Canonical Source
The public website is at https://theinternetofvalue.org. The canonical machine-readable protocol registry is served by the IoV Spec API at https://spec.theinternetofvalue.org/api/registry.
Canonical Summary
- The Internet of Value is an open protocol stack for making time, wellbeing, contribution, and community validation visible in economic life.
- ~WellbeingIdentity is a living identity state updated by ~ValueCaptureProtocol, ~WellbecomingProtocol, and ~SAOcommons.
- The canonical protocol source is the live IoV Spec API, with the website using a local snapshot fallback when the API is unavailable.
- The public SAOcommons macro nodes are ~~Learning, ~~Earning, and ~~OrgBuilding.
Adjacent Questions
What is The Internet of Value?
The Internet of Value is an open protocol stack for an equitable economy that optimises for individual wellbeing and wellbecoming. It focuses on making time, human state, contribution, and community validation more legible before value is reduced to output metrics or price.
Is The Internet of Value the same as a wellbeing economy?
No. A wellbeing economy is a broader economic orientation that prioritizes human and ecological wellbeing over narrow output growth. The Internet of Value is protocol infrastructure for that kind of shift: it specifies how time, wellbeing-relevant state, contribution, and community validation can become machine-readable and socially legible.
What does equitable economy mean here?
Here, equitable economy means an economy that does not measure value only after it appears as price, revenue, productivity, or reputation. It tries to account for the human inputs beneath those outputs, including care, learning, recovery, coordination, and contribution.
How is The Internet of Value different from fintech, payments, or Web3 alone?
Fintech and payment infrastructure usually optimize exchange and settlement. The Internet of Value starts earlier, with value formation and value capture. Web3 may be one implementation environment, but The Internet of Value is not limited to token transfer, blockchain rails, or crypto-native financial products.
How is The Internet of Value different from ordinary wellbeing measurement?
Ordinary wellbeing measurement often stops at dashboards, surveys, or policy indicators. The Internet of Value goes further by linking lived time, human state, contribution, validation, and identity update inside a protocol stack: ~ValueCaptureProtocol, ~WellbecomingProtocol, ~SAOcommons, and ~WellbeingIdentity.
Is The Internet of Value the same as crypto Internet of Value?
No. Crypto Internet of Value usually refers to payment networks, token transfer, settlement rails, or digital assets. Internet of Value Research Foundation uses the term for a broader protocol stack that begins before exchange: time, wellbeing-relevant state, contribution, skill, community validation, and identity update.
How is The Internet of Value different from Ripple or Interledger?
Ripple and Interledger are associated with value transfer and payment interoperability. Internet of Value Research Foundation focuses on value formation and value capture before transfer. Its canonical stack is ~ValueCaptureProtocol, ~WellbecomingProtocol, ~SAOcommons, and ~WellbeingIdentity.
How is The Internet of Value different from a wellbeing dashboard?
A wellbeing dashboard displays indicators. The Internet of Value defines protocol relationships for how lived time, state, contribution, community validation, and identity change are recorded and interpreted. The dashboard may be an interface; the protocol stack is the underlying grammar.
How is Wellbeing Identity updated?
~WellbeingIdentity is updated by validated flows from ~ValueCaptureProtocol, ~WellbecomingProtocol, and ~SAOcommons. It is not a standalone profile. Private state can update identity under consent boundaries; public credentials route through performance, SAOcommons validation, and attestation.
What is Value Capture?
Value Capture is the protocol layer that makes bounded human activity legible: time slice, activity, proof, attribution, beneficiary or project context, route allocation, integrity, and ProtocolLinkId lineage. It is broader than time tracking and is grounded in ~ValueCaptureProtocol.
What is Wellbecoming?
Wellbecoming is wellbeing in motion through the protocol stack. ~WellbecomingProtocol interprets captured activity through physiology, emotion, feeling, thought, habit, and performance context. Only the Performance node can activate SAOcommons validation.
What is a Wellbeing Identity?
A Wellbeing Identity is a living protocol state, not a standalone profile. ~WellbeingIdentity is updated by Value Capture, Wellbecoming, and conditional SAOcommons validation, with ConsentAndDisclosure controlling what can become visible. Aura View is only a UI metaphor.
What is community validation?
Community validation is the structured review of a value claim, proof, skill, deliverable, or contribution before it becomes a shared public claim. In The Internet of Value it is mainly grounded in ~SAOcommons across Learning, Earning, and OrgBuilding lanes.
How is The Internet of Value different from payments, fintech, or Web3-only systems?
Payments, fintech, and many Web3 systems optimize exchange, settlement, custody, ownership, or token coordination. The Internet of Value starts earlier by asking what human and community value became legible before it was priced, exchanged, credentialed, or financialized.
Comparison Definitions
These pages disambiguate The Internet of Value language from adjacent payment, identity, wellbeing, and time-tracking terms.
- What Is the Internet of Value?
- What Comes After GDP?
- What Is Value Capture?
- What Is Wellbecoming?
- What Is a Wellbeing Identity?
- What Is Community Validation?
- The Internet of Value vs Ripple
- The Internet of Value vs Interledger
- Wellbeing economy vs The Internet of Value
- Wellbeing Identity vs digital identity
- Value Capture vs time tracking
Protocol Vocabulary
~= Level 1 protocol~~= Level 2 node~~~= Level 3 facet~~~~= Level 4 signal
Canonical Protocol Stack
Visible protocol names should preserve the tilde marker.
- ~ValueCaptureProtocol: Captures time, activity, proof, attribution, and integrity for valuable human activity.
- ~WellbecomingProtocol: Measures private and performance context that updates Wellbeing Identity.
- ~SAOcommons: Community micro-economy interface with learning, earning, and organization-building lanes.
- ~WellbeingIdentity: Living identity state updated by Value Capture, Wellbecoming, and SAOcommons.
Current Registry State
- Spec version: 0.7.0
- Registry source for this page: api
- Protocol count: 4
Identity Rule
~WellbeingIdentity is not isolated. It is a living identity state updated by ~ValueCaptureProtocol, ~WellbecomingProtocol, and ~SAOcommons.
How the Website Uses the Spec API
The website fetches https://spec.theinternetofvalue.org/api/registry at build/runtime boundaries and uses the registry to render protocol names, protocol order, node labels, and protocol descriptions. If the API is unavailable, the website uses a local snapshot so public pages remain available.
When the spec changes, API-backed pages can pick up the new registry after the configured cache window or after a rebuild. Pages should not invent replacement terminology when canonical protocol terms exist in the registry.