Stories behind resale culture, value, and identity — from archival grails to ownership equity.
Jargon-free explainers on tokenization, royalties, and how RETRO works.
Research, whitepapers, and industry insights — from protocol design to resale trends.
Real build logs and rogue diagrams from the engineers (and founder) building RETRO — no AI here.
MOST RECENT
From Scrolling to Stating Intent: The E‑Commerce Shift to AI Agents with x402 Web‑Native Payments
E‑commerce is exiting the era of pages and entering the era of intent. For two decades, we optimized category trees, filters, carts, and checkout flows. Tomorrow, the customer won’t “scroll” at all; they’ll express an intention, and an AI agent will do the rest—search, compare, negotiate, pay, and fulfill. This is a story about that shift—and how web‑native payments like x402 make it finally workable for machines as much as humans.
THE BAG THAT PAID ME BACK
How one Chanel bag traveled the world and paid every owner along the way.
RESALE ROI
How Provenance impacts price over time for your favorite designer bags