### **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.