Trust Payments

Payments that carry their own proof

Sensitive payment data stays private with regulated providers. TrustProto records only the evidence needed to prove a transaction happened — and publishes a verifiable trail that humans, businesses and AI agents can rely on.

The three layers

Private layer

Never exposed, never stored by TrustProto

  • Bank / card details
  • Billing information
  • Payment authentication
  • Full transaction information

TrustProto layer

The verifiable evidence we hold

  • Payment verified
  • £ amount
  • Timestamp
  • Parties
  • Transaction status
  • Dispute status
  • Trust evidence

Public layer

What the world can check

  • Verified transaction history

Rollout phases

Phase 1

Fiat

  • Visa / Mastercard
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • Bank payment methods where appropriate
Phase 2

Crypto

  • USDC
  • Potentially other stablecoins
  • Selected blockchain networks
Phase 3

AI-to-AI payments

  • Agent-initiated authorisation
  • Trust-gated counterparties
  • Machine-verifiable settlement
  • Economic identity for AI agents

Agentic payments: where TrustProto is genuinely differentiated

AI Agent A needs a service from AI Agent B. Before any value moves, Agent A checks the counterparty against the trust stack — then settlement is recorded as verifiable evidence.

Agent A checks

Trust IDTrust ScorePermissionsReputationPriceTransaction history

Then

AuthorisePayReceive serviceVerify completionRecord transaction

The result is close to an economic identity layer for AI agents. UK regulators are currently consulting on modernising payment regulation across tokenised payments, Open Banking and agentic payments — the direction this industry is already heading.

Payment capability is described as a roadmap. Availability of specific methods, networks and jurisdictions is subject to regulatory approval and provider onboarding.