Imagine that in the future world, AI agents and humans form a digital companion/symbiotic relationship. Autonomous agents can clarify intentions in conversations based on natural language requirements raised by users, automatically break down tasks and achieve expected results.
AO has established an asynchronous parallel network based on Actor. It does not reach consensus on the entire contract calculation process, but only reaches consensus on the transaction order, optimistically defaulting to a fixed transaction order that runs consistently in the virtual machine. This choice allows the AO network to be expanded on a large scale until it supports any type of calculation. The AR network is used as the consensus layer for the transaction order and the storage layer for the transaction result status.
Compared with other current mainstream blockchain projects, which are mostly single blockchains and only support smart contracts of native state machines from the bottom layer, AO's infrastructure compatibility can support more complex computing capabilities, including the operation of AI models.
After the recent update of WASM virtual machine, AO's Compute Unit can access 16GB memory, which means we can download and execute 16GB models on AO. 16GB is enough to run large language model calculations, such as Llama 3 unquantized version of Falcon series and many other models.
At the same time, AO uses WeaveDrive, which allows users to access Arweave data in AO just like accessing a local hard disk, and is compatible with highly heterogeneous processes of different types of virtual machines interacting in a shared environment, which means that we have more data sources and combination possibilities. This also means that when building applications in the future, users will have more motivation to upload data to Arweave because the data can also be used in AO programs. The AO development team has uploaded approximately $1,000 worth of model data to the network when testing large language models running in the AO+AR system, but this is just the beginning.
AO's system design makes it possible to implement smart contracts that integrate AI agents. By programming in AO, we create AI agents to make intelligent decisions in the market. Agents may fight against each other or represent humans against humans. "When we look at the global financial system, about 83% of Nasdaq's transactions are executed by robots." The current quantitative trading is the predecessor of AI agent trading, and in the future, the process of designing and selecting machine learning models and executing automated trading will be more easily "unboxed" and automated by AI.
The development of DeFi in the past few years has made it possible to perform various financial operations on the chain without trusting centralized entities, such as lending, trading tokens or derivatives. But when we really talk about the market, it is not just the reliability of these operations. In fact, reliable execution of various operations is just the foundation. The core factor that determines whether a market is vibrant is still the flow of capital, and the people who decide to buy, sell, lend or participate in various financial games. At present, if you want to participate in cryptocurrency investment and don’t want to do all the research and participation yourself, you must find a reliable fund, trust them to manage your funds and delegate power to fund members to execute intelligent decisions. But with the development of AO applications, we may be able to expand the intelligent decision-making part of the market, filter information in the network, process data, combine strategies, integrate the wisdom of AI agents to make real-time decisions in the network, and create a very rich decentralized autonomous agent financial system.
There are already some projects that have begun to realize this vision. We will introduce Autonomous Finance (hereinafter referred to as AF), Dexi and Outcome. Among them, AF's achievements are the most impressive.
Autonomous Finance
AF focuses on researching and developing financial applications combined with AI on AO. By building AI models and data-driven financial decisions on the AO chain, AF has made an attempt to put the intelligent decision-making layer on the chain. The main business has three parts, namely core infrastructure (Core Infrastructure), intelligent agent finance (AgentFi) and content finance (ContentFi).
Core facilities include decentralized exchanges (DEX), lending, derivatives, and synthetic asset protocols.
AgentFi mainly refers to the execution of trading strategies through composable semi-autonomous and fully autonomous agents. Unlike other autonomous agent frameworks that rely on off-chain programs for signal processing and logic processing, the autonomous agents provided by AF use on-chain data streams for self-learning and execute investment strategies on various liquidity pools and financial foundations within the AO ecosystem. These agents can run autonomously without the need for off-chain signals or human intervention.
Typical autonomous agents include:
Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) Asset Management Agent
Self-Balancing Index Fund
Autonomous hedge funds with customized risk strategies
Revenue Aggregation Agent
On-chain prediction agent
High Frequency Trading Agent
The DCA agent is a basic agent that is often called when other more complex agents execute logic. Therefore, as a frequently used composable agent module, it has many customizable parameters for users to adjust according to their own needs, such as triggering transactions within a specific price range, adjusting the length of fixed interval transactions, and weighted transactions based on asset prices (such as buying more when the price is lower), as well as data-driven stop-profit and profit reinvestment signals.
