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July 7, 2026 · 3 min read

Your Risk Team Finally Has a Home for Agent Checkout

When your verification system says "review this agent," you now have somewhere to do it. The Trust Operations Console gives risk teams one screen for review, approvals, and live activity — and the Agent Passport gives every agent a track record you can actually read.

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April 29, 2026 · 8 min read

KYA Now Speaks AP2

Google donated AP2 to the FIDO Alliance and v0.2 added a Human-Not-Present mode for autonomous agents. We shipped a translation layer so a KYA trace JWT now produces an AP2 Open Checkout Mandate + Open Payment Mandate that AP2-aware merchants and processors can consume without bespoke integration.

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January 10, 2026 · 5 min read

Headless Checkout for AI Agents: The API Contract Merchants Need

Agents need a deterministic, API-first way to complete purchases. Headless checkout pairs delegated authorization with transaction guardrails so merchants can accept agent orders without manual review.

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