A civilization is a list of things it has agreed to count. Iron weights. Coined silver. Bonds. Stocks. Carbon credits. Compute hours.
Each entry on that list begins as a physical fact, then becomes a measurement, then becomes a unit of account, and finally becomes a market. The arc takes centuries, then decades, now years.
We are alive at the inflection point where every remaining dimension — energy, time, biology, image, identity — completes that arc simultaneously. The result is not 'finance eating the world' (Marc Andreessen's phrase, now twenty years stale). It is reality eating finance: every domain of human life is incorporating its own settlement layer, with its own native unit, denominated in its own physics.
We call this OmniFi. The nine elements on this page are the periodic table.
The Periodic Table of Financialization
Nine elements. Click any cell to read deeply. Each element is a dimension, a unit of account, and a market.
Units of Account, Across Reality
Each domain reduces itself to a single number. Once you can count it, you can sell it.
Financialization is not invention. It is admission.
Six Thousand Years, One Direction
Every century pulls another dimension of reality onto the ledger.
Five Laws of OmniFi
Five laws distilled from six thousand years of financialization.
- I
Anything that can be measured can be priced; anything that can be priced will be traded; anything that can be traded will be derivatized.
- II
Each new unit of account creates a new asset class roughly equal in capitalization to the previous one within twenty years.
- III
The bottom of every Fi domain is energy. The top of every Fi domain is identity.
- IV
Friction migrates: solving custody at one layer opens speculation at the next.
- V
Reflexivity scales with abstraction. The further a Fi domain is from physics, the more violent its cycles.
If You Are Building
Five-step playbook to find your seat at the OmniFi table.
Pick a dimension that today has no on-chain market. (Hint: read the table top-down. The lower the maturity, the higher the upside.)
Identify its native unit of account. Resist the temptation to denominate it in dollars.
Solve the oracle problem for that unit: how does a physical fact (a kWh delivered, a carbon ton sequestered, a meme that went viral) reach the ledger?
Issue the first instrument. A simple one. A bond, a forward, an option. Liquidity follows utility, not the other way around.
Defend the namespace. Whoever defines the unit usually keeps a piece of every trade in it.