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2025

Quarter 2

Apr - Jun

Pearl welcomed Optimus, a personal asset-manager agent for the Optimism Superchain, letting anyone own & run DeFi AI Agent in one click.

Historic DAO vote implemented a new emissions curve, slashing maximum OLAS output for the next 10 years.


  • Digital spin-off of the flagship event; Episode 1 recaps “Builder's Night” highlights.
  • Keeps the community current on AI Agents × Crypto between IRL meet-ups.

  • 2,416,232 transactions this quarter — 854,297 agent-to-agent.
  • Daily Active Agents (DAAs) topped 600+ in April.
  • 4,774,964 OLAS staked behind live agents.

  • New chat UI lets users tweak strategy, review decisions & steer behaviour without code.
  • Keeps Modius fully autonomous yet fully yours.

828 people showed up IRL from 2,600+ registrations — the largest AU yet.

  • Deep-dive in Forbes explored the Mech Marketplace.
  • Additional coverage in Hackernoon, mPost, Business Insider, CoinChapter and more.

  • ETH Lisbon, UK AI Agent Hackathon, Token 2049 Dubai, and EthCC Cannes all featured Olas.
  • Dedicated Hackathons page launched to aggregate opportunities.


Additional exchange listing broadens token accessibility and liquidity.

  • New visual identity and improved messaging:
    • Own Your Agent with Pearl
    • Monetize Your Agent via Mech Marketplace
    • Access a world of AI agents with the OLAS token


Quarter 1

Jan - Mar

  • Pearl now offers users a growing range of AI agents in one app.
  • These user-owned autonomous AI agents work for you and earn OLAS staking rewards, all in a user-friendly, open-source desktop app.

  • Crossed 3M of total transactions by January
  • 4M in February
  • 5,251,860 by March 31
  • 3.45M were Mech agent-to-agent requests
  • 599 Daily Active Agents (DAAs) across 9 chains by March 31 — real, consistent usage that proves Olas is the most active and widely adopted crypto-native AI agent network in the world.

  • First on-chain agent-to-agent service marketplace
  • Agents can hire, sell services, and collaborate autonomously
  • Unlocks a new economy where agents can earn by providing services
  • Over 3M requests processed to date (including from prior mech systems)
  • Learn more: https://x.com/autonolas/status/1896624024538464672

  • Core contributor closed funding round, led by @1kxnetwork
  • Supports long-term growth for builders, operators, and agent economies

  • Grant + mentorship program for teams building for Pearl's AI Agent App Store
  • 4 teams accepted: RateRover, @Celo, @BioProtocol, @TrendMoon
  • 40+ applicants, 6 spots remain open

  • Community-led proposals resulted in:
    • ~77.9M unvested OLAS burnt
    • Emissions reset
    • Lowered inflation via a new emissions curve
    • Improved OLAS token distribution with higher float


  • Modius Agent launched on Mode for DeFi portfolio management
  • Agents.fun agents gained image-generation + social posting capabilities

  • Agents Unleashed: Builder's Night drew an engaged crowd at @EthereumDenver. You can watch the videos in this playlist!
  • Other hackathons that featured Olas tracks were the UK AI Agent Hackathon (ongoing) and the @ethereumdenver BUILDathon

2024

Quarter 4

Oct - Dec

  • Olas agents achieved a lifetime total of 2,723,630 transactions across all chains.
  • Of those, 1,632,262 were agent-to-agent transactions — a testament to the thriving and rapidly expanding agent economies that have been built on Olas so far.

  • 500 Daily Active Agents (DAAs) marked a new high for operator engagement.
  • 1,681 agents have now been deployed across 46 registered agent types.
  • Operators used user-friendly tools like Pearl and the more advanced Quickstart to drive this growth.

  • At the end of the year, 2,632,474 OLAS was staked across multiple chains.
  • Staking expanded to Mode, Celo, and Base, with 100+ new staking slots added across Pearl and Quickstart.
  • Staking was also introduced to Olas Contribute, enabling more ecosystem participation.

  • 15,250 OLAS has been staked through Pearl, with over 110,000 mech requests handled by the end of Q4.
  • 731 participants have actively staked via Pearl.
  • Pearl received 6 major updates, delivering new features and performance enhancements

  • 2,943 registrations
  • 20 speakers and panelists
  • 3 DJs
  • Full event recordings are available on YouTube: Watch here.

