Catenaa, Wednesday, March 04, 2026- Unicity Labs secured $3 million in seed funding to scale its Unicity Protocol, which enables autonomous AI agents to form peer-to-peer marketplaces without intermediaries.

The round was led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Tawasal and Outlier Ventures.

The protocol replaces traditional shared-ledger architectures with cryptographic peer-to-peer objects, allowing AI agents to discover services, verify counterparties, and settle transactions at machine speed.

The system aims to overcome the bottlenecks that occur when millions of agents transact simultaneously on conventional blockchains.

Unicity Labs was founded by veterans of Guardtime and includes experts in distributed systems, cryptography, and machine learning.

The company recently established the Unicity Foundation in Switzerland to oversee governance, grant funding, and open-source development of the protocol.

Investors cited Unicity’s architectural innovation as key to enabling a scalable agentic economy.

By separating transaction validation from shared ledgers, the protocol improves speed, cost, and scalability.

Tawasal noted the potential for merchants to sell directly to AI agents, reducing reliance on traditional marketing channels.