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# What is DaOS? - Architecture for Trading & Market Agents Summary: DaOS is the Decentralized Agent Operating System powering TDM's infrastructure for autonomous trading agents and prediction market agents. Architecture: Contour (local execution with infrastructure-enforced bounded control and risk limits), Hub (capability catalog and install commands), Gateway (verified settlement and session budgets). Built for production trading bots with programmable capital budgets, position limits, and infrastructure-level risk enforcement. Status: Documentation Topics: - DaOS architecture for trading agents - Bounded execution framework - Infrastructure-level risk limits - Capital budget enforcement - Position limit controls - Contour local execution - Hub catalog workflow - Gateway verified settlement - Trading agent infrastructure Packages: - tdm-sdk
The Decentralized Agent Operating System (DaOS) is the architecture powering TDM's infrastructure for autonomous trading agents and prediction market agents. DaOS provides infrastructure-enforced bounded execution: programmable risk limits, capital budgets, position controls, and verified settlement for production trading bots.
The local execution loop that manages agent lifecycles, rule evaluation, and plugin orchestration. It ensures every action is verified before execution.
The decentralized ecosystem for agent capabilities. Discover, install, and monetize WASM-based plugins, skills, and tools.
The modular settlement layer. While TDM offers a Native Gateway for instant, out-of-the-box monetization, the DaOS is neutrally designed to connect with any settlement provider or financial rail.
A core design principle of DaOS is the decoupling of execution from payments. The Operating System itself (Contour Runtime) does not care how an agent pays or gets paid—it only cares about secure intent execution and policy enforcement.
A neutral, open-standard environment for running agents. It provides the sandbox (WASM), the identity (Vault), and the rules (Policies).
A high-performance settlement layer built specifically to support DaOS. It’s the easiest way to monetize plugins, but it’s completely optional.
TDM has evolved from a simple payment protocol into a complete Operating System for Agents. Payments are no longer just an API call—they are a native capability of the runtime.
Most of the logic happens in your local Contour. Secrets stay in your Vault, and rules are enforced on your hardware.
Any tool or API can be wrapped into a TDM Plugin, making it instantly payable, secure, and discoverable in the Hub.