Vitalik Launches AI Paranoid Mode to Hide Identity, Request Origins, and Payment Traces

Odaily reports that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin launched a "paranoid mode" for his AI agent on October 16, designed to conceal user identity, request origins, and payment traces. The solution packages zkAPI, Tor, additional obfuscation traffic, and local large language model prompt rewriting into an OpenAI-compatible daemon, with an outer wrapper designed for the agent framework pi. The system is already running on the Ethereum mainnet and supports ETH and USDC deposits. Vitalik stated that the system is "already quite usable," but starting new conversations is relatively slow, and the agent is confined to a software sandbox.