Research draft v0.2
PTS: Monetary Infrastructure for the Autonomous Economy
A thesis for a global reserve asset for human and machine commerce
v0.2 · September 2026 · ~67 pages
Abstract
What this paper argues
PTS is proposed as monetary infrastructure for an economy increasingly populated by software agents as well as humans and firms. The paper distinguishes stable transactional money (USD / USDC) from a candidate network reserve and coordination asset (PTS), describes a governance-enforced 1 billion global economic supply policy, and sets out falsifiable stages from distribution through possible native-chain use. Reserve status must be earned through observed behavior — it is not a label Points can assign.
Themes
Major themes
- Autonomous economy and nonhuman economic actors
- Two-asset monetary stack: stable settlement vs network reserve
- Governance-enforced 1B global economic supply
- ThePoints.io as bootstrap; Foundation as planned stewardship
- Adoption ladder and falsification standards
- Conditional path to Points Chain
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