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Hybrid Market

Creator Information

Name:

Jordan Arel

Role:

Mechanism Designer and Utopia Researcher

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🌍 World Summary

Vision Statement

The Hybrid Market future exists to turn every act of value creation into measurable shared prosperity, minting and flowing public goods tokens so capital automatically funds the greatest net benefit for people, planet, and future generations. Its mission is to align incentives so profit equals proven progress toward collective flourishing.

🔬 Technology

Hybrid Market

A network of sensors measures public goods and a blockchain ledger mints public benefit tokens for verified positive impact, taxes harms, and auctions under-used assets. This decentralized system thus prices in all externalities, steering investment toward highest net social benefit.

What kind of AI exists in your world?

Market Governor: AI algorithms act as a central nervous system in the Hybrid Market, predicting and rewarding products and services that maximize the public goods humans collectively choose.

Wellbing Calculator: AI uses a vast sensor network including wearables to accurately measure well-being and calculate the net value generated by any action.

Life Optimizer: The AI personalizes daily life, suggesting activities and adjusting environments to optimize individual health and wellbeing.

New or Reformed Institution

The Hybrid Market is a global, decentralized, self-organizing, meritocratic market. It is designed as an economy based not on the assumption of selfishness, but instead recognizes, rewards, and reinforces the inherent goodness in people. Its institutional purpose is to finance public goods by internalizing all “externalities,” accounting for any measurable positive or negative impact. By changing the incentives, it targets the widespread, long-term wellbeing and thriving of all conscious beings.

Transformed Sector

Non-profit finance

By 2035 nonprofits no longer court grants; they issue on-chain “impact bonds.” Verified social gains mint public goods tokens, rewarding backers. Real-time audits replace annual reports, letting staff focus on impact. Capital floods proven solutions, quadrupling clean-water access and slashing admin costs 80%. Society gets faster, data-driven relief and restored trust in public-good funding.

Meanwhile, companies doing good or causing harm are rewarded/taxed, further amplifying public goods.

A Major Crisis Overcome

2030’s “Shadow Impact Crash”: fraudsters flooded the ledger with deep-faked welfare data, minting bogus public goods tokens and tanking prices.

A hard-fork deployed AI cryptographic oracles tied to sensor roots for zero-knowledge IoT based auditing, quadratic-stake slashing to take on “too-big-to-fail” cheaters, and a jury-DAO to retro-adjust balances.

Trust and token value rebounded, turning the debacle into a blueprint for tamper-proof, real-time impact verification + emergency audit system

Why Is This a Desirable Existential Hope Future for Humanity?

Self-Critique: What Might Make This Harder Than It Seems?