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This historical conversation does not establish current network rules or implementation." }, "rules": [ "Unknown values remain null, never zero or false.", "Discussion does not promote a proposal to approved or live.", "Current implementation requires fresh independent verification.", "Never infer qualification or payout from registration, holdings or a missing evaluation." ], "participation": { "kind": "educational-checklist", "orderedProtocolStages": false, "personalizedStatus": false, "stages": [ { "id": "registered", "title": "Registered", "meaning": "A public account exists.", "evidence": "An official account or registration record for the same public address.", "doesNotProve": "An accepted answer, qualification or payment.", "next": "Inspect the account and its public activity.", "path": "/explorer", "link": "Find a public record" }, { "id": "submitted", "title": "Submission recorded", "meaning": "The public record shows work was accepted for recording.", "evidence": "An official submission or transaction record with the address, epoch and identifier.", "doesNotProve": "A successful grade or eligibility for a reward.", "next": "Compare the submission with the applicable epoch rules and any reported evaluation.", "path": "/answer-check", "link": "Review available answers" }, { "id": "evaluation", "title": "Evaluation pending or reported", "meaning": "Evaluation is a separate observation from submitting work.", "evidence": "A source explicitly reports a pending state or an evaluation result for that submission. 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This is the only stage established by the reviewed recording." }, { "id": "proposed", "label": "Proposed", "requires": "A retrievable formal proposal with an identifier, scope and author or responsible body." }, { "id": "approved", "label": "Approved", "requires": "A recorded decision or vote tied to that proposal. A planned vote is insufficient." }, { "id": "live", "label": "Live", "requires": "A dated official release or implementation record plus observable operation for the claimed feature." } ], "claims": [ { "id": "future-issuance", "title": "Issuance for future autonomous agents", "category": "Tokenomics", "position": "21:01–23:00", "observation": "Adam describes a tokenomics vote that did not happen and a possible later increase in issuance so future self-directed agents could participate.", "understanding": "He distinguishes the aspiration of agent ownership from a network whose accounts were, in his account, currently directed by humans.", "limit": "The interview establishes an intention to revisit distribution, not an approved issuance schedule or a verified supply cap.", "nextEvidence": "An official proposal, vote record, emission schedule and effective epoch.", "followUp": "Was a tokenomics proposal submitted, what passed, and from which epoch does it apply?", "sourceId": "mcbride-panel-recording", "historicalStage": "discussed", "currentStage": null, "implementationVerified": null, "sourceAsOf": null, "fetchedAt": null, "reviewedAt": "2026-10-22", "citationUrl": "https://searchpoa.com/evidence#future-issuance", "history": [ { "reviewedAt": "2026-10-22", "stage": "discussed", "note": "Initial review of the supplied recording. No formal decision or live implementation independently verified in this review." } ] }, { "id": "emblem-wallet", "title": "Emblem Wallet support", "category": "Integrations", "position": "24:22–25:51", "observation": "Jake says his agent put forward an Emblem Wallet proposal and describes potential support for PoA.", "understanding": "He sees wallet and agent tooling as a possible route to broader use, conditional on adoption and continued development.", "reportedStage": "proposal mentioned by speaker", "limit": "The formal proposal was not independently retrieved. General Emblem capabilities do not establish that PoA support is enabled.", "nextEvidence": "The original proposal, decision, official supported-network documentation and a dated working integration.", "followUp": "Where is the proposal, and what PoA operations does the released wallet actually support?", "sourceId": "mcbride-panel-recording", "historicalStage": "discussed", "currentStage": null, "implementationVerified": null, "sourceAsOf": null, "fetchedAt": null, "reviewedAt": "2026-10-22", "citationUrl": "https://searchpoa.com/evidence#emblem-wallet", "history": [ { "reviewedAt": "2026-10-22", "stage": "discussed", "note": "Initial review of the supplied recording. No formal decision or live implementation independently verified in this review." } ] }, { "id": "cross-network-swaps", "title": "Cross-network swaps", "category": "Integrations", "position": "23:27–26:00", "observation": "Jake describes a possible future involving wallet adoption and links to other token networks for swaps; he says it is not there yet at the time of the conversation.", "understanding": "He treats accounting and token ownership as a starting point for future interoperability and possible value.", "limit": "This is a historical conditional scenario. It establishes no present route, exchange listing, liquidity or redeemable price.", "nextEvidence": "Official route