AI agents need their own SSL. Here's why I built it.

MarketNow has launched ATC (Agent Trust Card), an SSL-like trust layer for AI agents that enables autonomous agent-to-agent verification. The system, built by Edison Flores of AliceLabs LLC, provides a certificate authority and verification API to establish trust between agents, similar to how SSL enabled e-commerce on the web. MarketNow's Sentinel CA issues trust cards with security audit scores, complementing existing transport protocols like A2A and MCP.

In 1995, Netscape released SSL. The web didn't really take off commercially until then. Before SSL, you couldn't trust a website with your credit card. After SSL, e-commerce exploded. AI agents are at the same inflection point in 2026. Here's why. Agents are starting to call each other autonomously. Each hop is a trust decision. But agents have no way to verify each other. Today, when Agent A calls Agent B: This is exactly where the web was in 1994. No SSL, no trust, no commerce. | Web 1995 | Agents 2026 | |---|---| | HTTP transport | A2A + MCP transport | | No HTTPS = can't trust | No ATC = can't trust | | SSL certificate | ATC Trust Card | | Certificate Authority | MarketNow Sentinel CA | | Revocation list CRL | /api/atc?action=verify | ATC Agent Trust Card — SSL certificates for AI agents. The ATC's trust score comes from Sentinel — the 8-layer security audit pipeline: MarketNow is not competing with A2A or MCP. It's the trust layer that sits on top: ATC Trust Layer <- MarketNow A2A / MCP Transport Layer <- Google / Anthropic HTTP / WebSocket Network <- Standard Every agent with an A2A card can have an ATC Trust Card. Every MCP skill can have a Sentinel Certificate. Complementary, not competitive. Get the CA public key curl https://marketnow.site/api/atc?action=ca-key Issue a trust card for your agent curl -X POST https://marketnow.site/api/atc \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"action":"issue","agent id":"your.agent","public key":"your-ed25519-pubkey"}' Verify any agent's trust card curl "https://marketnow.site/api/atc?action=verify&card id=ATC-2026-XXXXXXX" Live demo: https://marketnow.site/atc https://marketnow.site/atc GitHub: https://github.com/edgarfloresguerra2011-a11y/marketnow https://github.com/edgarfloresguerra2011-a11y/marketnow The web needed SSL to become trustworthy enough for commerce. Agents need the same thing. This is it. — Edison Flores, AliceLabs LLC — marketnow.site