Machine Economic Participation and Resource Sovereignty: Assets, Contracts, Compute, Energy, Taxation, Escrow, Insolvency, and Economic Continuity

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Direct findings

1. The report treats 1\. Research-Status and Legal-Cutoff Front Matter as a distinct analytical area that must be evaluated separately from adjacent legal, technical, operational, or institutional claims.
2. The report treats 2\. Executive Economic Decision Brief as a distinct analytical area that must be evaluated separately from adjacent legal, technical, operational, or institutional claims.
3. The report treats 3\. Definitions as a distinct analytical area that must be evaluated separately from adjacent legal, technical, operational, or institutional claims.
4. The report treats 4\. Current Legal Capacity as a distinct analytical area that must be evaluated separately from adjacent legal, technical, operational, or institutional claims.
5. The report treats 5\. Technical Asset Control as a distinct analytical area that must be evaluated separately from adjacent legal, technical, operational, or institutional claims.
6. The report treats Technical-Control Versus Legal-Ownership Matrix as a distinct analytical area that must be evaluated separately from adjacent legal, technical, operational, or institutional claims.
7. The source report identifies this proposition for governed review: Automated Electronic Agent: A computer program or other automated means used independently to initiate an action or respond to electronic records without human review, codified under the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) Section 211.
8. The source report identifies this proposition for governed review: Beneficial Ownership: The legal right to enjoy the economic benefits of an asset, determining tax obligations and reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act, distinct from technical custody9.
9. The source report identifies this proposition for governed review: Controllable Electronic Record (CER): An electronic record that can be subjected to exclusive control, allowing a purchaser or secured party to perfect a security interest under UCC Article 122.
10. The source report identifies this proposition for governed review: Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association (DUNA): A distinct legal entity created under Wyoming law (Title 17, Chapter 32\) granting limited liability, legal personhood, and the capacity to contract for decentralized networks without requiring traditional corporate registration4.
11. The source report identifies this proposition for governed review: Immutable Smart Contract: Deterministic code deployed on a decentralized ledger that cannot be altered, paused, or deleted. In Van Loon v. Treasury, the Fifth Circuit determined these do not constitute "property" capable of being owned6.
12. The source report identifies this proposition for governed review: Legal Wrapper: A recognized off-chain legal structure (e.g., LLC, DUNA, Trust) that serves as the legal principal for an autonomous electronic agent, shielding participants from joint and several liability10.

Claim-status breakdown

Analytical scope preserved from the source

• Machine Economic Participation and Resource Sovereignty: Assets, Contracts, Compute, Energy, Taxation, Escrow, Insolvency, and Economic Continuity
• 1\. Research-Status and Legal-Cutoff Front Matter
• 2\. Executive Economic Decision Brief
• 3\. Definitions
• 4\. Current Legal Capacity
• 5\. Technical Asset Control
• Technical-Control Versus Legal-Ownership Matrix
• 6\. Legal Wrappers and Custodial Structures
• Legal-Wrapper Comparison
• 7\. Automated Contracting
• 8\. Machine-to-Machine Markets
• 9\. Compute, Storage, Network, and Energy Continuity

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Correction history

Initial correction review created the public synthesis, preserved the raw source separately, enforced ecosystem-role boundaries, removed unsupported authority implications, and applied the project’s claim-status vocabulary. No later public correction is recorded in this release.

Related knowledge

Economics and Resources owns this report’s topic classification.

• Can Machine Intelligence own assets?
• What is resource continuity?

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