The next step in the agentic economy is built on a different unit of value, Presence which is difficult to counterfeit convincingly at scale, if you verify it properly.
When you can measure real-world presence with confidence, you can make it commercially valuable. And when it becomes valuable, you can build new markets around it allowing people to earn rewards for using agents to participate safely in the real world.
For WandrLust this begins when businesses pay for verified presence at agreed locations. Destination organisations, tourism boards, councils and governments gain protected intelligence about movement across places and times. Someone walking along the coast could collect a virtual drop, collect another further along the walkway, then visit a café to redeem a coffee reward. Each verified collection is a data point at that place and time.
The person decides where to go. The ‘presence’ model keeps personal recommendations independent of paid influence, so businesses can fund opportunities without buying control of the persons recommendations. The agents support the choice.
The system is a verification engine, multiple signals, combined into one confidence score, designed to answer a practical question: Is this a real human visit to a real place, at this time, with enough evidence to qualify for the reward?
WandrLust’s engine combines different types of checks, Attestation - checks that requests come through a legitimate app instance on genuine hardware, helping resist emulators, modified apps and scripted abuse. Location fusion - goes beyond accepting a GPS coordinate, assessing location evidence against the designated place and cross-checking available signals.
Confidential computing is a central part of WandrLust’s privacy architecture. Stronger verification needs evidence. That evidence can reveal sensitive information about someone’s movements, so protecting presence is a part of the engineering from the beginning.
Confidential computing adds hardware-backed protection during processing, when software needs to use the data.
The processor encrypts their memory, helping protect sensitive evidence from access by the underlying cloud infrastructure, including the software that manages virtual machines. Approved verification software processes the evidence inside this protected environment. Remote attestation provides signed evidence about the environment, which is checked against an approved configuration before the keys needed to decrypt the data are released.
Confidential computing protects the evidence during processing. Privacy controls govern what leaves the system.
The ambition is clear. We can prove you were really there, without exposing your movement history. So privacy and commercial outcomes work together as one dependable system so verifying the agentic economy.
Jon Hargreaves | Partner at WandrLust | Capital & Strategic Relations
Help build the presence economy
We’re raising our pre-seed round to bring WandrLust to market. If you’re interested in the opportunity, contact our co-founder and CEO, Murray ‘Muz’ Scarce.
Get in touch at murray@wandrlust.io
