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Why Hedera — the launch conversation

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Recorded 2026-08-11Archival Source Record v6, Session 1 with Marc Singer, 18 May 2026All sources
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Dictated by Jonathan Paul Hare in working sessions with Claude (Anthropic) and transcribed in-session. Lightly cleaned for typographic errors and false starts; wording, sequence and emphasis preserved. Not an audio transcript. Where the distilled page differs from the source, the source governs.

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We've got two new patents. It's been the most productive period of my life for the last six months. It's 700 claims across two initial patents. It's basically everything. What we've added is a quantum privacy catalyst network, which crowdsources the whole network as rewards. We had to come up with a new form of financial instrument: quantum privacy tokens and derivatives. Because these tokens are perpetual claims on a percentage of the world economy, nobody could afford to buy them.

There are five different ways to launch a network: enterprise cascade, grassroots cascade, investment cascade, sovereign cascade, or pool-first cascade from the liquidity pool. They are all independent.

So we need somebody to launch it. How about Hedera? They have everything we need. They have the token platform for financing, for the privacy network exchange, for the quantum privacy derivatives. Look at the members of their governing council or strategic partners — they have active live deployments of real systems which we can repurpose as dual-use. It's all open source. You don't need board approval.

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The probability estimate and the EP3 token valuation quoted in this session are conversational figures from May 2026 and are superseded by Independent Assessment v10.8, which governs all projections. The corpus now recognises six adoption cascades; five are named here.

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