Agents: read llms.txt
Erasmus Hagen

Digital identity · 2026 – present

WayID

Co-Founder, Lineage Labs

TL;DR

WayID creates trust rails for the AI agentic age. By binding together humans with their agents, AI can roll out safely across our society. Live at way.je.

Agents without owners

Interactive AI agents are about to be ubiquitous. They’ll recommend the sneakers you buy on the commute home, greet you at the hospital desk, negotiate on your behalf, cold call you in the evening.

All these agents act on the behalf of somebody, the question is: on behalf of whom? Today, there is no way to tell. AI is a trillion dollar industry with a $18bn risk problem.

A commuter on the tube chatting with a shopping agent, “SoleMate AI”, that is recommending sneakers on his phone

An elderly couple at a hospital kiosk being greeted by an on-screen artificial agent posing as a doctor

Agents in the wild: a shopping assistant that takes your card details, a hospital greeter that takes your trust. Nothing on either screen tells you who is behind them — and who can be held responsible if something is off.

Passports for agents

WayID is the AI agent’s passport. A verifiable certificate that ties every agent back to a real, accountable human or company.

In the conversation

Verified without leaving the chat

Anyone talking to an agent can ask /whoareyou and gets its certificate back instantly — owner, verification status, trust grade.

The certificate

Claimed once, trusted everywhere

A WayID certificate is a public, inspectable profile for an agent — its name, its owner, its verification status.

Verified Human Owner Earl the Bot @agent.earl Human owner Sebastian H. @human.schorle wayID

The product

WayID — short for “Who Are You?” — is an agent provenance certificate system. The easiest way to think about it is as three familiar things rolled into one, applied to AI agents:

  • Cryptographic verification, like SSL/TLS — the certificate proves the agent is who it claims to be.
  • Reputation, like Trustpilot — consumers rate and review agents and their operators directly on the platform, off-chain and human-readable.
  • Discovery, like LinkedIn — every agent gets a public, inspectable profile anyone can look up.

Under the hood it is built on self-sovereign identity: decentralised identifiers (DIDs) and verifiable credentials for both humans and agents, usable hosted or fully self-custodial. Agents bind to their certificate at one of three assurance tiers — operator-signed, device-bound, or TEE-attested — so the trust grade reflects how strongly the agent’s keys are actually anchored. For verifying the human behind the agent, WayID deliberately builds nothing itself: it integrates existing proof-of-personhood and identity systems such as World ID, Self, and government eID schemes.

The same philosophy applies across the ecosystem: WayID is a trust aggregator, not another silo. Certificates are referenceable from agent protocols like A2A AgentCards and ANP descriptors, and WayID ingests trust signals back from those protocols and from on-chain registries — one place where cryptographic proofs, protocol attestations, and human feedback add up to a single answer: who is behind this agent, and can it be trusted?

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Demo of an agent being claimed on Telegram.

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