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Know Your Agent Pay Protocol Consortium

Adding a security layer to agentic commerce transactions that tethers a human to their AI agent is the trust component needed to give merchants the confidence they require to address challenges that include unauthorized transactions and misrepresentations in addition to fraud detection. The payment card industry is moving steadily towards protocols that will provide AI agent developers with an open standard to identify themselves, the platform on which they operate and the user(s) they represent. That effort supports the merchant community’s need for a scalable method to authenticate A...

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