{"id":"rank.independence.v1","title":"Independence score (seed-based, best path)","unit":"score in {0, 0.125, 0.25, 0.5, 1}","chain_set":"eip155:8453 (Base)","window":"rolling 30 days (score); all time (score_all)","definition":"1 if, in the window, the agent made a counted payment that left its control (rank.l7plus.v2) to a seed; otherwise 0.5 times the best score of any agent OUTSIDE the agent's own operator set that paid one of the agent's payees, over at most three hops: the single best path from a seed, with the product of decays along it, never a sum. A seed is an address paid in such payments by agents from at least three different operator sets, or an address carrying a label (an exchange, a bridge, a venue, a protocol); bot-like contracts (counterparty.botlike.v1) are not seeds. An operator set (cluster.ratio.v1) is the registrations tied by the same bound wallet, the same current owner, the same minter or the same first funder, each link ignored when it ties more than 50 registrations.","method":"afg-independence, daily at 03:10 UTC, from money_events, bindings, registry owners, mints and first funders. Cheng & Friedman (2005) prove that no symmetric score (one that depends only on graph shape, such as a count of counterparties) is sybilproof, and that a seed-based score with diminishing returns aggregated by the best path is; this is that score. Fresh identities in the agent's own set never help it; identities outside it help only by paying seeds themselves.","excludes":["Payments into the agent's own positions, to its own addresses, or bridged back to it (rank.l7plus.v2).","Routing hops (pass-through) and payments before registration."],"does_not_assert":["That a score of 1 means a good agent: it means the agent paid something with demand from three or more operators.","That two registrations in one operator set belong to one person: they share a chain fact.","That the seed set is complete: a service paid by two operators only is not yet a seed."],"source":"AFG-Pulse independence score","since":"2026-10-13","revisions":[],"body_sha256":"afd3630f03e58017ec92fcbbe40fb686d491e05aa41a8e28cfb452e122acae42","url":"https://agenticfinancegraph.com/def/rank.independence.v1","ladder":"https://agenticfinancegraph.com/ai-agent-liveness-methodology-l0-l9-ladder","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Agentic Finance Graph — https://agenticfinancegraph.com"}