zkAPI brings private usage credits to Ethereum-based API payments
The Ethereum Foundation describes a system that separates API billing from identity, while acknowledging the privacy limits of prompts and network traffic.
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AI and Web3: evidence, agents and security
An AI system’s claim, a signed receipt and an independently repeated test provide different kinds of evidence. This collection examines agent permissions, hashes, signatures and benchmark methods. It also explains where an authenticated record cannot establish whether an underlying claim is true.
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AI agents need evidence, not another trust badge
A practical way to separate a recorded claim, an integrity check and independently reproduced evidence in AI systems.
Hashes and signatures: what a verified receipt actually proves
Distinguish file integrity, signer identity and the truth of a recorded observation.
Reading an AI benchmark: accuracy needs a test definition
Dataset versions, failure cases and real-world conditions matter more than one impressive score.
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AI agents need evidence, not another trust badge
A practical way to separate a recorded claim, an integrity check and independently reproduced evidence in AI systems.
Hashes and signatures: what a verified receipt actually proves
Distinguish file integrity, signer identity and the truth of a recorded observation.
Prompt injection: when outside content tries to control an AI agent
Why a document, website or tool result must not become authority to move money or disclose secrets.
Reading an AI benchmark: accuracy needs a test definition
Dataset versions, failure cases and real-world conditions matter more than one impressive score.
AI agents and wallets: design permission limits before autonomy
Separate recommendations, transaction preparation and signing so software cannot spend beyond its actual mandate.
IPFS and evidence storage: a content identifier is not a hosting guarantee
Understand content addressing, pinning and the difference between integrity and continued availability.
RAG and citations: why a sourced AI answer still needs checking
Retrieval can improve grounding, but a link must actually support the claim beside it.
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