6/ The closest analog is VeriSign in 1997. HTTP worked fine for browsing. The moment the web became transactional, you needed to know the site was real. VeriSign became the cryptographic trust layer.
Alien is VeriSign for the agentic internet. Except instead of verifying websites, it verifies actors. Every agent transacting, voting, borrowing, or scraping needs a trust anchor. That's not a feature — it's infrastructure for the entire internet.
The difference: VeriSign was a private gatekeeper. Aliencoin's fair launch means no platform has a reason to resist embedding it. That's why this one goes further.