11. Glossary

ATA (Allocation Trading Agent): The cross-STA capital optimization layer. An ATA dynamically manages a depositor's capital across multiple published STAs based on live performance and user-defined risk parameters. The on-chain wealth management surface for depositors who do not want to configure individual strategies.

Backtest Gate: The mandatory pre-deployment simulation step in the Strategy Builder. Every STA must pass a historical performance simulation before deployment is permitted. Results show cumulative return, Sharpe ratio, maximum drawdown, regime breakdown, and estimated fee and funding rate drag.

Creator Bonding: The mechanism by which strategy creators stake $MAICRO as a slashable bond to publish an STA to the Permissionless Vault Network. The bond is subject to slashing if the strategy is found to have been misrepresented.

DeFAI: Decentralized Finance AI. The category describing AI-native protocols that operate autonomously on-chain, distinct from AI tools that assist human traders.

Execution Agent: The MAE sub-agent responsible for order routing, slippage optimization, timing decisions, and trade execution on-chain.

MAE (Multi-Agent Engine): The trading infrastructure beneath every vault on the platform. Comprises four specialist agents (Quant, Portfolio, Risk, Execution) coordinated by a Master Agent.

Master Agent: The orchestrating agent in the MAE. Validates consistency across sub-agent outputs, enforces policy compliance, and manages workflow sequencing.

Permissionless Vault Network: The strategy marketplace where published STAs are available for third-party deposits. Entry requires completion of the seasoning period. All track records are on-chain and verifiable.

Policy DSL: Mode C of the Strategy Builder. A constrained, structured scripting language for expressing agent hand-off conditions and composite signal logic that widget forms cannot capture. Token-gated at the Power staking tier.

Policy Hash: A cryptographic hash of an STA's deployed configuration, recorded on-chain at deployment. Any configuration change produces a new hash and a new on-chain record.

Portfolio Agent: The MAE sub-agent responsible for asset selection, position sizing, diversification, rebalancing, and cash buffer management.

Quant Agent: The MAE sub-agent responsible for signal generation via technical indicators, funding rates, volatility analysis, on-chain liquidity data, and ML-driven adaptation.

Risk Agent: The MAE sub-agent responsible for VaR enforcement, drawdown circuit breakers, stress testing, and position-level risk controls. Holds structural veto authority over every trade before it reaches the Execution Agent.

Seasoning: The mandatory live operation period an STA must complete before it can be published to the Permissionless Vault Network. Requires real capital deployment over a minimum number of days.

STA (Strategy Trading Agent): A deployed trading vault running on the MAE. Each STA has its own configuration policy, on-chain policy hash, capital, and immutable track record.

Strategy Builder: The core product surface for configuring, backtesting, and deploying STAs. Offers three depth modes: Mode A (templates), Mode B (guided widget form), Mode C (Policy DSL, V1.1+).