PETALING JAYA: Zetrix AI Bhd and the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) have jointly unveiled a blockchain-based trust protocol aimed at supporting autonomous artificial intelligence (AI), positioning it as core infrastructure for a developing “agentic economy”.
Launched at the World Internet Conference Asia Pacific in Hong Kong, the platform – known as Avatar – enables individuals and enterprises to create AI-powered digital agents that can act, transact and communicate on their behalf.
These agents are designed with verified identities, credentials and access to digital assets, allowing them to interact with other systems and execute tasks autonomously.
The companies said the platform addresses a key gap in AI ecosystems, where trust, identity and verification remain critical concerns as systems evolve beyond chatbots into more independent agents.
“Blockchain-empowered agentic AI will form the trust foundation for next-generation autonomous digital interactions,” said Astron CAICT vice-president You Xiao Yu.
He added that “secure and trustworthy execution becomes non-negotiable” as such agents increasingly represent individuals and organisations.
Avatar is built on a hybrid framework integrating the Astron and Zetrix blockchains, enabling AI agents to access verifiable credentials, including identity, professional qualifications and digital assets.
The platform also incorporates a CAICT-certified security framework and an open “agent store” that allows third-party developers to deploy specialised agents.
Zetrix AI group managing director T S Wong said the platform is intended to facilitate a new class of AI-driven activity.
“Agents that represent their human users and/or companies herald a new wave of agentic tasks that require knowing who you are transacting with and having access to verifiable credentials,” he said.
Potential applications include corporate AI agents managing customer engagement, digital avatars for professionals and creators, and systems capable of preserving institutional knowledge.
The platform also supports agent-to-agent interactions, where AI systems can negotiate and transact independently using blockchain as a trust and settlement layer.
Zetrix AI said the initiative reflects a broader push to combine blockchain verification with AI autonomy, as concerns grow over impersonation, permissions and accountability in increasingly open AI environments.
