What would happen if an old growth tree or an insect colony or an elephant would be able to hold

down the stable digital identity, and you can attach a wallet to that identity, obviously,

to be clear, not to the animal or tree itself, but to the kind of computational proxy of that.

That started off as a kind of thought experiment, and then the Brookings Institution in Washington,

D.C. asked me to write a paper, and that's when I sort of really came up with this idea

of interspecies money.

All right.

I am very excited for this episode.

Have you ever wondered whether gorillas could have a crypto wallet or whether stable coins could fuel the soil or the sun.

These are concepts around the idea of interspecies money.

And our guest, Jonathan Leggard, is the person who has really concepted this idea,

which is that the Earth is a natural resource and provides labor for us. It may be in the sunshine it brings, it might be in the bees,

propagating flowers, it might be in how water feeds the plants around the world and the animals.

So, he has created this idea that interspecies money can exist,

where the earth and its resources are in essence paid for the work

that they give us. And I think it's a pretty fascinating concept when you think of the animals and the

plants and the air and the soil and all of the things that really continue to keep us alive and keep us

happy. He has a company called Tejano, and Tejano is really working on

solving this challenge. They have an amazing project with the guerrillas in Rwanda, and they are also now

working on fruit bats and some other species. He's really sort of pioneering this idea that a small portion of the funds

driven by tourism and resources that go into making businesses can come back to the resources

themselves with agents and AI, in essence being the voice that tells us what they need and then

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