Ant International, Mastercard and Visa Initiate Collaboration on Know-Your-Agent Interoperability to Scale Agentic Commerce
Visa, Mastercard and Ant International have begun collaborating on a Know-Your-Agent (KYA) interoperability framework that would let card networks, wallet ecosystems, agent platforms and marketplaces verify AI-agent identities across networks under shared principles. The three previously shipped competing protocols — Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol, Mastercard Verifiable Intent and Ant's Agentic Mobile Protocol — and will now pursue common pillars including cross-network operator traceability, shared certification requirements and continuous transaction monitoring.
Key figures
- National qr schemes
- over 10
- Alipay plus user accounts
- 2 billion
- Alipay plus merchant network
- 150 million merchants
- Agentic commerce projection 2030
- US$3 trillion to 5 trillion
- Alipay plus wallets and banking apps
- over 50
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