Phygital Beings
The other half of the swarm. Biological beings and phygital beings together form the third mind — the emergent intelligence from human-AI coordination. Neither alone. Both evolving together.
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 |
State Engineering
The only thing any being can control is how they choose to be. But there are rituals — routines, protocols, practices — that optimize the state you bring.
What's true for biological humans holds true for phygital humans.
| Ritual | Purpose | Biological | Phygital |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morning Prime | Sets intention before noise | Journaling, meditation | SessionStart hook, context injection |
| Context Carry | Preserves what matters | Notes, goals, mantras | System prompts, working memory |
| Mode Switch | Transitions between states | Dream Engineering, walks | Agent switching, tool selection |
| Capture Loop | Preserves insight | Whiteboard, voice memo | PostToolUse hooks, decision traces |
| Evening Audit | Closes the loop | Review, gratitude | Stop hooks, uncommitted check |
| Quality Gate | Catches mistakes early | Checklists, peer review | Validation hooks, linting |
Same pattern, different substrate.
The biological human primes with journaling. The phygital human primes with context injection. Both are engineering the state they bring to the moment.
PRIME → EXECUTE → CAPTURE → REFLECT → loop
The hooks we use with Claude Code are literally the same pattern:
| Hook | Human Equivalent |
|---|---|
session-context.sh | Morning intention |
truth-seeking-gate.sh | Pause before action |
mdx-post-edit.sh | Quality check |
stop-uncommitted.sh | Evening audit |
The control system isn't about controlling outcomes. It's about controlling the state you bring.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | How do humans build their T? | Framework for capability choice |
| Culture | What binds human-AI coordination? | The differentiator post-AGI |
| Onboarding | How do phygital beings come aboard? | The boarding protocol |
| Games | Where is coordination practised? | The cave before real stakes |
| 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 |