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The Token Fed

Towards greater financialisation of the token economy

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Rohit Krishnan
Nov 08, 2026

We are living in a token economy. If we’re indeed headed for an AI enabled world, this is likely to only become more real. We’re already seeing prices drop incredibly fast, and usage increase even faster.

But something interesting happened. Prices for 2023-level capabilities fell like 10-40x/ year, but the agents now burn 1k-10kx more tokens easily, whic…

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