Background Papers and Notes

Institutional models

• One Entity in Many Jurisdictions. Rights, shared resources, and compliance for one entity recognized in several jurisdictions.
• Programmable Institutions. Authority, records, and workflows for institutions operated through software.
• The Sovereign Jurisdiction Network. Recognition and shared evidence between jurisdictions that retain their own authority.

Focused studies

• The Multi-Harbored Institution. One legal entity, recognised in several jurisdictions at once, with a single composed compliance state. The object, and what it requires of the infrastructure beneath it.
• The Recognition Protocol. The standard a jurisdiction accedes to: conformance is machine-decided, recognition stays sovereign, and one deposit reaches every participant whose own policy admits it.
• Pricing the Compliance Tensor. How compliance-based eligibility affects the holder set and pricing of a claim.
• The Corporation Twin. A record model connecting a company’s legal identity, documents, authority, and state changes.
• The Mutation Firewall. A common admission boundary for authoritative state changes and their evidence.
• The Chain of Evidence. Signed, linked records for checking the origin, order, and integrity of institutional evidence.
• Time in Institutional Computing. Law changes the consequences of past events, never their occurrence: two kinds of time keep them apart.
• Mutual Recognition. When one jurisdiction accepts another jurisdiction’s finding, and on what terms.

Author essays

These essays develop the arguments for a wider audience. The research editions remain available alongside them.

• Corporate Governance Is a Protocol · Research edition. Quorum, delegation, and the evidence behind a corporate decision.
• How Rules Evolve · Research edition. Preserving decisions and unfinished work when the law changes.
• Hybrid Post-Quantum Signatures · Research edition. Keeping institutional records verifiable as cryptographic schemes age.
• When Sovereigns Disagree · Research edition. Signed verdicts, independent challenge, and the terms of reliance.
• The Asset Virtual Machine · Research edition. How an asset carries its rules and the record of each decision.
• Capital as a Compliance Problem · Research edition. Exact records for issuing, transferring, and administering capital.
• Compounding Intelligence · Research edition. How institutions retain experience, direct attention, and inform rule changes.
• Two Harnesses and a Limit · Research edition. How institutional rules can constrain AI agents and their operators.
• Competitive Topologies and the Monopoly Problem · Research edition. Why democratic institutions need a theory of competition.

Companion essay

The Institutional World Model is a short essay on governed learning across sovereign virtual machines. The full paper gives the assumptions, proofs and fixed comparison.

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