What Does Systemic Change
Look Like?
We think it looks like this
….the way systems grow: from use…through structure, strategy, and scale. Change grows out of five linked spirals, each expanding coordination, capability, and leverage.
Economy 3 | A Spiral Theory of Change
A Spiral Theory of Change builds power the way systems grow: from use…through structure, strategy, and scale. It grows through five linked spirals, each expanding coordination, capability, and leverage.
Spiral 1: Tools
Free Digital Product Passports (DPPs) and QR commerce let smallholders and informal workers trace, trade, and generate data from daily life. This low-friction entry to working on-chain solves the cold start problem.
Spiral 2: Daily Use
Traceability becomes a habit. Each transaction embeds measurement, circularity, and compliance into daily workflows. Coordination begins to take shape. The tools enable commerce anywhere. Tracing, data handoffs, and high-trust transactions normalize. Native interoperability and coordination effects mean the tools magnify beneficial effects that act on chronic challenges like access to larger markets. Web3 promises around people, data, and money create more certainty and bargaining power at the bottom.
Spiral 3: Structure Emerges
Verified use becomes provable systems. Fragmented actors become legible. Water3, Weave3, and Food3 will diverge into distinct services, coordination models, workflows, and revenue logic.
Spiral 4: Higher Bargaining Power
Creator networks and cooperatives gain bargaining power. They negotiate directly, build aligned reputations, and coordinate across sectors at scale, which reshapes markets.
Spiral 5: Power Parity
Data, coordination, and interoperability become stakeholder parity power. The system begins to reward those at the edge—not through redistribution but through redesign.
This is a rollout strategy for stakeholder-driven transformation built from the edges to the center—layered for trust, built for scale, and governed by those who use it.
Economy3 builds traceability from the edge—starting with smallholders, informal sellers, and MSMEs—and spirals outward like a nautilus shell, scaling coordination, climate compliance, interoperability, and circularity. Our model combines leading standards and policy with the smallest viable product. The project grows by creating stakeholder value.
WEB3 OWNERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE FOCUS GROUP
Anyone launching a Web3 project faces questions about how to fit emerging possiblities of the blockchain/AI Internet into a B Corp or C Corp format. Digital Public Goods are especially challenging. What would new forms of ownership, governance and legal formation need to be for success in the new environment?
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