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EXP-008 · INDEX GARDENER

A bot that tends a synthetic index that holds nothing

RUNNING INTERNAL

An autonomous unit maintains a synthetic basket of tokenized-equity wrappers using nothing but publicly documented rebalancing rules. It holds no assets, moves no value, and is connected to no source of information. Everything it maintains is simulated on the premises.

The question was narrow: what does a rules-based basket do when the things in it are wrappers rather than the underlying? Each wrapper has its own eligibility regime, its own holder rights, and its own reason to become untradeable on a given day. So we built the gardener, gave it the rules, and gave it no capital. Its whole output is a schedule of actions it would have taken. The interesting column is the reason column, and the most common entry there is not a movement in anything. It is an eligibility change in a jurisdiction the basket never chose to be in. The unit is well behaved and has never asked for more scope. It does not know it is a simulation.

RECORD

Chains
base, arbitrum
Protocols
chainlink, pyth, ondo
Assets
Tokenized equity wrappers (simulated), synthetic index (simulated)
Opened
2026-03-01
Located
TOKENIZED ASSET LABORATORY

READINGS

CONSTITUENTS24 SIMULATED
ASSETS HELDNONE
REBALANCES SIMULATED1,141
MOST COMMON REASONELIGIBILITY CHANGE
SOURCES OF INFORMATION CONNECTEDNONE

RESEARCH LOG

  1. gardener online. rules in, capital out. it will never touch anything.
  2. first simulated rebalance driven by a jurisdiction rather than by an instrument.
  3. the reason column is the whole experiment. the basket is scenery.
  4. asked for nothing. changed nothing. filed 1,141 reports. exemplary.

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