Bitcoin established the foundational layer of digital trust with one core principle: don't trust, verify.

But verification traditionally stops at transactions—checking signatures and confirming balances. What if we could extend that same verification principle deeper, into the reasoning itself?

That's where the next evolution happens. While Bitcoin validates what moves across the network, emerging verification systems are tackling something more fundamental: they verify *why* things move. Instead of just cryptographic checks and balance confirmations, they audit the logic, the decisions, and the intelligence driving those transactions.

It's a shift from transaction-level transparency to reasoning-level transparency. The first generation asked: are the math and the money correct? The next generation asks: is the intelligence making the decision sound?

Both layers matter. Both are essential to building genuine trust in digital systems.