AEON said it completed an $8 million pre-seed funding round led by YZi Labs to build settlement infrastructure for value exchange between AI agents. The project also said it launched its first AI payment product in May, which supports access to more than 50 million offline merchants. Crypto Briefing adds that AEON’s AI-driven payment infrastructure is aimed at enabling autonomous transactions without human input, framing the project as a potential commerce-focused payment layer for AI agents.