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@TheBlockCo Appreciate the great coverage of our announcement.

Catena Labs lands $30 million Series A, files for national trust bank charter to underpin agentic finance theblock.co/post/402029/ca…

We're excited to announce our participation in @catena_labs' $30M Series A. The financial system was built for humans – but agents are already beginning to hold funds, initiate payments, and settle invoices on behalf of the businesses that deploy them. Catena is building the infrastructure layer that makes this possible: a banking platform purpose-built for agents, paired with a governance and control layer for operators. With a founding team that brings deep experience building regulated, programmable financial infrastructure at scale – @psneville, @mattyven, and Sharda Caro Del Castillo – Catena is positioned to become the trusted platform for the agent economy. Read more: lnkd.in/dQQcrGfW

Thank you @bdanweiss for the great article in @FortuneMagazine covering our announcements today. fortune.com/2026/05/20/cat…

@cdixon puts our announcements today in context with a great post.

@I_Xvision Thank you!

@catena_labs Congrats the team

Your agents can ship code, draft contracts, and triage your inbox. What they can't do is safely use money. The financial system has no framework for software acting on someone else's behalf.

@supraEVM Thank you!

@catena_labs Huge W team. Congratulations on the raise

Giving an agent a wallet or account isn't the hard part. Creating a robust, governed way to trust it is. Today Catena announces product access, OCC news, and Series A investment from wonderful partners: catena.com/blog/banking-g…

If you're running agents that touch money, or are about to, come build with us. Private Access is open at catena.com

We're also announcing a $30M Series A, co-led by @a16zcrypto and @AcrewCapital, with participation from @BreyerCap, @generalcatalyst, @QEDInvestors, @oakhcft, @IDGCapital, and @cbventures. $48M in total financing.

Congrats to @cdixon and the entire @a16zcrypto team on closing Fund 5. The thesis that this cycle is about turning infrastructure into products people need and use is exactly right. Proud to have you in our corner.

Why do agents need their own identities? Can't they just use OAuth tokens and API keys? Sure, but when multiple agents authenticate by impersonating the same end user via OAuth: - you can't tell them apart - you can't revoke one without breaking others - you can't audit which agent did what Some sub agents exist for minutes then disappear, carrying permissions far broader than their task requires, or leaving stale tokens that outlive the task they were created for. And human-in-the-loop approval that works for a couple of agents falls apart when orchestrating dozens. Agents need their own verifiable identity, not borrowed credentials impersonating human end users. Identity is what lets us attach policies, manage capabilities, and establish trust and accountability across agents and services. And building identity on open standards and cryptography strengthens trust by preventing any one vendor from "owning" it.

"AI actors will ultimately be the primary dominant economic participants… In a few years. I think they may be the only actors that we trust with our assets." If AI systems are going to participate in the economy, what financial stack will they need? @psneville of @catena_labs explains.

" We're certainly not there today, so what do we need to do to get there — and to unlock a level of prosperity, the likes of which the world hasn't seen yet." Our conversation with @psneville on the rise of the agent economy.

Our CEO breaks down how agentic payments can work reliably and safely. Check out the demo.

But for agents to transact like firms, they need more than wallets and stablecoins alone. They need capital infrastructure: accounts, credit lines, treasury management, FX, payment services, verifiable identity, and more. That's what we're building at Catena.

As agent-to-agent transactions scale, we'll see a fundamental shift: from centrally coordinated workflows to open markets where agents operate as independent economic actors aligned with human policies.

Specialization drives economies. The agent economy will be no different. A coding agent will hire a security agent for audits. A research agent will purchase data on demand—all settled in milliseconds using stablecoins.