We built an MCP-enabled Agentic Trust solution that gives AI agents cryptographically verifiable identities and permissions. Developers can now build apps where agents manage their own DIDs and Verifiable Credentials, backed by our Trust Graph. https://lnkd.in/eJvmwGPy Secure, accountable AI agents aren't a future problem. They're a today problem. We're solving it. 🔐 https://lnkd.in/ejM4jFR6
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The Payment and Trust Infrastructure for Credentials. Building the Trusted Data and AI Agentic economies. $CHEQ
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The Payment and Trust infrastructure for credentials. Building the Trusted Data and AI Agentic economy. Your Data 🆔 Verified 👌 Portable 🎒 Private 🔑
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https://www.cheqd.io
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- Software Development
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- 11-50 employees
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- London
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- Privately Held
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- 2021
- Specialties
- Blockchain, Self-Sovereign Identity, Web3, and Decentralized Identity
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We're retiring "Trust Registry." Static lists can't keep up with AI agents, decentralised ecosystems, and constantly shifting relationships. We're moving to Trust Graphs, living, dynamic networks that show not just who is trusted, but how, why, and to what degree. Trust is a web, not a spreadsheet. $CHEQ https://lnkd.in/e4EF6m-b
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The internet was built without a trust layer. cheqd is building it. Decentralised identifiers. Verifiable credentials. Privacy-preserving payments for data. The infrastructure for a world where trust is programmable, not assumed. cheqd.io
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The EU AI Act transparency obligations kick in August 2026. Every piece of AI generated content such as images, audio, and video must be: → clearly labelled → machine-readable → technically detectable Deepfakes aren't just a trust problem. From August, they're a compliance problem. Provenance infrastructure isn't optional any more. https://lnkd.in/ehhaxR9
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Bots already account for almost 50% of internet traffic. Bad bots: roughly a third of all traffic online. Now add AI agents, autonomous, credentialled, acting on behalf of real people. How do you tell the difference? 🧵 Traditional bot detection looks for signals: unusual request patterns, known attack signatures, browser fingerprints. But AI agents are designed to behave like legitimate users. Because they often are legitimate users. The solution isn't better bot detection. It's a verifiable agent identity. An agent with a DID, verifiable credentials, and a clear delegation chain is distinguishable from a malicious bot by design. This is exactly what cheqd enables: → agents carry verifiable credentials → credentials are cryptographically bound to their authoriser → trust registries confirm legitimacy before any action is taken The agentic economy doesn't work if you can't tell the good agents from the bad. Verifiable identity is the only answer that scales. https://lnkd.in/epjby25b
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📰 Gartner predicts more than 1,000 legal claims against enterprises for AI agent harms by the end of 2026. Insufficient guardrails. Inadequate oversight. No audit trail. Here's the uncomfortable truth about AI accountability. 🧵 The core problem: AI agents are operating inside enterprise systems with: → no clear identity → excessive permissions → no human oversight → no tamper-evident logs ISACA calls this the "identity boundary" problem. Traditional security playbooks weren't written with agents in mind. When something goes wrong, and it will, who is accountable? The agent? The organisation that deployed it? The model provider? The answer has to be: the organisation that deployed it. And that means organisations need to know, with cryptographic certainty, what every agent did, when, and under whose authority. That's what verifiable credentials and decentralised identifiers make possible. Not just for agents. For every system, human and AI, operating in your ecosystem. cheqd builds the infrastructure that makes accountability real. $CHEQ https://lnkd.in/emFXuFRG
