Unicity Labs Secures $3M Seed for P2P AI Agent Infrastructure
Unicity Labs, a Switzerland-based developer of peer-to-peer blockchain infrastructure, has raised $3M in seed funding led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Tawasal and Outlier Ventures. The company is building the Unicity Protocol, a cryptographic architecture that enables autonomous AI agents to discover services, verify counterparties, and settle transactions at machine speed—without shared ledgers, consensus bottlenecks, or centralized intermediaries. The capital will scale autonomous agentic marketplaces and expand its live network.
Agentic AI Marketplaces Gain Traction
The timing aligns with surging interest in AI agent economies. Unicity's live network has already mined over 450,000 blocks, with 4.25M circulating ALPHA tokens, signaling early adoption among developers. This positions Unicity to capture demand for scalable P2P tools in trading, prediction markets, and gaming.
Blockchain Bottlenecks Stifle AI Agents
The agentic AI market is projected to reach $100B by 2032, driven by autonomous agents handling commerce at unprecedented speeds. Traditional blockchains rely on shared ledgers and consensus mechanisms, causing delays of seconds to minutes—unacceptable for machine-speed interactions. Centralized platforms introduce trust risks and scalability limits, failing to support millions of simultaneous agent transactions.
P2P Crypto Objects Unlock Scalability
Unicity Protocol introduces peer-to-peer cryptographic objects with off-chain execution and on-chain state anchoring via Sparse Merkle Trees and ZK proofs. This eliminates shared ledgers for unlimited scalability and privacy, using a Bitcoin-fork PoW with RandomX and custom BFT consensus. Unlike competitors like Fetch.ai or SingularityNET, which depend on centralized coordination or heavy consensus, Unicity enables edge validation for true P2P autonomy.
Unicity also offers AgentSphere, a Web3 dApp with integrated wallet and AI agents for trading and gaming, plus SDKs in TypeScript, Java, and Rust for developers.
Strategic Investors Validate Vision
Blockchange Ventures led the round, drawn to Unicity's novel architecture for the agentic economy. Tawasal and Outlier Ventures, known for backing web3 infrastructure, provide strategic validation. This mix signals growth capital aimed at product expansion and network effects, rather than just hype-driven speculation.
$100B Agentic Economy Beckons
Agentic AI markets are exploding, with developers building for micro-lending, betting, and gaming. Unicity's traction—open-source repos, block explorer at unicity.network, and web wallet—demonstrates viability. The sector's funding remains hot, though specific peer rounds underscore fragmentation between centralized AI platforms and decentralized infra like Unicity.
Guardtime Experts Drive Credibility
Unicity's 12-person team features PhDs and veterans from Guardtime, which achieved a major cybersecurity exit, and Estonia's e-Residency program. This expertise in scalable cryptography and digital identity underpins the protocol's security. Governed by the Unicity Foundation in Switzerland, the project emphasizes long-term decentralization.