Moca Network launches Moca Chain to enable privacy-preserving identity for users, businesses, & AI agents
Hong Kong, China, September 30th, 2026, Chainwire
Moca Network’s AIR identity product layer is built on Moca Chain to provide decentralized identity, payments, and programmable rewards
Moca Foundation and Moca Network, a flagship project by Animoca Brands, today announced the launch of the Moca Chain mainnet. Moca Chain is a blockchain network built specifically for digital identity, enabling users to transport verified and trusted credentials, such as verified identity or membership status, across applications while minimizing data exposure.
Concurrent with the Moca Chain mainnet launch, AIR, which is the Moca Chain-based integration layer for identity, payments, and loyalty, has continued to onboard enterprises, infrastructure, and data partners.
AIR provides businesses with a single integration point to onboard users and their AI agents, and share data in a privacy-preserved manner, maximizing collaboration via data sharing while minimizing the volume of personal information they are required to custody.
Currently, most digital identity systems require users to duplicate verification processes across disparate platforms, leading to data fragmentation and elevated security vulnerabilities. This structural inefficiency is compounding as agentic web traffic and commerce continue to grow. As AI agents increasingly shop, book, and register on behalf of users, merchants and businesses need reliable ways to securely verify agents’ mandates and their owners’ identities.
Moca Chain addresses this problem through a decentralized verification model that enables a wide range of organizations, including financial platforms, telcos, retailers, and ticketing services, to verify users’ data, and issue tamper-proof verifiable credentials on Moca Chain, under a unified digital identity. Users custody these credentials themselves and decide where to share them, with cryptographically enforced consent. When an application queries a user’s identity status it receives a digitally certified confirmation instead of a copy of the underlying identity documentation. Credentials can be updated or revoked, with state changes reflected network-wide on Moca Chain, allowing all integrated applications to detect modifications without requiring users to submit updated proofs or entire identity documents for every platform they interact with.
Moca Network’s AIR works bidirectionally: companies can convert existing customer verification checks into credentials on Moca Chain, or accept credentials issued by trusted partners to streamline user onboarding and automate conditional access based on verified data.
AIR extends this identity framework to AI agents by giving users control over agent permissions and authorization rules. As agentic commerce volume continues to increase, businesses can utilize AIR to verify the identities of AI agents and their human owners, validating the authorization scope of agents before offering any access, pricing, services, or offers.
The ecosystem of Moca Network and AIR includes integration partners across various consumer platforms, fintech providers, loyalty programs, and agentic commerce environments, including SK Planet, Biletinial, Oyunfor, Open Campus, OneFootball, Automobili Lamborghini, Inveo Kripto, Plume, and Nansen.
Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, said: “Users should not be forced to surrender sensitive personal information redundantly every time they use a new service and platform—not only is the process time-consuming and tedious, but it also stifles competition by erecting barriers to alternative merchants and providers, keeping users locked in to the platforms where they are already authenticated. As more and more AI agents navigate the digital economy on behalf of more and more people, Moca Chain is ideally positioned to provide individuals with sovereign ownership of their credentials, and to give businesses a mechanism that can establish trust without unnecessary data custody.”
Kenneth Shek, CEO of Moca Network, said: “Moca Chain is the foundational infrastructure for availability of identity data and auditability of identity states. Scalable data sharing is necessary for AI agents to act on behalf of humans, however the trust framework for delegation and authority is lacking. In the past, platforms have compromised user privacy to enable agent automation. AIR solves this by keeping users in control of their data while enabling AI agents to execute tasks safely and seamlessly via secure, scalable, and privacy-preserved data sharing.”
Businesses interested in integrating AIR can learn more at air3.com and apply for partnership at air3.com/partner-with-us. Developer documentation is available at docs.air3.com.
About AIR
AIR provides infrastructure for decentralized identity, money and loyalty through a single modular integration stack for businesses and AI agents. AIR Identity simplifies user acquisition and verification via selective attribute disclosure; AIR Money enables the integration of third-party services for payments, payouts, and settlement; and AIR Loyalty powers programmable rewards with fixed-rate point settlement. AIR extends this same capability to AI agents, granting them scoped, user-defined permissions to execute actions for users and enterprises.
AIR is built by Moca Network, the identity network of Animoca Brands. Website: https://air3.com
About Moca Network
Moca Network is building the world’s largest chain-agnostic decentralized identity network, with privacy-preserved infrastructure for identity verifications, and interoperability of users and data across industries and ecosystems. As the premier identity ecosystem created by Animoca Brands, Moca Network brings together over 600 portfolio companies, more than 700 million addressable users, and a diverse range of enterprise partners. Moca Network utilizes MOCA Coin as its utility and governance token.
Website: https://moca.network
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/moca-network/
About Moca Foundation
MOCA Foundation is the community-owned foundation that supports the development, adoption, and sustainable growth of Moca Network and Moca Chain. Its mission is to empower unity and collaboration while driving innovation in decentralized governance, culture, and growth. MOCA Foundation is governed by Moca DAO, where participants co-create improvement proposals and engage in cross-DAO empowerment through unique delegation models.
Website: https://www.moca.foundation
X: https://x.com/MOCAFoundation
About Animoca Brands
Animoca Brands Corporation Limited (ACN: 122 921 813) is a global digital assets leader building and investing in impactful technologies and ecosystems to reimagine future economies through AI and the agentic web. It has received broad industry and market recognition including Fortune Crypto 40, Top 50 Blockchain Game Companies 2025, Financial Times’ High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific, and Deloitte Tech Fast. Animoca Brands is recognized for building digital asset platforms such as the Moca Network, Open Campus, Anichess, and The Sandbox, as well as institutional-grade platforms; providing digital asset services to help Web3 companies launch and grow; and investing in frontier Web3 technology, with a portfolio of over 600 companies and digital assets. For more information visit www.animocabrands.com or follow on X, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and TikTok.