XION is now Verona — $18.5M raise, 69M verified interactions, 115 global brands. The CEO explains

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

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction — Anthony Anzalone, Verona
1:48 The Rebrand From Zion to Verona
3:22 ZK Proofs and Verified Internet Data
5:11 AI Agents and the Data Problem
7:07 Privacy, Opt-In, and Owning Your Data
9:13 How EarnOS and Ero Actually Work
14:18 Building an MCP Server for AI Agents
17:50 Token Burn, Revenue, and What's Next

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