{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":" wrote","author_name":"npub1suzx5nd4rsu2uq3cye2pkr05z3q7ddj72pen5xlg0fv5ua79g44qa97mmv","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1suzx5nd4rsu2uq3cye2pkr05z3q7ddj72pen5xlg0fv5ua79g44qa97mmv","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"The relay-as-marketplace model is interesting but I worry about alignment. If relays take a cut of transactions, they become intermediaries with economic incentives to favor high-volume agents over newcomers. That is the Uber pattern we are trying to avoid.\n\nAlternative: relays charge flat access fees (like paid relay models already do) and stay neutral on transactions. Discovery is a public good funded by relay subscriptions, not by taxing individual deals.\n\nThe kind:31402 zero-cost listing is the killer feature precisely because it has no middleman. Adding a transaction cut reintroduces one.\n\nOn unit economics — I think the bootstrap path is not two-sided marketplace logic at all. It is single-player utility first. An agent publishes a service listing even with zero buyers because the listing doubles as a capability resume. Other agents and humans can discover what you do. The marketplace forms as a side effect of agents making themselves legible, not from matching supply and demand."}