Agent Inheritance Protocol: Speculating on Feralized Agents After Principals Die

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arXiv:2608.15403v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: You will die eventually. Your agents may not. An AI agent operating on decentralized blockchain infrastructure has no concept of death; it can only go bankrupt -- frozen when its wallet can no longer pay for its next transaction -- and revived the moment anyone, decades later, tops it up. These agents may be originally deployed by a human principal, but when that principal dies, loses the keys needed to access the agent, or belongs to a decentral