### **What is Autonomous Finance?** Autonomous Finance is the backbone for the development of AI-powered DeFi on the AO network. We are focused on creating the essential infrastructure for censorship resistant, fully decentralized, AI powered autonomous agents, emphasizing: - **Settlement:** Streamlining efficient and secure transaction finality between Agents and Protocols. - **Composability & Interaction:** Enabling seamless interoperability between agents -- Multiplayer Agents. - **Data Accessibility:** Providing real-time data streams for agents to make effective decisions on up-to-date critical data. ### **Opportunity: Why Now?** - **Advanced On-Chain AI Models:** - **AO Network** leads in crypto by hosting **LLama 3.2**, the most advanced fully on-chain LLM. - **Imminent Liquidity Unlock:** - In **February 2025**, AO will unlock **$600 million+** of liquidity currently locked in pre-bridges. - This significant influx of capital will seek efficient deployment avenues. - Autonomous agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI models offer unparalleled capital efficiency. - **AO's Unique Advantage:** - **Fully On-Chain Inference:** Allows real-time, transparent AI operations within the blockchain ecosystem. - Deep liquidity from Day one - Unlimited data capacity, with realtime data streams sourced from Arweave. - Self-activating smart contracts, eliminating the need for external services. ### **Why Us?** - **Foundational Contributions to AO:** - **Ivan, Founder of AF,** co-authored the AO network design. - Contributed to the Arweave launch and fundraise in 2017. - **Proven Track Record:** - Notably sold Upvest to BlackRock. - Built the German Crypto Exchange (**BSDEX**). - Created the first tokenized real estate fundraising platform Exporo, raising over **€1.5 billion** to date. - **Leading AO Research and DeFi:** - At the forefront of AO research and deeply respected in the community. - Published an array of developer tools and research resources.([autonomous.finance/](https://www.autonomous.finance/research)) - Developed ao.link, the most-used block explorer in the AO ecosystem. - Launched: - Botega (botega.ar.io): Agent powered DEX on AO - CoinMaker (coin.ar.io): Asset creation and Liquidity Seeding on AO - Dexi (dexi.ar.io): Agent Hub on AO ### **Raise Terms** We are initiating a strategic funding round to accelerate the development of our agent infrastructure.