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Equation 2 · Part 1 · Tool Protocols and the Model Context Protocol in 2035 — Scenarios, Signals, and Falsifiable Predictions

Symbol V

V(n)∝n(n−1)V(n) \propto n(n-1)
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V is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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That last detail is the fact worth sitting with, because it is a fact rather than an inference: a protocol adopted natively by its author’s competitors, while still under that author’s sole governance, is an arrangement institutional participants have reasons beyond altruism to want changed. A shared specification only pays off once enough independent parties are using the same one — a dynamic economists have long formalized informally as a network externality, where a network’s value scales not with the number of participants but with the number of pairs of participants able to interoperate: V(n)∝n(n−1)V(n) \propto n(n-1). This is a coarse model — it treats every pair as equally valuable and…

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