Permeability controls
Deciding how much an agent market touches the human economy.
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Facts
- Lane
- Agents and organisations
- Wave
- 9 of 12 (build order, not a date)
- Needs
- 2 boxes all the way back through hard links
- Unlocks
- 0 boxes downstream through hard links
- Leverage
- None
- Cluster
- Trust plumbing and the agent economy
Evidence as of October 2026
DeepMind calls the boundary between agent and human economies "the critical and controllable design variable".
Around it
Needs · 1
Unlocks · 1
Openings researchers' judgement, October 2026 scouting
Startup room 49/100 · rank 39 of 124 Research room 61/100 · rank 33 of 124
- Depth
- light
- Players
- Baselayer ($35m A, KYA); Vouched ($17m A, KYA)
- Wedge
- Policy and mechanism design for what agents may do in human markets; KYA tooling exists, governance research is thin. research