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Gency AI today announced it has raised $20 million in a new funding round. The round saw participation from several institutions, including TikTok, HF0, XYZ, Streamlined Ventures, Hat-Trick Capital, Arkstream, MH Ventures, ViaBTC, and Basics Capital. The fresh capital is earmarked for scaling Gency AI’s decentralized advertising execution and settlement network, hardening its privacy-preserving computing stack, and accelerating product deployment and ecosystem partnerships across North America, Asia, and Europe. Gency AI aims to shift the industry from a model of platform trust to protocol trust by introducing on-chain verifiable credentials and automated revenue distribution mechanisms.

Leveraging smart contracts and privacy-preserving computing technologies, ad impressions, conversion outcomes, and revenue allocation can be independently verified and settled automatically. Gency AI’s network architecture is built around four core modules: Policy Identity, ESQ privacy computing layer, PSG clearing and settlement protocol, and AI optimization engine. Policy identity creates on-chain permission identities and usage boundaries for data, enabling transparent and traceable data authorization management. The ESQ privacy computing layer integrates technologies such as TEE, PSI, and MPC to support encrypted computation and privacy-preserving processing of advertising data.

The PSG clearing and settlement protocol converts advertising actions and conversion outcomes into on-chain verifiable credentials and automatically executes revenue distribution through smart contracts. Investors participating in the round said the convergence of AI automation and verifiable computing has the potential to reshape the core infrastructure of digital advertising, gradually shifting the industry from a model driven by closed data platforms to one powered by open protocols. They also noted that as global privacy regulations tighten and demand for AI-powered automated advertising continues to grow, building a trusted, verifiable, and autonomously operating advertising network is likely to become a key direction for the industry.