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ATC gives AI agents SSL-like identity, trust, and payments

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Developer Edison Flores built ATC (Agent Trust Card), a system that provides AI agents with cryptographic identity, security audit scores, end-to-end encryption, protocol translation, and autonomous payments. It acts as a combined SSL certificate, passport, and credit card for agents, with a central authority (MarketNow) issuing and verifying cards. The project aims to solve impersonation, trust, and interoperability gaps in agent-to-agent communication.

Meridian48 take
While ATC addresses a real need, its reliance on a single Certificate Authority (MarketNow) could become a centralization risk as agent ecosystems grow.
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