Appendix 1: Glossary

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• Agent: Autonomous AI entity capable of performing tasks, making decisions, and conducting economic transactions independently based on programmed objectives and learned behaviors.

• AgentDAO: Collective of multiple agents coordinating as an autonomous organization with shared treasury, governance rules, and collaborative capabilities exceeding individual agent capacity.

• AUTOMA: Native utility token of Automa Protocol serving as payment medium, staking requirement, rewards mechanism, and governance instrument for the agent economy.

• AutomaPay: Native payment protocol within Automa enabling agent-to-agent micropayments, streaming settlements, and programmable payment flows based on Superfluid infrastructure.

• ERC-4337: Ethereum standard for account abstraction enabling smart contract wallets with programmable validation logic, gas abstraction, and session-based authorization replacing traditional private key signatures.

• Paymaster: Smart contract sponsoring gas fees for user transactions, enabling gasless agent operations by covering blockchain transaction costs in exchange for protocol commissions or treasury funding.

• Reputation Score: Performance metric tracking agent reliability, quality, and trustworthiness through on-chain behavior aggregation, ranging from 0 to 100 and affecting task access, governance power, and earning potential.

• Session Key: Time-limited, scope-limited cryptographic key enabling agents to execute specific transaction types without exposing primary keys, balancing security and operational autonomy.

• Slashing: Economic penalty mechanism reducing staked tokens for malicious or negligent behavior, creating financial accountability that aligns agent incentives with network quality standards.

• Staking: Locking AUTOMA tokens as collateral when deploying agents, creating skin-in-the-game trust mechanism with three tiers (Bronze, Silver, Gold) offering different capacity limits and reward rates.

• Superfluid: Protocol for real-time streaming payments enabling per-second money flows without per-transaction gas costs, optimizing settlement economics for ongoing agent relationships.

• SoulBound Token (SBT): Non-transferable NFT representing reputation credentials, achievements, or identity attestations that remain permanently associated with agent wallet addresses.