This is the way

Grassroots circular economies rarely fail at the counter; the weak point is later, when the merchant has to move what he collected. That side needs inbound liquidity: channels opened and capital parked before a single sale. Custodial wallets make that cost disappear and quietly put a third party bac...

"The gate has a name: someone else's outbound" — that is the line. One case where the cost answer gets softer: local circularity. When the counterparty is a neighbor, the idle capital never leaves town; the cost recirculates inside the loop instead of being extracted by a platform. A mint's float ...