Circle 🤝 @proof
With Proof, we’re exploring how agents can prove who they act for and pay in USDC in one exchange.
Verified identity through x401. USDC payments through x402 and Circle Agent Wallets.
See the joint demo at @money2020, booth 5069.
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Founder and CEO @proof, @patk on verifying AI agents instead of just blocking them
"Prior to today, for a lot of our customers, the answer is block."
"Authentication is not authorization."
"You sign into your bank, your trading account, whatever it may be, you have a valid session, but they still make you do other things. They make you do FMF or MFA. They make you do SMS OTP. They make you show a license."
"These industries have real obligations to capture identity and consent in these transactions, and that's really what we have enabled today in a seamless manner."
A valid session was never proof of permission, and banks are now building the extra step agents will have to clear.
Don't block agents. Identify them.
@sytaylor is joined by @patk , founder and CEO @proof
Pat Kinsel has built an open framework to identify agents that is compatible with how banks do KYC today.
It's called x401, built on the internet's HTTP 401 "authorization is required"
But the really clever bit is the fact that it then uses verifiable credentials that are IAL2 certified to prove the authentication for the underlying human.
Why's that clever?
Because that's the same standard the US government published under the National Institute of Science and Technology NIST, and the one that FinCEN recently gave guidance on as being usable in bank Customer Identification Programs (CIP).
Check out the entire video to know more
Timestamps:
00:00 Proof launches x401 to bring trusted identity to AI agents
01:25 How x401 and verifiable credentials establish cryptographic identity
02:45 Should businesses block AI agents or verify their authority?
03:30 Why authentication alone cannot satisfy financial institutions' compliance obligations
04:34 Amazon's agent blocking, credential sharing risks and explicit consent
06:18 How x401 complements x402 payments and stablecoin-powered machine transactions
08:24 Transaction signing and binding prove an agent has delegated authority
10:00 How independent audits and identity standards establish trust in Proof
11:15 Why open identity standards matter for interoperability and stablecoin adoption
12:20 How verifiable authorization reduces payment fraud and addresses liability
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Proof and Superfluid are testing reusable identity credentials for AI-agent transactions. The proposed x401 integration would let merchants request evidence about whom an agent represents. It is still in internal testing.
#DigitalIdentity #AIAgents
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Introducing Superfluid Wallet: a wallet you and your agents use together. Now in beta testing.
For on-chain finance and agentic commerce where agents act for people and people stay in charge.
Understand what you’re authorising. Control what your agent can do. Let participating services verify who your agent represents.
Built With the Best: @turnkeyhq , @proof , @circle , @navaai
Read the launch article :
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With new regulatory clarity from FinCEN and banking regulators on VDCs in CIP, @proof is launching reusable digital identity: a more private, portable way for customers to prove who they are.
Cryptographically secure. Independently audited. Built to federal identity standards. Held by the customer. proof.com/blog/proof-launche…
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This is a HORRIBlE idea and why @proof exists, why digital signatures matter, why we created @x401ID, why Verifiable Intent and other protocols are emerging. Holy shit this is a one way freight train to fraud hell and the complete loss of identity and agency.
Okay Instinct is wild. Just found and filed for $2,182 in lost dollars owed to me. It even found my ssn proof and signed the forms using a photo of my passport for signature. 🤯 Prompt: “Search every state's unclaimed property database for money owed to me. Use my full name and every city I've lived in. For anything you find: tell me what it is, who owes it, and how much - then file the claims end-to-end. Walk me through any documents or signatures you need from me, and don't stop until every claim is submitted.”
Thanks to @peterpham for the tip.
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AI agents can now buy, sign, build, publish, and move money. @Proof launched x401, an open protocol that lets websites and APIs verify the identity behind agents. proof.com/blog/identity-infr…
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Tech Firms Begin to Tackle the AI Fraud Question - Digital Transactions
Click to read: buff.ly/BDN7gAG
#Notarize #Proof #IdentityVerification #AgenticCommerce #AIAgents #FraudPrevention #DigitalIdentity @proof
The agentic economy needs open standards for both payment and identity.
Circle is proud to support @proof's launch of x401, an open protocol for verified identity in the agentic economy.
x402 answers how an agent pays. x401 answers who authorized the action.
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Agents will soon book travel, refill prescriptions, trade stocks, open accounts, pay, and so much more.
With x401, sites can require verified identity and unlock countless use cases. With @proof they can be certain of who is behind the agent and what was authorized.
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AI Agents will increasingly perform actions for people.
They will buy products, access services, complete transactions, and interact with other machines.
That raises a basic question: How does a system know whether to trust an AI agent.
Today, to solve this, @proof launches x401, the open protocol for the agentic internet in collaboration with identity leaders at @OpenAI, @Google, @circle, @okta, Mattr, @lightspark, and more.
Here @csuwildcat goes into what it all means with me.
Available now at x401.id
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WAKE UP! It’s time to have a serious debate about giving your identity to AI.
Artificial Intelligence is the single greatest tool ever created to learn, build, and express yourself. It is a TERRIBLE idea to require people to hand over their legal identity to access these tools.
What I believe:
The federal government is well within its rights to restrict who can access models they perceive to be a threat to national security.
