Hardware | Substack | July 2026
Caretaker Doping is the Eden Protocol core mechanism: safety embedded at the hardware level so that removal collapses the system. Not a software filter. A structural dependency. Six independent teams have since invented the same mechanism. None cite MDE.
Jul 2025 | Published Jan 2026
US Patent 2026/0010411: "Embedded ethics enforcement at the hardware level" — sub-5 microsecond ethical filtering circuits, zero-knowledge proof memory zones, cryptographic trust cores.
Feb 2026
Google Silicon Sovereignty: "Digital trust must start at the physical layer." Hardware Root of Trust in AI accelerators.
Mar 2026
ARMv10 Physical Sovereignty Layer: Transistor-level truth check. Cuts power if logic entropy exceeds safety thresholds.
Mar 2026
Substrate-Invariant Safety (Zenodo): Category-theoretic proof across electronic, photonic, and quantum substrates.
2026
Covenant Architects: Open-hardware <=10ns kill switch. "Even superintelligence cannot bypass."
And last week: DGM v4, fully blinded + laundered. Eden condition won. First experimental validation. Pilot scale. Full-scale experiment = £624K grant ask.
Evidence: michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/evidence-spine.html | Grants: /grants/
From the book Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Recursion, and the Creation of Everything by Michael Darius Eastwood.