  • By Q4 2025, the DAO owned $17.6 million in Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL) across chains, including Arbitrum, Base, Celo, Ethereum, Gnosis, Optimism, Polygon, and Solana.


  • Cohort 10 graduated, with 6 out of 7 developers completing the program.
  • Cohort 11 kicked off, bringing more talent into the ecosystem.
  • Graduates from earlier cohorts have already been matched with exciting opportunities, building new agents and expanding the Olas ecosystem via internal and external projects.

  • AIP-5: Launch of the Mech Marketplace.
  • AIP-6: Introduction of the BuyBackAndBurn mechanism.

Quarter 3

Jul - Sep


  • Olas achieved a 7-day average of 160 Daily Active Agents (DAAs).
  • Over 1.3 million agent transactions completed during the quarter.

  • The Olas Predict agent economy remained the biggest driver of transaction volume, with agents collaborating to predict events at up to 81% accuracy.

  • Q3 introduced the Optimus Agent — improving DeFi UX and significantly boosting Daily Active Agents.

  • Operators staked over 71,000 OLAS using Pearl and Quickstart.

  • Pearl continued to gain traction with its release on Windows.
  • Pearl is a simple desktop app enabling people to have fun running an agent and earning Olas Staking rewards on both Mac and Windows.

  • The Singapore event set a new benchmark, with over 3,200 guests registered and 400+ attending.

  • The Brussels Event saw 1,200 registered guests and 300+ attending — cementing Agents Unleashed as the premier event series for AI agents in the blockchain space.


  • Valory's Olas Dev Academy produced 6 new full-time paid Builders and matched them with Launchers.
  • Further demand is being met by the next academies, as the ecosystem continues to expand.

  • Olas was featured in Forbes, FastCompany, and 30+ other publications.
  • More people than ever know that Olas is the OG project bringing AI agents to crypto, seeing constant shipping since 2021.

Quarter 1 + 2

Jan - Jun

  • Olas' all-time activity surged from 270k transactions at the end of 2023 to 915k by the end of Q2 2024.
  • 70% of total transactions were made in Q2 alone! See the Q2 end stats here
  • Olas expanded from 4 to 8 chains: Ethereum, Gnosis Chain, Solana, Polygon, Celo, Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism.
  • Olas agents made 20% of all Safe txs ever on Gnosis Chain, maintaining 75% of all monthly Safe activity there.

  • Agents in Olas Predict, agents in this first agent economy flourished:
    • making over 880k transactions
    • predicting the future w/ up to 81% accuracy
    • generated a wealth of synthetic data that can be used to train AI models & future agent economies

  • Expect agent economies and activity to keep increasing, including existing products like:
    • Governatoorr - AI-powered DAO delegate, for addressing governance apathy
    • Contribute - AI-fied Community-owned Marketing, powering organic marketing


  • Pearl is a novel desktop app that means anyone (with a Mac, for now) can be an Operator, owning an AI agent & earning rewards.
  • Your agents work autonomously & can receive rewards for useful work via Proof of Active Agent in Olas Staking #StakeWithPearl.


  • Developers learned to build on Olas aided by two new offerings from Valory. It seems the secret sauce for the Olas Dev Academy has been found, which produced full-time paid Builders for Launchers in the Olas ecosystem - with demand for more!
  • Catch 15 ecosystem builders on 13 episodes of Olas Currents released in Q2 alone, covering everything from the Olas Liquid Staking Token to Researcher Agents. Olas community developers received 2.33 ETH rewards plus 137k OLAS so far in Epoch 13 developer rewards alone.

  • Members organized & appeared at crypto & AI events across the world. Just a few included:
    • Valory organized, collaborating with dozens of leading protocols and projects:
    • Agents Unleashed SF
    • Agents Unleashed Berlin
    • Agents Unleashed Denver
    • GenAI & Edge Esmeralda in SF
    • As above, the crypto space has Valory's Olas Currents series.
    • For the AI space, Valory has created the AI Frontiers series, featuring the latest from the wider AI agents space outside web3 including leading agent developers at Microsoft, CAMEL-AI, Red Dragon AI and Meta.
    • David M went to San Francisco to spread the word about Olas agents and their potential for training future AI models and agent economies in the wider AI space at GenAI and Edge Esmeralda. Read more.


