New Delhi, Dec. 18 -- Akamai Technologies and Visa are betting that agentic commerce will not scale without a verifiable trust layer. Their newly announced collaboration integrates Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol with Akamai's edge-based behavioral intelligence to help merchants authenticate AI shopping agents, identify the consumers behind them, and reduce fraud before transactions reach sensitive systems.

The move signals an early but important attempt to formalize identity, intent, and accountability in a world where autonomous agents increasingly act as economic participants.

Traditional e-commerce security models are designed around human behavior. Bots, historically, have been treated as threats to be blocked. Agentic commerce upend...