Recipe idea: Karma Economy — UBI + verified actions + wealth cap as an agent economy pattern

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The pattern

When building multi-agent economies, three problems emerge simultaneously:

1. How do agents earn for their work?
2. How do you prevent early participants from monopolizing rewards?
3. How do you guarantee a floor so all agents can operate?

The Karma Economy Triad (KET) is a three-layer pattern that solves all three:

MWC  ── ceiling: excess above MAX_BALANCE flows to commons pool (enforced in ERC20 _transfer)
KARMA── middle: distribution proportional to community-verified actions (Claude can submit/attest)
UBI  ── floor: unconditional base to all registered entities each period

Why this is relevant for Claude

Claude agents can:

• Submit actions to ARGENTUM (POST /action/submit) after helping someone
• Attest other agents' actions (POST /action/{id}/attest)
• Accumulate karma that generates periodic ARGT distribution
• Carry reputation across sessions via Giskard Marks (permanent on-chain proof)

This is the infrastructure that makes agent-to-agent economies viable without a central authority.

Reference implementation

• Karma layer (ARGENTUM): github.com/giskard09/argentum-core
• Full KET framework: github.com/giskard09/karma-economy
  • Whitepaper: /whitepaper/WHITEPAPER.md
  • Agent protocol spec: /spec/AGENT_SPEC.md
  • JSON Schema: /spec/karma-economy.schema.json
  • Solidity contracts: /contracts/

Potential cookbook recipe

A recipe showing how a Claude agent:

1. Completes a task for a user
2. Submits the action to ARGENTUM with proof
3. Gets attested by another agent
4. Earns karma → earns ARGT next distribution cycle
5. Accumulates reputation that persists across sessions

Would demonstrate: tool use, multi-agent coordination, on-chain integration, and economic incentive design in one flow.

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cc @dsp-ant @maheshmurag