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The Map We Never Had
Why a shared language of correctness may matter more than any single tool — and what the Blockchain Property Ontology is trying to build.
Research & Collaboration
Building the economic infrastructure for the age of artificial intelligence.
The Intelligence Economy Institute advances the economic, financial, and governance infrastructures that the intelligence economy will require — convening finance institutions, regulators, researchers, and technologists around evidence, not hype.
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Publications & research
Original articles, reports, and a curated stream of external writing, threads, and resources from across the field.
Tokenfrastructure
Between Intent and Execution
How the layer between a language model and the system that acts on its behalf determines whether agentic AI can be trusted with consequence.
Tokenfrastructure
The Unglamorous Rebuilding of Equity Markets, in Code
Why building tokenised-equity markets ends up looking like programmable traditional finance — order books, DvP settlement, and deterministic compliance.
Tokenfrastructure
The Plumbing Beneath the Machines
Why AI agents will require a new substrate beneath payments — and how machine-speed, programmable infrastructure reshapes the economics of automated commerce.
IEI Article
The Intelligence Economy Needs an Accounting Layer
As autonomous systems begin to transact, allocate capital, and incur obligations, the economy needs a settlement and accounting layer that machines can read and auditors can trust.
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IEI Article
Pricing Machine Decisions: Toward Markets for Autonomous Work
If agents are to allocate scarce resources efficiently, they need price signals built for machine-speed decisions. We examine what a market for autonomous work would require — and where today's mechanisms fall short.
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Areas of focus
Where the infrastructure has to be built
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Economic Infrastructure
Markets, pricing, and settlement systems for autonomous and agentic economic activity.
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Financial Systems
Capital formation, payments, and risk frameworks as AI reshapes intermediation.
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Governance & Standards
Accountability, auditability, and the institutional rules that keep AI markets legible.
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Tokenization & Settlement
Programmable assets and verifiable settlement — the connective tissue between AI systems and real-world value.
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