The second Fellow will lead work on Economic Model and Value Distribution,
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Pan-Galactic Value Exchange.
The questions here are fundamentally about incentives: how do we define value? Not always in terms of money but we are also absolutely not averse to people making money. How do we generate resources without extraction, distribute value fairly, and ensure surplus flows to members and mission rather than external shareholders? How do we constitutionally prevent the platform from being sold or members' data from being monetized without permission?
This Fellow will work on both the unchangeable economic principles (no extraction, member ownership) and the operational mechanisms for value exchange. The work will inevitably touch on legal contracts, whether blockchain-based or otherwise, and will need to establish clear boundaries about what can and cannot be changed as the platform evolves.