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This AI Lives Onchain, Not in the Cloud: 3 Takeaways From a New Privacy-First Assistant

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clock Nov 27,2025
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Introduction

We live with a modern contradiction. On one hand, AI assistants have become powerful tools, capable of streamlining our digital lives in countless ways. On the other, using them often means handing over our private conversations, documents, and data to large corporations, with little transparency into how that information is used. This trade-off between convenience and privacy has become a defining tension of our time.
 
A new project called “Loyal” is proposing a different path forward. It’s built on the idea that you shouldn’t have to sacrifice privacy for performance. By rethinking the fundamental architecture of how an AI assistant works, it offers a glimpse into a future where our digital agents are truly private. Here are the three most significant takeaways from this new model.
 

 

1. It’s More Than an AI; It’s a Private “Onchain” Agent

The most significant shift Loyal introduces is moving intelligence “onchain.” This doesn’t mean the AI is simply running on a public blockchain. Instead, it refers to leveraging verifiable, confidential compute environments—in this case, “Powered by Arcium”—to execute workflows privately. This allows the system to prove that a task was completed without revealing any of the sensitive underlying data. This is a radical departure from the norm. This isn’t merely a technical shift; it’s an ideological one, aiming to replace the opaque black boxes of corporate AI with a transparent, verifiable system where privacy is a mathematical certainty, not a corporate promise.
 

2. Your Data Isn’t the Product; It’s Your Property

Mainstream technology has long operated on a model where user data is the real product. Loyal challenges this by building on a foundation of “User-owned storage.” The project’s core principle is as simple as it is powerful:
Your wallet = your data
 
This means that all your sensitive information—from messages and files to private keys and tokens—is tied directly to your personal crypto wallet, not stored on a company server. You own and control the container for your data, giving you ultimate authority over it. This architecture treats user data not as a resource to be mined, but as a digital asset to be secured, fundamentally flipping the business model of modern AI services.
 

3. It’s Built for Real-World Automation, From Chats to Transactions

Loyal is designed to be more than a conversational tool; it’s positioned as an “agentic computer.” This describes a proactive system that can initiate and complete multi-step tasks independently based on user-defined goals, rather than just reacting to commands. The goal is to create a hands-off assistant that actively works for you in the background.
 
According to its roadmap, which lists its Q4 2025 goals as currently “in progress,” the project aims to handle a variety of concrete tasks. These include the ability to summarize Telegram chats, process and talk to sensitive documents, and run branded community agents. It’s also built to manage financial tasks like sending money, paying invoices, and managing assets. The ability to both summarize private communications and execute financial transactions from the same agent demonstrates a level of integrated, trusted automation that moves far beyond today’s siloed applications.
 

Conclusion: A Glimpse into a More Private Future

While projects like Loyal are still nascent, they represent a critical counter-narrative in the AI arms race. They argue that the future of intelligence doesn’t have to be centralized and that true agency begins with ownership. By moving the center of power from corporate servers back to the user’s wallet, this model envisions a future defined by private, user-owned, and truly “agentic” AI that operates on behalf of the individual, not a corporation.
 
This raises a critical question for all of us to consider. As AI becomes more deeply integrated into our daily lives, how much control are we willing to give up for convenience, and what could we build with an AI that truly works only for us?
 

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