Economic design studies
These pages examine how CoNET’s three infrastructure tiers could be composed into creator-facing economies:
- L0 Layer Minus provides wallet-addressed, zero-trust communication and delivery.
- L1 CoNET provides identity, assets, signatures, and settlement anchors.
- L2 CoNET-DLE specifies event-driven tip ledgers for high-frequency or specialized economic activity.
They are architecture and product-design studies. They do not claim that the complete products described here are deployed, generally available, economically proven, or legally resolved.
Recommended reading order
Read the studies as one economic progression:
- NFT provenance and Web of Trust
Establish a durable relationship between a creator, a work, and its attributable history. The NFT is a provenance anchor, not a speculative marketing object. - Decentralized SNS
Turn that provenance graph into a living social economy. CoNET-DLE micropayments enable tips, paid posts, gated access, boosts, and bounties instead of leaving advertising as the only scalable revenue model. - Long-form creator media
Apply the same identity, social, and payment rails to a heavy-media vertical: long-form video, author-directed rights, wallet-signed engagement, derivative works, and eventual decentralized distribution.
The dependency is intentional:
creator ↔ work ↔ provenance
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wallet social graph + micropayments
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long-form media + rights + distribution
Evidence labels
Each study separates three different kinds of statement:
| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Current composable capability | A building block documented as active elsewhere in this GitBook, such as CoNET L1, Beamio wallet identity, or DePIN Chat. This does not imply that the complete use case is shipped. |
| Design pattern | A proposed composition of current components and CoNET-DLE specifications. It is an architectural direction, not deployment evidence. |
| Still to implement or validate | Product, protocol, security, performance, legal, or governance work that remains open. |
When a page links to a protocol specification, the link is evidence that the behavior is specified. It is not, by itself, evidence of a production deployment or measured product-market fit.
Cross-layer dependencies
| Dependency | What these studies rely on | Boundary |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Wallet-addressed P2P, OpenPGP business envelopes, entry/mailbox routing, and current DePIN Chat | Bulk creator-video delivery through BT DCDN remains under development. |
| L1 | CoNET chain identity, wallet signatures, @BeamioTag, assets such as conet-USDC, the cross-chain Treasury, and social-stat or settlement primitives |
A signature proves control of a key, not legal authorship, truth, or regulatory compliance. A bridged ERC-20 is not automatically DLE-admitted. |
| L2 | CoNET-DLE storage/trade tip classes and event-driven micropayment design | The DLE documents define architecture and invariants; each use case still needs implementation and end-to-end validation. |
| Applications | Beamio and DePIN Chat demonstrate reusable identity, messaging, and gas-relay patterns | They are not a deployed decentralized SNS or a complete long-form video platform. The proposed miner-matched order-book exchange is a separate market design study, not a creator-media product. |
Use cases versus applications
| Section | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Applications | Named software surfaces and their stated delivery status, including Beamio, DePIN Chat, and BT DCDN. |
| Economic design studies | Cross-layer scenarios that may combine several applications and specifications into a future product. |