Moca Network launches Moca Chain mainnet for digital identity infrastructure

Moca Network just flipped the switch on Moca Chain, a Layer 1 blockchain built specifically for decentralized digital identity. The mainnet launch transforms what started as a concept under Animoca Brands into a live, enterprise-ready infrastructure where businesses can issue and verify user-controlled credentials across identity, payments, and loyalty programs.

What Moca Chain actually does

The core proposition is straightforward: verify your identity once, then use those credentials everywhere across decentralized applications. Moca Chain supports privacy-preserving verifiable credentials using zero-knowledge proofs, zkTLS, and decentralized storage. In practical terms, this means users can prove things about themselves, like their age, their KYC status, their loyalty tier, without revealing the underlying data.

The network’s integration layer, called AIR, serves as the onboarding engine for enterprises. It has already brought in over 3.3 million accounts and connected with partners whose combined customer bases reach into the tens of millions.

One of those partners is SK Planet, which operates the OK Cashbag loyalty platform with over 28 million KYC’d users.

Kenneth Shek, managing director of Moca Network, framed the AIR layer as a tool that gives users control over their identity data while still enabling AI agents to perform tasks through secure data-sharing mechanisms.

The MOCA token sits at the center of the ecosystem as both the utility and governance token. It covers gas fees, staking, oracle services, and verification fees across the network.

From Mocaverse to mainnet

Moca Chain didn’t materialize overnight. The project evolved from earlier Animoca Brands initiatives, including Mocaverse and Moca ID, gradually expanding its scope from a community identity system into a comprehensive identity infrastructure layer.

Development kicked off with testnet activities in late 2025, followed by a series of milestones that culminated in the mainnet launch in late September 2026, announced around September 22, 2026.

Animoca Brands, Moca Network’s parent organization, operates a portfolio of over 540 companies. That portfolio gives Moca Chain a built-in distribution network spanning gaming, metaverse platforms, and digital entertainment.

Moca Chain is designed to work across other blockchain networks, which means credentials issued on Moca could theoretically be recognized and verified on different chains.

Why identity infrastructure matters now

The AI agent economy is creating new demand for authenticated digital identity. When an AI agent books a flight, executes a trade, or accesses a service on your behalf, it needs a way to prove it’s acting with your authorization. Building identity infrastructure that serves both humans and their AI proxies positions Moca Network at an intersection that few blockchain projects have targeted directly.

The competitive landscape for decentralized identity includes projects like Worldcoin (now World), Polygon ID, and various self-sovereign identity initiatives. Moca Chain’s approach combines identity, payments, and loyalty into a single credential framework, backed by a parent company with 540-plus portfolio companies.

For the MOCA token specifically, the mainnet launch converts what was previously a token with limited on-chain utility into one with concrete demand drivers, as every verification, staked position, and governance action on the network requires MOCA.