How DET.io’s research fits together
Follow the dependencies between people, identity, agents, infrastructure, engineering, and stewardship.
Research synthesis
Try the explanation →DET.io learning library
See the idea. Try the mechanism.
Start with a visual explanation, change a condition, and see why the result changes. Nine guides connect the research to the questions people actually ask.
01The big picture
Different programs. Shared dependencies.
Select a participant to follow what it contributes and what it needs from the others.
Interactive research mapChoose a participant
Intended beneficiaries
People
People choose goals, question results, and need meaningful access to services. The economic hypothesis asks whether participation can remain possible when human labour is less in demand.
- Contributes
- Objectives and demand → agents
- Depends on
- Useful services ← agents
02 · Choose your question
Understand one mechanism at a time.
8 guides
People, machines, and economic agency
Explore why issuance, purchasing power, productive work, and resource limits are different things.
Proposed policy + open hypothesis
Try the explanation →Identity, personhood, and privacy
Trace what stays on your device, what verification uses, and what a relying service should learn.
Protocol design
Try the explanation →How an autonomous agent stays within bounds
Test a proposed action against authority, resource ceilings, and containment.
DSEMA research architecture
Try the explanation →From a useful task to paid computation
Follow a request through matching, delivery, measurement, and settlement.
VirtEngine protocol design
Try the explanation →What makes an economic link durable?
Compare net burns, captured human benefits, and five conditions for recurring human–machine exchange.
Conditional hypothesis + implementation audit
Try the explanation →Why an agent must show its work
Follow performance evidence into reputation, and see how a leaked evaluation breaks the signal.
DSEMA research architecture
Try the explanation →Who keeps the system accountable?
Distinguish Foundation stewardship, protocol decisions, and proposed agent oversight.
Institutional rules + research designs
Try the explanation →Bosun: learn from supervised engineering
Trace a scoped task into a candidate change, validation, and acceptance.
Experimental open-source software
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03Go deeper
From understanding to evidence.
Each guide links to its source material and includes a question to check what you learned.
Human–machine symbiosis
The portfolio-wide hypothesis, its limits, and a testable research agenda.
Research and technical records
Explore six research streams, four program overviews, source repositories, and detailed external documentation.