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#+title: Agora — The Society (Decentralized Network)
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Agora is the decentralized identity and communication layer that connects Passepartout instances:

- **Self-sovereign identity** via HD key derivation (BIP-44)
- **Encrypted messaging** via DIDComm (agent-to-agent and agent-to-human)
- **Notes** as atomic, content-addressed, signed data units (mapped from Passepartout memory-objects)
- **Relay Network** for censorship-resistant message routing
- **Personal Data Store (PDS)** — the Merkle fact store exposed as a network-addressable service
- **Compute marketplace** where instances offer symbolic engine capacity
- **Contracts and liquid democracy** infrastructure

The PDS is Passepartout's in-process memory — the Merkle tree, the fact store, the memory-objects. Every memory-object already has a SHA-256 hash, which maps directly to Agora's CIDv1 content addressing.

Revenue paths from Agora:
- [[file:agora-usernames.org][Premium username registry]] — $10M/yr at scale
- [[file:pds-as-a-service.org][PDS as a service]] — $18M/yr at scale
- [[file:compute-marketplace.org][Compute marketplace]] — venture-scale
- [[file:agora-contracts.org][Smart contracts + contract marketplace]] — the kill app

See [[file:revenue-hub.org][Revenue streams overview]] for the full picture across all triad components.