Never really questioned what verification meant.

Proof shows up, someone checks it, done.

Then I actually looked at what OpenGradient checks.

It's not one step — it's a few, stacked.

First: is the attestation itself legit?

Fine, but that only tells me the evidence is real.

It still doesn't tell me what the evidence is actually proving.

Then it checks the code hash against an approved list.

And that's where I paused. OpenGradient isn't even looking at the AI's answer yet.

It's checking whether the request ran in the right environment.

Different question entirely.

Then the connection gets checked too, which I didn't expect.

Trust apparently doesn't stop at the secure environment.

OpenGradient still needs one more link before the process can move on.

Last comes the signing key used during settlement.

By then I'd stopped thinking of verification as a single checkpoint.

It felt more like a chain where every link only works because the one before it already did.
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