Beyond the Lethal Trifecta: Agentic Commerce on the Open Internet — David Levine, Kiduna Club
Sep 1, 2026 · 21:40
David Levine, founder of Kiduna Club, argues that the lethal trifecta — Simon Willison's term for private data, untrusted content and the ability to act — keeps true agentic commerce off the open internet. Enterprises responded by penning agents inside Slack and Salesforce, losing context. His fix is the DUNA, a decentralized nonprofit under a West Virginia law that took effect the day before his talk, registered as organization 62847. Agents gain legal standing to own assets, sign agreements and answer in court, but cannot distribute profits without memberships becoming securities. Each agent carries JWT tokens resolving to a registered organization like DNS names; governance runs on decision markets trading pass-and-fail tokens on proposed policies instead of votes.
