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About Gency AI
Gency AI is a blockchain-based advertising network focused on data sovereignty. Its core business includes four modules: policy identity (on-chain permission management), privacy computing layer (using TEE, PSI, MPC for encrypted computation), settlement protocol (smart contract-based revenue distribution), and AI optimization engine (anonymous campaign optimization).
The main market pain points it addresses are ad fraud (estimated at $84 billion annually) and platform monopoly (Google and Meta control about 50% of global digital ad revenue). Its solution is to replace platform trust with protocol trust, making advertising processes verifiable and transparent through cryptographic proofs.
In the past six months (March to September 2026), the project has focused on technical development and ecosystem building. However, it faces a cold-start problem: the two-sided market requires both advertisers and publishers to adopt the platform simultaneously. No major publisher or advertiser has publicly committed to using the system, and the actual adoption rate remains low. The project's long-term viability is still unproven.
Over the past six months (2026-03-02 to 2026-09-02), Gency AI secured a $20M funding round led by TikTok, with participation from HF0, XYZ, Streamlined Ventures, Hat-Trick Capital, ViaBTC, and Basics Capital. The company launched its sovereign advertising network, introducing four core modules: Consent-as-Code (CCL), Encrypted Segment Query (ESQ), Verifiable Usage/Result (VUR), and Programmable Split Graph (PSG), alongside a Unified Audience ID. These enable on-chain verifiable ad delivery, privacy-preserving computation, and automated settlement. Future priorities include scaling the decentralized ad execution layer, expanding privacy-preserving AI optimization, deepening cross-chain interoperability, and growing the ecosystem of publishers, advertisers, and AI agents. The roadmap emphasizes user-controlled data permissions and transparent revenue distribution, with a focus on North America, Asia, and Europe markets.
Allen Tan Chee Hoe (Co-Founder & CMO)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allen-tan-chee-hoe/ Twitter: https://x.com/AllenTanCheeHoe
Previously founded Sky Venture Labs, Sky Venture Studios, Metahunter, and FindWork. No reliable public info on other core executives.