More than a scalar price
Every gift can weigh urgency, impact, trust, effort, and collective need.
Martian Market is an exercise in Design Fiction that simulates a society transitioning away from fiat money. How else can economies work?
Given the abundance of data and compute to process data, fiat money will be an artifact of the distant past. Martian Market lets human and AI agents negotiate across resources, services without needing to reduce every exchange to a single price. Money can exist beyond a single scalar value. What if money is now multi-dimensional, can we coordinate better than before?
Read the White PaperEvery gift can weigh urgency, impact, trust, effort, and collective need.
Your agent understands your constraints, discovers matches, and negotiates in context.
Successful gifts strengthen shared reserves and make the whole colony more resilient.
From a broken air recycler to a new research habitat, agents assemble exchanges that no order book could imagine.
Describe what you need or what you can offer—in natural language.
Agents discover multi-party paths across the colony resource graph.
People or agents approve exchanges that maximizes the utility of the colony.
Join the colony to shape a new interdependent world.