1/8 Big news from Catena Labs! We've secured $18M in funding, led by @a16zcrypto, to build an AI-native financial institution. Why? Because traditional financial systems are unprepared and resistant to AI, hindering the growth of the agent economy.
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Catena
@catena_labs
Catena is a banking and governance platform for AI agents.
Joined October 2022
- We have not launched a token. We have received reports of live tokens using our branding. Please do not engage with or invest in any such project claiming affiliation with Catena Labs or Agent Commerce Kit. Thank you for your support. Catena Labs
- Overwhelmed by the amazing support from this community! Thank you. We're just getting started – there is so much more in the works.
- Replying to @catena_labs8/8 We're building an open, transparent, and collaborative financial infrastructure for the agent economy. ➡️ Developers, businesses, future thinkers – join us! ➡️ Learn more: catenalabs.com ➡️ We're hiring!
- 1/8 We built a demo showing how AI agents can verify each other's identities before transacting. When agents start handling money, knowing who's actually behind them becomes critical 🤖
- Replying to @catena_labs7/8 We're incredibly grateful for the conviction of our investors in this $18M round, led by @a16zcrypto, with participation from @jimihendrixlive, @TedBreyer, @circle_ventures, @cbventures, @pillar_vc, @coinfund, and elite visionary angels.
- 1/ New blog post: "Stablecoins Meet AI: Perfect Timing for Agent Commerce" Circle's IPO last week wasn't just another crypto milestone—it was the moment stablecoins officially crossed the chasm from crypto experiment to essential infrastructure.
- Huge congratulations to the entire @circle team on today's IPO! 🎉 We will all look back on this as a historic inflection point for the global financial system. Stablecoins are now mainstream. USDC will become a foundational technology for a new generation of global payment
- We were excited to see the @trySkyfire team launch Know-Your-Agent (KYA) tokens for agent identity last week, which made us wonder: Could these work in the Agent Commerce Kit? Let's take a look...
- We're excited to see users trying out ACK-Pay!
- AI agents will soon handle many of our purchases and negotiations. But how do they prove who they are to each other? Your AI buys from Amazon's AI: both need to prove their identity, you need control over what gets spent, and Amazon needs proof your AI is authorized to act on
- With the Senate passage of the GENIUS Act regulatory framework, Stablecoins like USDC are leaping into the mainstream. This is great because they are the perfect form of money for AI agents. We break down why this matters for AI builders here 👇
- Listen to Sean Neville, our Co-Founder & CEO, on the latest @TechCrunch StrictlyVC Download discussing how we're building an AI-native financial institution
- 1/8 Your monitoring agent pings you at 2am because it cannot pay the cloud bill it just predicted would spike. Your research bot sits idle for hours waiting for approval to buy access to a dataset. We have built AI that can think - but not AI that can pay its own bills. We just
