Unicity Labs secures seed capital to underpin agent-to-agent commerce

A new round of early-stage financing will fund a protocol designed for machine-to-machine commerce where software agents buy and sell services with minimal human oversight.

Lead investor Blockchange Ventures anchored the syndicate, joined by a regional strategic partner with a multi-million user base and a Web3 specialist fund.

The company says the protocol replaces conventional shared-ledger routing with cryptographic objects that let agents confirm uniqueness and settle directly, aiming to cut friction and latency when many agents transact at once.

To manage community development and protocol decisions the team set up the Unicity Foundation in Switzerland, allocating governance, grants, and open-source stewardship to a neutral body.

A participating strategic investor from the Middle East gives the project a fast track into a market with an existing user base of roughly 5 million consumers and services.

The founders and researchers behind the effort bring experience in distributed systems, cryptography, and prior commercial exits, positioning the team to tackle both protocol design and real-world integration challenges.

Market estimates cited by the company place the potential size of the autonomous-agent economy in the tens of billions over the coming decade, signalling commercial opportunity if performance and trust hurdles are cleared.

Architecturally, the project separates the act of transacting from the act of validating, an approach intended to sidestep throughput limits that plague many ledger-based networks.

Investors framed their participation as a bet on infrastructure rather than an application: the protocol is intended to be the rails other marketplaces and services plug into.

Operational next steps include protocol implementation, developer engagement via open-source releases, and using foundation grants to seed early integrations and standards work.

If adoption accelerates, the protocol could become a building block for commerce between autonomous software entities across e-commerce, communications, and IoT ecosystems.