The Challenge: Cloud Trust Doesn't Scale to Agent Autonomy
If you're building or deploying AI agents inside a single cloud (GCP, Azure, AWS), your native identity and access stack (IAM, OAuth, service accounts, workload identity) works well until agents start acting autonomously or interacting outside your boundary.
The moment your agents:
Your internal trust model breaks.
OAuth tokens and API keys weren't designed for entities that decide, delegate, and transact at machine speed. That's where risk accelerates: identity spoofing, consent ambiguity, untraceable actions, and compliance blind spots.
The Solution: The Nuggets Trust Layer
Nuggets extends zero trust into the agentic era by embedding verifiable identity, authentication, consent, and accountability directly into agent workflows.
It operates alongside your existing IAM, not as a replacement, but as a cross-platform trust fabric built on open standards: W3C DIDs, Verifiable Credentials, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, OpenID Connect (OIDC) and OAuth.
The Nuggets Trust Layer makes every interaction between humans, systems, and AI agents verifiable, auditable, and compliant by design. It gives agents a persistent, cryptographically provable identity, role, and policy context that travels with them across clouds, ecosystems, and transactions.
Safe Discoverability
Nuggets ensures trust before connection. Only verified and policy-compliant agents are discoverable or callable within your workflows. Every discovery, connection, or transaction request carries verifiable proofs of identity, purpose, and authorization, preventing spoofing and unauthorized coordination.
Core Capabilities
Verifiable Identity & Authentication: Every agent, business, and human is issued a verifiable digital identity (DID/VC) that proves who they are and what they're authorized to do. Authentication and authorization are proof-based, not token-based.
Verifiable Roles & Responsibilities: Each agent's identity is bound to verifiable credentials that define its authorized roles, responsibilities, and permissions. These credentials travel with the agent across systems, enabling traceable, policy-enforced autonomy and reproducibility.
Consent & Accountability: Each action generates a cryptographically signed consent receipt: a verifiable record of who authorized what, when, and under which policy. Every event is auditable and tamper-proof.
Governance by Design: Policy enforcement is embedded at the protocol level. Agents can only operate within approved governance scopes, ensuring actions remain within defined authority and oversight.
Human-in-the-Loop Oversight: Supports biometric step-up, real-time approvals, and verifiable human signatures for sensitive or regulated actions.
Payments & Multi-Rail Transactions: When agents initiate payments or transfers, Nuggets provides verified identity and consent for secure, compliant execution across card, open banking, or digital asset rails.
Privacy & Compliance: Zero-knowledge architecture ensures data minimization and protection. Certified and aligned with NIST IAL2/IAL3, AAL2, GDPR, CCPA, PSD2, AML/KYC/KYB, and the UK Digital Identity & Attributes Trust Framework.
Why Teams on a Single Cloud Need Nuggets
Even within one cloud, your trust perimeter ends when:
Nuggets gives you:
When to Engage Nuggets
Engage Nuggets as early as possible in your agent architecture, ideally when:
Design → Embed identity, consent, and governance primitives at the architecture stage.
Prototype → Begin issuing verifiable credentials for test agents.
Pre-Production → Integrate consent receipts and human-in-the-loop approvals.
Production Launch → Enforce auditability, payment compliance, and external discoverability.
Scale → Expand across clouds, ecosystems, and external agents while maintaining end-to-end accountability.
By introducing Nuggets at the architecture or design phase, you establish verifiable trust, accountability, and compliance before scale makes governance impossible to retrofit.
If you're building AI agents that discover, act, or transact, your cloud IAM alone isn't enough. Nuggets provides the Trust Layer that makes every agent interaction (discovery, authentication, consent, payment, and oversight) verifiable, compliant, and secure across clouds and ecosystems.
Ready to discuss your agent architecture? Reach out to explore how Nuggets fits your roadmap, whether you're in design, POC, or planning for scale.
Built on W3C standards and OIDC. Multi-cloud deployment. AI-ready infrastructure.
Nuggets Trust Layer provides purpose-built identity infrastructure for AI agents, humans and businesses.
Built on established open standards with bank-grade security, it integrates seamlessly with existing systems and AI protocols.
Available globally across 150+ countries. ISO 27001 certified and enterprise-ready.
We’d love to hear from you if you're working to build secure, trusted AI systems for your organisation.
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