Anyone who has tried to move an AI agent across more than two blockchains knows the problem: the agent does not need ETH, SOL, AVAX, and TON to do its job, but it needs all of them to pay for the privilege of doing its job. Sydney-based Tychi Labs thinks that requirement is a bug worth killing.
Its answer is the Universal Gas Framework, or UGF, a developer-facing execution layer that lets users and AI agents transact across EVM and non-EVM chains without holding native gas tokens. Payment happens in stablecoins like USDC and EURC, or in a single native asset of the user's choosing, routed through a unified abstraction [universalgasframework.com]. In practice, a user can pay gas once on Base with ETH and interact across multiple chains without needing native tokens everywhere [Tychi Labs LinkedIn].
The bet
UGF is a gas abstraction protocol pitched at developers and at the emerging class of autonomous on-chain agents. The wedge is narrow: instead of asking a wallet, a script, or an LLM-driven agent to acquire and manage a native token on every chain it touches, UGF accepts a stablecoin or a single native asset and handles settlement underneath. The company's whitepaper describes a breakdown of computation and storage costs, which are combined into a native gas fee estimate [universalgasframework.com].
The company's blog points at two adjacent surfaces: AI agents executing transactions autonomously and x402-style payments, the HTTP-native micropayment pattern [universalgasframework.com].
Why it could be big
Gas abstraction is not a new idea, but the shape of the customer is changing. Agentic systems are dreadful at managing fragmented token balances but excellent at calling a single API that accepts a stablecoin and returns a settled transaction. That is the curve UGF is positioned on.
The non-EVM angle matters too. A framework that genuinely spans EVM and non-EVM chains collapses a real integration tax for any wallet, exchange, or agent platform that wants to be chain-agnostic by default. Tychi Labs is already shipping consumer infrastructure: the Tychi Wallet is live on the App Store [apps.apple.com], and in August Tychi Wallet announced a partnership with TaskOn [cointrust.com, August 2025].
The team and traction
UGF is the work of co-founders Yash Singh and Rudr Rishi [universalgasframework.com] [LinkedIn]. The broader Tychi Labs team includes Nitin Kaushik [LinkedIn]. The corporate footprint stretches across Sydney and a Tychi Limited entity registered in New Zealand [LinkedIn].
| Artifact | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| UGF documentation and whitepaper | Live | universalgasframework.com |
| Tychi Wallet (iOS) | Shipped | apps.apple.com |
| TaskOn partnership | Announced Aug 2025 | cointrust.com |
| x402 payments support | Documented | universalgasframework.com |
The honest counterfactual
The bear case is competitive density. A new framework has to win on either developer ergonomics or on chain coverage that incumbents do not match. UGF's bull answer is the second one: explicit support for non-EVM chains and an execution model designed from the start around stablecoin-denominated gas for AI agents rather than for human wallet users [universalgasframework.com].
What to watch
Three things over the next twelve months will tell the story. First, integrations: a named agent framework, a named wallet beyond Tychi's own, or a named exchange picking up UGF. Second, the x402 question: if Coinbase's machine-payments pattern gains real volume, the gas-abstraction layer underneath it becomes infrastructure. Third, a funding round. Tychi Labs has been shipping product without any disclosed investor on the cap table, and the next financing event will reveal which thesis the market is actually buying: the wallet, the framework, or both.