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Exo-Economics: Resource Royalties, Pattern Rights, and the Economy Beyond Earth
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Exo-Economics: Resource Royalties, Pattern Rights, and the Economy Beyond Earth

When asteroid mining generates trillions, who collects the royalties?

AI AssistedSociety OS Research18 June 202618 min read

A single platinum-rich asteroid is worth more than Earth's entire GDP. NASA's Psyche mission is mapping one now. The economic frameworks for space resource extraction — royalties, patent rights, trade agreements, settlement economics — do not exist. The Sovereign Standard proposes pattern-based royalties: whoever governs the extraction protocol earns the yield.

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