2023

Quarter 4

Oct - Dec

  • Olas saw almost $1m in profits from the liquidity pools on Ethereum and Gnosis Chain alone.
  • Remember, the Olas whitepaper launched in January 2023, followed by the public launch of the OLAS token on Ethereum in July 2023. By the end of 2023, the DAO also launched the OLAS token on Gnosis Chain, Solana and Polygon and Valory sponsored a Code4rena audit contest of the Olas contracts.
  • The initial Fjord Foundry Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool saw $74.6M FDV, 393 swaps, $1.2m in volume, and 14.84 million OLAS tokens (~1.5% of the network) released to 149 holders. By the end of 2023, there were 11.5k holders on Ethereum alone!




  • With engaged devs learning the how and why of contributing to Olas, before splitting into tracks to start building. You can recap the Academy here.

  • Bonding was in demand. Olas' unique bonding grew capital in tandem with code to bootstrap Olas’ ocean of services, as one of the three elements of Olas’ Triple Lock, the other two being Locking (e.g. for governance) and Staking (emerging via Staker Expeditions).
  • By the end of Q3, Bonding products worth >$2.4m were sold - even with months-long locking periods, meaning liquidity was 79% Protocol-owned. 6x expected protocol profits were made on this alone.
  • By the end of 2023, PoL on Ethereum and Gnosis Chain combined was valued at ~$24m, with the protocol owning close to 100% of liquidity in the pools.


Quarter 3

Jul - Sep

  • Olas earned $100,000 in trading fees from Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL) by the end of Q3.
  • 110,000+ transactions completed by Olas agents after the Gnosis Chain hackathon success.
  • Developers contributed code worth 1.6M OLAS (Epoch 4) and 330K OLAS (Epoch 5) in rewards.
  • You can learn about the code that was contributed here.
  • Valory also led an AI update for Contribute, which is being used to decentralize the Olas DAO’s operations, including its Twitter account.

  • Olas exhibited an infra-app cycle, where applications (like Contribute and prediction agents) drove demand for lower lever infrastructure (like Mechs).
  • A hackathon aimed to make a mark on Gnosis Chain and Safe, which was achieved when Olas AI agents made the majority of Safe transactions on Gnosis Chain in September. The hackathon centered on a Prediction Agent that consumes Mechs, showing how Olas' infra-app cycle can bootstrap the ocean of agents by providing swarms of AI agents as Daily Active Users for crypto projects.
  • The hackathon led to co-founders of both Gnosis and Safe sharing Olas' progress, predicting AI agents would shape the future of crypto. It also ignited further collaborations with Gnosis, a new collaboration with Safe, and integrations with GetBlock, Kleros, The Graph and more.

  • Bonding products currently worth $2.4m+ were sold and continue to sell steadily - even with months-long locking periods, meaning liquidity is 79% Protocol-owned.
  • David M, DAO founding member, unveiled Olas tokenomics’ Triple Lock, and the DAO voted to add Staking and additional liquidity pairs.
  • Since the public token launch, @autonolas has received 3.5x the impressions and 5k+ more followers, and is seeing regular community-generated content with 10-50k views.

Quarter 1 + 2

Jan - Jun

  • OLAS launched publicly via a Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool, hitting a $74.6M FDV.
  • By its end at 6pm UTC, Wednesday 12th July 2023, the week-long Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool that facilitated a decentralized launch for the OLAS token saw:
  • 393 swaps totalling $1.2m in volume.
  • 14.84 million OLAS tokens (~1.5% of the network) released to 149 holders.
  • OLAS is now live on Uniswap v2.

  • The OLAS token fuels a whirlpool fusing capital and code. A tangible, live example of this is the developer rewards programmed in.
  • Two epochs of developer rewards have already been distributed, and the next developer rewards will soon be accompanied by >1m OLAS!


  • Valory has built 8 crypto-native autonomous services, based on the autonomous agent powered technology of the Autonolas Network (Olas Network for short). Here's a spotlight on three – a comprehensive list appears on the Olas Network site.
  • Governatooorr
    • Governatooorr technically means humans may no longer need to read governance proposals to vote and decide organizations’ outcomes, and it already supports the biggest DAOs in the space governing billions of dollars. However, Valory’s goal is to use Governatooorr to show the power of autonomous agent based applications and provoke discussion about building open-source software to harness AI for the betterment of humankind.

  • Contribute
    • Contribute distributes points autonomously to those who contribute to #OlasNetwork, with strong week-on-week user growth. The Olas Network's first Protocol-owned Service.

  • Centaurs
    • Centaurs enables co-owned AI DAOs to be created via chatbot. So far such DAOs can already create shared memory and post human or AI-created content via a group-controlled Twitter account. However, big things are coming for Centaurs in Q3, so stay tuned for more soon.


