, and how much of that activity hits XYO Layer One specifically. The broader release over the coming months will provide the first real indication.
XYO AI SDK is open for early access starting May 12.
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