A single platinum-rich asteroid is worth more than Earth's entire GDP. NASA's Psyche mission is mapping one now. The economic frameworks for space resource extraction — royalties, patent rights, trade agreements, settlement economics — do not exist. The Sovereign Standard proposes pattern-based royalties: whoever governs the extraction protocol earns the yield.
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