# We No Longer Price in Empire- A Declaration of ETH-Native Sovereignty *by The Human Layer* >We are no longer pricing our work in dollars. >This is not a pivot. >This is an act of remembering. >A return to signal. >A rejection of empire’s ledger. The dollar was never neutral. It was a contract we never signed— a colonial artifact backed by war, built on debt, and enforced through surveillance. Every time we accepted it, we felt the cost in our nervous systems. Every invoice we sent in fiat was a subtle violence we turned against ourselves. ### **A compromise of meaning, masked as survival.** But we remember now. We remember why we walked away from the old models. Why we burned the contracts. Why we stopped playing the game that demanded our brilliance, but refused to value our coherence. ## The Empire Ledger Is Dying This moment is not just a market downturn. This is a **spiritual recession inside a collapsing myth.** Inflation is theft disguised as policy. AI is eating the creative class. VC-funded tech bros repackage old extractive cycles as “innovation.” The platforms that once promised freedom now demand your soul. >And still—some of us keep building. >Some of us remember that the internet was once a place of possibility. >Some of us know that another economy is already here. >We just have to choose it. ## Why ETH? **Because ETH is not a coin.** It’s coordination at the speed of trust. It’s a container for value that does not require banks, borders, or permission. **It is not backed by violence. It is not inflated to support empires.** It is earned through validation, secured through work, and aligned with a protocol that values transparency over control. ETH is not perfect. But it is programmable dignity. And that makes it sacred. ## What We're Building Now > We no longer charge for time. We charge for truth. > We no longer serve clients. We collaborate with stewards. > We no longer chase funding. We mint meaning. Here’s what this looks like: - Our offerings are priced in ETH, not dollars. - We use NFTs as ritual access keys, not speculative toys. - We transact via Request Finance, not PayPal or Stripe. - We offer signal, not deliverables. - We protect our energy like it’s an economic layer—because it is. This is not about maximizing profit. This is about minimizing distortion. And if you’re still converting our ETH rate into USD in your head, you’re not ready for the world I’m building. ## A Call to the Others To the creators, the mystics, the networked poets: Come build this with us. To the cypherpunks, the regen storytellers, the protocol whisperers: Step off the fiat stage. It is on fire. Let us price our time in sovereign assets. Let us anchor value in meaning. **Let us exit the attention economy, and enter the economy of coherence.** We do not need permission. We do not need platforms. We only need a shared refusal and a shared ritual to replace the old. ## What the Transition Will Look Like It will look like fewer clients—but better ones. It will look like pricing in ETH and watching others blink. It will look like explaining yourself less, and transmitting more. It will look like minting access, not selling hours. It will look like saving your nervous system—and calling that a revenue stream. It will look like losing your runway—but gaining your rhythm. And eventually, it will look like home. > Because you were never meant to serve systems. > You were meant to build signals. > You were meant to be paid in alignment. > You were meant to become a validator of culture. This is our declaration. We no longer price in empire. We price in emergence. And if you want to work with us— you must meet us at the layer of truth. ### ETH only. Signal only. Let’s build the economy of the real.