KYA

July 18, 2026

Know Your Agent (KYA): The Legal Compliance Standard for AI Agents That Move Money

AI agents can now initiate real payments, and every technical standard --- Visa, Mastercard, Google, NIST --- builds cryptographic identity without answering the only question the law cares about: which legal person answers for the transaction. Know Your Agent (KYA) is the compliance standard that answers it.