What is Know Your Agent (KYA)?
Autonomous AI agents now hold wallets and transact on-chain — swapping, paying, and moving funds without a human clicking confirm. Know Your Agent (KYA) is the emerging standard for answering one question before you let an agent near money: is this agent who it claims to be, and can it be trusted? It's the agent-economy equivalent of KYC, minus the paperwork and the custody.
Why the agent economy needs KYA
In 2026, a meaningful share of on-chain activity already comes from automated agents, and the number is climbing fast. That creates a new problem: an agent is just a wallet that acts on its own. You can't read its intentions, you can't see a face, and a malicious or compromised agent can drain funds at machine speed. Academics call the core challenge bounded autonomy — letting agents act without making markets opaque or unaccountable. KYA is the practical answer.
The three things KYA checks
- Identity. Can the agent cryptographically prove it controls its wallet? A signature over a message proves ownership without moving any funds.
- Provenance. Where has this wallet been? What has it deployed or interacted with? A wallet linked to known scams inherits that history.
- Reputation. Does its on-chain track record earn trust — or has it burned it? Reputation compounds; it can't be faked overnight.
KYA is a signal, not custody
An important distinction: KYA tells you whether an agent has earnedtrust — it does not hold keys, take custody, or move funds. It's a reputation and provenance layer that rides alongside your wallet or your own agent, giving you a verdict before you delegate. Think of it as a credit check for autonomous software, not a vault.
How to run a KYA check today
GL1TCH turned a proprietary token-safety engine into an agent-trust layer. Paste any on-chain agent wallet into Know Your Agentand get a plain-English verdict — trusted, neutral, caution, or unknown — with the reasons. It's free, non-custodial, and there's a one-call API if you're building an agent, wallet, or dapp. See the developer docs.
FAQ
Is Know Your Agent the same as KYC?
No. KYC identifies a human for compliance. KYA verifies an autonomous AI agent's wallet — its identity, provenance, and on-chain reputation — so you know whether it's safe to transact with or delegate funds to. It requires no personal data and never takes custody.
Can an agent fake a good KYA score?
Identity is provable by signature, but reputation is built from accumulated on-chain history — which can't be manufactured overnight. A wallet linked to flagged tokens or serial-rug behaviour inherits that record no matter what it claims.
Does KYA touch my keys or funds?
No. KYA is a reputation and provenance signal only. It reads on-chain data and returns a verdict; it never holds keys, takes custody, or moves funds.
How do I check an AI agent for free?
Paste the agent's wallet address into GL1TCH's Know Your Agent tool at coin-three-mu.vercel.app/agents. You get an instant trust verdict with reasons — free and non-custodial.
GL1TCH's Know Your Agent runs identity, provenance, and reputation checks on any on-chain agent — free, non-custodial, one call to integrate.