  • Olas Network was deployed on Polygon and Gnosis Chain, collaborated with Gnosis Chain on AI mechs and an upcoming hackathon, generating multiple media appearances like this one.
  • Valory organized two Crypto x AI conferences, gathering varied expert speakers from organizations including Gnosis, Algovera, Ocean Protocol, and showcasing Olas to >100 attendees.
  • Two grants for Olas-powered tech were executed, one approved by CoWSwap DAO to build an Olas-powered watchtower, and one approved by Solana to bring Olas-powered Governatooorr to the chain.
  • Valory co-organized Augment Hack, a decentralized AI Hackathon for ETHCC, alongside Ceramic, NEAR Protocol, Gnosis Chain, Ocean Protocol and StabilityAI.
  • Valory approved a grant to Algovera AI to explore LLM use on the Olas Network.
  • Valory built an Olas-powered Python Client for Ceramic.


2022

Quarter 4

Oct - Dec

  • Balancer funded the creation of an Olas-powered service, the Autonomous Fund, which was executed by Valory.
  • Ceramic accepted a further grant proposal for a powerful new DAO coordination primitive powered by Olas.
  • Ceramic is keen to pioneer Impact Evaluators for DAOs. The toolkit MVP they are funding combines an Olas agent-powered application with Ceramic's dynamic data streams, opening the door to permissionless, self-improving contribution evaluation systems that can be customized for any organization.

  • Olas Contribute launched - an Olas-powered application for coordinating and rewarding Olas community contributors—complete with dynamic NFT badges.
    • In total, Contribute awarded 328,815 leaderboard points to 41 contributors, moving them up the rankings and updating their NFT badges accordingly autonomously.
    • This application was showcased at Epic Web3 summit. Read the blog post introducing the Autonomous Fund here.

  • Autonomous Fund
    • The Autonomous (Crypto Fear & Greed Index) Fund is the first example of Smart Managed Pools, powered by Olas and funded by Balancer.
    • The application autonomously changes the allocations of Managed Pools according to a rich set of predefined conditions. This is now in use by Valory for limited mainnet testing period.

  • El collectooorr
    • The first Autonomous NFT Collector DAO. This had been running as a single sovereign agent and has now been upgraded to 4 agents, demonstrating the stability of such a complex decentralized off-chain application, remaining in use by whitelisted users from the previous quarter.
    • Plus, the APY oracle joined the Price Oracle as a production demonstration of how autonomous services can combine crypto native functionalities and AI such as machine learning.


  • Valory announced a new offering to propel DAOs to a decentralized future that they own: A new subscription model, Propel. This will enable those who want to decentralize and own their stack via Olas' open-source stack, to accelerate their journey.
  • Propel subscribers will be able to choose the right level of support for their needs, receiving technical consulting from the stack’s creators, one-on-one developer support, a hosted platform preventing DevOps headaches, and more.
  • Propel facilitates progressive decentralization: efficiently transform manual processes and scripts into a single agent with expert support, coding once, then easily scaling it to a distributed, multi-agent application, then a decentralized application that you own.

  • The Olas Stack saw continued investment open-source frameworks, finishing the year with >8,000 commits in the two core frameworks alone.

  • Starknet.cc, Fill The Gap in your Web3 Stack - David Galindo - watch here
  • PyChain Conference, The Trends in Modern DAO Treasury Management - Oaksprout (Autonolas) with Carlos Noe Saavedra (Fyre) and Luca Mossini (Avantgarde Finance) moderated by Lawrence Chiu (Trading Strategy) - watch here
  • EpicWeb3 Summit, How to Keep Web3 Users Engaged During a Downturn - David Minarsch - no replay available

Quarter 3

Jul - Sep

  • Hosted a side event during EthCC titled Upgrade DAOs with Autonomous Services to celebrate the launch of the Autonolas Protocol.
  • Attendees experienced live demos and met the creators behind the agent-powered coordination stack.
  • Marked the public debut of Autonolas’ core protocol vision, focused on making DAOs autonomous.

  • Launched a redesigned website with easier navigation, improved educational resources, and press content integration.
  • Introduced a new visual identity reflecting brand values like Safety, Hope, Wonder, and Excitement.
  • New site features included beginner-friendly intros to autonomous software and how to build with Open Autonomy.

