Morning Edition · Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Researchers try to put a dollar price on proving you are a real human
A new paper argues proof-of-personhood systems have run for a decade without a way to measure their own resistance to forgery, and proposes pricing it in dollars.
As automated agents multiply on-chain, the problem of distinguishing one real human from thousands of fake accounts, known as Sybil resistance, is becoming a measurable infrastructure layer rather than a slogan. A paper circulated on Ethere…
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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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