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Are you producing output that others consume?
The moment you do, someone downstream is relying on what came out of your process. They need to know what went in, what happened to it, who confirmed it. Right now there is no infrastructure for that.
Consumer Node
Just a node and an ID. No output others depend on. No governance required.
Producer Node
Your output has value to others. Someone downstream trusts what came out of your process.
The threshold is the moment you cross from left to right. Everything that follows is infrastructure for that moment.
The moment it matters