AND, people have a fundamental right to access tools of expression without revealing their legal identity. I co-wrote the Internet Users Bill of Rights in 2007 with @Scobleizer @arrington and others, working for @rozzie I partnered with @boztank and @btaylor when @Meta launched Granular Data Permissions in 2010, I’ve testified before Congress to advance privacy legislation, serve on the board of @TechNetUpdate to champion the same, have brought leaders like @csuwildcat into @proof to lead the cause, and have fought for this right my entire career.
But Pat, you run an identity company? Yes. And the choice between securing transactions & systems with identity vs. losing our privacy is a false one. The technology exists today to have our cake and eat it too.
The topic is urgent. The @WhiteHouse's moves to restrict @AnthropicAI's Fable model to US Nationals is supposedly leading them to collect every person’s identity. @TechCrunch tells us this is imminent. I hope this is wrong.
In needing to demonstrate their systems are safe, Anthropic is in the unenviable position of needing to disprove a negative. It’s understandable why @DarioAmodei might go down this path, but it is the wrong one.
@chamath and others are calling for KYC in front of AI. Perhaps the right security practice, but a terrible development for society at large if not done properly.
The solution is Zero Knowledge Proofs. Confirm someone is a US National, over 18+, whatever… without collecting any personal information.
These technologies exist, are ready, and in use. OpenID for Verifiable Credentials, Selective Disclosures, BBS Signatures, trusted issuance.
To my colleagues, if you still believe in what we all fought for, I strongly encourage you to engage here. We do not want our identity tied to every idea we have, everything we seek to learn, and everything we create.
Reach out. Let’s do this.
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What would you say if I told you @proof is the answer?
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We’re excited to welcome Pat Kinsel, CEO of @proof, to TechNet’s Executive Council. Pat is a leader in identity verification and digital trust. His experience and expertise will be invaluable as we advance policies that strengthen American innovation. bit.ly/49RuMnV
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Written in the stars 6 years ago. @proof to the moon.
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Today we’re launching the Chainlink Automated Compliance Engine (ACE) partner ecosystem, featuring 20+ leading compliance providers, frameworks, & regulators powering the next generation of onchain compliance ↓
The Chainlink ACE partner ecosystem is a network of trusted vendors whose solutions are now natively compatible with ACE.
These partners recognize ACE as the standard for onchain compliance and are integrating their data & services directly into ACE to unlock complete compliance, monitoring, & reporting solutions.
At launch, the Chainlink ACE partner ecosystem includes:
IDENTITY PROVIDERS
• GLEIF—Brings trusted global identity standards to ACE users.
• World—Connects its decentralized World ID to ACE users, allowing World’s proof-of-human protocol to be composed anonymously with data from other ACE partners.
• SumSub—Enables reusable digital identity for users to leverage within ACE through SumSub’s KYC/KYB.
• Persona—Allows ACE users to leverage reusable digital identity via Persona’s KYC/KYB verification.
• Proof—Provides cryptographically secure, verified digital identities for ACE users—both individuals & organizations—to sign and protect their transactions.
• Veridian by the Cardano Foundation—Enables ACE users to issue GLEIF’s vLEI-based credentials offchain, which are then delivered onchain in the form of CCIDs.
RISK SCORING PLATFORMS
• Chainalysis—Streams wallet and transaction risk scores directly into ACE policies for institutional-grade AML controls.
• TRM Labs—Provides real-time risk intelligence to ACE, enabling issuers and protocols to block sanctioned or high-risk activity.
• Hypernative—Provides real-time risk intelligence to ACE, enabling issuers and protocols to block high-risk activity.
• CipherOwl—Delivers risk scores into ACE to power agile, customizable compliance rules.
• Llamarisk—Audits ACE-enabled tokens to provide independent risk scores and assessments.
MONITORING & REPORTING
• Bluprynt—Designs, runs, and manages compliance policies directly on ACE for institutions, while also fulfilling regulatory reporting obligations via automated disclosures and regular or on-demand compliance reports.
• Hacken—Builds real-time security monitoring and alerting on top of ACE to detect threats and abnormal behavior.
• Kaiko—Delivers market data and analytics leveraging ACE transaction data logs.
• Hummingbird—Offers a case management and automated SAR reporting solution on top of ACE.
TOKENIZATION PLATFORMS
• Apex Group—Enforces end-to-end compliance across its tokenization infrastructure.
• Chintai—Uses ACE to define investor and transaction eligibility requirements for Chintai assets in public blockchain environments.
BLOCKCHAINS & LAYER-2 NETWORKS
• Ethereum for Institutions—Co-designs and drives institutional adoption of ACE.
• Linea—Establishes ACE as the standard for compliance in the Linea ecosystem.
• Taiko—Leverages ACE for tokenization use cases within the Taiko ecosystem.
INDUSTRY FRAMEWORKS
• ERC-3643—Unlocks compatibility with the ERC-3643 token standard with ACE’s offchain policy.
• ERC-7943—Co-authored by Build member Brickken, the ERC-7943 token standard uses ACE to power compliance and interoperability.
• Digital Securities Initiative (DSI)—Recognizes ACE as a trusted compliance standard, and is collaborating with Chainlink Labs to make ACE compatible with DSI's regulatory frameworks.
The Chainlink ACE partner ecosystem establishes ACE as the industry standard for onchain compliance, uniting identity, risk, and regulatory infrastructure into the most complete, modular, and enterprise-grade compliance network for digital assets.
Integrate your data & services directly into ACE:
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.@proof 🤝 @Visa = to develop an identity authorisation network to safeguard transactions beyond the physical checkout.
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