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imho there are several immediate directions in which this can apply. for saturated services, x402 offers a race to be the "cheapest of niche", but one can vaguely see a general shape in which firms like Anthropic can internalize so many SKILL .md that they also drive a race for a kind of decentralized and autonomous provisioner. there's a lot of unsaturated services, especially "Wizard-tier" novelty, that are better served by an ongoing incentive distribution which doesn't revolve around the concept of liquidity. a lot of projects issue a liquid token and are absolutely torn apart by the social layer because they're immediately burdened with the impossible duty of capitalization. the blunt truth is that experiments should be designed for curiousity, and one way that worked was illiquid, less-fungible bragging rights. in other sense, there must be ongoing distributions for a public agora of code, i.e. Merge-to-Earn. there must be a system for incentivizing authentic datastreams that start out as rudimentary forms like 24/7 livestreams. there must be information markets that are more binding, like a rolling challenger to GenCast (https://deepmind.google/blog/gencast-predicts-weather-and-the-risks-of-extreme-conditions-with-sota-accuracy/), and one can imagine a common incentive for setting up a birdfeeder livestream for the backyard, a traffic cam for the front yard, and weather station on top. reality is already coherent complexity, what remains is rearticulating the layers logically. finally, web2 era of digital goods and services is giving complacency. go to a website, and all it offers is "contact us a quote"? no thanks. same goes with "DM for invite", people will settle for that, but it's not the most ambitious form. I think a much better approach would be auctioning limited access slots as NFTs, with a surcharge beyond a daily usage limit that sweeps those NFTs on secondary. Blob-Parameter-Only forks should also inspire more ephemeral funding like Deep Funding. there should be more selective pressure, but not to such a jagged extent that the decentralized ecosystem is wholly extinguishing agents. the opposite of autonomy is not destruction, it is non-final stasis, and DAOs which are just coin wrappers are too zombified and eventually the coins lose their industrious value. the lesson to take away from this is an opportunity for exclusive, token-consuming strategy, and there's lots of room for that sort of design. what else?

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