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Glossary

Visa Trusted Agent Protocol

In short

Visa's specification for agents to present a signature with timestamps that merchants verify to tell a credentialed agent from an anonymous bot. The Verification Ledger found no public operator-level registry of agents registered with it. Example: Visa publishes a reference implementation with agent-registry and cdn-proxy folders on GitHub. Related: Let TAP and Agent Pay through and Akamai profile.

Definition

Visa's specification for agents to present a signature with timestamps that merchants verify to tell a credentialed agent from an anonymous bot.

Sourced example

Visa publishes a reference implementation with agent-registry and cdn-proxy folders on GitHub. Source, read 2026-11-04.

How it shows up here

The Verification Ledger found no public operator-level registry of agents registered with it.

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Sources

Last reviewed 2026-11-04