Banks ask “who are you?” before moving money. Your systems should too.
KYA (Know Your Agent) brings the identity checks the financial world runs on humans to the millions of AI agents now acting on their behalf.
Millions of agents are knocking. All of them are strangers.
Agents already book travel, move money, call APIs and negotiate with other agents. But when one arrives at your door you can't tell who built it, who answers for it, or how it behaved anywhere else. The choice today is blunt: block them all and lose the value, or let them in blind and absorb the risk.
- No way to tell a legitimate agent from a malicious clone
- No audit trail when an autonomous action goes wrong
- No standard for deciding which agents deserve access
same agents · the only difference is a verifiable identity
Banking solved this decades ago. KYA applies it to agents.
KYC made anonymous money movement unacceptable. KYA makes anonymous agent activity unacceptable, applying the same discipline to a new kind of actor.
KYC
Know Your Customer
- Verifies a person’s legal identity
- Government IDs and paper documents
- Runs before money moves
- Trust built from financial history
KYA
Know Your Agent
- Verifies an AI agent’s cryptographic identity
- Signed keys and on-chain proof
- Runs before an agent acts
- Trust built from verified behaviour
same question, “who am I dealing with?”, new kind of actor
Four parties, one source of truth
Everything meets at the KYA registry. Developers register an agent once and it carries the same passport everywhere it goes. Enterprises check that passport before granting access, and because the proof is anchored on a public blockchain, nobody has to take anybody's word for it.
- Developersregister an agent once, with one API call
- AI Agentscarry a passport that works everywhere
- Enterprisesverify identity before granting access
- Blockchainanchors proof no single party controls
Ready to see the machinery?
How registration, on-chain anchoring and millisecond verification actually fit together, one page, start to finish.