Digital goods economics were simple: infinite supply, zero marginal cost, impossible scarcity. Until 2025, there was a moat of effort. Creating quality digital assets required time, expertise, labor. That moat is gone. In 2026, a competent AI agent can clone a $500 course with worksheets, video scripts, and community templates in under fifteen minutes. The Solitary Observer tracks Asset Inflation. As AI-generated digital product supply explodes, perceived value collapses. A course selling for $997 in 2024 now struggles at $197—not because content is worse, but because buyers know equivalent products can be generated on demand. We witness knowledge commoditization. But within collapse lies opportunity. When everything can be copied, only provenance cannot be replicated. The future of digital assets is not content—it is cryptographic proof of origin, timestamped creation records, verifiable ownership chains. This is why Signed Digital Assets rise: products cryptographically signed by creators, stored on decentralized storage (IPFS, Arweave), with public update ledgers. Reflection: We spent two decades building a copying-based internet. HTTP replicates; every page load is a copy. But when copying is trivial, value migrates to the original. The most successful 2026 digital creators are not those with best content—they are those with best proof. They use timestamped commits, signed releases, public build logs to demonstrate genuine human labor. In a world of infinite fakes, only the real is scarce. But real must be proven. Strategic Insight: Implement Proof of Creation for all digital assets. For every product: (1) Store source files in public Git with dated commits showing evolution. (2) Use timestamping services (OpenTimestamps) for immutable creation proof. (3) Sign releases with GPG keys, publish signatures. (4) Maintain public changelogs documenting not just what changed but why—include failed experiments, customer feedback, dead ends. This is your Authenticity Moat. Competitors clone output, not process. In 2026, process is product. Sell the journey.