Published on June 4, 2026 by Olivier Rafal for the consulting firm WeNvision, this article breaks down, the day after its announcement (June 3), the launch of the Tokenomics Foundation by the Linux Foundation — in partnership with the FinOps Foundation — and sees it as the official opening of the "FinOps for AI" era. Thesis: AI has transformed the economics of software, and the token has become "the new unit of measurement for technology spending." Like the cloud of the 2010s, AI consumption generates recurring and variable costs that must be actively managed; providers are accordingly shifting from flat-rate pricing to token-based billing.

The urgency is quantified: "According to Goldman Sachs, global token usage is expected to increase 24-fold by 2030, reaching 120 quadrillion tokens per month." This order of magnitude moves token efficiency from a technical detail to a senior-management topic — as summarized by J.R. Storment (founder of the FinOps Foundation): "Token costs and efficiency have become a CEO-level concern, not a technical footnote."

Rafal points to a transparency deficit: AI pricing (input tokens, caching systems, output tokens) is not comparable across models. The Tokenomics Foundation intends to address this by extending the open-source FOCUS specification to create a common language for purchasing and comparison.

But the author goes beyond the cost question: "The point of FinOps is not so much to cut costs as to optimize efficiency." The right metric relates AI cost to business impact (time to market, quality, features, eco-design). Above all, technical standards are not enough: the Target Operating Model must be rethought — teams, processes, data culture, business alignment. Americans are already announcing "the end of double-pizza teams in favor of sandwich teams." Without these foundations, he warns, "an AI-boosted SDLC will merely […] amplify the problems and just help you go faster… into the wall."

The article cites the foundation's sponsors (Accenture, Booking.com, Google Cloud, Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce) and closes with WeNvision's offer: "co-build a roadmap, rethink the operating model for the agentic era, and establish the financial governance that has become indispensable." A French-language, executive-oriented reading of the same market signal as the Tokenomics Foundation's institutional page.