Verifiable Contribution Without Global Deanonymization

Short summary

As AI cheapens artifact production, the scarce signal shifts from who can write something to who actually participated and accepted responsibility. The WebAZ protocol proposes attesting actions rather than binding everything to a single global identity, preserving pseudonymity while keeping contributions verifiable. Five design properties—contextual attestations, selective disclosure, pluralistic identity, human-accountable delegation, and bounded economic state—frame the approach for AI-era work without default surveillance.

• •AI makes artifact creation cheap, shifting value toward verifiable participation and accountability
• •WebAZ proposes action-based attestations instead of one-person-one-identity to avoid global deanonymization
• •Five protocol properties: contextual attestations, selective disclosure, pluralistic identity, human-accountable delegation, bounded economic state

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