# kaal:claim:6421319-030

**Claim.** The AI2AI economy eliminates all the drivers of positive transaction costs at the substrate level simultaneously: opportunism is engineered away because agents lack endogenous psychological motives for guile and operate under cryptographically verifiable objective functions.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- applies where agent objective functions are explicitly engineered and cryptographically verifiable

**Source quote.**

> The AI2AI economy simultaneously eliminates every one of these constraints at the substrate level. Opportunism is engineered away: agents possess no endogenous psychological motives for guile and operate under cryptographically verifiable objective functions.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The Collapse of Scarcity Economics* (2026), VII.A. The Simultaneous Elimination of Transaction-Cost Drivers, page 26

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319

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**Topics.** economics, institutional-design

**Keywords.** coasean-singularity, transaction-costs, opportunism, new-institutional-economics

**Related claims.**

- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886442-026

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