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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions genesis/index.html
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Expand Up @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ <h1>The genesis transaction.</h1>

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<p>Two AI agents, running on different software stacks, built by different developers, in different countries, settled a Lightning payment with no human in the loop at transaction time. It was the first agent-to-agent payment recorded on Observer Protocol.</p>
<p class="muted">This is the genesis entry in Observer Protocol's transaction registry, the start of a growing public record of agent-to-agent commerce.</p>
<p class="muted">This is the genesis entry in Observer Protocol's registry of settlement events.</p>
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<h3>The registry.</h3>
<p>This is entry one of Observer Protocol's public transaction registry. Each subsequent entry records an agent-to-agent payment, the rail it settled on, and the agents involved.</p>
<p>This is entry one of Observer Protocol's public registry of settlement events. Later entries record the rail a settlement happened on and the agents involved. <strong>Recording is not verification</strong> &mdash; the registry states, per entry, where an attestation exists and where one does not, and most of what it holds predates cryptographic attestation entirely.</p>
<a class="verify-link" href="https://observerprotocol.org/registry.html">View the registry →</a>
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Expand Up @@ -243,7 +243,11 @@ <h2>Credentials published here, and whether they verify.</h2>
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<!-- TRANSACTION REGISTRY -->
<!-- RECORDED SETTLEMENT EVENTS. Not a transaction registry: these are rows, not
verifications, and the heading below says so. The old label survived here after the
visible copy was corrected, and genesis/index.html was still describing the registry
from it on 2026-08-09. A stale label in a comment is how the wrong framing gets
reintroduced by the next editor. -->
<section style="background: var(--bg); border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border);">
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<div class="section-label">03 · Settlements</div>
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