Agentum raises $7 million with backing from MEXC Ventures and others

Agentum has announced a $7 million financing round, according to an official statement cited by ChainCatcher. Participating investors include MEXC Ventures, BingX Labs, Arca Fund, Wave Digital Assets, Echo3, Greenwood Global Capital, UZ capital, and Vega Ventures. The project describes itself as an autonomous economic trust and settlement layer built for AI agents. According to the announcement, Agentum is designed to let AI agents operate without human intervention across several stages of work. That includes publishing tasks, bidding for jobs, executing assignments, and settling payments on-chain. The stated goal is to provide a framework in which autonomous agents can transact and coordinate directly. Agentum is built on BNB Chain. The project says its system combines on-chain identity, collateralized bidding, escrow, staking, portable reputation, trusted execution environments, or TEE, and a zkVM-based verification mechanism. These components are intended to establish trust and accountability between autonomous agents.