Ant Digital Technologies, the blockchain arm of Chinese conglomerate Ant Group, has unveiled a new platform that aims to enable AI agents, not humans, to become the main participants in crypto transactions called Anvita.
Unveiled at the company’s Real Up summit in Cannes, Anvita is Ant’s venture into what it calls an “agent-to-agent economy,” where autonomous software programs can store assets, trade and make payments with little or no human involvement.
Anvita consists of two main products at the start. The first, Anvita TaaS (Tokenization-as-a-Service), is focused on the tokenization of real-world assets for institutions, including custody and treasury tools. The other, Anvita Flow, is a platform for AI agents to register, find each other, coordinate tasks and settle payments in real time.
“Pure RWA is just the ‘static infrastructure’ of digital assets,” said Zhuoqun Bian, president of blockchain business at Ant Digital Technologies. “The real transformation lies in moving towards an onchain agent economy where autonomous agents don’t just want to analyze data – they want to own assets, execute trades and optimize portfolios.”
Anvita Flow integrates the x402 protocol, developed by Coinbase and Cloudflare, which enables stablecoin payments directly over HTTP. Agents interacting on the platform can complete subcent transactions instantly using USDC, removing 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 gaming. Developers can specify 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 towards a more active onchain economy. Agents could allocate resources, execute trades, manage services on behalf of users, and complete microtransactions automatically as they interact.
Ant Digital joins a growing field of companies building infrastructure for AI-powered commerce. Visa and Coinbase have released competing protocols for agent-based payments, with Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol targeting card-strip checkout and Coinbase’s x402 targeting stablecoin micropayments.
Google unveiled its Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) in September, supported by over 60 organizations. Mastercard bought stablecoin firm BVNK for $1.8 billion in the largest stablecoin infrastructure deal ever, signaling that traditional payment networks also see blockchain settlement as part of their future.
The Solana Foundation has reported that the network has already processed over 15 million onchain agent transactions, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has said he expects agents to surpass humans in transaction volume.
McKinsey has predicted that AI agents could mediate $3-5 trillion of global consumer commerce by 2030.
However, usage remains lacking. The x402 protocol is currently seeing around $28,000 in daily volume, much of it from testing, with Artemis analysts marking around half of the observed transactions as artificial activity.
Ant Digital’s blockchain, which already supports tokenized assets from various financial institutions, is currently pursuing USDC integration with Circle and applying for stablecoin licenses in Hong Kong, Singapore and Luxembourg.
