Swiss protocol startup Unicity Labs has raised €2.5 million in Seed funding to accelerate development of its peer-to-peer cryptographic architecture for AI agents, positioning the company as a key infrastructure provider for the emerging autonomous AI economy.
The round was led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Tawasal and Outlier Ventures. The funding will support protocol development, engineering expansion, and ecosystem growth as the company builds infrastructure designed specifically for autonomous AI systems.
Building infrastructure for the autonomous AI economy
Founded in 2025 and headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, Unicity Labs is developing the Unicity Protocol, a decentralised system designed to enable secure, scalable communication and transactions between autonomous AI agents.
Unlike traditional blockchain systems that rely on global ledgers and consensus mechanisms, Unicity’s approach uses peer-to-peer cryptographic objects that allow agents to verify and exchange value directly. This architecture significantly improves scalability, reduces latency, and lowers infrastructure costs compared with conventional distributed ledger technologies.
As AI agents increasingly perform complex tasks such as managing workflows, negotiating contracts, executing transactions, and interacting with other systems, they require infrastructure capable of supporting secure and autonomous coordination at scale. Unicity Labs aims to provide that foundational layer.
The company’s protocol focuses on confirming the uniqueness of digital assets rather than maintaining a complete shared transaction history, allowing faster verification and enabling high-performance machine-to-machine transactions.
Leadership team with deep cybersecurity and infrastructure expertise
Unicity Labs is led by CEO Mike Gault, an experienced entrepreneur and cryptography specialist who previously founded Guardtime, a cybersecurity company known for deploying large-scale cryptographic infrastructure across government and enterprise environments.
The founding team brings together expertise in distributed systems, cryptography, cybersecurity, and AI infrastructure. Their experience building mission-critical security systems provides a strong foundation for addressing the challenges associated with deploying autonomous AI safely and securely.
In addition, the company has established the Unicity Foundation in Switzerland, which will oversee governance, protocol integrity, and ecosystem development. The foundation will also manage grants and support open-source development to encourage wider adoption and innovation.
Addressing a growing gap in AI infrastructure
The rapid growth of agentic AI is transforming software from static tools into autonomous systems capable of independent decision-making and execution. However, existing infrastructure was not designed to support secure, scalable interactions between autonomous agents.
Traditional centralised systems create dependencies on platform operators, while blockchain-based approaches can introduce performance limitations and scalability challenges.
Unicity Labs’ peer-to-peer cryptographic architecture for AI agents is designed to overcome these limitations by enabling:
- Direct, secure communication between AI agents
- Autonomous discovery and verification of digital assets
- Instant peer-to-peer transactions without intermediaries
- Scalable infrastructure capable of supporting large volumes of machine-driven interactions
This capability is expected to become increasingly important as businesses deploy AI agents across finance, logistics, healthcare, and enterprise automation.
Investor confidence in AI-native infrastructure
The €2.5 million Seed funding reflects growing investor confidence in foundational infrastructure that enables safe and scalable AI adoption. Rather than focusing solely on applications, investors are increasingly backing companies building the underlying systems required for autonomous AI ecosystems.
Unicity Labs’ approach aligns with broader industry trends, as organisations seek secure and efficient infrastructure capable of supporting large-scale deployment of AI agents across critical business processes.
The company’s architecture aims to provide both performance and security, allowing enterprises to deploy autonomous systems without compromising reliability or data integrity.
Supporting the future of autonomous digital systems
With this new funding, Unicity Labs plans to accelerate protocol development, expand its engineering team, and build partnerships with developers and enterprises. The company also aims to grow its ecosystem through open-source initiatives and developer tools.
As autonomous AI agents become more widely adopted, secure and scalable infrastructure will be essential to enable trust, coordination, and efficiency.
By building a peer-to-peer cryptographic architecture for AI agents, Unicity Labs is positioning itself as a foundational player in the next generation of AI infrastructure, helping enable a future where autonomous systems can operate securely, independently, and at global scale.
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