China’s CAICT Opens Agent Identity Network for Public Access

This is a state-backed attempt to solve a problem the agent economy has barely begun to confront: how autonomous software identifies and trusts counterparties across platforms and operators. The involvement of CAICT, and the anchoring of the network in two designated interconnection hubs, signals that China intends to treat agent identity as public infrastructure rather than letting it emerge from private platforms. The practical question is whether operators and developers plug in voluntarily, and whether a registry of this kind stays interoperable with identity approaches being built elsewhere.