Morning Edition · Monday, June 29, 2026
A New Paper Tries to Price Sybil Resistance, as Proof-of-Personhood Systems Get Hacked
Researchers propose measuring identity systems by the dollar cost of forging a fake person, days after one such network appeared on a breach tracker.
A new research paper circulated on Ethereum's research forum proposes a concrete way to evaluate digital-identity systems. Titled "The Price of Forgery," it argues that proof-of-personhood, the effort to verify that an online actor is a uni…
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Personhood Becomes Measurable Infrastructure
As automated agents proliferate on-chain, verifying unique humans becomes a measurable and contested infrastructure layer, with the cost of forging identity emerging as the metric that decides which systems are trusted.
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