Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin Platform is Expanding to AI

Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin-focused subsidiary @spiralbtc is pushing deeper into artificial intelligence, onboarding the core engineering team behind Block's Goose project to evolve the framework into a dedicated platform for agentic AI development.

The move signals a deliberate convergence of the $BTC ecosystem with the fast-growing field of autonomous software agents, with an emphasis on permissionless, open-source execution.

What is Goose?

Block's Open Source Program Office originally launched Goose as an interoperable AI agent framework that enables users to connect large language models (LLMs) to real-world actions. It can be powered by any language model with tool-calling capabilities, and its modular design allows it to connect with any system through simple extensions. Goose has been released under the Apache License 2.0, a permissive open-source licence that allows people to freely use, modify, and distribute the software, even for commercial purposes.

Block's CTO Dhanji Prasanna has overseen an internal AI transformation using the tool, with engineers saving 8 to 10 hours a week through automation. Goose connects to existing enterprise tools through Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling engineers and non-technical staff alike to build custom workflows without writing code from scratch.

Why Spiral and Why Now?

Spiral is the open-source Bitcoin development arm of Jack Dorsey's Block. Its portfolio already includes the Lightning Development Kit (LDK) and the Bitcoin Development Kit (BDK), open-source libraries that abstract low-level complexity for developers building wallets and Lightning applications. Bringing Goose's engineering team under Spiral's umbrella positions the organisation to shape how autonomous AI agents interact with Bitcoin-native infrastructure.

Block is a long-time proponent of Bitcoin and its blockchain, with some observers viewing open-source AI and decentralised finance as a natural fit. Dorsey has previously speculated that Bitcoin could become the currency of AI, on the rationale that autonomous agents will gravitate toward zero-friction transactions.

Block, OpenAI, and Anthropic also recently created the Agentic AI Foundation, an organisation designed to cultivate open-source projects that leverage autonomous systems capable of independent decision-making with little to no human intervention. Block contributes the Goose framework to that foundation, while Anthropic offers its MCP protocol and OpenAI provides its Agents.MD coding tool.

By routing Goose's development through Spiral, Dorsey appears to be tying the future of autonomous AI tooling directly to the open, permissionless principles that underpin Bitcoin itself.

Sources:
Block: Block Open Source Introduces Codename Goose
VentureBeat: Jack Dorsey is back with Goose
Bitcoin.com News: Jack Dorsey's Block Joins Forces With OpenAI and Anthropic