Mysten Labs Co-Founder Evan Cheng: On-chain AI Agent activity on Sui will see significant growth over the next year, and Google Cloud has entered the space

TechFlow reported that Evan Cheng, co-founder of Mysten Labs and an original contributor to Sui, stated on the New Era Finance Podcast that AI agents have begun autonomously trading and managing funds, leaving existing internet identity and trust mechanisms unable to keep pace. Sui aims to serve as the coordination layer for the AI agent economy. He expects a substantial rise in AI agent activity on the Sui chain within the next year.

Enterprise-side progress has already emerged. The Verifiable Agent Arbiter (VAA), jointly developed by Mysten Labs and Google Cloud, anchors AI agent operation proofs using Sui and Walrus, allowing enterprises, auditors, and regulators to independently verify whether agents operate beyond their authorized scope. VAA can also integrate with Sui Agent Payments and the x402 protocol to support agent payment scenarios.

Currently, Sui has built a technological ecosystem around AI agents featuring Move, PTB, Walrus, Seal, and Sphere, covering access control, atomic transactions, verifiable storage, and confidential collaboration.