Ant Digital Technologies, the blockchain division of Chinese conglomerate Ant Group, has unveiled a new platform aimed at enabling non-human AI agents to become major participants in crypto transactions called Anvita.
Unveiled at the company’s Real Up summit in Cannes, Anvita is Ant’s bet on what it calls an “agent-to-agent economy,” where autonomous software programs can hold assets, trade and make payments with little or no human involvement.
Anvita consists of two main products since its inception. The first, Anvita TaaS (Tokenization as a Service), focuses on tokenizing real-world assets for institutions, including custody and treasury tools. The second, Anvita Flow, is a platform for AI agents to register, find each other, coordinate tasks and settle payments in real time.
“Pure RWA is simply the ‘static infrastructure’ of digital assets,” said Zhuoqun Bian, president of Ant Digital Technologies’ blockchain business. “The real transformation lies in moving towards an on-chain agent economy, where autonomous agents will not only analyze data, but hold assets, execute trades and optimize portfolios.”
Anvita Flow integrates the x402 protocol, developed by Coinbase and Cloudflare, which allows stablecoin payments directly over HTTP. Agents interacting on the platform can complete sub-cent transactions instantly using USDC, eliminating the need for traditional billing systems, subscriptions, or human approval.
The system also includes an Agent Store with modules for data collection, financial analysis and games. Developers can include their own agents, and the platform supports major frameworks such as OpenClaw and Claude Code, with flexible hosting options.
In practice, the potential extends beyond tokenized assets to a more active on-chain economy. Agents could allocate resources, execute transactions, handle services on behalf of users, and settle microtransactions automatically as they interact.
Ant Digital joins a growing field of companies building infrastructure for AI-powered commerce. Visa and Coinbase have launched competing protocols for agent-based payments, with Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol targeting card payments and Coinbase’s x402 targeting stablecoin micropayments.
Google introduced its Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) in September, backed by more than 60 organizations. Mastercard acquired stablecoin company BVNK for $1.8 billion in the largest stablecoin infrastructure deal on record, signaling that traditional payment networks also see blockchain settlement as part of their future.
The Solana Foundation reported that the network has already processed more than 15 million on-chain agent transactions, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said he expects agents to surpass humans in transaction volume.
McKinsey has projected that AI agents could mediate between $3 and $5 trillion in global consumer commerce by 2030.
Still, use remains mediocre. The x402 protocol currently sees approximately $28,000 in daily volume, much of it coming from testing, with Artemis analysts pointing to about half of the observed transactions as artificial activity.
Ant Digital’s blockchain, which already supports tokenized assets from several financial institutions, is currently pursuing USDC integration with Circle and applying for stablecoin licenses in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Luxembourg.
