# Terms in Alex Gordon-Brander’s Atlas

## Electronic inquiry list

A list of financial-product inquiries handled through an electronic bidding or offering process. Earliest filing located here: 2003, published in 2005.

[MarketAxess and electronic bond trading](<https://agbrander.com/work/marketaxess/>)

[P01](<https://agbrander.com/sources/P01.md>)

## Energy-backed money

A monetary design tying value or issuance to renewable-energy credits. Public programme by April 2010; its original design chronology remains unresolved.

[Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money](<https://agbrander.com/work/energy/>)

[P02](<https://agbrander.com/sources/P02.md>), [P10](<https://agbrander.com/sources/P10.md>)

## Programmable finance

Using programmable settlement or assets to make financial rules interoperable. Alex’s retrospective anchors his move toward the field to Ethereum in 2015.

[Programmable money as a turning point](<https://agbrander.com/work/ethereum/>), [CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs](<https://agbrander.com/work/codex/>)

[P10](<https://agbrander.com/sources/P10.md>)

## Dark pool

A venue that crosses orders without displaying them in a public order book before execution. The Omega Dark announcement dates to 2019; the Omega One design record predates it.

[Omega One](<https://agbrander.com/work/omega/>), [Bermuda and Omega Dark](<https://agbrander.com/work/bermuda/>)

[P05](<https://agbrander.com/sources/P05.md>), [P08](<https://agbrander.com/sources/P08.md>)

## Living Forest Shares

Kwaxala’s name for its proposed forest-finance instrument. Use Kwaxala’s own sources for rights, governance and instrument status.

[Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares](<https://agbrander.com/work/kwaxala/>)

[P14](<https://agbrander.com/sources/P14.md>), [P16](<https://agbrander.com/sources/P16.md>), [P17](<https://agbrander.com/sources/P17.md>)

## Bounded operating authority

A defined set of actions an operator may take, with asset ownership, signature powers, enforcement and exit examined separately.

[SmartBTC and bounded operating authority](<https://agbrander.com/work/smartbtc/>)

[P15](<https://agbrander.com/sources/P15.md>)

## Benchmark-relative

Measure the strategy against an explicit baseline, such as holding BTC, over the same period and with compatible return conventions.

[SmartBTC and bounded operating authority](<https://agbrander.com/work/smartbtc/>)

[P15](<https://agbrander.com/sources/P15.md>)

## Voluntary care

Care expressed through a choice in a concrete encounter, distinguishable from a scripted answer, affiliation claim or inferred experience.

[Tulku.ai](<https://agbrander.com/work/tulku/>), [Snuffles and The Space Between](<https://agbrander.com/work/snuffles/>)