A unified network of off-chain services - like automation, oracles, and co-owned AI. Olas offers a composable stack for building these services, and a protocol for incentivizing their creation. Olas enables operating these services in a co-owned and decentralized way.
The most up-to-date and heavily showcased products can be found in the Ecosystem section.
Olas DAO was founded in 2022 with ~50 participants. When the DAO was founded all the founding members paid their share of the costs, in total it was in the order of 10s of thousands of dollars ↗.
In 2023, the OLAS token launched publicly via an LBP which ended on 12.7.23 at 6pm UTC ↗. This LBP is the only one planned and was created by Valory to establish initial liquidity in a decentralized manner because the DAO members love decentralization ↗. All funds collected will be strictly used to 'maintain, run and further' the decentralized Olas protocol.
Olas was founded as above and did not have a seed round. Valory, the dev company many of the founding members work from, had a seed round ↗.
Catch up on everything built in the Olas ecosystem so far here ↗. This thread is extended weekly as more is built, and there’s a lot to be announced.
Various statistics about OLAS (inc. total supply, circulating supply, current holders, unlock schedules and more) are all live here ↗, or at the primary source: buOLAS contract here ↗, veOLAS contract here ↗. veOLAS is the governance token, which anyone can get by locking OLAS to participate in governance. Governance proposals can be found on Snapshot here ↗ and Boardroom here ↗. buOLAS is a vesting contract for the founding members. You can lock OLAS for veOLAS and check unlocks for your wallet here ↗.
The most detail is found in the full whitepaper and whitepaper summary (whitepaper), and the contract repository (contract repository ↗), but the community might create further resources to make them more accessible as time progresses. The promised governance vote on bonding is here ↗. Here you can find a thread about Protocol-owned Liquidity ↗, the unique Olas tokenomics inspired by Olympus.
There aren't any imminent plans. The DAO focuses on the decentralized approach of growing liquidity via bonding.
☴ is a hexagram from the Yi Ching, the oldest known book. It represents wind and symbolically reinforces 'olas' which means waves in Spanish. Together, they create a sense of vibrancy as generated by Olas' autonomous agents, who generate waves of activity on top of the blockchain.
Autonolas was the original name. The DAO subsequently adopted the name Olas because it's more inclusive and easier to pronounce. You'll still see Autonolas around because it's embedded in many of the contracts and because it will take time for some people to get used to the new name.
The OLAS tokenomics was designed to coordinate a network of stakeholders in enabling an ocean of autonomous services. Other protocols are designed with different ends in mind and with different mechanisms, requiring different tokenomics. Aggregating different entities including DAO Treasury (10% of 10 year max supply), with Founding Members (~50 including people outside Valory, 32.7% of 10 year max supply), and Development reserve (to build out Olas Stack etc) is not very meaningful. E.g. Olas Governance determines the Treasury use. Many "fair-launch" projects end up with similarly high Gini coefficient in early days because early mining/staking is concentrated. Olas compares favourably to many other industry-defining projects like StarkNet, Celestia, Arbitrum, etc.
The current token distribution can be tracked on-chain since the inception of OLAS, and for convenience, on Dune dashboards like this one here ↗.
Valory, founding member and co-creator of Olas, has a token allocation (see Dune dashboard ↗ and Tokenomics paper for wallet and amounts). This allocation has never been subject to locking or vesting. Valory stated “there are no plans to lock or vest, and this is to the sole discretion of Valory, as is the case with any token holder“ ↗.
The definition of circulating supply is set by Coingecko and other aggregators - see here for definition ↗, and here for live data ↗.
“Autonolas Deployer“ is called this way on Etherscan because Valory deployed the Olas (prev. Autonolas) protocol. The deployer has no privileged role in the protocol. The protocol is controlled by the DAO (holders of veOLAS).
You can use block explorers to find all transactions on-chain. DAO founding member Valory stated “they never comment on individual transactions unless they are related to a security incident or some governance vote“ ↗.