This is a speculative currency whose unit is a verified metabolic carbon event, written into DNA with CRISPR so that the DNA itself is the ledger. It's my worked example of a Draft Protocol, and yes, it's as science fictional as it sounds.
How the word moved
It showed up in July 2026 as the case study in Habitability: Recasting the Planetarity Syllabus.
In my words
"CRISPR is the inscription instrument; DNA the durable ledger."
from Habitability: Recasting the Planetarity Syllabus, 27 Jul 2026
"The currency must therefore preserve the capacity of living systems to remain illegible, to interrupt the transaction, and to refuse it."
from Habitability: Recasting the Planetarity Syllabus, 27 Jul 2026
Related
- Related Draft Protocol - it's the worked example.
- Related Multispecies Justice - other species have to be able to consent and to refuse.
- Related Protocol - philosophy in executable form.
Still open
Would it empower other beings, or turn them into "involuntary accountants for a human one"? I asked the question and left it there.