Funding the Commons March 14-15th!
luma.com/ftc-sf-2026?
New Paper: Some Simple Economics of AGI
The central argument is that AI makes execution cheap, while human verification remains limited. AI becomes more useful when it works from truth instead of inference built on broken systems and weak claims.
Link to Paper: arxiv.org/html/2602.20...
The Problem We Should Solve Right Now! There are ways!
“The decisive divide is above vs below the algorithm. Those who design and own learning systems capture capital-like returns; those whose knowledge is absorbed become commoditised labour.”
Agentics are coming fast! B2C 1 trillion US. B2B 15 trillion.
McKinsey $1T in B2C orchestrated revenue in U.S by 2030 & $3T–$5T globally by 2030. Gartner: $15T of B2B spending by 2028 across supply chains and services.
www.gartner.com/en/articles/...?
www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...?
FUN TO KNOW: From the @NYTimes on Venezuela’s new president: Ms. Rodríguez is a follower of the Indian guru Sai Baba, who died in 2011. In Venezuela, other prominent followers of the guru include Mr. Maduro and his wife, Ms. Flores.
Dignity and SDG-type values are structural properties of new Digital Public Infrastructure technology. Working on-chain lets everyone bargain on a level playing field, walk away from extractive relationships, regain privacy, and trust transactions.
Read all 10!
www.weave3.org/p/on-chain-f...?
open.substack.com/pub/crafts/p...
If we want a better internet, we have to start with the truth. #signyourwork
If we want technology to work, we have to begin with the truth.
The real risk now (for people, products, work, everything) is structural exclusion from the agentic economy. The strength of a firm’s SCA is inversely proportional to the distance between signed work (Trust) and Value Creation.
Weekend thinking: In truly permissioned on-chain marketing, the product itself is the communication channel. Customers grant permission for brands to send care instructions, resale opportunities, or upgrades directly to the wallet. #web3 #onchain #agenticmarketing
The UK Advertising Standards Authority just banned sustainability ads from @Nike, @Superdry, and @Lacoste for not having "robust evidence" - of the claims.
Only JSON-LD structured data can provide advertise-able proof.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#Greenwashing #SustainabilityMarketing #JSONLD
Climate regulations and the Agentic Economy invert the economic calculus. They turn opacity from a source of profit into an existential liability.
#cllimate #agenticeconomy #fashion
www.weave3.org/p/whats-behi...
This is what everyone has been missing about luxury fashion’s growing subcontractor scandals. Fashion's problem today is they chose the wrong technology path. The problem going forward is that investments that can't see informal ecosystems are sunk costs.
www.weave3.org/p/whats-behi...
Legacy ERP and Ethereum-style systems use JSON/JSON-RPC to capture transactions. Only JSON-LD can capture the messy physical reality of work, culture, and daily life.
#structureddata #unstructureddata
Shopify just announced enhanced agentic shopping tools (on top of their regular e-commerce). The enhancements are new services that make it easier to feed agents with the data they need to convert.
www.shopify.com/news/winter-...
#shopify #agenticcommerce #agenticshopping
What does the retail sector need in 2026?
Influencers took over marketing because they could move opinion and merchandise. If we believe McKinsey's $3–5 trillion agentic economy, the same logic applies.
Sign your work.
I’m starting to think that this is the easiest way to describe #Web3. #Structureddata uses a spreadsheet-like format that machines read with speed and confidence. #Unstructured data is everything else and needs formatting before machines can search, group, and analyze it.
Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year…is WHITE?
I missed that in Project 2025, but sure. Makes sense.🤣🤣🤣
www.pantone.com/color-of-the...?
#white
#pantone
#coloroftheyear
#ofcourseitis
Technology platforms & incumbent firms built Competitive Advantage by controlling facts & relationships, which separated value creation from trust. The new advantage comes from collapsing that distance.
#AI #DPI #SIGNYOURWORK
EU businesses misallocate Green Deal spending on DPPs, climate audits, and reporting because they treat compliance as tasks. Most current solutions use JSON and JSON-RPC, even though the ESPR specifies JSON-LD, the W3.org standard = sunk costs.
www.weave3.org
Technology platforms & incumbent firms built Competitive Advantage by controlling facts & relationships, which separated value creation from trust. The new advantage comes from collapsing that distance.
#AI #DPI #SIGNYOURWORK
www.weave3.org/p/sign-your-...
The Choice
Strategic flexibility, robust permissioned data, clarity and agentic prosperity.
Or, structural blindness, sunk costs, and the continued funding of negative externalities in informal value chains. Oh…and a $3 to $5 trillion sales opp.
www.weave3.org/p/turn-clima...
Fashion's Climate Compliance Accesses the $5 Trillion Agentic Economy
This post explores a “Commons Option”— low-risk, open-source infrastructure that turns compliance costs into access to the projected $5 trillion agentic economy.
Read more: www.weave3.org/p/turn-clima...
“Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'"—Angela Davis
Planning for California’s tracing and recycling laws is happening now.
Join the Textile Renewal Alliance Informational Webinar
Wednesday Nov 12, 2025
10am – 11am (Pacific Time - Los Angeles)
textilerenewalalliance.org
"The H&M Foundation just called on fashion to stop thinking in silos because it won't hit net zero unless it operates as interconnected systems—spanning materials, manufacturing, policy, investment, and consumer behavior."
hmfoundation.com/wp-content/u...?
open.substack.com/pub/crafts/p... The lack of standards buried the work of 200 million Indian hand weavers beneath fast fashion for 20 years.
This idea needs a convening institution or history could repeat in Web3.
500 Million in grants to redirect the arc of AI back towards people
www.fastcompany.com/91420384/exc...
humanityai.ai
omidyarnetworks
#AI #people #creativity #progress #democracy
Centralized economic models are dying because the pursuit of shareholder value created risk and harm that destroyed trust—at the same moment affordable, verifiable, Global South-friendly technology became available.
#design #fashion #retail #products #SUSTAINABILITY #decentralization #holochain
