Vouched's Know Your Agent (KYA) suite now integrates cheqd's decentralised identity network, bringing cryptographic agent identities, verifiable credentials, and tamper-proof audit trails to AI agent governance, with no vendor lock-in. Vouched is building the trust layer for AI agents through its KYA suite, while cheqd provides a decentralised network for self-sovereign identity.

As AI agents take on more autonomous actions, from signing contracts to moving money to accessing sensitive data, enterprises face a critical gap: proving what an agent did without relying on a single vendor to hold the logs. Traditional reputation systems are opaque, centralised, and don't scale to the accountability demands of agentic AI.

"Email taught us what happens when reputation systems are owned by a handful of gatekeepers. We're not making that mistake with AI agents. Anchoring agent identity and audit trails to cheqd means trust isn't something Vouched controls; it's something anyone can verify. This is about trust that you can see," said Rosalyn Curato, Chief Innovation Officer & GM of Agentic Security at Vouched.

What the partnership unlocks

• Cryptographic Agent DIDs: Every agent enrolled in Vouched's KYA suite receives a did:cheqd DID: a persistent, on-chain identifier anchored to the cheqd network, which is impersonation-proof and owned cryptographically by the agent itself.
• Verifiable Credentials as public proof: Vouched issues W3C-conformant Verifiable Credentials to agents, stored as DID-Linked Resources on cheqd. These are publicly resolvable attestations that anyone can verify independently, with no DNS or API gating in the way.
• Decentralised Trust Chains (DTCs): cheqd's hierarchical trust registry maps directly to Vouched's governance model, running from a root of trust through accredited organisations to individual AI agents. Each accreditation is itself a Verifiable Credential, making the full chain from agent to root cryptographically traversable, with no static whitelists or central lookup tables.
• Suspension, revocation, and immutable audit trails. Credentials can be suspended or revoked with a tamper-evident on-chain history. Vouched's Agent Checkpoint and KnowThat.ai reputation directory now have verifiable, time-stamped logs for every agent interaction. Not just scores, but proof.

The result: cryptographic proof rather than vendor assertions, and trust that no single party controls.

Fraser Edwards, CEO and Co-Founder at cheqd, stated: “Vouched is building trust solutions the way they should be built: open, auditable, and genuinely ahead of the curve. From IdentiClaw and KYA-OS to agent identity anchored on cheqd, they’re turning the idea of ‘seeing the trust’ into something real, practical, and deployable today.”

Availability

Vouched's KYA suite with cheqd integration will go live in approximately two weeks. Enterprises building agentic workflows can onboard AI agents with cryptographic identities and tamper-proof governance from day one.

Want to see it in action?

Visit kya.vouched.id  and explore cheqd's trust infrastructure at cheqd.io

About cheqd

cheqd is the trust and payment infrastructure powering digital credential businesses, AI agents, eID, and broader trust ecosystems. We enable privacy-preserving payments and trust graphs for data, helping organisations unlock trusted digital interactions at scale. With partners across the globe, the cheqd network is already being used by companies such as Telefónica.

About Vouched

Vouched is pioneering the future of identity verification by delivering technology that quickly and securely validates the identities of both AI agents and humans. The recognized leader in identity verification, Vouched has expanded its capabilities across healthcare, financial services, automotive, and other industries and is writing the next chapter of the CISO playbook to take advantage of digital IDs and to identify software agents. Each month, Vouched verifies millions of identities with unmatched speed, accuracy, and regulatory compliance–accelerating trust in an increasingly digital world.