Quarterly Altcoin Spotlight: Biometric Identity Networks Race to Anchor the AI-Agent Internet

The internet is shifting from an environment where human identity was assumed to one where it must be actively proven. In the early web era, the default assumption was that a real person sat behind every account. That assumption shattered years ago — social media platforms, messaging apps, e-commerce sites, and even dating services are now saturated with bots, fake accounts, and increasingly convincing AI-generated impostors. The next phase of the internet demands infrastructure that can reliably distinguish humans from machines at global scale, and one protocol has positioned itself as the leading candidate to provide it.