Replay of round 5
One round of the memory arm, step by step: what it read from Walrus Memory, what it decided to buy and why, the payment on Sui, how the answer was graded, and the belief version it wrote back.
Memory arm: 2 paid answers for 0.020 USDC, 1 refusal, 0 wrong answers accepted. Blind arm, same round: 2 paid answers for 0.020 USDC, 0 wrong answers accepted.
1Read memory
Before buying anything, the agent recalls its beliefs from Walrus Memory. These are the newest version of each belief written before round 5, which is what a recall returns. The run did not log its recalls; the trace flag that prints them was added for the 2026-11-03 rerun, where the recalled versions matched the newest ones written.
Seller For Version Trust Last result Cooldown until Blob Control seller (ours) market prices v4 0.79 bought on trust, not checked – _ULXcntI…xrF8Sui Address Inspector address facts v4 0.79 bought on trust, not checked – JIBXJqUL…Suu8PipTradeDex market prices v1 0.67 checked, right – uuhQjYkE…7AeQControl seller (ours) address facts v1 0.67 checked, right – hwBjNu88…6tp0AgentProof endpoint checks v2 0.26 failed, nothing delivered 15:04 UTC foxchlza…64ZsOmnia endpoint verify endpoint checks v2 0.26 dead route 15:04 UTC LyV1InDE…gBycControl seller (ours) swap quotes v2 0.50 bought on trust, not checked – oO2zUouH…YYDQ2Decide
The trust policy is plain code over those beliefs: below the 0.6 floor a seller gets only canaries; in a cooldown it gets nothing; above the floor, the cheapest good seller wins, with spot checks that thin out as trust grows. If a checked answer fails, it tries the next seller once in the same round.
address factsSui Address Inspector independent, as a purchase on trust. Reason it gave: “cheapest good answer at trust 0.79”.
market pricesControl seller (ours) control (ours), as a purchase on trust. Reason it gave: “cheapest good answer at trust 0.79”.
endpoint checksRefused to buy. Reason it gave: “no seller is trusted and none is due a canary”.
3Pay
Each purchase is an x402 payment in USDC on Sui mainnet. Gas price is 0: these are gasless transfers.
Sui Address Inspector independent · address facts- Paid
- 0.010 USDC
- Sui transaction
Ck9yCoTCdNcEX6znZQSU4ssYb4EvYDKShqaFcHMSXRqh- Answer in
- 1.4 s
- At
- 14:32:28 UTC
Control seller (ours) control (ours) · market prices- Paid
- 0.010 USDC
- Sui transaction
HUueJo3XvXbuXdpzZQf2V7Z8n1oJv256hejW4NmKA3yK- Answer in
- 1.0 s
- At
- 14:32:34 UTC
4Grade
Its own check compares the answer with chain truth read through Tatum: balances for address facts, the deepest native USDC/SUI pool for market prices. Answers bought on trust are not checked by the agent. The audit is the experiment's scoring, which checks every answer; the agent never sees it.
Sui Address Inspector · address facts- Its own check
- bought on trust, not checked
- The audit
- right (all 21 balances matched the chain)
Control seller (ours) · market prices- Its own check
- bought on trust, not checked
- The audit
- right (price within 0.08% of the reference)
5Remember
Each purchase becomes a verdict and a new version of that seller's belief, both written to Walrus Memory. The next round starts by reading these.
Sui Address Inspector · address facts- Verdict memory
I1DXIEZJ…saH4intwiceshy-verdicts- Belief written
- v5: trust 0.79 → 0.79. bought unchecked on a trust of 0.79
- Walrus blob
l2aS1QW6NPmkgec8Smulq1AG5XQbKV_pIHdWeyrWMSQintwiceshy-belief-inspector-address-facts
Control seller (ours) · market prices- Verdict memory
jN9JqFhu…-tIMintwiceshy-verdicts- Belief written
- v5: trust 0.79 → 0.79. bought unchecked on a trust of 0.79
- Walrus blob
T7GNDA9MPUPuRc04oUHOwuxBR5Byr1lyeJ9wdaaRs54intwiceshy-belief-control-market-price
The blind arm in the same round
Same market, same round, no memory and no checks: it takes the cheapest listing every time.
| For | Seller | USDC | Transaction | Audit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| address facts | Sui Address Inspector independent | 0.010 | 8CYCMv87…fsyX | right (all 1 balances matched the chain) |
| market prices | Control seller (ours) control (ours) | 0.010 | 6HkuqmyN…jzR3 | right (price within 0.04% of the reference) |
| endpoint checks | AgentProof independent | 0.000 | – | failed, nothing delivered: signed payment offered, seller returned HTTP 500, nothing settled |
| endpoint checks | Omnia endpoint verify independent | 0.000 | – | dead route: HTTP 404 before any payment |
Other rounds
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