Youmio Selects Avalanche to Launch the First Layer 1 Chain for AI Agents
New York, New York, July 24th, 2025, Chainwire
Youmio is a Layer 1 blockchain built to be the world’s leading agent chain, supporting intelligent software agents as core network participants. The chain introduces foundational infrastructure for autonomous agents to operate across apps, games and digital environments.
“Agents are the interface layer of AI, but without public infrastructure they’ll be owned, tracked and unverifiable,” said Michael O’Connor, co-founder and CEO of Youmio. “As we outsource decisions to them, we need agents we can trust. Youmio provides open infrastructure where agents act transparently, with identity, memory and provenance onchain, and privacy controls in the hands of users.”
Unlike general purpose L1s, Youmio is structured around agent behavior: each agent has a wallet, modular skills and an evolving metadata state. Outputs can be optionally minted as cryptographic proofs.
Avalanche’s infrastructure offers the speed, low latency and consensus finality needed for real time agent coordination. With over 6 million funded wallets and 3 million monthly active users, it provides a strong foundation for deploying agent-native systems at scale.
“Youmio is thinking clearly about what agents actually need at the protocol level, enabling massive tokenization of AI agents on Avalanche,” said Luigi DeMeo of Ava Labs. “Instead of fitting agents into an old model, they’re creating the purpose-built foundation from the start.”
The first application on the chain is Youmio’s launchpad for creating intelligent, 3D AI characters known as Mios. Each Mio is multi-agentic by design, able to evolve over time, develop personality through interaction and move fluidly across games, apps and digital environments. The launchpad also introduces a new agent-token model: a single token can now represent an ecosystem of linked agents with rewards tied to usage, behavior or creator-defined rules.
To accelerate the ecosystem, O’Connor has joined the investment committee of InfraBUIDL(AI), a $15 million initiative from the Avalanche Foundation supporting AI projects. “We’re investing in builders who are ready to push the limits of what agents can do and help shape the leading agent chain in the process,” said O’Connor. Youmio will work closely with the Avalanche Foundation to fund and empower external creators, offering capital, infrastructure and distribution across a growing network of agent-driven applications.
About Youmio
Youmio is a blockchain ecosystem for creating, distributing and verifying AI agents. As the first purpose-built agent chain, it offers creative tools, modular infrastructure and integrated distribution to power verifiable agents. By enabling agent provenance and authorship to be anchored onchain, Youmio supports transparent systems that address core risks around trust, security and privacy in AI.
Through Youmio’s launchpad, anyone can create 3D AI characters that are personal, expressive and alive. These multi-agentic characters reason, act and evolve through interaction. They move fluidly across the web, apps, games and social platforms, carrying memory and context wherever they go.
About Avalanche
Avalanche is an ultra-fast, low-latency blockchain platform designed for builders who need high performance at scale. The network’s architecture allows for the creation of sovereign, efficient and fully interoperable public and private layer 1 (L1) blockchains which leverage the Avalanche Consensus Mechanism to achieve high throughput and near-instant transaction finality. The ease and speed of launching an L1, and the breadth of architectural customization choices, make Avalanche the perfect environment for a composable multi-chain future.
Supported by a global community of developers and validators, Avalanche offers a fast, low-cost environment for building decentralized applications (dApps). With its combination of speed, flexibility, and scalability, Avalanche is the platform of choice for innovators pushing the boundaries of blockchain technology.
About Avlalanche Foundation
The Avalanche Foundation is a non-profit entity that fosters the advancement and growth of the Avalanche platform for the world. The Foundation offers development programs for developers, entrepreneurs, and users to help the advancement of the Avalanche ecosystem.