Tweet by williamallen
October 14, 2025
Two challenges agents & merchants have today: 1) How do you authorize an agent to represent you and use your credit card? 2) How do you let a merchant know that the agent *really does* represent you and isn't a random bot? That's what @Visa, in collaboration with @Cloudflare, is helping to solve with the Trusted Agent Protocol. The Trusted Agent Protocol uses HTTP Message Signatures to allow networks like Cloudflare to verify traffic from agents that register with Visa on behalf of a cardholder. This allows merchants to distinguish legitimate, approved agents from random bots. You can start to feel the promise of agentic commerce, but it hasn't arrived yet. I think this takes us another step closer.
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- williamallen
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- October 14, 2025
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