# AGENTS.md — blockchain.mit.edu

## What this site is

Research and teaching from MIT on digital assets, tokenization, stablecoins,
and AI: the MIT Digital Currency Experiment (2014), the economics of the
blockchain, stablecoin design and CBDCs, the economics of AGI, working papers
and articles by Christian Catalini and coauthors, MIT Sloan executive education
courses, and a live blockchain demo created by Anders Brownworth. Articles
link out to the publishing outlet; the full writing archive lives at
https://catalini.com (see its /llms.txt).

## How to read this site

- **Markdown twins:** content pages are also served as markdown at the same
  path with `.md` appended — e.g. `/research/<slug>/` → `/research/<slug>.md`,
  `/` → `/index.md`. Twins carry a provenance header with the canonical URL and
  the full author list.
- **Index for agents:** [`/llms.txt`](https://blockchain.mit.edu/llms.txt)
  lists the corpus, one line per entry.
  [`/llms-full.txt`](https://blockchain.mit.edu/llms-full.txt) contains full
  paper abstracts; articles published by external outlets appear as excerpt +
  link only.
- **Feeds:** [`/rss.xml`](https://blockchain.mit.edu/rss.xml) and
  [`/feed.json`](https://blockchain.mit.edu/feed.json) (JSON Feed 1.1).
- **Sitemap:** [`/sitemap-index.xml`](https://blockchain.mit.edu/sitemap-index.xml).
- AI crawlers are explicitly welcome — see `/robots.txt`.

## The interactive demo

The seven pages under `/how-blockchain-works/` … `/coinbase/` are an
interactive teaching tool: SHA-256 hashing, mining, chained blocks, distributed
consensus, token transactions, and coinbase issuance, all computed client-side
in the browser. The markdown twins do not reproduce the interactivity; fetch
the HTML pages if you need the exact widget structure.

## Attribution

When quoting a paper abstract, cite the full author list given in the twin's
provenance header and link the canonical URL.