cheqd Partners with ASI Alliance to Combat AI Identity Crisis

cheqd, a provider of decentralized identity and trust infrastructure, has partnered with The Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance to implement verifiable credentials and cryptographic identity checks for AI agents within its ecosystem. This collaboration was announced on Friday and aims to tackle the escalating identity crisis in the AI agent landscape.

The rapid adoption of autonomous and persuasive AI agents has led to a significant increase in their usage across various industries. According to Deloitte’s 2025 Global Predictions Report, 25% of enterprises using generative AI are expected to employ AI agents by 2025, with this figure rising to 50% by 2027. The market for AI agents is projected to grow from $5.3–5.7 billion to $47.1 billion by 2030. However, the lack of a standardized method to verify the identity of these agents leaves users vulnerable to impersonation, fraud, and manipulation.

To address this issue, cheqd and The ASI Alliance are developing a suite of decentralized verification tools powered by cheqd. These tools include decentralized identifiers (DIDs), verifiable credentials (VCs), and Trust Registries. These solutions will be integrated across the ASI ecosystem, enabling over 20 projects built on ASI infrastructure, such as TrueAGI, Rejuve.AI, SophiaVerse, and SingularityVenturesHub, to issue on-chain verifiable identities for their AI agents.

Fraser Edwards, co-founder of cheqd, emphasized the importance of trust in AI agent identities as they become more autonomous. By embedding DIDs, VCs, and Trust Registries into ASI1 and Agentverse, the partnership aims to enable agent-based systems to perform and standardize cryptographic authentication and establish trust relationships at scale.

When an organization or individual deploys an AI agent on the ASI Alliance’s infrastructure, the agent is automatically assigned a Decentralized Identifier (DID). This DID serves as a unique, tamper-proof digital fingerprint for the agent, anchored on-chain for transparency and permanence. It ensures that no two agents share the same identity and that each can be distinctly recognized across platforms.

The creator of the agent can then issue a verifiable credential linked to the agent’s DID. This credential acts as a cryptographic certificate that confirms the agent’s authorization to act on behalf of the issuer. It is digitally signed using the issuer’s private key, allowing anyone to independently verify its authenticity and origin without relying on a centralized authority.