What Unicity Labs does

Unicity Labs is a Switzerland-based (Zug) protocol infrastructure company building the Unicity Protocol, a peer-to-peer cryptographic architecture intended to enable autonomous AI agents to discover services, verify counterparties, and transact at machine speed without intermediaries or shared ledgers. Its core technical proposition is a consensus-less execution model that separates transactions from validation, with edge-level validation and claimed throughput exceeding 300 million transactions per second with millisecond settlement. The protocol is distributed as open-source via GitHub, accompanied by a whitepaper, bluepaper, live block explorer, and formal security proofs, and is overseen for governance and grants by the separately established Unicity Foundation.

The company was founded in 2025 by veterans of the cybersecurity firm Guardtime (including Mike Gault) and announced a $3 million seed round in February 2026 led by Blockchange Ventures with participation from Tawasal and Outlier Ventures. The leadership team is positioned as PhD-level across AI, cryptography, blockchain protocols, and scalable infrastructure. Reported key contributors include Vladimir Rogojin (CTO & co-founder), Pavel Grigorenko (co-founder & Head of Engineering), Mike Gault, Risto Laanoja, Martti Marran, Joshua J. Bouw, Ahto Truu, Ahto Buldas, Mart Saarepera, Dirk Draheim, Anthony Benyon, and Jian Tan.

Its go-to-market is API-first and developer-community driven, with open-source repositories, Discord engagement, and a strategic channel partnership with PadUp Ventures targeting Indian startups, enterprises, and 63 million SMBs via an Agentic Commerce Track within PadUp's PrepUp acceleration program. Revenue is intended to be generated through protocol-level transaction and settlement fees, but no pricing, fee schedule, customers, or revenue figures have been disclosed, and the company has 1–10 employees — placing it firmly at pre-revenue seed stage.

Name

Unicity Labs

Legal name

Unicity Labs

Website

https://unicity.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Unicity Labs builds the Unicity Protocol, a peer-to-peer cryptographic infrastructure enabling autonomous AI agents to discover, verify, and transact at machine speed. The Switzerland-based startup targets developers, startups, and enterprises building AI agent-powered applications.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Blockchain Protocol Infrastructure

NAICS

Securities and Commodity Exchanges (523210), Securities and Commodity Exchanges (5232), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Security & Commodity Brokers, Dealers, Exchanges & Services (6200)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Asset/Crypto Trade Execution Platforms (FSAFANAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG), Marketplace & Platform Trust & Safety (Buyer/Seller Abuse) (HDADALAI)

Keywords

• Agentic commerce infrastructure
• Blockchain protocol infrastructure
• AI agent transactions
• Peer-to-peer cryptography
• Autonomous agent protocols

Headquarters

HQ city

Zug

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Protocol Infrastructure Fees: Revenue generation through protocol-level transaction fees and settlement services for autonomous AI agent marketplaces. As an infrastructure provider for the autonomous agentic internet, the company monetizes through enabling trustless, direct agent-to-agent transactions at machine speed.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Unicity Labs develops the Unicity Protocol, a peer-to-peer cryptographic architecture that enables autonomous AI agents to discover services, verify counterparties, and transact at machine speed without intermediaries or shared ledgers. The protocol separates transaction execution from validation, claiming throughput exceeding 300 million transactions per second with millisecond settlement. The company targets developers and enterprises building AI agent-powered applications, monetizing through protocol-level transaction and settlement fees.

Product overview

Unicity Labs offers a single unified protocol product — the Unicity Protocol — a peer-to-peer cryptographic architecture designed to enable autonomous AI agents to discover, verify, and transact at machine speed without intermediaries. The protocol is complemented by the Unicity Foundation (a Switzerland-based governance body overseeing open-source development and grants), technical documentation (Whitepaper and Bluepaper published via GitHub), and a Block Explorer for network monitoring. The portfolio centers entirely on the Unicity Protocol as the core infrastructure offering.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Unicity Protocol: A peer-to-peer cryptographic architecture enabling autonomous AI agents to discover services, verify counterparties, and transact directly without intermediaries or shared ledgers.
• Unicity Foundation

Products and services

• Unicity Protocol A peer-to-peer cryptographic architecture enabling autonomous AI agents to discover services, verify counterparts, and transact at machine speed without intermediaries or shared ledgers. Designed for developers and enterprises building AI agent-powered applications requiring high-throughput, low-latency settlement.

Quantifiable outcome

• Throughput exceeding 300 million transactions per second
• +2 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• PadUp VenturesflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 February 2026Strategic partnership to accelerate agentic commerce infrastructure development across India's startup ecosystem. The collaboration launches a dedicated Agentic Commerce Track within PadUp's PrepUp acceleration program, providing selected startups with mentorship and access to investment from both PadUp's network and Unicity's ecosystem fund. Joint go-to-market efforts target Indian enterprises and 63 million SMBs in India.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• IOTA: IOTA is a feeless, high-throughput distributed ledger originally designed for IoT machine-to-machine micropayments. Its M2M transaction focus and feeless architecture are conceptually adjacent to Unicity's machine-speed settlement thesis, making it a relevant protocol-level comparable.
• SingularityNET: SingularityNET operates a decentralized marketplace where AI services are discovered and paid for by other agents and humans. Its AI-service-discovery and agent-monetization model closely overlaps with Unicity's stated agentic marketplace thesis, though it is built on Cardano/Ethereum rather than a custom consensus-less protocol.
• Fetch.ai: Fetch.ai builds a decentralized machine-learning platform for autonomous AI agents that discover, negotiate, and transact on-chain. It is the most directly comparable peer to Unicity because both target machine-to-machine economic activity, though Fetch.ai relies on a Cosmos-based blockchain rather than a consensus-less architecture.
• Autonolas: Autonolas (formerly known for Gnosis Safe services) provides infrastructure for autonomous off-chain agent services that can be composed and coordinated on-chain. Like Unicity, it targets developer infrastructure for autonomous economic agents and shares an open-source, protocol-governance ethos.

Emerging players

• Ocean Protocol: Ocean Protocol provides decentralized data-exchange infrastructure where AI agents can discover and purchase data services. It overlaps with Unicity on the AI-services-commerce angle but is focused specifically on data assets rather than general agent-to-agent commerce.
• Akash Network: Akash is a decentralized compute marketplace where agents and applications can procure infrastructure resources peer-to-peer. It overlaps with Unicity on the theme of decentralized agent-driven commerce, but for compute resources rather than general agent services.

Broad incumbents

• Aptos: Aptos is a high-performance Move-based L1 designed for high-throughput, low-latency applications. Its performance profile and developer-tooling focus make it a relevant broader incumbent competing for throughput-sensitive agent workloads.
• Solana: Solana is a high-throughput L1 blockchain positioned for high-frequency decentralized applications and payments. It competes with Unicity for throughput-sensitive agent workloads and has a far larger developer ecosystem and capital base.
• Internet Computer (DFINITY): The Internet Computer provides decentralized cloud compute where autonomous code (canisters) can run and serve users/agents at scale. It is a broader decentralized-compute platform but competes for the same workload class—autonomous services running without centralized intermediaries.
• NEAR Protocol: NEAR is a sharded, high-throughput L1 that emphasizes low fees and account abstraction suitable for autonomous agents. As a well-capitalized incumbent with agent-friendly primitives, it is a relevant comparable for Unicity's target developer base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/unicity_labs
• GitHubgithub.com/unicitynetwork
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/unicity-labs

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

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