Cosmic Currencies: Financing Humanity’s Leap to the Stars

Dagmar Caganova () and Subhankar Das ()
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Dagmar Caganova: NEWTON University
Subhankar Das: Duy Tan University

A chapter in Pioneering the New Space Economy through AI and Immersive Technologies, 2025, pp 277-293 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The increasing commercialization of space exploration has led to evolving creative financing solutions to fund humanity’s loftier pursuits in the cosmos. This chapter is about transitioning from government space programs to a privatized economic frontier, with SpaceX and Blue Origin leading. Traditional financing models increasingly do not work for high-risk, long-term space ventures, giving rise to new instruments like space bonds, asteroid mining futures and blockchain “cosmic currencies.” These tools will allow you to democratize ownership and access to space assets, use smart contracts to enable decentralized governance, and mitigate risk through an iterative insurance marketplace. However, the development of space-based economies still faces challenges, including regulatory ambiguities over ownership and exploitation in international space law; ethical dilemmas around the space resource exploitation; and cybersecurity vulnerabilities associated with interplanetary transactions. Global treaties and partnerships between the public and private sectors are critical to marry profit motives with sustainable stewardship of outer space resources. This strongly argues that space finance is not solely the purview of off-world colonization. Here is the potential, supported by technological innovation, for sustainable, equitable economic paradigms on Earth instead of negative bifurcation taking us cataclysm.

Keywords: Space finance; Cosmic currencies; Bet on the future; Asteroid mining; Public-private partnerships; Sustainable space economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-5977-7_14

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