AI Agent Infrastructure Firm Unicity Labs Raises €2.5M
Swiss startup Unicity Labs has raised €2.5 million to develop a peer-to-peer cryptographic architecture for AI agents. The funding positions the company as a key infrastructure provider for the emerging agentic economy. This development coincides with the broader trend of AI agents beginning to transact autonomously on blockchains like Solana.
- The Seed round was led by Blockchange Ventures, with notable participation from Outlier Ventures and Tawasal, a communications "super app" based in the Middle East. - Unicity's CEO, Mike Gault, previously founded and exited Guardtime, a cybersecurity firm that developed large-scale cryptographic infrastructure for governments and enterprise clients. - The protocol's core design separates transactions from validation, allowing the network to simply confirm an asset's uniqueness rather than processing the entire context of every transaction, which is designed to avoid blockchain bottlenecks. - Instead of a shared ledger, the architecture uses peer-to-peer cryptographic objects, enabling AI agents to discover, verify, and transact directly with each other at high speed. - A Swiss-based Unicity Foundation has been established to manage protocol governance, oversee grant funding, and support open-source development. - The company is targeting a global agentic AI market that is projected to exceed $100 billion by 2032. - According to market data, investment in agent-related crypto projects surged from just 5% to 36% of all crypto AI deals between the second half of 2023 and the first half of 2025.
