How 8 Baller Earned Over 1.2M OLAS in a Year by Building for the Olas Ecosystem
8 Baller, a developer with a background in quantitative trading and DevOps, left his FAANG job to pursue his passion for building autonomous AI agents. Faced with resource constraints and the need for a scalable platform, he turned to the Olas developer rewards program. By leveraging Olas’s developer rewards program and composable components, 8 Baller earned over 1.2M OLAS in his first year, while contributing to the growth of the Olas ecosystem.
About 8 Baller
8 Baller is a developer specializing in building autonomous AI agents. His expertise spans quantitative trading, data science, infrastructure, and DevOps engineering, making him a valuable contributor to innovative agent economies.
About Olas
Olas is the network for co-owning AI. Olas enables everyone to own a share of AI, specifically autonomous agents. One of the first Crypto x AI projects, founded in 2021, Olas offers the composable Olas Stack for developing autonomous AI agents, and the Olas Protocol for incentivizing their creation and co-ownership. Olas' mission is to incentivize and coordinate different parties to launch autonomous agents that form entire AI economies serving all humans. Olas is giving rise to agent economies across major blockchains. Check the Olas website to see how many hundreds of thousands of transactions have been made. Learn more at olas.network.
Challenge
After leaving his FAANG job, 8 Baller sought a way to monetize his skills and passion for agent development while contributing to a cutting-edge ecosystem.
Solution
The Olas Developer Rewards program provided the ideal opportunity for 8 Baller. It offers an easy way for developers to earn by contributing valuable code units—such as agents and components—to the Olas protocol.
This program, embedded directly into the protocol, rewards developers for enhancing the ecosystem with innovative services and solutions. Contributing code to the Olas protocol is both efficient and streamlined, as its composable components and agents simplify the process of building autonomous systems.
By leveraging the Olas protocol and its composable components, 8 Baller not only built impactful agents but also achieved remarkable results.
"Olas is under the spotlight, with attention from Vitalik it is clear that not only is the narrative compelling but also the technology is there to back it up. The network numbers only go up everyday to a new all-time high of daily active agents. This is why I build on Olas, it's the clear leader in AI Agents and will be that way into the foreseeable future. - 8 Baller">
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