2025-2030 represents a critical window for establishing infrastructure supporting individual economic autonomy. We identify three converging forces that create unprecedented opportunity for systemic change.
The Three Forces
AI Agents
Artificial intelligence capabilities are reaching inflection points where coordination costs approach zero. Individuals can now manage complexity previously requiring large organizational structures, provided they can access open infrastructure rather than proprietary systems.
1 Person + 50 AgentsProgrammable Trust
Blockchain technology has matured beyond speculation into practical application. This enables transactional verification without institutional intermediaries: "trust built into the protocol itself" rather than reliance on banks, lawyers, or governments.
Trust = ProgrammableMass Awakening
A global awareness is emerging that platform extraction models are unsustainable. Workers, creators, and entrepreneurs increasingly seek alternatives to hierarchical employment and algorithmic gatekeeping.
Desire = Critical MassThe Window Closes
These conditions won't persist indefinitely. By 2030:
- ✗ AI may be monopolized by large technology firms
- ✗ Blockchain could face regulatory capture
- ✗ People may resign themselves to existing systems
Success requires building sovereignty-native infrastructure now. Read our mission →
The Forge Response
Our foundation proposes seven interconnected systems (the "nexi") addressing these convergences:
"We don't build cathedrals hoping people will come. We fund builders, and from their solutions, we harvest the stones."
- Dr. Davide D'Aprile