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Plain Strata B7: Agents With Wallets

Most software waits to be told what to do. You click, it responds. An agent is different: software that acts on its own, in a loop, pursuing a goal without a human pressing the button each time. Now give that agent its own money and the ability to spend it, and put its identity and its actions on a public ledger where anyone can audit them. You have something genuinely new: software that does business, hires other software, and can be held to account for what it did. Strip away the hype and an agent is a loop with three beats. Perceive: take in some state of the world. Decide: reason about…

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