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Every major civilizational failure — climate change, pandemic response, nuclear non-proliferation, public goods funding — shares a single root cause that no existing technology has solved: the coordination trap. Markets, voting systems, and blockchain-based DAOs all fail at the same class of problems because they share a hidden and incorrect assumption: that preferences are fixed and independent when expressed. In reality, most human willingness to cooperate is conditional. We introduce the Conditional Commitment Protocol (CCP), a new mathematical framework that treats conditional willingness as a first-class input, collects preference functions rather than binary votes, and solves for cooperative equilibria mathematically before binding any participant. We describe the theoretical foundations in cooperative game theory, the cryptographic commit-reveal scheme that ensures honest expression, and a practical system architecture. If deployed at scale, CCP dissolves coordination traps that have persisted for centuries and represents a genuinely new primitive in the history of collective human decision-making.

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