Internet-native

# Internet-native Internet native, as a term, captures both the medium and the mode of the new agency we are creating. “Internet-native” refers to agents, organizations, or forms of coordination that are not simply hosted on the internet, but composed by it — constructed through protocol, defined in computation, and enabled by distributed connection. Internet-native economic agents are born in code, governed by logic, and expressed through networks, not confined by the structures of firms, platforms, or markets. In the 20th century, agency was organized around institutions like firms, governments, banks. Due to their limited computational capacities, these structures managed coordination through hierarchy, law, and accounting. In early internet economies, agents still existed within these forms — users of platforms, account holders, service providers — but the underlying structures remained centralized. Today, a new kind of agent is emerging: born in protocol, composed of code and coordination logic, not legal charters or organizational charts. These internet-native agents don’t just act on the internet, they are composed through it. Their agency arises from computation: * from access to a protocol, * from participation in a network, * from programmability of value and relationships. Calling something internet-native isn’t just about where it lives — it’s about how it acts, expresses, and evolves. An internet-native economic agent acts on a different logic: * Doesn’t need permission to form * Doesn’t rely on external authority to define value * Coordinates through programmable relationships, not managerial layers * Evolves by composability and recursion, not by top-down restructuring Internet-native agency is what makes postcapitalist economic forms possible: It is agency that can emerge from participation, evolve through use, and coordinate value without external mediation. ### Internet-native means more than being “on the internet.” It means being composed through it. These agents are born in protocol, not in paperwork. They don’t just act; they compute, coordinate, and evolve. No permission required. No institution needed. This is the substrate of postcapitalist agency. ### Internet-native agency ### = Composed in code ### = Governed by grammar ### = Expressed in network coordination --- Related context items - What is emerging? * [Economic media](https://hackmd.io/@ECSA/Hk9fV7KHle) * [Agency born in protocol](https://hackmd.io/@ECSA/ryKS6XFSlg) * [Network value protocols](https://hackmd.io/@ECSA/S1iCrmYrgl) * [Economic agent](https://hackmd.io/@ECSA/ryGqU7KHlx) * [Internet native economic agent: a new paradigm in value computation](https://hackmd.io/@ECSA/SyUNVEFBex)