Gency AI secures $20M in funding to develop AI-driven, blockchain-based sovereign ad network
Gency AI, a company specializing in AI and blockchain infrastructure, has disclosed a successful $20 million funding round announced today.
San Francisco, U.S.A., March 17, 2026 — Gency AI, a company focused on AI and blockchain infrastructure, has disclosed that it successfully secured $20 million through a new investment round. Multiple institutional investors joined the funding effort, including Y&ZC Capital, MTmetaworld Holdings, Riverpark, ArkStream, MH Ventures, ViaBTC and Basics Capital.
The newly acquired funding will be allocated toward expanding Gency AI's decentralized network for advertising execution and settlement, strengthening its computing stack that preserves privacy, and fast-tracking product rollout and ecosystem collaborations throughout North America, Asia, and Europe.
Constructing verifiable infrastructure for the advertising economy
The worldwide digital advertising sector is experiencing sustained rapid expansion, yet numerous execution and settlement workflows continue to depend on centralized platform structures. Stakeholders throughout the industry have consistently pointed to persistent issues concerning attribution transparency, ownership of data, and the reconciliation timelines among advertisers, publishers, and advertising agencies.
Gency AI seeks to transform the industry away from a "platform trust" framework toward a "protocol trust" paradigm through the deployment of on-chain verifiable credentials and mechanisms for automated revenue distribution. By utilizing smart contracts alongside privacy-preserving computing technologies, advertising impressions, conversion results, and revenue allocation processes can be verified independently and settled in an automated fashion.
The company indicates that the system has been engineered to automate reconciliation workflows via smart contracts, with the objective of decreasing settlement timeframes and enhancing transparency throughout cross-border advertising transactions.
AI and blockchain–integrated technical architecture
The network architecture of Gency AI is constructed using four fundamental modules:
Policy identity
Establishes on-chain permission identities alongside usage parameters for data assets, facilitating transparent and traceable management of data authorization.
ESQ privacy computing layer
Incorporates technologies including TEE, PSI, and MPC to enable encrypted computation and privacy-preserving handling of advertising data.
PSG clearing and settlement protocol
Transforms advertising actions and conversion results into verifiable on-chain credentials and executes revenue distribution automatically via smart contracts.
AI optimization engine
Functions within an anonymous and encrypted operational environment to drive advertising strategy prediction, audience matching capabilities, and campaign optimization processes. It additionally facilitates model training and attribution analysis while preventing exposure of raw user data, thereby achieving equilibrium between privacy protection and operational efficiency.
Investor perspectives
Investors who took part in the funding round expressed that the combination of AI automation with verifiable computing possesses the capacity to fundamentally restructure the foundational infrastructure of digital advertising, progressively transitioning the industry away from a closed data platform-driven model toward one enabled by open protocols.
They further observed that with global privacy regulations becoming increasingly stringent and demand for AI-powered automated advertising experiencing ongoing expansion, the construction of a trusted, verifiable, and autonomously functioning advertising network is positioned to emerge as a critical trajectory for the industry.
About Gency AI
Gency AI represents a sovereign advertising network specifically engineered for the agentic economy — a framework where ownership of data, permissions, execution processes, and settlement mechanisms are structured to be programmable, verifiable, and governed by users as the default configuration.
In contrast to conventional adtech systems that rely upon opaque data aggregation practices and trust-based reporting methodologies, Gency AI reconceptualizes advertising as a verifiable coordination infrastructure. Through the integration of cryptographic guarantees, policy enforcement on-chain, and measurable outcome tracking, it facilitates coordinated interactions across advertisers, publishers, AI agents, and users.
Media contact:
- Tan Chee Hoe
- CMO at Gency AI
- Official email: official@gencyai.io