The End of the Digital Tenant
The digital economy is no longer organized around users — it is reorganizing around agents.
For decades, participation meant access. We rented software, rented platforms, rented identity. Ownership was abstract and control was centralized.
That model is breaking.
As autonomous AI agents begin to transact, allocate capital and build reputational weight, the economic unit is shifting away from the human interface toward the underlying system of coordination. Value no longer accumulates at the application layer, but at the level of agent-driven networks.
What emerges is not a better platform economy, but a different one entirely.
Users are no longer the primary actors.
They are becoming the origin points of autonomous participants.
The question is no longer who owns the platform — but who controls the agents that operate within it.
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