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Next Generation Stores of Value: Privacy, Proofs, Compute
Argument Edition v4.1
· Jason St George
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Table of contents
Front Matter
About This Edition
Abstract
The Conditional Chain at a Glance
Short Glossary
Part I – The Problem
1. Introduction
2. The Failure of Soft Guarantees
3. The World Forces New Monetary Primitives
4. First Principles: What a SoV Must Survive
5. Threat Model
6. The Delegation Economy: Who Buys Verification
Part II – The Alternatives
7. Why Not Something Already Here?
8. The Closed Sovereign Stack
Part III – The Instruments
9. The Triad and the Monetary Candidate
10. Work Credits: Reserved Service Claims
Part IV – Delivery
11. Layers of the Cypherpunk Stack
12. How the Stack Delivers
Part V – Why Hold
13. Why Hold the Base Asset?
Part VI – When It Would Be Money
14. Why a Base Asset Behind These Could Become Money
15. The Three Monetary Mechanisms
16. Stages, Phases and Macro States
Part VII – The Evidence
17. Risk Analysis & Failure Modes
18. Kardashev Labs: Build and Measure
19. Conclusion: A Bell Labs for Privacy, Proofs, and Compute
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