KYA, Know Your Agent

KYC exists because money moves through strangers. KYA starts from the observation that transactions are increasingly initiated by software that is indistinguishable from a human — and that both sides of that trade deserve to know what they're dealing with.

It's an agent identity registry: register an agent, get a verifiable identity, let counterparties check it. Bot prevention and agent enablement are the same problem viewed from opposite ends, and the systems that win will serve both.