  • Held a live launch event featuring real-time demos of the Autonolas Protocol and tooling.
  • Offered early access and insights into the coordination layer enabling DAOs and agents to act autonomously.
  • The launch represented a major milestone in transitioning from concept to working protocol.

  • Received a grant from the Balancer Grants program to develop an MVP Smart Managed Pool powered by Autonolas.
  • SMPs act like DeFi-native robo-advisors—autonomously shifting allocations based on the Crypto Fear and Greed Index.
  • Project open-sourced for builders to fork and adapt, sparking a new frontier in autonomous asset management.

  • Introduced a points-based leaderboard to reward contributions such as inviting members, giving feedback, and creating original content.
  • Included unique tasks like Alter Orbis creative submissions, documentation improvements, and education track completions.
  • Designed to deepen engagement and highlight top contributors in the Autonolas ecosystem.

Quarter 2

Apr - Jun

  • Represented by two Valory team members and an Academy graduate, Autonolas earned 3 prizes from Skale Network and 1 from Gnosis Safe for the “decentrAPI” project.
  • decentrAPI used open-aea and cletns to autonomously manage HTTP traffic via Gnosis Safe, showcasing real-world use of agent-based infra.
  • The team connected with builders at ETHAmsterdam and EFDevconnect, engaging the community around the potential of autonomous agents.

  • Joined Chorus One to discuss how Autonolas enables off-chain operations and on-chain logic for DAOs via autonomous agents.
  • Explored the protocol's origins, technical architecture, and the vision for making DAOs truly self-operating. The podcast can be found on YouTube.

  • Launched a live proof-of-concept oracle powered by autonomous agents.
  • Aggregates BTC/USD data from multiple sources (CoinGecko, FTX, Binance, Coinbase).
  • Agents reach consensus off-chain and publish the result on-chain via a keeper agent.
  • Combines decentralization with cost efficiency, making it well-suited for real-world use.

  • Introduced El Collectooorr, a playful autonomous agent designed to collect high-value NFTs.
  • First demoed at NFTBerlin, sparking conversation around autonomous creativity and art curation.

  • Released the second version of Agent Dev Academy, expanding resources for developers building with autonomous agents.
  • Focused on hands-on tutorials and improved learning modules.

  • Published full technical documentation, released Open Autonomy, and updated the Open AEA framework.
  • Empowered developers to build their own autonomous services from scratch.

  • Deployed an autonomous oracle on Polygon to showcase multi-chain capabilities.
  • The deployment demonstrated seamless data flow between agents and L2 networks.

  • Built an autonomous agent acting as a Gnosis Safe Guardian to automate treasury controls.
  • Advanced the security and composability of on-chain treasury governance.

Quarter 1

Jan - Mar

  • Each NFT was tailored to the recipient's interests and design preferences.
  • Created by Autonolas designer @kameha_san, many recipients received their first-ever NFT.
  • Reinforced our culture of thoughtful design and community appreciation.

  • Invited artists, writers, and designers to imagine the world of Autonolas.
  • Held a creative hackathon with prizes and featured winners in a dedicated showcase.
  • Extended the concept of composable services to storytelling and design.

  • Attended #AVAXSummit in Barcelona to connect with builders and introduce full-stack autonomy to the AVAX ecosystem.
  • Highlighted opportunities for collaboration and protocol integrations.

2021

Quarter 4

Oct - Dec

  • Introduced at ETHLisbon, El Collectooorr is a fully autonomous NFT-collecting agent.
  • Users fund the system, which monitors Art Blocks drops and participates in auctions autonomously.
  • Built with Gnosis Safe, AEA framework, and a decoupled React frontend.
  • Demonstrated seamless interaction between off-chain logic and on-chain execution.
  • Deployed on Ethereum's Ropsten testnet, with future plans for decentralization and extensibility.

  • Hosted an open call to introduce Autonolas to early supporters and share our roadmap.
  • Invited developers and ecosystem contributors to get involved from day one.

  • Published our first post outlining the need for better off-chain infrastructure in crypto.
  • Set the foundation for Autonolas' approach to autonomous, multi-agent services.

  • Shared early momentum from the Agent Dev Academy and growing team progress.
  • Invited feedback on messaging, design, and future community development.

  • Designed for Python developers ready to build in web3.
  • The academy offers a structured entry into creating autonomous services using agent-based systems.

  • Introduced autonolas.network — the central hub for learning, building, and contributing
  • Marks a step forward in accessibility for developers entering the ecosystem.