Hashgraph Partners with IBM to Secure AI Agent Identities

The Hashgraph Group has expanded its offerings by partnering with IBM to list its Hedera-based IDTrust identity platform on the IBM Cloud Catalog. This move gives enterprise customers a secure way to deploy verifiable identities for AI agents.

IDTrust issues decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials for humans, devices, and autonomous AI agents. The platform uses W3C Verifiable Credentials and decentralized identifier standards, allowing enterprises to define credentials for particular purposes and revoke them through its management tools.

Gartner predicts that task-specific AI agents will appear in 40% of enterprise applications by the end of 2026, highlighting the growing need for secure identity verification. The partnership extends beyond the catalog listing, with The Hashgraph Group signing a global Embedded Solution Agreement with IBM covering cloud and AI technology.