KYC (Know Your Customer)
The regulated process of verifying a real-world identity, inherited from finance. In open communities it is mostly absent. Its agentic-era successor concept is Know Your Agent — see Accountability.
In the bookExplained in Chapter 14: Ecosystem Battlegrounds
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