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Hermes 9b2be10c77 Restructure economics doc into 27 org-roam interlinked nodes
Replace monolithic passepartout-economics.org with directory of
org-roam style nodes, each with :ID: property and cross-references
using [[id:uuid][title]] format.

27 nodes organized by theme:
- Core: index, triad overview, agora, stoa
- Revenue: verification appliance, domain gate packages, evaluation
  harness, skill marketplace, agora usernames, PDS service, compute marketplace
- Strategy: investment thesis, moats, licensing, patents, AI industry impact
- Analysis: lisp economics, sufficiency flip, time estimates, cost structure,
  gate rule encoding, upgrade lifecycle, biology parallels, symbolics comparison
- Big money: verification monopoly, infrastructure lock-in

Old file kept as archive with redirect links to new structure.
2026-05-21 19:36:02 +00:00

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Agora — The Society (Decentralized Network)

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: