Curator Capital Markets

AI-generated content is flooding the internet, making discovery (not creation!) the new bottleneck. For the Creator Economy to function in high-noise environment, it needs a layer dedicated to filtering and routing or in other words a curation service. A "like" costs nothing and means nothing. But a curator who stakes capital, reputation, or a scarce resource could act as more credible signal. The infrastructure enabling this is what could be called “Curator Capital Markets”: systems that financialize judgment itself, creating economic incentives for high-quality curation and enabling efficient allocation of attention.

Key Ideas

Attention is now becoming a very-very scarce resource.
Authentic signals serving human needs are increasingly valuable.
Consumers will pay for filters (curators or AI agents) rather than content itself.

Curator Capital Markets Framework

The framework proposes a system where curators stake resources to signal value:

Opportunity cost - finite votes
Financial cost - bets with risk
Social cost - reputation on leaderboards
Time cost - minimum engagement before endorsement

These mechanisms create credible signals that help others allocate attention efficiently.

Why It Matters?

The framework moves the economic model from selling attention to advertisers to selling high-fidelity signals to participants. It positions curation as the key economic function in a world of infinite content.