Agoric, with ticker BLD (as in “build”), is a blockchain product company building intelligent, automated applications for managing digital assets across crypto networks and ecosystems. It specializes in orchestrating complex cross-chain actions — like yield optimization, staking, and payments — into seamless, secure workflows for users and developers.
Agoric’s core innovation is Orchestration: a programmable coordination layer that powers automation across ecosystems, enabling faster, simpler, and more efficient user experience. It’s grounded in Agoric’s Cosmos-based PoS blockchain platform, leveraging Hardened JavaScript for smart contracts.
These foundational papers (published in 1988) lay out the concept of software agents creating and participating in a market for digital assets and computational resources.
Markets and Computation: Agoric Open Systems by Mark S. Miller and K. Eric Drexler
This paper examines markets as a model for computation and proposes a framework for applying the power of market mechanisms to the software domain.
Incentive Engineering: for Computational Resource Management by K. Eric Drexler and Mark S. Miller
This paper describes algorithms (including algorithms for auctions and negotiation) for the allocation of processor time and storage space.
Comparative Ecology: A Computational Perspective by Mark S. Miller and K. Eric Drexler
This paper compares different evolutionary models to produce systems of greater competence than those we can directly design.
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