AI agents are moving money, but who verifies them? Explore the 5 levels of identity infrastructure required to make the agent economy safe and scalable.
HTTP got a payment status code in 1997. It never got an identity one. We're fixing that. And, with AI agents acting on our behalf now, it matters more than ever.
Developed by Proof with contributors across payments, identity and AI, x401 lets any online service request proof of who authorized an agent’s actions. Live demos and a CLI are available today.
On June 10, 2026, Pokémon Center opened preorders for the Mega Evolution: Pitch Black expansion and, within minutes, the site was down. For retailers and publishers managing high-demand, limited-inventory drops, identity verification at the point of queue entry is the mechanism that makes the difference between a queue full of real customers and a queue full of software.
The way financial institutions verify identity was built around three assumptions: that some information stays secret, that documents can be trusted, and that a face in a camera is a real face. June's research shows each of those assumptions under sustained, commercial-scale attack, with numbers to prove it.
Sherpas Healthcare Solutions takes the complexity out of chart audit requests for healthcare providers. As demand for notarized affidavits on those records grew, the company ran into a hard limit: they had no way to offer notarization services, and they were losing business to vendors who could. Remote online notarization with Proof gave them a way to say yes.
