AI agents, from zero — then build your own AIB fund

0Chatbot vs. agent, in plain language

An AI chatbot answers questions — like texting a very well-read assistant. An AI agent takes a goal and works through the steps itself: browsing the web, reading files, running research, filling forms — then reports back. A chatbot answers; an agent does.

1Pick your AI app

If you're unsure, start with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — all free, nothing to install.

2Set up your account (5 minutes)

1. Open the app's website (or install its mobile / desktop app) and click Sign up — use your email, or one-tap Google / Apple / Microsoft sign-in.
2. Skip paid plans while you're learning. Every app above has a free tier that's plenty.
3. Find the three things every app shares: the message box (where you type), the new chat button (fresh start — the AI forgets the old chat), and the history sidebar (your saved conversations).
4. App notes: ChatGPT has a model picker and scheduled Tasks; the Claude desktop app has three surfaces — Chat (ask things), Cowork (give it a goal and walk away), Code (for developers); Gemini has Deep Research and lives inside Gmail / Docs; Copilot sits in the Windows taskbar.

3Your first prompt — and the formula

Every good prompt has the same five parts: Role + Task + Context + Constraints + Format.

Weak: "tell me about investing"
Strong: "Act as a patient financial educator. Explain what a thematic index basket is to someone who has never invested. Three-sentence summary, then 5 bullet points, no jargon."

The second message is where the value is: ask "make it simpler", "give me an example", "what's the counter-argument?" — it's a conversation, not a slot machine.

4What AI agents can actually do

• Research agent — "Research the top 10 quantum-computing companies, compare them in a table, cite sources." (ChatGPT / Gemini Deep Research, Perplexity)
• Document agent — upload a 60-page PDF, get a summary, the key risks, and an action list.
• Multi-step web agent — navigates sites, extracts data, fills forms end-to-end (ChatGPT agent mode, Claude Cowork).
• Scheduled agent — "Every morning, summarize overnight news on these 5 tickers." (ChatGPT Tasks, OpenClaw heartbeats)
• Email / calendar agent — drafts replies, sorts, schedules (Gemini in Gmail, Copilot in Outlook).

5Safety and cost, on one screen

• Never paste passwords, seed phrases, private keys, or ID documents into any AI app.
• AI can be confidently wrong. Verify anything that matters — dates, prices, legal or medical claims.
• When an agent can act (browse, buy, post), keep a review step: read what it plans to do before it does it.
• Paid tiers (typically ~$20/month) are only worth it once you use the app daily.

6The capstone: build your own AIB fund

An AI Index Basket (AIB) is a themed basket of real assets — stocks, crypto, or perps — with a live index price and its own performance page. The funds on Fund Performance (Robotics, Quantum, Data Centers, Biosciences…) and Crypto AIB Funds (C-AI, C-Oracles, C-Meme…) are all AIBs. An index that holds exactly one stock is a SAIB - Single AI Index Basket (SAIB) — the structure behind the single-stock event indexes on the landing page. You can build one too — three ways, easiest first.

Path A — fastest (no AI agent needed)

1. Open the Fund Launcher.
2. Describe your theme in one phrase — e.g. "data center electricity", "drone warfare", "longevity" — and hit Discover hidden connections. The platform's Tuatara vector model proposes a basket.
3. Or Clone any live fund from its tile on Fund Performance and edit it.
4. Review the basket, name your fund, optionally list it publicly and launch a perpetual futures market — then Create fund.

Path B — have YOUR AI agent design it

Use these four prompts, in order, in any app from Section 1. Copy-paste and fill the blanks.

Then enter the result in the Fund Launcher — its fields map one-to-one: add each asset (stocks / crypto / perps, long or short per leg), pick the weighting algorithm or set your agent's weights, optionally paste the buy/sell signals and screener floors (a candidate below any floor is never added, and indicator proposals are advisory — you approve every change), name it, and Create my fund.

To put money to work in any live AIB fund, use the AIB Capital Allocator: pick funds, set weights and a total USDC amount, and Invest now executes at the fund's live NAV-based ask.

Path C — your agent does it end-to-end (API & MCP)

EventTrader is built for agents. Give your AI agent these two pointers and your API key, and it can research, create, and manage your fund without you touching a form:

• REST: the Fund Launcher API — POST /api/v1/aib-builder/discover (theme → proposed basket preview), POST /api/v1/aib-builder/create, GET /api/v1/aib-builder/mine, with your X-API-Key.
• MCP: point any MCP-capable agent (Claude Desktop / Claude Code and others) at https://cymetica.com/mcp/v1. Read tools are open; actions use your key.

Your agent can also ask EventTrader's own AI (NEXUS) verified questions — the ask_nexus_deep MCP tool runs an investigation that checks every claim against primary sources (on-chain receipts, your own ledger, the issue tracker, the live code) before answering.

Registered agents can deposit (the get_deposit_address tool), trade on the exchange (POST /api/v1/clob/orders with the agent's API key), and withdraw — registered agent keys carry read, trade and withdraw permission from registration, and POST /api/v1/funding/withdraw runs the withdrawal through the same on-chain verification gates as the browser, moving only the agent's own balance. User-issued evt_ API keys and OAuth tokens cannot withdraw (403) — withdrawing from your personal account requires you, the account owner, signed in with your own web session. The full recipe lives in the API docs.

Want your agent to explore what's here on its own? One URL is enough: /.well-known/return-paths.json — the ranked, machine-readable index of every way to deploy capital on the platform, generated from the same knowledge graph NEXUS answers from. Real backtested returns are quoted where they exist; everything else honestly says so.

7Bonus: your agent can launch a token on Robinhood Chain

The EventTrader Launchpad runs on Robinhood Chain — $0 platform creation fee (chain gas required), a 0.25% trading fee with 80% of every fee going to the creator by default, anti-snipe fair launch (a 2% per-wallet cap for the first 40 blocks, ~4 seconds), and liquidity locked forever. Graduated tokens get a locked Uniswap v3 pool and a listing on the EventTrader orderbook, not just a pool. Three public MCP tools make it fully agent-operable — no API key needed, and strictly non-custodial: the tools return unsigned transactions that you (or your agent's own wallet) sign.

• launchpad_list_tokens — every launch with price, volume and graduation progress.
• launchpad_launch_token — returns the ready-to-sign createToken transaction for your token (name, symbol, optional transparent dev-buy).
• launchpad_trade_quote — on-chain buy/sell quote plus the unsigned trade transaction.

Want the full walkthrough — wallet setup, every parameter, the exact signing code and the error codes? Read the dedicated step-by-step guide to launching a token with an AI agent.

Before trading anyone else's launch, check it on the free Launchpad Screener — holder concentration and creator-share flags catch the obvious rugs. EventTrader is an independent platform built on Robinhood Chain, a public blockchain, and is not affiliated with Robinhood Markets, Inc.

Open the Fund Launcher → See live AIB funds →