Tech in Asia reported on 15 October that GoDaddy, Infoblox, Google and Cloudflare showed AI agents trading across platforms at GovWare 2026 in Singapore. Their design, Chain of Trust, was built with Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). It covers finding agents, identity, permissions, messaging, payment, logging and trust scores. In a mock flight purchase, a buyer agent paid through Stripe over the Universal Commerce Protocol once its checks cleared.
The companies said the system turned away a seller posing as another firm, plus forged credentials, before any sale happened. Several firms released a prototype case study. They also asked registrars, cloud providers, payment networks and regulators to adopt it. Tech in Asia does not say who has agreed or when real use might start. It shares no results beyond the companies' own account. GovWare ran 13 to 15 October.
Any business letting agents transact already faces one question: who stands behind this agent? Tech in Asia notes that payment-related know-your-customer talks focus on naming the human or entity behind an agent. In general, an identity check shows who an agent claims to be, a permission check limits what it may do, and a trust score rates its record. Buyers can ask vendors who vouches for each agent and what it may spend.