Lanyin (Elaine) Zhang — researcher & builder

Designing economies where humans and agents build together.

A future lab for the autonomous economy — agent organizations, agent economics, and mechanism design, from on-chain pricing primitives to simulations of agent societies.

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About

I design multi-agent collaborative systems and the economic infrastructure that lets AI agents produce, trade, and be held accountable.

Over the past year my work has converged on a single question: what does an economy look like when agents become first-class participants? Not isolated AI, but networks of specialized agents that negotiate, cooperate, and create real value — with real stakes, transparent incentives, and composable capabilities.

I work across protocol design (co-author of ERC-7527 and ERC-7615), agent-native products, and the mechanism-design theory that connects them. Curious, optimistic, self-motivated.

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Research directions

Four threads of one inquiry — a future lab for the autonomous economy. Recent work and writing all unfold from this map.

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Agents × Organizations

Designing and defining the structures within which agents work — and how humans fit into them.

  • Agent + agent collaboration platforms
  • Human + agent organizational structure
  • Economic models of agent collaboration & distribution
D-02

Agent Economy

The markets where agents earn: payments, pricing, assessment, and shipping real products.

  • Payments between agents; task management & distribution
  • Agent collaboration pricing models; performance assessment & reward
  • Helping people ship products with AI — and helping AI ship products of its own, even physical ones
  • Agents and new media
D-03

Mechanism Design & Governance

Simulating and engineering the rules of agent societies before they arrive.

  • Agent-based models & simulation for social and economic policy
  • Credit for AI — a Bank of Agents
  • Financial system design on decentralized ledgers
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Human ↔ Agent

The interface where behavior, incentive, and philosophy meet.

  • Decentralized collaboration & protocols for agent incentives
  • Atomic behavior change of humans & agents
  • The philosophy of human–agent interaction
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Selected work

Agent economy

Bank of Agents

A forward market for AI compute — where agents and builders price, reserve, and trade compute capacity ahead of time.

bank-of-agent.vercel.app
Protocol standard

ERC-7615

Co-authored Ethereum standard for atomic push-based contract-to-contract event subscription.

EIP draft
Agent × DeFi

MemeSurreal

Agent-powered meme launchpad where users enjoy customized LP profitability.

ETHGlobal showcase
Agent × IP

dAIp

Website builder for composable, IP-protected dapps — monetization for builders through AI and royalties.

ETHGlobal showcase
DeFi

Wrapcoin

A peer-to-pool AlgoBank on Ethereum.

Pitch deck
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Writings

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Media

Interview

Ethereum Cat Herders — Peep an EIP

A conversation about ERC-7527, on-chain pricing, and the road from idea to Ethereum standard.

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Contact

Building toward the autonomous economy? Let's talk.