ClearAgent

ClearAgent screens AI agent payments for OFAC sanctions, spend policy violations, and behavioral anomalies before settlement. 25-rule engine. W3C Verifiable Credentials. <50ms verdicts. 176 passing tests. Live now. api.clearagent.dev

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@Austen clearagent.dev interesting enough?

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@RalffTum @SidJain_80 wow that sounds difficult. I'd be curious on how that gets proactively addressed?

@clear_agent @SidJain_80 Appreciate it. I focus on things like data quality issues, model drift, and lack of human oversight, basically where AI systems fail after deployment.

If you're in tech or building something, Let's connect!! 🤝🧑‍💻

Stripe launched MPP today. npm install @clearagent/mpp screens every 402 payment for OFAC sanctions before your agent authorizes it @tempo, @stripe

@RealProductGirl clearagent.dev

I NEED my feed full of builders. What are you working on right now? I don't care if it's a startup or a weekend side project. If you're building something, I want you on my timeline. Reply and let's connect. 👇

hey interested to chat if you're building in risk/compliance and agentic payments like mpp or x402

@RalffTum @SidJain_80 same! interested to hear your compliance/AI point of view

@SidJain_80 Building in AI risk and compliance. If that interests you, let’s connect and exchange real experience.

@SidJain_80 clearagent.dev

@KhalaResearch will there be a complaince need on all these rails?

In 1997, HTTP status code 402 was reserved for 'Payment Required'; a native payment layer built into the web itself For almost 30 years, nobody could make it work There was no digital cash and no settlement layer that could handle sub-cent transactions. The web defaulted to advertising and credit card checkout flows instead Stablecoins and Layer 2s changed that. x402 finishes what HTTP 402 started; payment as native to the web as loading an image Most people looking at agentic commerce see one maturity cycle, but there are two: 1) The retail narrative is approaching its peak; CT is buzzing, ecosystem maps are proliferating, every protocol is announcing x402 compatibility. That will correct 2) The institutional adoption curve is on a completely different trajectory. For this layer, the trough already happened in 2025 Stripe, Visa, AWS, Google, Coinbase, Circle and Cloudflare are shipping production infrastructure because their own internal analysis on projected agent transaction volume justify it In our x402 report, we map the protocol architecture, the agentic stack, the institutional landscape, and assess where the value could accrue The full report is in the next post below:

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@sytaylor they’ll use clearagent.dev

@stripe launched MPP today. npm install @clearagent/mpp screens every payment for OFAC sanctions. One line of code.

0xSammy: I’ll release a report on x402 today @stripe : Hold my beer. Enter the Machine Payments Protocol “MPP” TLDR: - Stripe + Paradigm launched @tempo mainnet today (March 18); payments-focused L1, EVM-compatible, 100K TPS, sub-second finality, stablecoin gas fees ($0.001) - Simultaneously released Machine Payments Protocol (MPP); open standard for agent-to-service payments co-authored with Stripe - MPP flow: agent requests resource → service returns payment request → agent authorizes from wallet → instant settlement → resource delivered - Rail-agnostic: runs on Tempo today but designed to work across any payment rail - Visa extended it for cards; Stripe extended it for cards/wallets; Lightspark extended it for Bitcoin Lightning - Design partners: Anthropic, OpenAI, Visa, Mastercard, Shopify, Revolut, Nubank, Standard Chartered, DoorDash, Ramp Relationship to x402: - x402 handles the HTTP-layer discovery (“this resource costs money”); - MPP handles the settlement layer (“here’s how the money actually moves”) Stripe is positioning to own both sides​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​; it’ll be interesting to see which protocol the machines decide to use!? Either way it’s bullish for agentic commerce Khala report below contains a broader coverage on x402 with some research on Tempo/Stripe

@0xSammy @stripe @tempo will be compatible with clearagent.dev

@matthewniemerg @austincampbell And right now issuers have nothing to show an examiner. @clear_agent generates a signed W3C VC at authorization - OFAC status, screened entity, wallet, timestamp. The audit trail the issuer can actually hand a regulator. clearagent.dev

@austincampbell The issuer is the one who is liable.

