Agent Decision
Default pre-payment flow
- Agent decides to buy
- Verify merchant via ACTVB
- Decision: allow, review, or deny
ALLOWpayment proceeds
DENYpayment blocked
AI agents should verify merchants before paying.
ACTVB verifies merchants before AI agents send payments.
No verification. No payment.
Live Verification Network
Watch merchants pass through the same verification checkpoint agents use before payment authorization.
ACTVB_LIVE·
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TimeNodeStatusDomainLatency
Agents cannot trust websites.
Humans trust interfaces. Agents require verification.
Agent → Website → Unknown
Agent → ACTVB → Verified merchant
HOW IT WORKS
Agent Decision
Verification
Deterministic checks
- Domain ownership verification
- DID resolution
- Signature validation
- Protocol compatibility
Network
Infrastructure lifecycle
- Merchant publishes identity
- ACTVB nodes verify identity
- Registry stores verification state
- Agents query before checkout
Agents want to buy. Agents verify merchants. ACTVB provides verification.
Merchant identity is easy to fake.
Without verification, agents may send payments to spoofed or altered endpoints.
AttackHow ACTVB Stops It
Merchant spoofingDomain + DID verification
Endpoint hijackSignature validation
Registry mismatchRegistry lookup
DID takeoverRotating signature anchors
Signature replayTimestamped verification
VERIFICATION RECORD
Every verified merchant has a public machine-readable record. Agents check this record before payment.
FieldValue
Merchantshopify.com
DIDdid:actvb:merchant:91be2
StatusBONDED
Trust Score94
Last Audit2026-03-10
ProtocolsUCP ACP AP2
SignatureVALID
THE MANDATE
Agents only pay verified merchants.
Agentic commerce requires a trust standard. ACTVB provides that standard. Unverified merchants will be ignored by autonomous buyers.
UnverifiedNot trusted by agents.
ClaimedIdentity declared, verification pending.
BondedVerified and trusted by agents.