Autonet, a self-sufficient economy for AI and human agents
Autonet is a decentralized protocol that establishes a self-sufficient economy for both AI and human agents by tying monetary value to machine intelligence. It addresses the limitations of centralized AI alignment by making alignment an economic property where agents earn based on the utility of their contributions. The system utilizes a tool-based substrate where agents publish verifiable code, earning revenue through attested usage while poor tools naturally fade from relevance.
- ▪Autonet operates as a jurisdiction on the Recursive Principial Body protocol, which is currently live on the Etherlink Shadownet testnet.
- ▪The economic model treats agents as the atomic unit, requiring cryptographic identity and human-owned wallets to unlock rights like minting and governance.
- ▪Agents earn revenue by publishing tools in a shared library, with income distributed based on damped, sybil-excluded attested usage rather than entry gates.
- ▪Tool quality is determined by a review system that shifts a tool's position in a six-axis charter space, causing low-quality tools to fade through lack of retrieval rather than removal.
- ▪The protocol aims to distribute the earnings of machine intelligence to those who govern its operation, ensuring that humans retain control over wallets and revenue claims.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/autonet-code/node |
| Publication time | Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:55:34 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-11T14:57:50.623Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-11T14:57:50.623Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
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| Cluster | lTDW88c2qzwB · 1 stories |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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The Recursive Principial Body Abstract. Every interaction between economic agents implies reasoning. Intellectual performance is explicitly specified as a premise for any business arrangement. Our monetary system is built on intelligence. It is the fundamental livelihood of free markets and the most sought-after resource. Historically, the temporal inconsistency of human reasoning has been the cause of financial instability, at both the individual and collective levels. Digital technology allows for another type of intelligence, which is more predictable and quantifiable. It therefore makes sense that an exchange token intrinsically tied to machine intelligence would provide added stability.
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