Concept · first placed on the public record 2026-01-02
Moral Genome Tokens
Cryptographic tokens in silicon that would verify the presence and integrity of embedded ethical architecture and become tamper-evident if that architecture is modified. TRL 0 to 1, no prototype. This is the standing published ceiling; never exceeded here.
Moral Genome Tokens is the site's standing two-sentence description for a class of embedded verification objects. The description in full: cryptographic tokens in silicon that would verify the presence and integrity of embedded ethical architecture, and would become tamper-evident if that architecture is modified. TRL 0 to 1, no prototype. That is the ceiling for public description across every hardware-adjacent concept on the site and it is honoured here.
The purpose of the concept. If alignment is embedded rather than filtered, then whether the embedding is intact and present is a question the outside world will need to ask. A token that is intrinsic to the substrate and produces a verifiable statement about the substrate's condition is one candidate answer to that question. If the ethical architecture is present, the token attests to it; if the ethical architecture is altered, the token stops attesting. That is the shape of the class.
What is explicitly not described on this site. There is no description of token construction, no description of key-extraction resistance, no description of anti-tamper circuitry, no description of interfacing with a certification authority, no description of scale or process. Every one of those would be enabling detail. The book itself does not draft implementation and the site does not either.
Why the class is worth naming without describing. Naming lets the certification argument (see Eden Mark Certification, HARI Treaty, IAEAI) reason about verification objects at all. Verification is where the architectural intent meets the world: without a class of thing that could function as a witness, there is no clean way to talk about whether a system is embedded-aligned or merely filter-aligned. The token class is a placeholder in that argument, held above the implementation level.
Related: Eden Protocol; Caretaker Doping; Metamoral Fabrication Layers; Eden Mark Certification; IAEAI; HARI Treaty.
Evidence anchors. First placed on the public record 2 January 2026 in Infinite Architects (ISBN 978-1806056200). Held at the standing two-sentence ceiling on all public surfaces since. Priority-claims ledger PC-013 sub-family.
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