World — the crypto project co-founded by Sam Altman — announced today that it has launched AgentKit beta, a developer toolkit that extends its World ID proof-of-human system to AI agents, according to a press release shared with The Defiant.
AgentKit integrates with x402 — an payments protocol for AI agents developed by Coinbase and Cloudflare — World enables verified humans to cryptographically delegate their World ID to AI agents. The result is what World calls a "human-backed agent": an automated actor that can prove a unique real person stands behind it, without revealing who that person is.
"Payments are the 'how' of agentic commerce, but identity is the 'who,'" said Erik Reppel, Head of Engineering at Coinbase Developer Platform and Founder of x402. "By integrating World ID with the x402 protocol, developers now have a complete trust stack."
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