Jonathan Magnus LEDGARD

Jonathan Ledgard leads Interspecies Money, a concept he invented to enable nonhuman life to participate in the market economy. A longtime foreign and war correspondent for The Economist and a critically acclaimed novelist, he also led pioneering technology initiatives at EPFL, including drone delivery of blood and medicines in Africa.

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Tehanu is the first prototype for interspecies money, enabling nonhuman species to hold and direct capital through digital identity, AI-inferred interests, task verification and payment execution. Based in Africa with global ambition, it is building the digital public infrastructure for a planetary economy that is responsive to the needs of other species.