Antirival accounting
Prototype / conceptual Game position: Replace
Prototype: Aalto / ECSA sNFT experiments
Inverts ordinary scarcity economics: units gain value the more people share and use them, rather than representing a claim on something finite.
Structural profile
Topology view
Architecture
- Game position
- Replaces exchange-logic with sharing-logic for specific goods
- Value-signal richness
- Multiple antirival units; value increases with shared use
- Accumulation regime
- Accumulation undefined; sharing is the fundamental operation
Medium-of-Exchange Properties
- Divisibility
- Doesn't operate on a divisible scalar at all — sharing rights aren't a quantity that splits.
- Uniformity (Fungibility)
- Explicitly non-fungible by design — sNFT-based, each unit carries unique sharing-rights identity.
- Durability
- Not a stored-value question — value lives in ongoing shared use, not in a durable token.
- Portability
- Doesn't transport in the usual sense — sharing rights propagate through use, not by moving a token between holders.
- Acceptability
- Narrow — a specific-community experiment (Aalto/ECSA sNFTs), not designed for broad exchange.
Operation
- Coordination / discovery
- Deliberative; valuation through shared-use signals
- Governance & issuance
- Community-issued sNFTs; rules per community
- Scale & federation
- Application-scale; federation logic underdeveloped
Anthropological assumptions
- Default ethical orientation
- Rousseauian; assumes generosity in shared use
- Accumulative drive
- Drive reframed; value grows through giving not taking
- Status / recognition
- Separated from monetary signal through plural units
- Time preference
- Long — value accretes through sharing and commons use, a form of durability extended to the commons itself rather than a single durable asset.
In Practice
- Track record
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Remains at the academic/experimental stage — the Aalto University and ECSA sNFT research has produced working prototypes but no wide-scale real-world deployment yet. - Governance requirements
- Informal community agreement on what counts as legitimate sharing; no formal legal entity required for the experiments run so far.
- Resource requirements
- A blockchain or ledger platform capable of issuing sNFTs; otherwise no special infrastructure.