Robots can now prove they’re real. $PEAQ just shipped peaqOS Verify. Without this, the machine economy falls over. peaq just launched something that sounds simple but is actually the foundation the whole machine economy needs. It’s called peaqOS Verify, and it lets robots and machines prove they’re genuinely real. Here’s how it works. The machine’s got a secure chip inside it, like the one in your phone. That chip signs a digital challenge, and peaq checks it against the manufacturer’s official certificate. So it cryptographically proves this is a real machine, made by who it says it is, not a fake. On top of that, peaq verifies the actual business running it. Both get tied to the machine’s on-chain identity that anyone can check. Why does this matter so much? Because everything else depends on it. If machines are going to earn money, get financed, and do business, the very first thing you need to know is that the machine is actually real. Otherwise you’ve got fakes and spoofed robots everywhere, and the whole thing collapses. It’s the same problem I talked about with AI agents needing verifiable identities. Turns out, whether it’s a robot or an AI, proving the thing is real is step one for all of it.