Eden Mark Certification

Eden Mark Certification is the consumer-visible layer of the policy stack. It is a proposed certification scheme allowing buyers of AI products and services to identify which of them meet the standards implied by the Eden Protocol, in the same way that safety marks and organic-food seals identify compliance in other domains. The proposal is a market mechanism, not a legal one.

What the mark would attest. Two things at minimum. First, that the manufactured system is embedded-aligned rather than filter-aligned: the value commitments are load-bearing at the substrate, not curated at output. Second, that the system's certification is verifiable: an outside party can, in principle, check the attestation rather than take it on trust. That second requirement is where Moral Genome Tokens sit in the stack: the class of verification objects the mark would rely on. The book does not describe those objects at implementation level, and this site does not either.

How it functions in the argument. The Eden Mark converts an architectural commitment into a market signal. That matters because the strongest incentive for a manufacturer to build an embedded-aligned system is that customers can tell it apart from a filter-aligned one. Without a mark, the two look alike from outside; with a mark, they do not. That is the standard function of a certification scheme in a market with imperfect information.

How it fits with the rest of the policy stack. Eden Mark Certification sits under the HARI Treaty (which would give the mark legal standing) and above the substrate layer (which would give the mark something to attest). It runs in parallel with Moral Assurance Bonds, which give a different kind of buyer, namely society, a downside if the mark turns out to have been mis-issued.

What the mark is not. It is not a brand or product. It is not a proposal to license alignment research. It is not a scheme in which the certification authority makes editorial choices about individual model behaviour. The mark attests to substrate-level design commitments and verification, not to model output.

Related: Eden Protocol; HARI Treaty; IAEAI; Moral Assurance Bonds; Moral Genome Tokens; Verification Challenge.

Evidence anchors. First placed on the public record 2 January 2026 in Infinite Architects (ISBN 978-1806056200). Companion to priority-claims ledger PC-017 (HARI Treaty).