About — Tokenomics Foundation (a Linux Foundation project)
**About** page of the **tokeneconomics.com** site, presenting the **Tokenomics Foundation** — a **Linux Foundation** project announced on **June 3, 2026**, operated in **close partnership with the FinOps Foundation**. **Stated mission**: *« establish open industry standards, benchmarks, and best practices for the economics of AI infrastructure »* — linking token **production, consumption, and monetization** to **business value**. **Framing definition of tokenomics**: *« Tokenomics is not just about the cost of tokens, it's about the entire layer of AI that they drive from production, to consumption to monetization »* — that is, **the entire economic layer of AI**, from infrastructure cost through model selection to value optimization. **Phase thesis**: early AI adoption prioritized **capability**; the current phase is shifting toward **efficiency and value**, which requires systematic cost management and **visibility**. **5 founding principles**: (1) ***« Efficiency is a design choice. AI cost is shaped by architecture, not just usage »*** ; (2) ***« Bigger is not always better. The best AI system is not always the one using the most expensive model »*** (right-tool / routing) ; (3) ***« Visibility comes before optimisation. Teams cannot manage what they cannot see »*** ; (4) ***« Value matters more than volume. More tokens, more calls, and more automation do not automatically mean better outcomes »*** ; (5) ***« Open knowledge benefits everyone »*** (shared standards, community learning, transparency). **Governance**: a **Governing Board** (industry direction + fund deployment) and a **Technical Committee** (open specifications + benchmarks). **Deliverables**: extension of the **FOCUS specification** (FinOps), open specs, benchmarks, frameworks and shared metrics. **Target audience**: CAIO, CTO, CIO, CFO, engineers, product teams, FinOps practitioners, researchers, startups, enterprises, public sector. **Stated goal**: moving organizations *« from experimental AI adoption to sustainable AI operations »* by extending the discipline of **variable technology spend** into the token era. **Relevance to the watch**: institutionalization/standardization of **agentic FinOps** at the level of an industry foundation — converges head-on with the notes [[finops-foundation-finops-for-ai-overview-2026-02-17]], [[finout-finops-ai-agents-four-step-allocation-framework-2026-04-27]], [[orq-ai-finops-ai-agents-cost-per-outcome-hosseini-2026-04-15]], [[gupta-token-budget-wars-marginal-token-utility-2026-05-28]] (allocation layer, token-to-outcome) and with the **token → outcome** shift (Salesforce/Tallapragada, Sierra/Greenwald). The 5 principles map exactly onto the levers already captured: architecture > usage, **Haiku/Sonnet/Opus routing**, observability before optimization, value ≠ volume.
**Tokenomics Foundation** (entité collective, projet de **The Linux Foundation**, en partenariat avec la **FinOps Foundation**). Page institutionnelle *About* — **aucun auteur individuel nommé**. Annonce datée du **3 juin 2026**.