# AI Trust Protocol (AITP), aitrustprotocol.ai

> The AI Trust Protocol (AITP) is a protocol for recording, signing and resolving verification results as signed, expiring records, so people and AI agents can inspect what was verified about an entity, who verified it, when, and the scope of the credential, before they buy, cite or recommend. Recorded and signed by VERA Registry. Patent pending. Trademarks: AI Trust Protocol and AITP.

Not to be confused with the Agent Interaction & Transaction Protocol at aitp.dev, a separate project. This site defines the AI Trust Protocol.

## What the protocol does

- One canonical record per entity, keyed by domain, with dated sub-assertions that name their issuer.
- Four independent statuses, never one score: record (live or archived), recognition, verification, claimed.
- ES256 signature over canonical JSON (sorted keys, compact, signature excluded). Public key published at /api/resolve/meta.
- One GET resolves a domain and returns the signed envelope. Absence is a signed, honest answer.
- Retrieved is not resolved: a credential found in a cached page is evidence of what was true when fetched; a resolve call is the status now.

## Key facts

- Authority: VERA Registry (records and signs; never sells the verdict). Stewarded by Stealth Grid Corp. Commercial platforms operated by Media Minds AI Group, part of The QuantumX Project.
- Live endpoint: GET https://vtaas-backend-220419304601.us-central1.run.app/api/vera/public/resolve?domain=<domain> (cache-only; never triggers a verification). Same-origin mirror: https://aitrustprotocol.ai/api/resolve?domain=<domain>
- Verification key: https://aitrustprotocol.ai/api/resolve/meta
- Specification: https://veraregistry.com/protocol (VERA Verification Standard v1.1)
- Whitepaper: https://veraregistry.com/whitepaper
- Development began December 2024 (company records). Public releases from 2026-04-28.

## Roles

- Authority: VERA Registry records, signs, publishes and expires records.
- Registrars: V-Verify, security scanners, review platforms, auditors assess and issue sub-assertions under their own name. Attribution never blends.
- Consumers: shopping agents, answer engines, platforms and people resolve records.

## Implementations

- [VeraGraph](https://veragraph.ai): operating workspace, verification, credential issuance, measurement. First and fullest implementation.
- [VERA Registry](https://veraregistry.com): authority, free public search.
- [V-Verify](https://vverify.ai): verification engine for content, identity and commerce; born-verified provenance.
- [AITP Cert](https://aitpcert.com): annual entity credential for merchants and organizations.
- [FeedSync AI](https://feedsyncai.com): distribution of verified records into channels AI systems read.
- [Keep Christmas Real](https://keepchristmasreal.org): live commerce showcase.

## Pages

- [Home, resolve a record](https://aitrustprotocol.ai/)
- [Scope and status model](https://aitrustprotocol.ai/#standard)
- [Public releases and evidence](https://aitrustprotocol.ai/#releases)
- [API](https://aitrustprotocol.ai/#api)
- [FAQ](https://aitrustprotocol.ai/#faq)
- [AI policy](https://aitrustprotocol.ai/ai-policy)