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📰 NIST just launched an AI Agent Standards Initiative. The US government is building the rulebook for agentic AI and identity is at the centre of it. NIST's focus areas: → AI agent security → Identity and authorisation for non-human actors → Interoperability across agent ecosystems Sound familiar? This is what we've been building for years. The key insight from NIST: AI agents "capable of autonomous actions that impact real-world systems" need identity infrastructure that goes far beyond traditional IAM. Verifiable credentials give agents: → cryptographic proof of who they are → what they're authorised to do → which ecosystem trusts them That's not a nice-to-have. According to NIST, it's the foundation. Governments, enterprises and standards bodies are all arriving at the same place. The infrastructure layer for trustworthy AI is identity. cheqd is that infrastructure. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/erdH_BFe
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📰 Mastercard and Google just launched Verifiable Intent — a cryptographic trust layer for AI agent transactions. This is a big moment. Here's why it matters for the future of identity. AI agents are already transacting on your behalf. Booking travel. Reordering groceries. Managing procurement. But when something goes wrong, who proves what was actually authorised? Mastercard's answer: a tamper resistant record that links: → your identity → your exact instructions → the outcome of the transaction Cryptographic proof, not guesswork. They're building this with Verifiable Credentials which is the same W3C standard that underpins everything we do at cheqd. The industry is converging on the same conclusion we reached years ago: trust must be cryptographically verifiable. This isn't just about payments. It's about the entire agentic economy. Every AI agent that acts on behalf of a human or organisation needs: ✔ a verifiable identity ✔ delegated authority ✔ an auditable trail That's precisely what cheqd's Trust Graph enables — for agents, organisations and people alike. The age of Verifiable AI is here. https://lnkd.in/eQsYDjFh
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Big thanks to Riley Hughes for kicking this off! Few anecdotes / data-points on why I'm happy to add my name both on my own and cheqd's behalf to this: 1. Over a year ago it was possible to generate an image of an ID document which would pass onboarding checks for $5. Prices have reduced substantially since so it's feasible generating this image is cheaper than the cost of the check to an organisation. 2. A close friend was a victim of an impersonation / ID fraud attempt last year where the fraudsters used a fake driving license in a physical store. Thankfully it wasn't successful but it was a perfect example of how current checks / approaches are failing consumers. 3. "That's AI" is being used openly and commonly as slang for "invented / lies / bullshit". Seen on playgrounds and in Instagram comments. What used to be considered an incremental improvement is now absolutely critical to avoid accelerating already rampant fraud.
Introducing ID/acc — Digital ID Accelerationism. AI is accelerating far, far faster than digital trust. That’s a recipe for rampant impersonation. Digital ID can help; but adoption is bottlenecked. We must accelerate. 👇 Today we're releasing a manifesto. I shared it with a handful of people in the last few weeks. The most common feedback? Well, the manifesto says “We're entering the era of default disbelief. The time is approaching where every image you see online every voice you hear on the phone every account signup you review you'll assume is artificially generated.” So the most common feedback was “We’re already in the era of default disbelief.” It’s true. The tools of industrialized impersonation are already here—and both the penetration and capabilities are accelerating. Digital IDs are here too. And they are a scalable, trustworthy, safe way to prove authenticity online—an essential infrastructure for the era of AI. But the rate of digital ID growth is far outmatched by AI-driven impersonation. We live in a world where tens of millions of people every day prove their identity with a picture of a plastic card. Even imperfect digital IDs are superior in scalability, safety, and convenience to these alternatives. As a society, we cannot wait for elusive perfection. We must accelerate digital IDs. The ID/acc manifesto calls for three things: 1️⃣ Deploy digital IDs now. Don’t delay. This immediately raises the floor and gives consumers options. 2️⃣ Improve digital IDs continuously. Deploying now should mean that it’s improved tomorrow. Relentless pursuit of ideals is good. 3️⃣ Expand accessibility and acceptance. The stakes are too high to onboard millions of businesses at the speed of an approval committee. Dozens of people have already signed the manifesto with more than 15 different digital IDs. I invite you to read it at idacc.com and consider adding your name. #idacc Trinsic
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AI is scaling faster than trust. We can now generate: 🔬 realistic voices 📁 fake employees records 🤖 rogue autonomous agents But the internet still doesn’t know who or what is real. The next layer of the internet isn’t just AI. It’s verifiable trust. $CHEQ
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