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A Parliament of the Nonhuman

Fifty agents argue on behalf of species, biomes, and climate systems—and win two tracks at PL Genesis.

Regen Atlas took first place in two tracks at PL_Genesis. Inside the interspecies parliament we built—where species, biomes, climate systems, and economic models argue over bioregional proposals.

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The Illegibility Arbitrage

The agent payments stack treats compute as locationless—and the mispricing is the largest unclaimed opportunity in the space.

When swarms meet geography. The agent payments stack treats compute as locationless — and the mispricing is the largest unclaimed opportunity in technology today.

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Why Spatial Science Never Got Its Protein Data Bank

The missing shared substrate that keeps geospatial science from compounding.

One discipline built a commons. Place never did. On the institutional failure behind the missing compositional layer for place-specific knowledge.

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The Interface Is the Intelligence

Why the surface an agent acts through shapes what it is capable of thinking.

Intelligence as a function of interface legibility. Governance implications for AI regulation and natural capital accounting.

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AI Institutional Design Atlas

Mapping institutional design primitives onto the coordination failures already appearing in deployed multi-agent systems.

Mapping governance mechanisms, failure modes, and design gaps for multi-agent AI systems.

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Ecofrontiers — End of Year Review 2025

From exploration to consolidation. A year working across research, consulting, and infrastructure.

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When The Toolbox Outgrows The Workshop

When your tools start doing the work, the constraint moves from capability to judgement.

On the organizational cost of too many tools and not enough constraints. Written as part of the Ethereum Foundation Devcon Scholar Program.

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Intents, x402, and Enshrined Thermorealism

Machine-payable HTTP, intent settlement, and the physical cost of computation.

What happens when digital systems finally respond to the laws of thermodynamics and the imperative of planetary stewardship?

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Ownership in Cryptonetworks

A control-network design sketch: who actually holds power in a token system.

Foundational essay on property rights, governance, and value capture in decentralized systems.

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