screaming out a not-even-half-baked idea so i can clean my whiteboard:
the new token based economy (no blockchain):
- AI agents need tokens to run but in theory agents can make ROI on the token investments
- ecash gives you credentials + value at the same time
- you could "invest" ecash credentials to an agent instance and that instance would perform work based on that since the investment enables it to actually run
- with recent l402 and llm ecash proxy advancements the investments could be potentially locked (havent actually checked if the flow works but then again i've spent 3mins thinking about it)