Blockchain-Enabled Artificial Intelligence and AI Agents for Secure Data Sharing and Cybersecurity Applications

Abstract

Blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) are converging into a single infrastructural layer for securing data sharing, model integrity, and autonomous decision-making across distributed systems. This paper presents a meta-synthesis that draws together four constituent studies covering adversarial machine learning, AI-powered anomaly detection in cloud environments, automated vulnerability patching by multi-agent large language model (LLM) pipelines, and the broader landscape of securing AI systems across their lifecycle and situates their findings within the emerging literature on blockchain-enabled AI and autonomous AI agents. Each constituent study addresses a distinct point of failure in modern AI-driven security operations: the integrity of training data and model behavior, the reliability of real-time monitoring, and the trustworthiness of automated code remediation. We argue that blockchain's properties of immutability, decentralized consensus, and verifiable provenance directly address a gap common to all three: the difficulty of establishing trust in data, models, and autonomous agents that operate without a central authority. Building on real-world research on blockchain-secured data sharing, federated learning, and multi-agent coordination, we propose a layered reference architecture that couples adversarially hardened models, blockchain-anchored data provenance, AI-driven anomaly detection, and smart-contract-governed multi-agent remediation. We conclude by identifying open problems in scalability, privacy-transparency trade-offs, and the governance of autonomous agents that must be resolved before such integrated systems can be trusted in production-critical environments.