Mysten Labs Co-Founder Evan Cheng: On-Chain AI Agent Activity on Sui Will Grow Significantly in the Next Year, and Google Cloud Has Entered the Space

According to TechFlow, Evan Cheng, co-founder of Mysten Labs, an early contributor to Sui, said on the New Era Finance Podcast that AI agents have already begun trading and managing funds autonomously, while existing internet identity and trust mechanisms can no longer keep up. Sui aims to become the coordination layer for the AI agent economy. He expects a large volume of on-chain AI agent activity on Sui over the next year.

Progress has already been made on the enterprise side. The Verifiable Agent Arbiter (VAA), jointly developed by Mysten Labs and Google Cloud, uses Sui and Walrus to anchor proofs of AI agent operations, enabling enterprises, auditors, and regulators to independently verify whether agents have exceeded their permissions. The VAA can also integrate with Sui Agent Payments and the x402 protocol to cover agent payment scenarios.

Sui has already built technologies around AI agents, including Move, PTB, Walrus, Seal, and Sphere, covering permission management, atomic transactions, verifiable storage, and confidential collaboration.

Source: TechFlow