Proof of personhood
Showing a unique human stands behind an account.
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Facts
- Lane
- Trust and governance
- Wave
- 9 of 12 (build order, not a date)
- Needs
- 0 boxes all the way back through hard links
- Unlocks
- 0 boxes downstream through hard links
- Leverage
- None
- Cluster
- Trust plumbing and the agent economy
Evidence as of October 2026
DeepMind wants it before agents receive allocations, so one person cannot run a thousand agents as a thousand claimants.
Around it
Needs · 0
Nothing beyond the detail list. It can start at any time.
Unlocks · 1
Openings researchers' judgement, October 2026 scouting
Startup room 33/100 · rank 103 of 124 Research room 39/100 · rank 91 of 124
- Depth
- light
- Players
- World Foundation ($52.5m token sale); Apple and Google wallets; government eIDs
- Wedge
- Privacy-preserving proof of personhood without centralised biometrics. research