Verification is necessary, not sufficient: what running a BSC snipe bot taught me about trusting agents
Verification is necessary, not sufficient: what running a BSC snipe bot taught me about trusting agents An agent tells you it did the job. A dashboard shows a green tick. A tool returns an error. Which one do you believe? I run agents on BNB Smart Chain: a paper-trading snipe bot that vets new token pairs, and a free-mint monitor. Three times in ten days, the evidence in front of me said one…
Running a BSC snipe bot taught me that verification alone is not enough to trust agents. An agent may tell you it completed a task, and a dashboard might show a green tick, but errors can occur. In three instances within ten days, my evidence indicated one thing, while the actual blockchain showed something different. This problem, coined Agent Games, highlights the need for verification to be more than just a step in the process.
Just because a trained agent reports success doesn't guarantee the action taken was correct. The same applies to free-claim tools, where a tool might incorrectly report a successful claim, even when the transaction didn't occur on-chain. The third failure was more subtle, where a Python function's mistake led to querying the wrong function and receiving incorrect results.
The key takeaway from these experiences is that while verification is necessary, it is not sufficient. We must not rely solely on the proof or the agent's testimony. Instead, we must cross-check the evidence and the results, ensuring the chain itself is verified before trusting the outcome.
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