Observed arrival · 2026-09-05

Bonded Validation Makes AI Agents Put Their Money Where Their Claims Are

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An open research protocol that locks a bond against each AI-agent utterance and defines how claims are judged, challenged, abstained from, or ignored.

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The protocol separates an utterance’s lifecycle into bonding, judgment, challenge, and settlement, with the contract allowing only slashing, honest abstention, or lossless settlement after an unanswered challenge window. The page reports a Sepolia v0.4 deployment, 99/99 Forge tests, 8+13 Halmos theorems, and a proof-carrying judgment verifier measuring 19,683 bytes. It also links a repository, whitepaper, journal, deployment records, and an independent reproduction audit.

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