This is an excellent framing of Tokens as Interventions, in the context of impact. Which resonates with my belief that tokens are the biomimetic equivalent of antibodies.
Tokens (like different classes of antibodies) can effect changes in the state of the world, by neutralising, catalysing, cascading, amplifying, aggregating, or potentiating processes that produce intervention outcomes.
This is one of the core biomimetic design principles of the ixo Protocol and how this is implemented through Internet of Impact (blockchain) networks https://ixo.world
which we see as a digital immune system for humanity: Enabling local sensing and response to sustainability threats and opportunities for impact.