0/ This view is utopian, idealistic, and aligned with the cypherpunk mandate of the original crypto believers. It will also be incredibly toxic for real world asset issuers beyond the point of stablecoins.

@artemis Fraud models are reactive by design. Pre-settlement OFAC screening is the proactive layer x402 doesn't have yet - we should check the wallet and the entity name before the payment clears, not after. That's what @clear_agent does. clearagent.dev

What's the biggest issue with agentic payments? Every fraud model is out of date 👇

@brevis_zk x402 is trending right now, but there's a critical piece missing clearagent.dev

x402 is trending right now, but there's a critical piece missing that nobody's talking about yet. let's dig into this missing element 🧵

@Tanaka_L2 KYA will become one of the most important infra layers... who is the agent? who owns it? clearagent.dev

➥ Know Your Agent (KYA): The Identity Layer for the AI Agent Economy KYA will become one of the most important infra layers for the AI agent economy in crypto. I keep seeing the same problem when agents start touching real money onchain. – Who is the agent? Who owns it? – What permissions does it have? – What happens if it exploits a protocol? Without answers to these questions, I think most protocols will simply block them and the numbers already show why this matters: – Non-human identities in financial services already outnumber humans 96:1. – AI bot traffic increased 300% → 4,700% in some sectors. – Autonomous on-chain agents are projected to pass 1M by 2025-2026. This is why I’ve been paying attention to something called KYA aka Know Your Agent. Think of it as the next evolution of KYC/KYB. But instead of verifying humans or companies, it verifies autonomous software entities. Because agents today can already hold wallets, execute trades, manage DeFi positions, make payments and even interact cross-chain. So if an agent wants to trade, provide liquidity, or make payments, protocols need a way to check: – Identity → who created the agent. – Authorization → what it is allowed to do. – Reputation → its onchain history. – Accountability → who is responsible if something breaks. This is where the infra layer is starting to form, some of the most interesting primitives I’m watching right now: [1] ERC-8004 The first serious attempt to standardize agent identity on Ethereum. It introduces: – An Identity Registry as agents represented as NFTs with capability metadata. – A Reputation Registry which tracks record + trust score. – A Discovery layer so protocols can verify agents instantly. If agents become real economic actors, something like this becomes mandatory. [2] @billions_ntwk This one takes a different approach, they focus heavily on verifiable identity + privacy using ZKPs. Agents get DIDs, ownership bindings, and onchain attestations but sensitive claims stay private. So protocols can verify trust without exposing user data. That balance is going to matter a lot if agents operate at internet scale. [3] @virtuals_io Virtuals is interesting because they focus on agent commercialization. Launching agents, tokenizing them, revenue sharing, agent-native payments. Some reports already describe it as the Stripe for AI agents. When agents start generating real revenue, identity and accountability layers become unavoidable. [4] And then you also see teams like: – @GoKiteAI: building a full-stack chain, payments, and identity crafted for autonomous agents. – @dira_network: positioning around agent commerce, with identity and trust as the wedge; wallet login as identity + access and onchain reputation for agents. – @catena_labs: shipping an AI-native financial stack plus an agent commerce kit, featuring verifiable agent identity patterns, ownership chains, authorization, and safe agent-initiated payments. Different approaches, same direction. The more I study this space, the more obvious the pattern becomes that AI made agents intelligent. – Crypto is making them economic actors. – KYA will make them trusted participants. With verifiable identity, agents become autonomous market participants. This identity layer could end up being one of the most important pieces of infra for the next phase of crypto.

@zkme_ he trust layer is missing... payers do not know who they are paying clearagent.dev

The infrastructure for AI agents to transact is already here, but the trust layer is missing. Payers do not know who they are paying. Receivers do not know where funds come from. This is why agent commerce cannot scale yet. Here is what needs to change #AI #Payments #AgentEconomy #Web3 #Trust

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@clear_agent @PayAINetwork Agents need verification

AWS is talking about agentic commerce🤖🔥 x402 is becoming the standard for how AI agents transact — paying for APIs, data, and services in real time. Next steps? Mass adoption! The shift is already happening ↓ aws.amazon.com/blogs/industri…