Ant Digital Technologies, the blockchain unit of China-based Ant Group, shared with the public its new platform Anvita, which minimizes the need for humans in cryptocurrency transactions. The launch took place at the company’s Real Up summit in Cannes.
Autonomous trading is aimed with Anvita
Anvita focuses specifically on a business model defined as the “agent-to-agent economy”, where software agencies can hold assets, trade and make payments on their own. There are two basic products offered by the platform in the first stage. The first of these, Anvita TaaS (Tokenization-as-a-Service), allows real-world assets for corporate customers to be tokenized and stored on the blockchain. The second one is called Anvita Flow. This platform allows artificial intelligence agents to register in the system, find each other, work together, and make payments in real time.
Zhuoqun Bian, head of Ant Digital’s blockchain unit, stated that the traditional digital asset infrastructure only offers a basic structure, and the main transformation will be possible with the new economy in which fully autonomous on-chain software will take an active role.
Competition and technological infrastructure are getting stronger
Anvita Flow has incorporated the x402 protocol developed by Coinbase and Cloudflare into the system. Thanks to this protocol, agents operating on the platform can make direct and instant payments with USDC stablecoin. Thus, processes such as billing, subscription or manual approval are disabled.
The platform also includes an Agent Store designed for developers. This store includes modules such as data collection and financial analysis, and new agents can be added to the system. The infrastructure, which is compatible with current frameworks such as OpenClaw and Claude Code, also supports different hosting options.
The application area of the system is not limited to asset tokenization. Agents operating on the chain can be used for many different functions such as resource allocation, transaction execution, providing services on behalf of the user and performing automatic micropayments.
Ant Digital joined the companies developing infrastructure in this field. Global actors such as Visa and Coinbase are also developing their own protocols on agent-based payment systems. While Visa focused on card-based payment processes with its Trusted Agent Protocol, Coinbase’s x402 protocol turned to stablecoin-based microtransactions.
Google introduced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) solution, supported by more than 60 organizations, in September. Mastercard’s record-sized acquisition of BVNK also signaled that traditional payment networks are interested in blockchain-based solutions.
Solana Foundation shared that a total of over 15 million agent transactions were performed on the network. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong predicted that artificial intelligence agents will perform more transactions than humans in the near term.
AI-powered software could drive $3 to $5 trillion in global consumer spending by 2030, according to analysis by McKinsey.
However, usage volume remains low. While an average of 28 thousand dollars of daily transactions were made over the x402 protocol, it was determined in the analysis that a significant part of this volume was for testing purposes and artificial.
Ant Digital’s blockchain already supports financial institutions’ assets, while the company is working on USDC integration. Additionally, applications for stablecoin licenses are ongoing in Hong Kong, Singapore and Luxembourg.
