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title: Network value protocols
tags: [What is emerging?]

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# Network value protocols

## Computing economic value through distributed algorithms

"The emergence of computer networks as economic substrate fundamentally transforms our capacity for economic coordination. While traditional economic protocols emerged in environments limited to local information and simple arithmetic, today's distributed systems enable sophisticated network-wide calculations with provable properties. We show how this computational capacity allows us to move beyond single-dimensional market calculations to a rich ecosystem of interoperable value protocols. 

By formalizing *markets* as *one instance of distributed value calculation*, we demonstrate how network-native economic protocols can capture and create forms of value invisible to traditional systems. We present a general framework for designing such protocols, proving their ability to maintain conservation laws while enabling value translation across different calculative spaces. Our results suggest that network-centric economic coordination can transcend the "faster, more" paradigm of digital finance to enable qualitatively new forms of value creation and economic organization...""

### [An excerpt from the ecsa whitepaper (forthcoming, 2025): Network value protocols: Computing economic value through distributed algorithms]



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