Where the numbers come from
A protocol that promises verifiability should not publish unverifiable numbers. Every market figure and third-party fact used on this site appears below with its primary source and how we label it. Vendor projections and announcements are labelled as such; estimates are flagged as estimates and never dressed up as measurements; and protocol economics appear only as the frozen cap and the ratified bands and priors published in the Protocol Whitepaper v1.0 — never as prices or offer terms.
Each figure and fact, its source and how we use it
| Figure | Source | How we use it |
|---|---|---|
| Machine (non-human) identities outnumber human identities ~50:1 | Omdia, December 2024; reported in IBM Think, The Practitioner’s Guide to Non-Human Identities (Clark & Forward, February 2026) | The scale of the accountability gap; the amortisation argument (one KYC backs N agents) |
| More than 1 billion active AI agents expected by 2029 | IDC (Rick Villars), December 2025 | An analyst projection, labelled as one: the growth curve the identity layer must survive, and why state must never scale with agents |
| 40% of enterprise applications with task-specific agents by end of 2026, up from <5% in 2025 | Gartner | An analyst projection, labelled as one: why the integration window is now (cited on the blog) |
| “With autonomy comes accountability” — the framing of agentic identity as an unsolved accountability problem | OpenID Foundation, Identity Management for Agentic AI (Tobin South et al., October 2025) | Primary corroborating source for the problem statement |
| Cloudflare’s Monetization Gateway puts a per-call price on any resource, paid in stablecoins | Cloudflare’s own launch announcement, 1 July 2026 | A vendor announcement, labelled as one: why sellers on the pay-per-use web now face the identity question (cited on the blog) |
| Anthropic’s finance agents include a KYC screener and ship wired to MCP connectors | Anthropic’s own product announcement, as cited on the blog in July 2026 | A vendor announcement, labelled as one: the compliance middle is being automated, and the tool is the unit of consumption (cited on the blog) |
| Reasoning is commoditising; durable value sits in evidence quality and operational infrastructure | Sardine’s public response to Anthropic’s announcement, as cited on the blog in July 2026 | A vendor statement, labelled as one: why the evidence, not the reasoning, is what a credential must carry (cited on the blog) |
| ERC-8004: three registries per EVM chain, its deployment and the integrations announced around it | The draft ERC-8004 specification on eips.ethereum.org and its Ethereum Magicians discussion thread; the projects’ own announcements; as of July 2026 | A standards draft and vendor announcements, labelled as such: the comparison with MintID (cited on the blog) |
| Web Bot Auth: HTTP message signatures that authenticate agent software, in the IETF process | The Web Bot Auth Internet-Draft at the IETF, as of July 2026 | A standards draft, labelled as one: software identity as the layer below an accountable principal (cited on the blog) |
This register is the single point of truth: a market figure or third-party fact that is not in it does not appear on this site. New primary sources are added here before they are used.
Not on this page, by design
No offer figures — no price, no fee schedule, and nothing for sale: the only route by which an offer could ever exist is the full EU MiCA Title II process. What is published is what the whitepaper publishes: the frozen cap of 108,000,000 tokens, and ratified bands with argued priors — among them 15% development, 25% public sale and 60% reward pool — which the independent simulation validates or argues against before genesis. Any other allocation, fee or price figure attributed to MintID elsewhere is not ours.