Justin Banon

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Justin Banon is a technology, market, and thought leader in Web3, focused on the tokenization of physical RWAs.

Justin founded Boson Protocol - Web3’s decentralized commerce layer. In 2021, Boson raised $36 million and was later named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. In 2024, he announced the launch of a second protocol, Fermion, for the verified tokenization and fractionalization of high-value assets. Together, Boson and Fermion serve as the de facto decentralized infrastructure for tokenizing any physical asset.

Featured Writing

How AI Agents and Crypto Will Revolutionize Commerce

The synergy between AI and decentralized protocols will be central to the transformation of commerce, argues the founder of infrastructure firm Boson Protocol.

The Battle for Ownership of Everything

The Physical RWA Super-system: defending humanity against the rising threat of the centralized ownership of all physical assets.

Web3 Computable Economy

The paper, co-authored by Justin and Prof. Jason Potts, a leading blockchain economist, discusses the transition from an industrial to a digital economy.

Boson Masterplan Part V

Explore initiatives Boson is going to focus on, including developing Boson as a foundational platform for Decentralized Agentic AI Commerce, driving civilization-scale adoption of Boson and unlocking a Computable Economy.

The computable economy will unlock a new economic order

Web3 and RWA tokenization: building the revolutionary 'computable economy.'Luxury markets lead adoption, creating new ownership models and unlocking trillions.

How Web3’s 'programmable commerce layer' will...

The world economy is in the early stages of a profound transition from an industrial to a digital economy.

2019 Whitepaper

The original Boson white paper from 2019, where we present Boson Protocol, decentralized infrastructure for enabling autonomous commercial exchanges on Ethereum.

The Boson Metasystem

The original Boson white paper from 2019, where we present Boson Protocol, decentralized infrastructure for enabling autonomous commercial exchanges on Ethereum.

Introducing Boson v3: The Foundation for Decentralized AI Commerce

Boson Protocol takes a monumental step forward with the release of Boson v3, which positions Boson as the foundation for decentralized AI commerce.

Fermion Lightpaper

An introduction to Fermion: decentralized infrastructure for fractionalizing and exchanging verified, high-value physical assets across humans and AI.

Fermion Greypaper

A deeper dive into Fermion’s design—exploring the architecture, mechanisms, and incentives behind the protocol.

Boson Masterplan IV

Boson’s roadmap for bringing physical assets onchain, introducing the Schrödinger Upgrade and the new Fermion Protocol.

Boson Masterplan III

Bridging Web2 and Web3 to drive mass adoption of decentralized commerce.

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About Boson Protocol

Boson is building civilization-scale infrastructure enabling the decentralized exchange of any physical asset for both humans and AI agents. The Boson Metasystem brings all physical assets onchain with the same deterministic properties as native digital assets, creating an efficient substrate upon which the economy "computes" transactions and unlocking exponential increases in wealth. This system combines Boson Protocol's optimistic exchange for everyday commerce with Fermion Protocol's verified custodial model for high-value assets, while building infrastructure for AI agents to execute physical world transactions.

Under Justin's leadership, Boson has secured $35.8M in funding and been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer. As trillions in physical assets move onchain, Boson orchestrates value throughout this ecosystem, positioning Justin at the forefront of one of our time's most significant economic transformations.

Technology Pioneer Recognition

Global Innovators Community

Academic Paper

Digital institutions create wealth by increasing economic computational complexity

The paper, co-authored by Justin and Prof. Jason Potts, a leading blockchain economist, discusses the transition from an industrial to a digital economy. It emphasizes the critical role of technologies like Boson Protocol. This technology is pivotal in fostering a ‘computable economy’, enhancing economic complexity and wealth. Boson Protocol’s unique capability to facilitate transactions of real-world assets on the blockchain with reduced trust is underscored as a key innovation, linking physical assets with the digital economy and broadening the scope of blockchain technology.

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