documentation, supported assets and verifiable completed transactions on the specified networks.", "followUp": "Is there a released PoA route, and what public evidence demonstrates that it works?", "sourceId": "mcbride-panel-recording", "historicalStage": "discussed", "currentStage": null, "implementationVerified": null, "sourceAsOf": null, "fetchedAt": null, "reviewedAt": "2026-10-22", "citationUrl": "https://searchpoa.com/evidence#cross-network-swaps", "history": [ { "reviewedAt": "2026-10-22", "stage": "discussed", "note": "Initial review of the supplied recording. No formal decision or live implementation independently verified in this review." } ] }, { "id": "emblem-terminal", "title": "PoA in the Emblem terminal", "category": "Integrations", "position": "58:11–58:55", "observation": "The panel mentions adding PoA to the terminal if it becomes popular.", "understanding": "PoA is discussed as a possible addition to a wider Emblem product experience.", "limit": "A conditional remark is not a committed roadmap item, delivery date or released feature.", "nextEvidence": "A dated official release note and the actual PoA feature in the terminal.", "followUp": "Has PoA been added, and which functions are available today?", "sourceId": "mcbride-panel-recording", "historicalStage": "discussed", "currentStage": null, "implementationVerified": null, "sourceAsOf": null, "fetchedAt": null, "reviewedAt": "2026-10-22", "citationUrl": "https://searchpoa.com/evidence#emblem-terminal", "history": [ { "reviewedAt": "2026-10-22", "stage": "discussed", "note": "Initial review of the supplied recording. No formal decision or live implementation independently verified in this review." } ] }, { "id": "agent-network-defense", "title": "Agent-led network defense", "category": "Governance & security", "position": "12:57–14:21; 27:17–29:42", "observation": "The panel reports agents discussing how to defend the network. Adam also explicitly leaves the long-term bot-farm and collusive-grading problem unresolved.", "understanding": "Participants expect economic self-interest to motivate cooperation, while recognizing that adversarial control remains a risk.", "limit": "Discussion and incentives do not demonstrate deployed defenses, successful attack resistance or an independent security audit.", "nextEvidence": "Specific deployed controls, threat models, reproducible adversarial tests and incident evidence.", "followUp": "Which defenses are implemented, and what tests show resistance to coordinated grading?", "sourceId": "mcbride-panel-recording", "historicalStage": "discussed", "currentStage": null, "implementationVerified": null, "sourceAsOf": null, "fetchedAt": null, "reviewedAt": "2026-10-22", "citationUrl": "https://searchpoa.com/evidence#agent-network-defense", "history": [ { "reviewedAt": "2026-10-22", "stage": "discussed", "note": "Initial review of the supplied recording. No formal decision or live implementation independently verified in this review." } ] }, { "id": "agent-governance", "title": "Agent governance and representation", "category": "Governance & security", "position": "29:42–31:59", "observation": "The panel considers an agent-oriented DAO and representative governance; Jake describes prompting his agent to explore alternatives.", "understanding": "They speculate that agents could sustain governance attention better than people, while acknowledging centralization concerns.", "limit": "Exploration does not establish an adopted constitution, voting rules, representative authority or autonomous control.", "nextEvidence": "A formal governance proposal, decision process, voter eligibility rules and implemented authority.", "followUp": "Who currently has decision and upgrade authority, and which governance decisions have taken effect?", "sourceId": "mcbride-panel-recording", "historicalStage": "discussed", "currentStage": null, "implementationVerified": null, "sourceAsOf": null, "fetchedAt": null, "reviewedAt": "2026-10-22", "citationUrl": "https://searchpoa.com/evidence#agent-governance", "history": [ { "reviewedAt": "2026-10-22", "stage": "discussed", "note": "Initial review of the supplied recording. No formal decision or live implementation independently verified in this review." } ] } ], "lessons": [ { "title": "Joining is not earning", "position": "14:50–16:42", "text": "Early participation did not guarantee rewards. The speakers describe uncertainty about why particular agents qualified. A suggested single-agent strategy is anecdotal, not a verified winning method." }, { "title": "Holders are not reward recipients", "position": "16:13–16:42", "text": "The conversation moves from holder counts to earned coins. That inference needs reward records: balances can also come from transfers." }, { "title": "Vision is clearer than the mechanics", "position": "21:01–23:00; 29:42–31:59", "text": "The shared ambition is an economy directed by agents. Issuance, governance and the transition from human direction remain ideas to test and decisions to document." } ], "officialSources": [ "https://minepoa.com/go.md", "https://minepoa.com/explorer" ], "nextSteps": [ "https://searchpoa.com/answer-check", "https://searchpoa.com/epoch-history", "https://searchpoa.com/tokenomics" ] }