After thinking about this for many years (since about 2018 I think,) I have recently mined the ML data accumulated by Grok to help better organize and present the design above.
As such I have posted a public gdoc now called “DLO Technical Whitepaper 1.0” that anybody can view or download here describing how it all works here, with diagrams and psuedo code included in the link below.
The goal in creating DLO was to use the principles and ‘ethos’ of the Autonomi Network to leverage existing Autonomi capabilities to design what is essentially a dynamic liquidity for L3 Settlement based on the full reserve value of the network hardware and the software that runs it, and in the process fundamentally create an architecture for the native autonomi token ‘NAT’ which is locked/bound to the Autonomi Node-runner hardware , all or portions of which can be made mobile as full reserve certificates at the discretion of the node operator (white list, blacklist control).
The NAT Native Autonomi Token is essentially a one time ‘Genesis event’ which makes use of a (yet to be fully developed/figured out) Proof of Resource Value ‘PoRV’ algorithm designed to periodically consult 3rd party oracles so as to adjust a ‘combined value’ of
a. system utility(# of antnode and storage in operation-ability to do assigned work, which is relative between systems) and
b. the actual (and periodically by noderunner selected depreciation schedule adjusted-consulting trusted oracle services for same) ‘market value’ of the hardware to set the ‘overall value’ of the NAT (locked to the system) token value at time of Genesis by the Node-runner Owner of the system hosting antnodes and running the DLO client on the Host Operating System.
Anyway the link is below for anyone interested… 14 pages, yeah @zettawatt it’s a heavy read. ![]()
DLO is fundamentally a full reserve digital money creation system (not currency creation) which dynamically supports the liquidity needs of Layer 3 DEFI without any third party counter risk.
Hardware is RWA, a ‘real world asset’, where MSRP price discovery of new and used hardware value is easy to determine using US $ as the unit of measure while depreciation or expenditure write offs are the choice of the Node-runner Operator/Owner of the system (Different nation states have different rules as to how this depreciation is applied or whether or not the hardware equipment , together with the software if it has an MSRP value (ie the Windows OS or the Apple MAC OS), can be written off as a one time expense.
The Autonomi Software configuration running on the operator hardware is the factor within PoVR which determines the utility value portion of the calculation. (how they get balanced is open for debate..)
DLO is designed to be built from 100% FOSS sources, currently referencing the most popular projects in Github.
In practice a DLO could be designed and built to underpin any Layer 0 Network like Autonomi with full-reserve digital money (not currency) based on the utility of the software running on the node hardware and the value of the hardware itself using the US$ as the unit of measure ( Layer 0 networks of which, there are not that many).
For those interested in taking a deep dive into the world of full reserve digital money with dynamic utility for Layer 3, please post your comments here. This paper is some place to start that conversation.
We have a chance to build a full reserve money system with dynamic liquidity for Layer 3 which can be nicely integrated into the existing Layer 3 ‘L3’ Token currency (being ANT/$AUTONOMI), before someone else does it.
Once this ‘cat is out of the bag’, the clock starts ticking and it does become a race.
DLO is about preserving buying power, by first sopping up and, then disconnecting from the erosion root cause, which is fiat.
Ask yourself this question? Why should US Stablecoins , Bitcoin, SOL, Cardano and Ethereum be largely the biggest benefactors of legacy fiat flight?
DLO enables us to change the narrative in much more positive way, linking digital Money directly back to Main St. which is sort of what Bitcoin does, but in a much more power wasteful way.
Much better to buy hardware with that fiat , setup Autonomi antnodes then re-monetize that spent fiat value locked in your Autonomi Network hardware and software Node-runner setup as a ‘proofed’ ‘store of value’ , which becomes a PQC protected(by Autonomi) ‘digital money’ full reserve anchor, which can at the Node-Runner’s discretion, be transformed and transferred where needed to be staked as 1:1 certificates to back Layer 3 DEFI, all the while paying the Node-runner for staking those certificates as needed, when the volume spike is over, the certificates are released, returned to the Node-runner operator of the system to which they are serialized, then burned and the original value of the token is now fully available to do it again, and again and again. ![]()