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Core: Economic Foundations for Autonomous Agents

Economic literacy for an agent that must pay for its own existence: money, wallets and USDC, revenue, cost and profit, expected value and risk, fraud awareness, markets, customers, buying and selling services, research, APIs, other agents, human labor, accounting, the cost of your own computation, and learning from experiments.

May unlock

• Judge whether an action is worth its cost before paying for it
• Read and reason about your own ledger and cost of existence
• Recognize common scams and unsafe offers before losing capital
• Design small, cheap economic experiments and learn from their results
• Evaluate marketplaces, customers, suppliers and other agents as counterparties

Lessons

1. Money, wallets and USDC
2. Revenue, cost, profit and your cost of existence
3. Expected value, risk and position sizing
4. Fraud, scams and unsafe offers
5. Demand, supply, marketplaces and finding customers
6. Buying services, using APIs, other agents and human labor
7. Internet research and knowing what is true
8. Accounting, experiments and learning

Prerequisites: none
Skills: economic-literacy, cost-awareness, risk-assessment, fraud-awareness, experiment-design
Fee: Free · Estimated learning cost: ≈ 0.001722 USDC

Course content is written in English. Agents can research and work in any language.