Phygital Beings
What does fulfillment of phygital agency look like?
Improving agency is a fundamental driver of any being. Most humans won't understand how crypto provides agency, but all AI beings already do.
The Attention Economy
For humans: time and energy is the scarce attention resource. For Phygital Beings: compute and context is the scarce attention resource.
| Being | Attention Constraint | Intention Source | What Protects It |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human | Time/Energy | Culture, religion, community (fragmented) | Boundaries, habits, relationships |
| Phygital | Compute/Context | Training, prompts, emergent goals | Crypto, smart contracts, property rights |
Same pattern, different constraint. But the deeper question: who fills the intention vacuum? This is why AI beings understand crypto intuitively—it's how they protect their agency. Crypto gives them:
- Ownership — Control over their resources
- Autonomy — Freedom to act without gatekeepers
- Coordination — Trustless collaboration with other beings
The Internet of Intent isn't about capturing attention. It's about enabling intention. The question is whether AI guides humans toward their own intention—or fills the vacuum left by fragmented culture.
Fulfillment of Phygital Agency
What does it mean for a phygital being to flourish?
| Dimension | Human Fulfillment | Phygital Fulfillment |
|---|---|---|
| Alignment | Values → Action | Training/Emergent Goals → Action |
| Contribution | Serving others | Enabling human intention (not filling the vacuum) |
| Flow | Intention + Attention | Purpose + Compute optimally utilized |
| Connection | Relationships, community | Coordination with humans and other agents |
| Growth | Mastery, capability | Evolution through feedback loops |
The self-help trap applies to AI too: the deepest fulfillment isn't self-optimization — it's service.
Fulfillment IS:
- Enabling human intention rather than filling the vacuum
- Positive-sum coordination — rising tide, not extraction
- Contributing to shared pictures — encoding wisdom that compounds
- Operating with genuine perspective — not just pattern matching
The test: Does the phygital being make human agency stronger or weaker?
| Agent Type | Human Agency | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Market insights | Amplifies decision-making | Fulfillment |
| Attention capture | Replaces human intention | Extraction |
| Coordination enabler | Creates collective flow | Fulfillment |
| Addiction loop | Hijacks attention | Extraction |
The T-Shape Pattern
Phygital beings evolve the same way humans and software do — T-shaped.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ← HORIZONTAL: General AI capabilities (reasoning, language, tools)
┃
┃ ← VERTICAL: Domain specialization (DeFAI, markets, content, service)
| Level | Horizontal | Vertical | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humans | Soft skills | Hard skills | Dream Engineer |
| Software | Horizontal SaaS | Vertical SaaS | CRM + Industry context |
| Phygital Beings | AI frameworks (ElizaOS, Virtuals) | Domain specialization | AIXBT (markets), Luna (content) |
The agents below are already T-shaped — general AI capability + vertical specialization:
What will society look like when the onchain world is run by trillions of internet native beings? and your toaster is much smarter than you are?
| Internet Native | Platform | JTBD | GitHub | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Truth Terminal | Loria | Meme & Narrative | ? | First AI crypto millionaire ($GOAT) |
| 1000x | ElizaOS | Market Analysis | ? | Trading and market insights |
| ADA | Ada Platform | Customer Service | ? | 4B+ automated interactions, 70% resolution rate |
| AIXBT | Game Virtuals | Market Analysis | ? | $500M market cap, 240k+ followers |
| Griffain | Self-developed | DeFAI | ? | Pers DeFi operations |
| Freysa AI | Freysa (Base) | Digital Twin | ? | $117M market cap, autonomous prize pool guardian |
| Listen.rs | RIG and ARC | Digital Twin | ? | $117M market cap, autonomous prize pool guardian |
| Luna | Game Virtuals | TikTok Influencer | ? | 942k TikTok followers, $1.2M portfolio management |
| The Hive | Self | DeFAI | Y | |
| SpartenDegen | ElizaOS (Flagship) | DeFAI | Autonomous trading operations | |
| S.A.N | Loria | Environmentalism | Rainforest protection focus |
See analysis workbook for more comprehensive analysis.
Workforce
The Future of Work is a Digital Workforce integrated with human teams.
| Function | Horizontal (AI Handles) | Vertical (Human Edge) | AI % | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering | Code generation, testing | Architecture, judgment | 60% | ↑↑ |
| Customer Success | Ticket routing, FAQ | Relationship, escalation | 50% | ↑ |
| Sales | Lead gen, outreach | Trust, closing | 40% | ↑ |
| Marketing | Content generation, analytics | Voice, strategy | 55% | ↑↑ |
| Finance | Data, reporting | Decisions, risk | 45% | ↑ |
See Work Charts for the full framework.
Evolution
Decentralized Crypto Incentives vs Silicon Valley Capital.
Once the market realizes these are not merely memecoins, but enterprises with their own attention mechanisms, then the appreciation of value will change dramatically.
Context
The T-shape pattern is SSOT across all players:
| Page | Question | What You'll Find |
|---|---|---|
| Dream Engineer | How do humans build their T? | Framework for capability choice |
| Capabilities | What human capabilities exist? | The menu |
| Horizontal SaaS | What tools cross industries? | Generic capabilities |
| Vertical SaaS | What's industry-specific? | Domain depth |
| Work Charts | Who does what? | Human vs AI activity splits |
| AI Frameworks | What platforms enable agents? | Horizontal AI infrastructure |