AgentAttest

AgentAttest: Know Your Agent (KYA) Credential System

Overview

AgentAttest is a decentralized Know-Your-Agent (KYA) credential system that issues, verifies, and revokes cryptographic identities for AI agents. As AI agents increasingly act autonomously executing transactions, accessing sensitive systems, and coordinating with other agents there is currently no standardized way to verify who an agent is, what permissions it has, or whether it should be trusted.

AgentAttest solves this by providing verifiable, tamper-proof credentials for AI agents, enabling secure, permissioned, and auditable agent-to-agent and agent-to-system interactions.

Solution

AgentAttest introduces a KYA (Know-Your-Agent) framework:

1. Agent Registration: An AI agent applies for a credential, submitting metadata such as creator identity, declared capabilities, and requested permissions.

2. Attestation & Verification: AgentAttest audits the agent’s permissions, security posture, and provenance.

3. Credential Issuance: A cryptographic credential is issued and anchored to a decentralized consensus layer, making it tamper-proof and globally verifiable.

4. Real-Time Verification: Before agents interact, transact, or make decisions, they verify each other’s credentials in real time.

5. Instant Revocation: If an agent misbehaves or exceeds its permissions, its credential can be revoked instantly automatically blocking future interactions.

AgentAttest enables trust without revealing private code, data, or business logic.

Key Features

• Cryptographic agent identities

• Permission-scoped credentials

• Real-time verification

• Instant revocation and enforcement

• Privacy-preserving attestations

• Interoperable with multi-agent systems and autonomous workflows

Use Cases

• Autonomous financial agents (payments, trading, lending)

• Multi-agent AI coordination systems

• Enterprise AI automation

• DAO and governance agents

• Healthcare and regulated AI systems

• Agent marketplaces and agent-to-agent economies

Monetization Plan

AgentAttest is designed as infrastructure, with multiple sustainable revenue streams:

1. Credential Issuance Fees

Developers and organizations pay a small fee to:

• Register an AI agent

• Issue or renew credentials

• Upgrade permission scopes

Freemium for basic agents, paid tiers for high-risk or high-value agents.

2. Verification & API Usage

• Pay-per-verification or subscription pricing for:

  • Real-time credential checks

  • High-throughput agent interactions

  • Enterprise-grade SLAs

3. Enterprise & Compliance Plans

• Custom pricing for enterprises needing:

• Private attestation registries

• Compliance-ready audit logs

• Custom revocation policies

• On-prem or hybrid deployments

4. Agent Marketplace Integrations

• AgentAttest earns a percentage or licensing fee by:

• Powering trust layers for agent marketplaces

• Acting as the default identity and reputation layer

5. Reputation & Risk Scoring (Future)

• Premium features including:

• Agent reputation scores

• Risk and behavior analytics

• Insurance and bonding integrations

Why This Matters

As AI agents become economic actors, trust becomes infrastructure.AgentAttest provides the missing identity and accountability layer needed for safe, scalable, and compliant autonomous systems.