Halliday
Safe on-chain AI agents & workflow orchestration
About
Halliday builds the Agentic Workflow Protocol (AWP), infrastructure that lets AI agents execute multi-step on-chain processes such as treasury management, recurring payments and B2B transactions within immutable, compliant guardrails. Its workflow engine orchestrates money movement across chains while enforcing predefined safety and compliance rules.
Key products
Chains
- Founded
- 2022
- HQ
- United States
- Stage
- Series A
- Funding
- $20M Series A (2025) led by a16z crypto; ~$26M total
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