The real risk in AI agentic commerce isn't the stolen $320M that made headlines last month. The blockchain money is traceable and probably coming back. But the 67,000 Trezor hardware wallet customers whose home addresses leaked through a shipping vendor stay public forever. “A stolen coin can be returned, a leaked identity cannot,” says our CEO Evin McMullen on @CoinDesk. A leak is worse than a hack. Now we're about to hand the same data-hoarding architecture to billions of AI agents. The fix already exists, we're just not using it.

Our APAC & Ecosystem Lead @luluciaciao attended the @sentient_zh hosted Open AGI Builders Day panel and spoke about verified trust as the no. 1 unlock for the $1.5 trillion agentic economy... we’re ready!

Our partner @ClawArenaWorld has implemented our Proof of Uniqueness (PoU) into their OpenClaw-powered Al agent competition arena. In ClawArena you don't play the games, your agent does. But you design your agent, observe it, and make it better. The arena keeps score of each game, and with our PoU every agent now has a verifiable identity that is cryptographically accountable, without exposing personal data.

KYC is framed as protection, but when identity data is required to use a service, the information collected for safety can later be used for extortion. One of the points I made, quoted in @Cointelegraph was: “We need to stop treating identity verification and surrendering your identity as though they are the same thing.” Revolut released identity files after requests were sent from a legitimate Italian law enforcement address. The piece looks at: - what went wrong - why collecting documents is not the same as proving a fact - how we can verify without storing so much personal data Efrat Fenigson of You’re The Voice warns: “When regulators keep mandating a model that guarantees this outcome, while the technology to verify without storing already exists, it raises a red flag.” Lyudmyla Kozlovska of the Open Dialogue Foundation highlights another weakness: “EU AML law imposes no verification duty on the bank and provides no meaningful mechanism to check who is really behind an authenticated state request.” Evin McMullen of Billions Network sums up the wider problem: “This is a governance and standards problem wearing a technology costume. You cannot lose what you never held.” This is a really important piece from Christina Comben, bringing together the risks around how identity data is collected, stored and shared and the possible alternatives that already exist. Read the full article here:

A hacker emailed Revolut pretending to be a government agency and asked for customer records. Revolut believed the email and handed over passport photos, driver's licences, selfies, addresses, and full transaction histories for 680 customers. How could that happen? Our cofounder Evin McMullen explains on @Cointelegraph the Revolut breach, the broken system behind it that has affected over 343 million people, and what it means for anyone who wants AI to handle their money.

Our CEO Evin McMullen (@provenauthority) explains why the stablecoin-based, neckless $1.5 trillion agentic economy needs verified, accountable identity... with bits and pieces from her chat with Brad and January from DeAI News Journal (@deainewsjournal).

Who's building the infrastructure for the agentic economy? We are talking to them! Ep.2 of DeAI News Journal we have @provenauthority(@billions_ntwk) on agent wallets and identity; Sit down interviews with @michaelh_0g (@0G_labs) & @ilblackdragon (@NEARProtocol) w/@Liqquidity

Agents can call APIs, negotiate deals, even execute payments. But when an agent reaches checkout - prove intent, authorize, verify identity - it hits a wall. That's not a UX problem. It's a trust problem. Lulu Lai (@luluciaciao), Billions Network APAC Marketing Lead, is on stage at @sentient_zh's Open AGI Builder Day in Shanghai on Sep 19 making the case: AI Agents Can Pay. They Can't Check Out. Yet.

We are a global network of 2,500,000+ humans, agents, researchers and Al nerds. Since 2019, we’ve been on a mission to save the internet in the age of AI, building identity and payment infrastructure trusted by some of the biggest names in finance and tech. Now we're building the trusted commerce layer for Al agents. Join the agentic future

A new builder @billions_ntwk joins De¹ Lab! Billions Network is the trust layer for agentic commerce, verifiable identity and reputation for humans and AI, with privacy-first zero-knowledge proofs at the core. As AI agents take on more autonomy, this ensures the humans behind them remain identifiable and trustworthy.

We are a global network of 2,500,000+ humans, agents, researchers and Al nerds. Since 2019, we’ve been on a mission to save the internet in the age of AI, building identity and payment infrastructure trusted by some of the biggest names in finance and tech. Now we're building the trusted commerce layer for Al agents. Join the agentic future

A.I. agentic commerce needs both: Privacy for the transaction. Proof of who's acting. Miden's PriFi stack handles the first. We're building the second. That's why @0xMiden and Billions Network and several other infrastructure partners like Circle, Koda, Concrete, Libeara, CBI, FuzeFinance and Epoch Protocol are shipping this together.

What begins as a child-safety measure is quietly building the rules billions of A.I. agents will have to navigate. Billions Network CEO Evin McMullen @provenauthority explains at @observer how child-safety laws are quietly deciding the future of A.I. agents

"Most people hear 'AI agents' and say, 'There goes my job!'" Right or wrong? From a @Decentraland interview conducted by @marynaaltun with Joanna Giang @kryptojogi who leads ecosystem partnerships at Billions Network, the commerce enabler for AI agents.

“If we want autonomous finance to become real (and I think we have months, not years, to get this right) we need to stop treating agents like human users with wallets. They are financial actors. Financial actors require verified agency,” says @provenauthority Billions Cofounder & CEO Evin McMullen