SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Kachyng Inc. today introduced A-Commerce, short for Agentic Commerce, a new infrastructure category built for a world in which AI agents do not just recommend or assist, but actually carry out commercial work on behalf of people and organizations.
AI is rapidly moving beyond chat, search, and summarization. Agents are beginning to compare offers, negotiate terms, renew services, manage subscriptions, place routine orders, and handle purchasing tasks. But while the intelligence layer has advanced quickly, the transaction layer has not. Existing financial infrastructure was built around one core assumption: that every transaction begins with a human being who can be identified, authorized, and held accountable.
That assumption does not hold when the actor is an AI agent.
Before any AI agent can be trusted to initiate a transaction on traditional rails, three questions must be answered clearly and deterministically: Who is this agent? Who gave it authority to act? What limits govern what it is allowed to do?
Kachyng calls the infrastructure required to answer those questions A-Commerce. Kachyng's platform is built around four integrated pillars.
IDX, or Identity Exchange, provides a cryptographic identity layer for AI agents, giving each agent a verifiable and auditable identity tied to its authorizing human or organization.
AGX, or Agent Gateway Exchange, provides deterministic orchestration and policy enforcement so that agent actions flow through defined rules and approved boundaries.
KYA, or Know Your Agent, extends compliance and trust controls to non-human actors, helping financial institutions and regulated participants apply governance to agent-initiated activity.
PRX, or Processor Exchange, connects authorized agents to existing payment infrastructure, including card networks, ACH, and other rails, without requiring merchants or processors to rip out and rebuild their systems.
Together, these four layers form a complete trust architecture between AI agents and the financial system.
“We believe the next major shift in commerce is not simply better software for humans. It is the emergence of AI agents as real commercial actors. But that future only works if agents can be identified, governed, constrained, and connected to execution. That is the layer Kachyng is building.”
Kachyng believes A-Commerce will become foundational infrastructure as businesses begin deploying AI agents into real operational and financial workflows. The company's mission is to make agent-initiated commerce possible without sacrificing compliance, auditability, control, or compatibility with the financial systems already in place.
About Kachyng
Kachyng Inc. is building payment infrastructure for autonomous AI agents. Headquartered in San Francisco, Kachyng's A-Commerce platform — comprising IDX, AGX, KYA, and PRX — provides the trust, identity, authorization, and payment routing layer that enables AI agents to transact on traditional financial rails. www.kachyng.com