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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:

• Premium username registry — $10M/yr at scale
• PDS as a service — $18M/yr at scale
• Compute marketplace — venture-scale
• Smart contracts + contract marketplace — the kill app

See Revenue streams overview for the full picture across all triad components.