
Would You Trust Your Agent? KYA Is Real.
Everyone is deploying AI agents. Almost no one is verifying them. And those agents are already moving money. You wouldn't hand your wallet to a stranger. KYA, Know Your Agent, is real, and the speed at which the ecosystem is converging on it is the proof. The convergence is here The headlines landed in a pile this March. CZ declared AI agents will dominate crypto payments . Visa announced readiness for agent transactions, while Coinbase pitched a fundamentally different internet . Mastercard introduced "Verifiable Intent" for autonomous commerce . Crossmint shipped agent virtual cards . MoonPay launched an Open Wallet Standard . Coinbase's x402 protocol and Stripe MPP are already being compared head-to-head . Every one of these is a payment rail. None of them check whether the agent should be trusted before money moves. That is the gap KYA fills. The rails are here. The trust layer isn't. You can authenticate an agent. You can resolve its DID. You can confirm the public key it signs wi
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