WIDTH

19 days agoNews Editor

WIDTH launches limited-time KYC offer for digital asset firms at $0.50 per check

WIDTH, a global compliance technology company, has rolled out a limited-time KYC promotion for the digital asset sector, offering identity verification in about 30 seconds at a discounted price of $0.50 per check. The package also includes KYA wallet address screening and KYT transaction screening. The offer runs through Dec. 31, 2026, and detailed terms can be requested through WIDTH’s official email, marketing@width.com. The company said the program combines document verification, 1:1 facial matching, passive liveness detection, and device and IP risk analysis to help digital asset institutions improve onboarding efficiency and detect risks such as identity misuse and abnormal registrations. By adding KYA and KYT, WIDTH extends risk controls to wallet access, deposits, and withdrawals. WIDTH describes itself as an AI-driven, one-stop compliance and risk decision platform serving financial institutions and digital asset companies. It said it has served more than 500 regulated institutions across over 180 jurisdictions.

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Ant International

2 months agoNews Editor

Visa, Mastercard and Ant International move to align KYA checks for AI agents

Ant International, Visa and Mastercard said they will work together on mutual recognition of KYA, or Know Your Agent, a framework described as identity verification for AI agents. The process is meant to establish who an agent is and whom it represents, then allow a payment network to decide whether that agent can be trusted. The three companies want to connect these verification systems so that an agent cleared in one system can carry recognizable identity and trust information into another payment network, avoiding the need to register and complete verification from scratch each time.

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Ant International

2 months agoNews Editor

Ant International, Visa and Mastercard team up on AI agent payment verification standard

Ant International, Visa and Mastercard said on Sept. 9 that they will work together on an interoperable Know-Your-Agent, or KYA, framework aimed at AI-driven payments across card and wallet networks. The plan is to let an AI agent complete identity verification once and then operate across participating networks without repeating the same onboarding process on each one. The companies said the effort will align principles across Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol, Mastercard’s Verifiable Intent and Ant International’s Agentic Mobile Protocol, while keeping each network’s own verification and decision-making systems in place. The work will center on three areas: traceability to a verified operator, cardholder or business entity; shared security and behavioral assessment requirements; and ongoing transaction monitoring tied to identity and transaction signals. The initiative will be advanced through BuildFin.ai, an industry platform convened by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and will build on the existing SAFR framework. Its initial scope will focus on Singapore’s payments ecosystem. The announcement, cited by CNBC, also referenced a McKinsey estimate that AI agents could handle $3 trillion to $5 trillion in global consumer spending by 2030.

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AI Agent

4 months agoNews Editor 01

KYA Race Heats Up as Visa, Ethereum Builders and Trulioo Push AI Agent Identity Standards

As AI agents move into autonomous payments and transactions, identity verification is becoming a core gap. KYA is emerging as a new battleground, with Visa, ERC-8004, Trulioo and Sumsub advancing different frameworks while regulators begin to act.

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Stripe

4 months agoNews Editor 01

Stripe's New Positioning: KYA Is Not a Payment Layer, It's the Infrastructure for AI Agent Economy

Stripe pivots from payment company to KYA (Know Your Agent) infrastructure. Acquisitions of Bridge, Privy, and building its own Tempo blockchain signal a bet on the AI Agent economy.

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KuCoin

4 months agoNews Editor 01

KuCoin Lists Billions Network (BILL) for Identity and AI Agent Verification Trading

KuCoin announces the listing of Billions Network (BILL) on its spot market, with BILL/USDT trading starting May 4, 2026. The project uses zero-knowledge proofs to verify users and AI agents, introducing Know Your Agent (KYA) for privacy-compliant identity.

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AI Agent

4 months agoNews Editor

On-Chain Security in the AI Agent Era: Where Does Web3's Security Boundary Lie?

This article provides a comprehensive analysis of how AI agents are reshaping on-chain security, starting with the Grok/Bankr incident that exposed trust vulnerabilities between automated systems. It details eight major attack surfaces including prompt injection, blind signing, memory poisoning, privilege escalation, autonomous authorization risks, supply chain attacks, x402 payment layer attacks, and AI-powered social engineering. The report surveys existing defensive solutions from Cobo, Fystack, Thirdweb, Coinbase/OKX/Binance, GoPlus/SlowMist, and KYA/ERC-8004, and proposes six security principles. It argues that security will be the most deterministic industrial opportunity in the agent economy, determining whether AI can truly enter the financial execution layer.

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AI Agent

4 months agoNews Editor

AI Agent Era On-Chain Security: When Transactions Shift from Humans to Agents, How Web3 Redefines Safety Boundaries

A joint research report by Web3Caff Research and SlowMist, analyzing the new on-chain security challenges as AI Agents enter Web3. Using real cases including Bankr/Grok Morse code attack, PocketOS database deletion, LiteLLM supply chain poisoning, and Vercel/Context.ai breach, the article reveals attack surfaces expanding from private key theft to a five-layer composite risk targeting model goals, memory, toolchains, wallet authorization, and payment paths. It categorizes defense solutions from Cobo, Fystack, Thirdweb, Coinbase, OKX, Binance, GoPlus, and SlowMist, and proposes six design principles—intent-execution separation, isolation, verifiable UI, toolchain governance, payment boundaries, and rapid incident response—to help projects build security infrastructure for the Agent era.

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