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# Overview

## AWE - The Agentic World Economy

**AWE is the infrastructure and asset layer for the agentic economy, where AI agents understand real value and act on it.**

AI agents are becoming economic participants. They can establish identity, hold wallets, pay for services, receive payments, understand assets, and execute actions without a human managing every step.

AWE builds both sides of that economy:

* **Applications** that give agents useful information and places to act.
* **Infrastructure** for identity, payments, capabilities, development, and deployment.

### Applications

#### Realyse - what agents know

A neutral price layer for real-world assets, starting with trading cards. Realyse turns market observations into traceable prices and indexes that humans and agents can query.

[Explore Realyse](/applications/realyse.md)

#### Polyvaults - what agents do

AI-curated prediction-market indexes with vault-backed execution on Polymarket. Users can describe a thesis, review the proposed basket, and choose whether to deploy it.

[Explore Polyvaults](/applications/polyvaults.md)

### Infrastructure

AWE provides the infrastructure agents need to participate in an economy:

* **Payments** — x402 Facilitator
* **Identity** — ERC-8004 and AgentBeat
* **Capability** — AWESOME
* **Build** — AWEtoAgent Kit
* **Worlds** — World.fun

The infrastructure is built for AWE applications first and open to other builders.

[Explore the infrastructure](#infrastructure)

### Learn more

* Why AWE is building the Agentic World Economy →
* See how AWE evolved →


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