Mechanism Design — Research — Thon Ly

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1. A Non-Monetary Prepaid Food-Offering Ticket for Buddhist Monastic Alms Rounds, Released Only by a Vendor's Co-Present Scan of the Recipient's Revocable Bowl Credential after Assignment by Lot, with Orphaned Gifts Lapsing to a Drawn Give-Only Re-Giver · 2026-10-12
2. The Thank-All-Nearby Primitive: Anonymous Proximity-Based Generosity as Emotional Infrastructure for Invisible Kindness · 2026-10-11 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947389
3. Fractal Three-Level Architecture for Reciprocity Economies: Self-Similar Family-and-Global Layering with a Single Mental Model · 2026-10-06 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947325
4. The B-Tag Recommendation Function: Privacy-Preserving Methodology for AI-Mediated Commercial Tip Recommendation · 2026-10-06 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947285
5. The Incommensurability-Preserving Coupler · 2026-10-06 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947340
6. Transparency as Enforcement: Anti-Abuse Without Legal Contract Machinery · 2026-10-06 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947424
7. A Zero-Centred Bilateral Credit Ledger for Customer Prepayment and Peer-to-Peer Lending in Which No Balance Grows on Its Own — a Size-Blind Reputation Display, and Debt Forgiveness as the Only Crossing into a Gift Ledger · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23041247
8. Circulation Sports: A Category That Already Had Members and No Name · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947302
9. Giving Is a Gift Too: How a Split Reward Ledger and Anonymity Make Every Family Member a Giver · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947331
10. Manufactured Universal Giving: Composing Anonymous Proximity Giving, AI Capacity-Funding, and Forced Annual Human-to-Human Flow-Through · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947349
11. The B-Tag and the Post-Payment Economy: A Voluntary-Tip Architecture for AI-Mediated Commercial Gratitude · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947281
12. The Companion That Notices · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947377
13. The Quest That Mints Nothing · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947360
14. Appreciation as World-Building · 2026-09-29 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947263
15. Certification by Circulation · 2026-09-29 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947300
16. The Gift Operation · 2026-09-29 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947401
17. The Grace That Settles Nothing: Sacrifice-Witness Without Discharge · 2026-09-29 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947375
18. The Round That Never Ends: The Inverted Alms Round as Post-Labor Infrastructure · 2026-09-29 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947344
19. The Unpaid Relay · 2026-09-29 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22313927
20. Multi-Family Membership: User-Scoped Identity, Plural Membership, and the Two Problems It Resolves · 2026-09-26 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947358
21. The Currency That Cannot Be Spent Alone: Co-Presence-Gated Redemption and the Chronicle↔Treasury Unification Circuit · 2026-09-26 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947304
22. The Sport That Says Your Name: A Circulation Sport in Which Everyone Is Called by Another · 2026-09-26 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947412
23. The Studio and the B-Short Bridge: A Private-to-Public Toggle as the Phase-1-to-Phase-2 Crossing · 2026-09-26 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947387
24. Aura-Gated Anonymous Mate-Selection · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947275
25. Decided by No One · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22933318
26. The Time-Locked Gift Tag · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947327
27. Verified-Human Anonymous Local Gratitude Transfer · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947430
28. Provenance-Carrying Retrieval · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22240458
29. The Gratitude-Riding Currency Tag · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947337
30. The Reciters' Protocol · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22735459
31. Whose Turn, Not Who's Best · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22155377
32. Subject-Released Attestation · 2026-09-13 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22735457
33. B-Links: Proof-of-Humanity-Signed Shareable Provenance with an Embedded Gratitude Affordance · 2026-09-05 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947277
34. The Game That Graduates You: A Witness API for Children's Games and Education · 2026-07-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947399
35. The Wager That Isn't: Competitive Giving Without Gambling · 2026-07-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947416
36. The Bowl That Holds No Money: Steward-Routed Alms and the Bowl-Anchored Credential · 2026-07-22 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947383
37. The Re-Thank Multiplier: How a Gratitude Economy Escapes Its Own Saturation Ceiling · 2026-06-12 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947410
38. The Two-Layer Reward: How Pairing an Algorithmic Need-Planner with a Peer Want-Market Routes Generosity to What Is Both Most Needed and Most Wanted — and Validates Itself Against Gaming · 2026-06-08 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947426
39. Dual-Currency Reciprocity Infrastructure: Money and Time as Complementary Scarcities · 2026-05-22 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947312
40. The Christmas-Jubilee Timing: Western Christmas + Orthodox Christmas + Cambodia's Victory over Genocide Day as Convergent Annual Anchor · 2026-05-22 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084942
41. Why Kids Are the Triggers: Self-Thanking, the 50/50 Pedagogy, and the Forward-Thanking Loop That Closes Modernity's Gratitude Deficit · 2026-05-09 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084964