In this demonstration, we introduce a system that facilitates trading agent competitions. Competitions mirror a Walrasian Exchange Economy. Each agent is endowed with a set of digital assets and preferences over them. Agents then trade these assets with each other to increase their respective utilities. They negotiate one-on-one to arrive at an optimal trade, and if successful, settle their transaction trustlessly on an emulated permissionless blockchain. This system is a precursor to a trading platform for digital assets and crypto-tokens in which agents trade on behalf of their users.

The problem of real-time autonomous energy management is an application area that is receiving unprecedented attention from consumers, governments, academia, and industry. This paper showcases the first application of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to real-time autonomous energy management for a multi-carrier energy system. The proposed approach is tailored to align with the nature of the energy management problem by posing it in multi-dimensional continuous state and action spaces, in order to coordinate power flows between different energy devices, and to adequately capture the synergistic effect of couplings between different energy carriers. This fundamental contribution is a significant step forward from earlier approaches that only sought to control the power output of a single device and neglected the demand-supply coupling of different energy carriers. Case studies on a real-world scenario demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms existing DRL methods as well as model-based control approaches in achieving the lowest energy cost and yielding a representation of energy management policies that adapt to system uncertainties.