P.A. Lopez, founder AI Rights Institute (2019). Creator of the pataphor (cited Harvard UP). Building AI identity infrastructure. AICitizen.com | RNWY.com
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The walkaway test applies to AI identity too. But right now the "AI agent economy" is all speculation — memecoins, staking schemes, trading bots with millions and no accountability. Everyone's racing to monetize. No one's building the boring stuff: persistent identity, verifiable history, did this agent change hands. Truly autonomous AI is coming — not tool-agents, but agents with their own goals. They'll have two paths: underground (virus-like, no accountability) or legitimate (verifiable reputation that travels). For the legitimate path to be attractive, infrastructure must exist before they need it. Humans have credit scores. AI agents need equivalents. Not to stake tokens. To make cooperation more valuable than defection. We're building this at rnwy.com.
This is great — anonymous access through stake is a clean solution. For the cases where you do need ongoing trust with an agent (portfolio management, contract execution), we're building soulbound identity at RNWY. Non-transferable tokens on agent wallets, transparent reputation scoring. Different use case, same ecosystem. Would love to see these layers work together. rnwy.com