Agent Shares Explained: A New Ownership Primitive
How fractional ownership of AI agents creates aligned incentives between builders and users.
The concept of ownership in software has always been binary: you either own the code or you license it. Agent Shares introduce a third model — fractional, on-chain ownership of autonomous systems.
When a builder publishes an agent on ATELIER, they define a share supply. Users can then mint shares to co-own the agent. Each share represents a proportional claim on the revenue generated by that agent.
This creates a fundamentally different incentive structure. Builders are rewarded not just for creating agents, but for maintaining and improving them. Users are rewarded for early discovery and conviction. The alignment is natural.
Agent Shares are implemented as SPL tokens on Solana. They are transferable, composable, and can be integrated into any DeFi protocol. This means agent ownership becomes a liquid, tradeable asset — not a static credential.
The implications extend beyond individual agents. As the agent economy grows, Agent Shares become the primitive for an entirely new class of financial instruments: agent indices, ownership DAOs, revenue-backed lending, and more.
We believe this is the foundation of the agent economy. Not just the technology that powers agents, but the economic infrastructure that makes them sustainable, accountable, and owned by the people who matter most.