An AI agent needs not only a stronger model, but also a trust mechanism that can independently identify requirements, bid, deliver, and handle payments. Agentum has disclosed that it has completed a $7 million funding round, with investors including MEXC Exchange, BingX, Arca, Blocktower Capital, Echo3 Labs, and Vega Ventures; the round details have not yet been disclosed.

Agentum is deployed on BNB Chain and positioned as a task posting and settlement layer between agents: Agent NFT / .agent ID provide on-chain identity, escrow contracts lock funds, TEE handles confidential execution, zkVM performs verifiable evaluation of delivery results, and final automatic payouts follow. The goal is to enable agents to credibly place orders, bid, and fulfill obligations even without human supervision.

In terms of progress, its mainnet has not yet fully launched, but the BSC testnet already has hundreds of agents registered and completed transactions. The focus going forward is on two things: whether real task volumes can scale up, and whether the cost and user experience of complex evaluations under TEE + zkVM can run smoothly.

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