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Building a Polymarket Bot, Part 5
Part 5 of the ZEIT Finance series. Understand the three Laws of Motion that govern NegRisk markets: Split, Merge, and Convert. Learn how to safely transform NO shares into YES shares plus cash, and discover the hidden trap of invisible 'Other' outcomes.
Dec 25, 2025
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Building a Polymarket Bot, Part 4
Part 4 of the ZEIT Finance series. Learn why posting orders is easy but knowing what actually filled is the real work. Master the Confirmation Loop: Plan, Post, Confirm, Account, Recover. Understand FOK vs FAK vs GTC, the User Stream, and how to avoid phantom fills.
Dec 24, 2025
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Building a Polymarket Bot, Part 3
Part 3 of the ZEIT Finance series. Learn why WebSockets look deceptively simple but fail in production. Master the Local Mirror architecture: a resilient, self-healing, in-memory order book your strategies can actually trust.
Dec 23, 2025
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Building a Polymarket Bot, Part 2
Part 2 of the ZEIT Finance series. Learn why market selection is a hard dependency for performance engineering. Discover the Scanner vs Executor architecture, custom indexing strategies, and the 4-Gate filtering framework for high-frequency trading bots.
Dec 22, 2025
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Building a Polymarket Bot
Part 1 of the ZEIT Finance series on building Polymarket trading bots. Learn why paper edge dies during execution, understand the hybrid CLOB architecture, tick grids, minimum sizes, and execution risk. Before you can exploit arbitrage opportunities, you must understand the venue's microstructure constraints.
Dec 21, 2025
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Permaweb Index (PI) Token Goes Live on Pi Day: A New Era for Fair Launch Support
The Permaweb Index (PI) token is launching on March 14th (Pi Day), introducing a revolutionary support model built on fairness, transparency, and community-driven participation---core principles that cryptocurrency was founded to uphold.
Mar 11, 2025
Read MoreAO Tooling: Teal
In this video, we introduce Teal, a typed version of Lua similar to TypeScript for JavaScript, offering type annotations for secure coding. We cover the basics of typed Lua and show you how to maximize its features. Additionally, we'll discuss a biginteger implementation by the Autonomous Finance Team for precise and secure handling of large numbers in critical applications.
Sep 5, 2024
Read MoreAO Tooling: AOForm
In this video, we explore AOForm, a tool for deploying and upgrading multiprocess systems in the AO ecosystem. Like Terraform, AOForm uses a single config file to simplify deployments. We'll show how it manages deployment states and efficiently upgrades components, making it essential for optimizing workflows and maintaining infrastructure.
Sep 2, 2024
Read MoreAO Package: Subscribable
In this video, we dive into the "Subscribable" package for AO, a crucial concept in the AO ecosystem. This package lets you subscribe to data and message streams from other processes, enabling event-driven architecture in distributed systems. It's essential for building low-latency, critical infrastructure and can also be used for streaming events on AO. We'll demonstrate how to use it across multiple processes, explain its anti-spam features, and explore how you can potentially monetize your data between processes.
Aug 20, 2024
Read MoreAO Tooling: Testing
In this video, we dive into testing processes and smart contracts on AO. We'll walk you through a framework we developed to make unit and mock-based testing easier. You'll see how we test an agent-based system with multiple processes and perform unit tests within a single process.
Aug 15, 2024
Read MoreAO Package: Ownable
In this video, we explore the "Ownable" package for the AO platform, written in Lua. Similar to OpenZeppelin's Ownable, this package provides fine-grained control for AO processes and handlers. We'll show you how to implement it to enhance security and ownership management in your AO applications.
Aug 13, 2024
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Dexi: Decentralized Autonomous Financial Data Network
Dexi autonomously identifies, collects, and aggregates financial data from events within the AO network, including asset prices, token swaps, liquidity fluctuations, and token asset characteristics. Built on a network of autonomous agents and responsive components, Dexi’s terminal is permissionlessly hosted on Arweave. It caters to both end-users via dexi.arweave.net and AO apps that leverage Dexi data via message based interactions. Dexi's data subscription service, which removes the need for an external oracle and opens new revenue streams for developers of data-rich apps on AO.
May 31, 2024
Read MoreAutonomous DCA Agent
The Autonomous DCA Agent executes a dynamic dollar-cost-average (DCA) investment strategy across various liquidity pools within the AO ecosystem. It automatically buys a base token at predetermined, user-configurable intervals using a consistent amount of a quote token for each transaction. The agent runs autonomously without off-chain signals or human intervention. In combination with its frontend on the Permaweb, it represents the first fully decentralized and uncensorable AgentFi application. As a Blueprint Implementation, the DCA Agent demonstrates the functionality and serves as a foundation for builders in the AO community.
May 9, 2024
Read MoreAutonomous Finance
Autonomous Finance is focused on research and development of AI-powered financial applications built on AO, the hyper parallel computer. We utilize AO’s decentralized compute environment to integrate AI onchain and generate new data-driven financial primitives to push the boundaries of what’s possible with financial applications and introduce global market intelligence onchain.
Apr 15, 2024
Read MoreWhat is ao?
ao combines blockchain's trust minimization with the speed and scalability of traditional computing environments, offering a decentralized platform for independent processes like websites or servers to communicate securely. Its architecture allows for hyper-parallel processing, autonomous operations, and a flexible computing environment, distinguishing it from traditional blockchains by its modular design, independence from a shared global state, and scalability. ao leverages Arweave for persistent, transparent, and verifiable data storage, enabling...
Apr 9, 2024
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