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### **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.
