Why: - it increases the speed, and reduces the cost of finding counterparties, negotiating, and enforcing contracts (i.e. ‘Coasean transaction costs’) - it enables new classes of contracts that were previously infeasible - it supports a pluralistic, self-sovereign, polycentric AI future How: - seed new fields of fundamental research in physical verification, AI security, autonomous protocol generation, and multi-agent coordination - open-source tools, datasets and reference agent implementations everyone can build on top of - set up a live public Arena with bounties as an open-ended adversarial evaluation environments to measure and stress-test multi-owner multi-agent systems (and the aforementioned research and agents) in real settings Read the [thesis](https://aria.org.uk/media/dkhlumky/scaling-trust-programme-thesis.pdf) and join our [discord server](https://discord.gg/Gz52uM6aZs).