Jack Dorsey’s Spiral Expands Into AI With Goose Team

• Spiral has brought in the core team behind Block’s Goose AI framework.
• The goal is to turn Goose into a bigger open‑source platform for autonomous AI agents.
• Jack Dorsey believes that both Bitcoin and AI should develop as open ecosystems.

Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin open‑source project, Spiral, is moving beyond Bitcoin infrastructure and stepping into agentic AI. It was reported that Spiral has brought in the core team behind Block’s Goose AI framework to turn Goose into a bigger open‑source platform for building autonomous AI agents.

In the past, Jack Dorsey has said that both Bitcoin and AI should develop as open ecosystems rather than being locked up by a few large tech companies. As such, this announcement aligns with his views and strategy.

What is Spiral?

Spiral is an independent, open-source project funded by Block, Jack Dorsey’s fintech company. It started as Square Crypto but rebranded to Spiral in 2021 to make it clear that the focus is on free, open‑source infrastructure for Bitcoin.

Spiral’s usual focus has been on funding Bitcoin devs, boosting security, backing the Lightning Network, building wallets and infrastructure, and adding to open‑source tools for Bitcoin.

Unlike a lot of crypto companies, Spiral doesn’t make proprietary software, as everything it builds is meant to help the whole Bitcoin community.

What is Goose?

Goose is an open‑source AI agent framework originally developed inside Block. Unlike a regular chatbot that simply answers questions, it’s built to let AI perform real-world tasks (such as writing and reviewing code) by connecting to tools, APIs, databases, terminals, and other software.

Block describes Goose as an interoperable framework that connects large language models (LLMs) to real-world actions.

In April 2026, Goose officially became part of the Agentic AI Foundation, an open governance project hosted by the Linux Foundation.

Block has continued using Goose inside the company as the engine for BuilderBot, which is a system that runs over 200,000 AI operations daily and helps merge about 1,500 pull requests a week, covering around 15% of Block’s code changes.

AI and Crypto are Converging

On top of Spiral’s announcement, looking at the last few months, AI is increasingly moving into mainstream crypto. For instance, Robinhood (a financial services company in the US) announced that US users will be able to connect their own AI agents to trade crypto for them automatically.

Also, Travala, a crypto‑friendly travel site, rolled out a feature that lets AI agents search for hotels, check prices, book stays, and pay with USDC on Coinbase’s Base network.

Additionally, Franklin Templeton put out a research paper saying AI and tokenization are set to reshape finance, calling it a new structural phase for digital assets.

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