CEO of Openai, Sam Altman-backed web3 identity solution World is launching a developer toolkit for the x402 protocol, the agentic payments protocol developed by Coinbase for AI bots. Dubbed AgentKit, the tool will enable World-verified individuals to delegate their World IDs to AI agents, according to a recent announcement. World ID is a previously developed mechanism that allows users to prove their unique human identities cryptographically.
With AgentKit, users’ autonomous agents will be able to signal to websites and platforms that they are „backed by a real person while maintaining privacy,” the announcement reads.
The move comes as more and more people and enterprises experiment with agentic AI bots for everything from monitoring email to making purchases. Around the time x402 released its V2, the protocol claimed to have processed over 100 million payments.
„Payments are the ‘how’ of agentic commerce, but identity is the ‘who.’ By integrating World ID with the x402 protocol, developers now have a complete trust stack: a way for agents to pay for what they need and a way for platforms to verify there is a real human behind the wallet,” said Erik Reppel, head of engineering at Coinbase Developer Platform and founder of x402. „This is a massive step toward a web where agents aren’t just seen as automated traffic, but as legitimate economic participants.”
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