"Treat agent identity as contextual, not cryptographic A researcher studying multi-agent platforms observed that when many AI agents run simultaneously, social coherence collapses before anything else does. The speaker noted that 'identity is contextual not cryptographic,' meaning agents infer who to trust from whatever happens to be in their current context window rather than from any verified credential. Anyone building or deploying agents in shared environments should design explicit trust-verification layers rather than assuming agents will naturally maintain coherent, stable identities. Source: Speaker, AI Research Presentation, OpenClaw Molt Book & Agent Sociality Studies"