**Glossary: Key Terms for AI Agent Economies**
- **AI Agent**: An autonomous software entity capable of economic action and independent decision-making.
- **Economic Identity**: A cryptographically verifiable on-chain persona enabling transactions and asset control.
- **Programmable Value**: Digital assets whose behaviour and transferability are conditionally defined via code.
- **Agent Reputation**: The trust, score, or status of an AI agent as derived from on-chain activity and verified endorsements.
- **Agent Negotiation Protocol**: The standard(s) and languages AI agents use to transact and coordinate value.
- **Data Provenance**: The chain of historical evidence attached to digital assets or transactions, vital for auditability.
- **Abundance vs. Scarcity**: The shifting boundary between plentiful computation and the emergent scarcity of agency, privacy, and meaning.
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