SAN FRANCISCO, March 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AI and blockchain infrastructure company 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, Arksteam, 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.

Building verifiable infrastructure for the advertising economy

The global digital advertising market continues to grow rapidly, but many execution and settlement processes still rely on centralized platforms. Industry participants have highlighted ongoing challenges related to attribution transparency, data ownership, and reconciliation cycles between advertisers, publishers, and agencies.

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.

According to the company, the system is ...