AEON Raises $8M Led by YZi Labs to Build the Settlement Layer for Agentic Economy

AEON, a settlement layer for the agentic economy, closed an $8 million pre-seed funding round led by YZi Labs with participation from multiple investors. The funding will accelerate building financial infrastructure for an economic paradigm where AI reshapes production relations and participates in global commerce. AEON is developing a settlement layer that powers agentic economy operations at scale and bridges agent-to-agent interactions with real-world merchant settlement. As an early official partner of Coinbase’s x402 protocol, AEON launched its first AI payment product in May, enabling AI agents to execute on-chain transactions and connect to over 50 million merchants. With BNB Chain, AEON launched the x402 Facilitator to provide verifiable transactions, on-chain settlement, and immutable receipts for service providers. AEON leverages AI-native protocols including x402, ERC-8004, Google AP2, and MCP to enable autonomous, verifiable agent transactions that connect digital interactions to real-world settlement.

"AEON, the settlement layer built for the agentic economy, today announced it has successfully closed a $8 million pre-seed funding round. The round was led by YZi Labs, with participation from a robust group of leading investors, including IDG Capital, HashKey Capital, Stanford Blockchain Builders Fund, Oak Grove Ventures, SevenX Ventures, Alchemy Ventures, Draper Dragon, Contribution Capital, and Uphonest Capital. The funding will accelerate AEON's mission to build the financial backbone required for a new economic paradigm, where AI reshapes production relations across the internet and becomes an active participant in global commerce."

"AEON is building the settlement layer that this new paradigm demands, powering the agentic economy at scale, and bridging Agent-to-Agent (A2A) interactions with real-world merchant settlement. As one of the earliest official partners of Coinbase's x402 protocol, AEON has been at the forefront of turning the concept of AI payments into reality. The company launched its first AI payment product in May, enabling AI agents to execute on-chain transactions and connect to over 50 million real-world merchants across the globe."

"In partnership with BNB Chain, AEON recently launched the x402 Facilitator, built natively on the BNB Chain infrastructure. This enables verifiable transactions, on-chain settlement, and immutable receipts for millions of service providers within the BNB ecosystem, building payment infrastructure constructed for the agentic economy at internet scale. By leveraging AI native protocols like x402, ERC-8004, Google AP2, and MCP, AEON enables autonomous and verifiable AI agent transactions that bridge the gap between digital agent interactions and real-world settlement."

"With AEON, AI enters the marketplace, where ideas, intent, and intelligence can directly move value. Its Protocol Kernel x402 Stack encapsulates payment instructions into HTTP 402 status codes, embeds settlement logic directly into every API request or serv"

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