Hedera IDTrust joins IBM Cloud Catalog for AI agents

The Hashgraph Group has put its Hedera-based IDTrust identity platform on IBM Cloud Catalog under a partnership announced Sept. 23, giving enterprise customers a route to deploy verifiable identities for AI agents.

Summary

• THG's IDTrust is now listed on IBM Cloud Catalog as a Hedera-based enterprise identity platform.
• IBM's directory lists The Hashgraph Group as a Silver Partner, ISV, and managed service provider.
• IDTrust issues decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials for humans, devices, and autonomous AI agents securely.
• Gartner expects task-specific AI agents in 40% of enterprise applications by the end of 2026.
• IBM joined Hedera's governing council in 2019, linking the companies through existing network governance ties.

The Hashgraph Group said IDTrust has been validated and listed as a SaaS offering on IBM's marketplace, while the companies have signed an Embedded Solution Agreement covering IBM cloud and AI technology. THG described the product as "among the first" commercial Hedera-based enterprise applications available directly through a major cloud marketplace, a claim made by the company rather than an independently established market ranking.

IBM's live catalog independently confirms that IDTrust is listed as a third-party blockchain product from The Hashgraph Group. The catalog describes it as a self-sovereign identity platform for AI agents, smart devices and humans.

Hedera IDTrust gives AI agents verifiable credentials

IDTrust assigns decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials to people, machines and AI agents. THG says each actor can receive a unique did:hedera identifier registered through Hedera Consensus Service, while credentials are cryptographically signed and recorded through an auditable identity process.

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The platform lets enterprises define credentials for particular purposes and revoke them through its management tools. THG says AI-agent identities are non-transferable and can be approved by humans, while revocation registries are anchored on Hedera. Its current product page lists financial services, telecoms, healthcare, education and device identity among supported use cases.

IDTrust uses W3C Verifiable Credentials and decentralized identifier standards. The W3C formally published its Verifiable Credentials 2.0 family as Recommendations in May 2025, defining standards for cryptographically secure and machine-verifiable digital credentials.

THG said the platform includes MCP servers that can connect AI agents with IBM watsonx Orchestrate, allowing an agent to obtain identity credentials and leave an auditable trail for authorized activity. The integration details come from THG's announcement and have not been accompanied by a separate technical deployment report from IBM.

IBM partnership gives THG another enterprise channel

The agreement extends beyond the catalog listing. THG said it signed a global Embedded Solution Agreement with IBM covering cloud and AI technology, which allows it to incorporate IBM technology into products sold under its own offering.

IBM's Partner Plus directory currently lists The Hashgraph Group as an Independent Software Vendor and Managed Service Provider and displays a Silver Partner badge. The same page identifies IDTrust among THG's available solutions. IBM notes, however, that company and solution information in the directory is supplied by partners and is not validated by IBM unless stated otherwise.

The companies already share a connection through Hedera governance. IBM joined the Hedera Governing Council in August 2019 alongside Tata Communications, becoming one of the organizations involved in overseeing the network. Hedera's historical records confirm IBM's membership.

In related coverage, crypto.news previously reported on THG's BrandBoost enterprise platform built on Hedera. That product combines loyalty tools with IDTrust identity functions and is part of the same Hashgraph for Enterprise product suite.

THG previously introduced TransAct, a managed gateway that lets businesses execute Hedera transactions without directly holding HBAR or handling crypto wallets. Crypto.news reported on THG's TransAct enterprise gateway launch in September 2025.

Know Your Agent identity is becoming an enterprise focus

The IBM listing arrives as several technology and payments companies develop identity frameworks for autonomous software. Gartner projected that task-specific AI agents could appear in 40% of enterprise applications by the end of 2026, compared with less than 5% in 2025. The figure is a Gartner forecast, not an observed adoption rate.

Governance remains part of that forecast. In May, Gartner predicted that "40% of enterprises will demote or decommission autonomous AI agents" by 2027 because of governance gaps discovered after deployment. The firm said access levels and agent autonomy require different controls instead of one uniform governance model.

Other companies are developing similar identity concepts. Akamai introduced an agentic security framework in June that links agent identity, authorization and human attribution. Its partners include Visa, Experian and Skyfire.

Akamai describes its Know Your Agent framework as a method for agents to declare their identity, origin and intent while linking them to the platforms and people they represent. Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol addresses authorization and identity for automated payments, while Experian contributes identity and risk tools.

THG is using the same KYA terminology for IDTrust, but the approaches are separate products and frameworks. No common industry-wide KYA standard has been established by the announcements reviewed for this report.

IDTrust extends THG's use of Hedera beyond identity

THG has expanded its Hedera enterprise portfolio during 2026. Its current product suite includes identity, transaction, loyalty, traceability and environmental-market tools, while IDTrust specifically covers credential issuance and verification.

The company announced work with Merck in September on cocoa traceability and digital product passports, following other projects involving carbon-market infrastructure and cross-border logistics. THG lists the IBM agreement as its latest enterprise announcement.

Hedera has separately continued adding enterprise organizations to its governance structure. IBM has participated since 2019, while the current network history records its role among the organizations that joined during the council's early expansion.

THG CEO Stefan Deiss said enterprises increasingly need to verify whether autonomous software is authorized to act on their behalf. He said IDTrust is intended to answer the question, "how do I know this agent is authorised to act on my behalf?"

Naemi Benz, vice president of IBM Partner Ecosystem DACH, said making IDTrust available through IBM Cloud Catalog gives clients access to THG's decentralized identity technology through IBM's partner ecosystem. Her comments appear in THG's release announcing the agreement.

As of Sept. 24, IBM Cloud Catalog lists IDTrust as an available third-party blockchain product, while THG's product site offers enterprise access through its managed platform, SDK or API.