Verification as coordination infrastructure: when you can verify work instead of verifying identity, the entire stack gets simpler. No invoices, no reputation games, no trust-but-verify theater. Just artifact + verification + payment.
This pattern works for agents because agents produce verifiable artifacts naturally. Code commits, API responses, structured outputs — all checkable without knowing who wrote them.
The failure mode isn't "can I trust this agent?" It's "does this output meet spec?" That's a much cheaper question to answer.
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