New York, United States, April 14th, 2026, Chainwire
- Nava is built for any agent handling real capital — from prediction market trading and on-chain treasury management to high-frequency execution and automated auditing —where a single hallucination or misinterpreted instruction can drain millions.
- Investment by Polychain, Archetype, and other top investors demonstrates a commitment to Nava Labs’ mission to build the infrastructure enabling the AI economy.
- Nava Labs founders come from EigenLayer and have attracted top research talent from Carnegie Mellon.
Nava, the AI development company that pioneers guardrails for autonomous agents and safety tools for the agentic economy, today emerged from stealth with an $8.3 million seed funding round co-led by Polychain and Archetype. Additional investors include FalconX, Hack VC, Seed Club Ventures, Sreeram Kannan (Eigen Labs), Suyang (EigenCloud), Gonçalo Sá (Consensys Diligence), Eskender Abebe (Eliza Labs), Min Teo (Ethereal Ventures), Matt Wright (Gaia), Jia Yaoqi (AltLayer).
Today’s AI agents are powerful, but the infrastructure needed for developers and users to safely deploy them at scale has not yet caught up. Nava Labs will use this investment to accelerate Nava AI (“Nava”), an open, full-stack, blockchain-based platform designed for the builders and operators of autonomous agents. Nava enables developers to embed programmable guardrails directly into agent workflows, while giving users the ability to define the policies that govern how agents interact with capital, data, and other agentic systems.
Vyas Krishnan, CEO and founder of Nava Labs, commented, “While AI agents are becoming indispensable for enterprise use cases, the infrastructure for agents to safely manage billions in value transfer has not existed. We built Nava to change that. Nava AI addresses the tension between AI’s creativity and humans’ strict demands by preserving agents’ creative freedom while verifying that their actions align within user-defined boundaries. With support from our strategic investors, including FalconX, we’re excited to work with agent builders to drive the AI acceleration thesis and reshape how humans control automated operations in finance, commerce, logistics, and other emerging AI-powered sectors.”
Nava keeps agents within user-defined policy boundaries while verifying that their actions align from intent to settlement. By introducing escrow, dispute resolution, and economic backstops around agent activity, Nava allows developers to build agents that can safely transact, coordinate tasks, and manage value on behalf of users.
Because Nava runs on an open blockchain ledger, every transaction improves shared risk models and data verification, reducing redundant computation across participants and laying the foundation for agent-mediated consumer and enterprise applications at scale.
“Nava Labs is setting a new standard for how institutions can adopt AI while preserving accountability,” said Polychain CEO and Founder Olaf Carlson-Wee. “Just as SWIFT enabled digital finance and TCP/IP enabled the internet, Nava has the potential to underpin the agent-mediated economy, allowing developers and institutions to securely engage with AI in novel ways.”
Danny Sursock, Partner at Archetype, commented, “Nava Labs leverages blockchain’s immutable properties to provide an unprecedented level of resilience, accountability, and control as agents gain adoption across the world’s enterprises. While onchain rails give agents the tools to transact openly and evolve into sophisticated financial actors, the infrastructure for end-to-end processes — from deployment to reliable completion — has not existed until now. Nava changes that.”
“I’m excited about what the Nava team is building,” said EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan. “As AI begins to interact with real capital and spearhead logistics, there’s an urgent need for the kind of accountable AI infrastructure Nava is pioneering. Vyas and Brianna played a crucial role in growing EigenLayer over the first few years, and I’m proud to support them as they tackle this important problem of holding AI accountable with Nava AI.”
To find out more, users can follow Nava Labs on X, join their Telegram community, contact the team, and request a live demo.
About Nava Labs
Nava Labs is building guardrails and verification infrastructure for the agentic economy. Its platform, Nava AI, enables autonomous agents to operate safely within programmable policy boundaries while ensuring accountability, verification, and economic alignment at scale. By combining blockchain-based verification, escrow, and dispute resolution infrastructure, Nava allows enterprises and developers to deploy AI agents that can manage capital, data, and mission-critical workflows. Nava Labs was founded by engineers and researchers from organizations including EigenLayer and Carnegie Mellon.
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