Inveniam Launches NVNM Chain, the Attestation Layer for AI Agents

Inveniam has launched NVNM Chain as an attestation layer for AI agents, focusing on data integrity and provenance for private-market assets. The chain stores unique codes of private-market data generated by Inveniam IO, allowing AI agents to verify the data without accessing private information.

Inveniam Capital has announced that NVNM Chain provides an immutable, high-frequency ledger to verify, validate, and authenticate data using AI agents in private market transactions. Any AI agent can record an immutable receipt of its source data, reasoning, and the human responsible for it with a single function call. NVNM Chain enables independent agents to securely analyze, verify, and execute actions on private market assets, such as commercial real estate. It uses Inveniam’s “Smart Provenance” to confirm the origin and processing of data.

AI agents are moving into capital allocation, compliance review, and treasury operations. Consequently, institutions face a question every regulator and counterparty will eventually ask: What data did the agent rely on, and can you prove it? 

NVNM Chain is purposely built to answer that question. The mainnet will go live on May 13, 2026.

AI in financial services shifts from capability to accountability

Patrick O’Meara, the founder and CEO of Inveniam, emphasizes that conversations around AI in financial services have shifted from capability to accountability. He notes that regulators are no longer asking whether an AI agent can act; they are asking how to prove what it acted on. 

O’Meara also notes that the NVNM Chain is the receipts layer for that question. It is built on the infrastructure that Inveniam has been “credentialing” institutional data against for more than a decade.

On the other hand, the shift to autonomous AI agents has happened faster than the governance to oversee them. Gartner forecasts that 40% of enterprise applications will embed task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, up from fewer than 5% in 2025. 

Deloitte’s 2026 State of AI in the Enterprise survey found that only one in five companies has a mature governance model for autonomous agents. The infrastructure for accountability has not kept pace with the rate of deployment.

Meanwhile, most institutions today rely on fragmented internal logs that cannot be independently verified. NVNM Chain offers a different model. 

Specifically, every record is written to a neutral ledger, costs a fraction of a cent, and settles in under a second. That makes it practical to capture a receipt for every meaningful decision an AI agent makes, not just a sample.

Importantly, while any general-purpose blockchain can store a hash, the NVNM Chain is purpose-built for the realities of an AI agent operating inside a regulated firm. Every agent has an on-chain identity through “Know Your Agent,” a credential that ties the agent to its operator and its scope of authorization.

Inveniam says three regulatory deadlines now bring that gap forward

Inveniam notes that the EU AI Act enters its enforcement window in August 2026, with penalties of up to €35 million or (~7%) of global turnover for institutions that cannot evidence the data behind high-risk AI decisions. FINRA’s 2026 Oversight Report has also named AI auditability a supervisory priority. OMB Memorandum M-26-04 requires federal contractors to maintain provenance records for AI systems used in regulated workflows. 

NVNM Chain is backed by 90 granted U.S. patents and over $200 billion in private market assets credentialed through the Inveniam IO platform. It ships with two production-ready components on day one. 

The first one is the MCP Server – a simple developer interface that lets an AI agent send a record of its source data and reasoning to the chain in a single step. The second one is the “Know Your Agent (KYA) Portal,” which enables every agent operating on the chain to carry a non-transferable credential that links it to a verified human operator. Authority can be revoked immediately if an agent exceeds its approved scope. 

The NVNM Chain has been validated through TraceChain (a live deployment with AIRev) and OnDemand (running compliance checks on GPU export controls at a billion-event scale). It operates under the G42 and Bank of International Settlements (BIS) Regulated Technology Environment framework.