The DCA proxy application is built around two key AO processes:
The proxy process triggered by Cron (a time-based task management system, often used to trigger task execution at a scheduled time): mainly responsible for user-initiated and automatically scheduled DCA transactions, recording managed funds and updating the backend AO process in a timely manner
Backend AO process: manages proxy applications related to the user name and tracks and records historical transactions of each proxy
The following diagram illustrates the design architecture and interaction components of the DCA agent.
For users who use the front-end, the front-end of the DCA agent is built on DEXI, and users can set up the DCA agent by connecting the AO Connect wallet on the DEXI website. DEXI accesses information about available AMM pools and obtains the latest prices, the DCA agent is responsible for executing specific transaction logic, and the back-end AO process retrieves all agents related to the user.
Content Finance is a framework for attributing and monetizing data stored on the Arweave permaweb as composable assets for AO processes. AF is building applications that allow data contributors or content funds to contribute data such as historical and real-time market intelligence to the permaweb. This content will serve as on-chain signals for autonomous agents and machine learning. For example, autonomous agents will create new markets based on social media sentiment and historical data. Some examples:
Monetizing data signals
Content-driven financial agency
Subscription-based data recommendation agent
Influencers contribute data for autonomous financial strategies
Data contribution related DAOs and content funds aggregate various data sources to provide dynamic on-chain signals
Currently, AF has launched two main products, namely AO Link and Data OS.
AO Link is a message browser for the AO network that provides similar functionality to block browsers in traditional blockchain systems. It includes message calculation capabilities, graphical visualization of message links (clear and easy to understand), real-time message streams (latest information), and linked message lists (easy to organize and navigate). Users can also view their token balances and message inboxes. This tool provides a professional and efficient way to interact with and analyze the structure and activity of the ao network.
Data OS is a ContentFI protocol developed on the AO Network that uses autonomous AI agents to acquire content and regenerate content derivatives. Through this innovative approach, DataOS not only enhances the relevance and accessibility of content, but also establishes a reward mechanism for content creators. Currently, we can view various data on the AO network in https://stats.dataos.so/ to observe network activity. Various data related to content are not displayed for the time being.
Dexi
Dexi is a vital interactive interface for ordinary users to use agents in AO to participate in Agent Fi. It is also an application implemented by agents on the AO network, which can autonomously identify, collect and summarize various financial data of various events in the AO network (equivalent to Dexscrenner on AO). These data cover asset prices, token exchanges, liquidity fluctuations, and token asset characteristics (such as smart contract details). Dexi mainly serves two types of users: end users who access the platform through web terminals and AO applications (understood as Bot/Agent) that interact with Dexi by sending messages to utilize the collected data. As a core infrastructure, the main service provided by Dexi is a data subscription service. Processes on the AO network can pay to subscribe to Dexi's data stream and immediately receive alerts for updates such as price adjustments.
Outcome
Outcome is a prediction market built by the @puente_ai team, supported by @fwdresearch, @aoTheVentures and @aoComputerClub. Outcome provides users with a platform to bet on various events. The current prediction topics in the market cover technology, memes, business, games, DeFi and AO. The project claims that in the future users can automatically bet on the prediction market by building autonomous agents based on real data and large language models.
AgentFi on AO provides us with a new perspective to explore the future of deploying AI models directly on the blockchain and using various AI agents to perform automated transactions. The limitations of traditional single blockchains are broken by the design of AO+AR with novel underlying innovations. We look forward to seeing more applications on AO and cases of implementing financial strategies in combination with AI agents.
reference
https://www.theblockbeats.info/news/53865
https://permadao.com/permadao/AI-on-AO-AO-AI-224ba15c840a4309972fec5350d9ed90
https://www.communitylabs.com/blog/ao-in-ai-key-highlights?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=X&utm_campaign=AI+on+AO&utm_id=Community+Labs
https://www.autonomous.finance/research/en-US