"How do I know this is really my customer's agent? How do I know it's allowed to take this action? How do I stop the bad ones without blocking the good ones?" That's Beltic co-founder @mikeallanpe, and it's the entire agent-commerce trust problem in three questions. @NorwestVP just led a $7.3M seed into the company built to answer them. @beltichq, out of San Francisco, is agent verification infrastructure. Their KYA protocols — know-your-agent — verify an agent's identity, its authority, and the transactional legitimacy of what it's doing, in real time. The idea: businesses, banks, and platforms can authorize autonomous transactions and stop fraud before it clears, no matter what protocol or payment rail the agent runs on. $8.8M raised in total. The founding trio reads like a hiring spec for this exact problem. CEO @Isha spent six years at Coinbase building the identity and onboarding infrastructure behind 50M+ users and its first institutional clients. @mikeallanpe founded Atar, a banking-as-a-service provider across Brazil's payments and core banking systems, acquired by Porto Seguro. CTO @farhanafsahi co-founded Verifiet — which Beltic itself acquired in 2025 — a global entity data infrastructure spanning 500M+ entities. They're already working with a select group of design partners at the front of agentic commerce and payments, giving early access to the infrastructure and helping shape the standards for how agents transact. What caught my eye: eight days ago, Baselayer raised $35M to extend its bank-identity network into "Know Your Agent." Now Norwest seeds the company that IS the KYA layer — native, rail-agnostic, built for agents from day one. Two bets on the same layer in eight days. The market seems to be pricing the identity of the transacting agent as its own layer. Congrats Isha, Mike, Farhan, and the entire Beltic team. Up and to the right my friends! 💥🚀💪