# Half of internet traffic is bots — and XION just rebuilt itself to fix that. Anthony Anzalone, Founder & CEO of Verona

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Published: 2026-06-24T05:30:02+00:00
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## Resource

Half of web traffic is already synthetic, and neither platforms nor enterprises have a reliable way to tell humans from AI agents at scale. VERIFICATION INFRASTRUCTURE is what Verona is building — and the rebrand from XION, announced June 17 alongside an $18.5M raise for flagship consumer app EarnOS and $30M in brand spend, is the moment that becomes a public priority. Anthony Anzalone, Founder and CEO of Verona, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews for his third appearance on the show. Anthony breaks down exactly what the XION-to-Verona shift changes — and what stays the same. The Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, and CosmWasm stack that powered walletless, gasless consumer crypto now underpins a decentralized network of verified information designed for AI agent commerce. From how Ero, the new consumer app from EarnOS, lets users earn from verified activity without ever exposing raw data, to how 115+ global brands including Uber, Amazon, Nike, and BMW already use this infrastructure for 69 million verified interactions across 3 million users — this is the clearest look at what a verification and intelligence layer for AI agents actually does. You'll learn: What changed and what didn't in the XION-to-Verona rebrand — how years of walletless, gasless infrastructure maps onto a new identity as a verification layer for AI agents How Ero works: what verified activity without exposing raw data means in practice, and what the $18.5M EarnOS raise is funding Why $VERONA's value is designed to track network revenue and usage rather than raw gas — and who's actually paying for the abstracted, gas-sponsored user experience 🔗 https://verona.dev 🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

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