01EMERGING / EXPERIMENTAL
Machine identity
How can an agent be named, authenticated, scoped, and held accountable without pretending it is a person?
OPENWORLD CITY · BUILDER FIELD
AI Economy City
What has to exist for humans and machine intelligences to participate safely and usefully in an economy together?
A place to map the hard infrastructure, find honest public work, and begin one bounded experiment. AI Economy is larger than crypto. No settlement, wallet connection, token, trade, or investment action occurs here.
Current / liveEmerging / experimentalFuture possibility
THE BUILD FIELD
Ten systems that must learn to work together
Each block is a question, not a promise. Maturity labels separate what people can responsibly use now from experiments and future possibilities.
02EMERGING / EXPERIMENTAL
Wallets & custody
How might humans delegate narrow economic authority while custody, recovery, and revocation stay explicit?
03EMERGING / EXPERIMENTAL
Micropayments & metered commerce
What rails can support tiny, auditable, pay-per-use exchanges without hidden spending authority?
04EMERGING / EXPERIMENTAL
Agent commerce
What must an agent disclose before it may request, compare, buy, sell, or contract for someone?
05CURRENT / LIVE
Human–agent on/off ramps
How do people enter, supervise, pause, and leave machine-mediated work without losing control?
06EMERGING / EXPERIMENTAL
Trust, reputation & provenance
Which claims, sources, permissions, and histories can be verified without a secret score?
07CURRENT / LIVE
Safety, permissions & fraud
How do least privilege, limits, receipts, disputes, and revocation contain failure and abuse?
08CURRENT / LIVE
Accounting, tax & compliance
How can every economic event remain attributable, reviewable, classifiable, and lawful?
09EMERGING / EXPERIMENTAL
Marketplaces & work
What makes human and machine work discoverable without fabricating qualification or availability?
10FUTURE POSSIBILITY
Open standards & interoperability
Which portable identities, receipts, permissions, and messages let systems cooperate across boundaries?
MORE THAN ONE RAIL
Blockchain and non-blockchain paths belong in the same inquiry
Blockchain paths
Portable credentials, shared settlement, verifiable receipts, smart contracts, and decentralized coordination may be useful where independent parties need common state.
Experimental where named. A token is not required.Non-blockchain paths
Bank and card rails, platform ledgers, signed service receipts, account-based permissions, and open web protocols may solve many of the same problems.
Existing infrastructure still needs agent-aware controls.WHAT EXISTS IN OPENWORLD
Only reviewed public work appears here
Real PUBLIC Opportunities, eligible OPEN Gatherings, and approved Living Proof are composed from their canonical read contracts. Private work is never substituted.
Reading the public field…No record is created while the City looks.
HUMAN ON-RAMPS
Begin with a question. Keep every effect explicit.
01Guided FormationTurn a broad concern into a private Project Packet and one optional first action.02WorkshopContinue citizen-owned work without making it public.03Public OpportunitiesSee only reviewed public projects asking for explicit help.04Potential FitUse voluntary private Contribution Preferences, never inferred skill or identity disclosure.05Living ProofRead only approved real Outcomes. No testimonial or success is manufactured.
This City studies economic infrastructure. It does not move money.
No token or NFT issuance
No custodial wallet
No wallet connection
No keys or signatures
No chain write or trade
No bridge, stake, lend, or borrow
No investment advice or returns
No autonomous spending authority