## Introduction
In today's rapidly changing world, we are faced with increasingly complex and interconnected challenges. Addressing these challenges effectively requires a clear understanding of the impact of our actions. The ability to perform transparent and sophisticated impact evaluation has never been more crucial. This involves assessing the intended or unintended effects of an intervention or action, and its ability to achieve a desired outcome. This evaluation can be conducted across different levels, including individual, organizational, and societal levels. Such complex evaluation requires sophisticated solutions. 

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That's why we're excited to introduce IEKit, a modular framework built with Autonolas and Ceramic data streams that empowers developers to build autonomous impact evaluators. This powerful new tool, developed in the context of a grant, lays the groundwork for the creation of multitudes of open, modular and self-improving designs for how impact is evaluated and rewarded in any decentralized organization.

With its highly extensible and composable design and powerful compute capabilities, IEKit makes it easy for developers to spin up custom and sophisticated systems for valuing contribution. IEkit brings a new type of utility to Ceramic, and pioneers a novel technical architecture for creating full-stack decentralized applications. 

The IEKit was built by [Valory AG](https://valory.xyz) using Autonolas. Valory is the VC-backed team of engineers, researchers and commercial thinkers that built the Autonolas stack and is building the first services using it, offering [expert, customized support](https://propel.valory.xyz) to those interested in decentralizing & owning their own apps.

## Empowering developers to create a better future
In an ideal future, social, environmental, and other collective challenges will be met with greater efficiency, transparency, and accountability. Our ability to overcome even the most complex and multifaceted collective problems will far exceed today's. This is a future where opaque institutions and bureaucracy, as well as inefficient closed frameworks for impact assessment, are things of the past. 

IEKit represents a significant step towards realizing this vision. 
It opens up innovation space for impact evaluation and reward in Web3 and beyond. IEKit's modular, composable, and open source design provides an unprecedented level of flexibility and adaptability in impact evaluation. With no limits on use cases, the framework could be used for anything from general impact evaluation to specific use cases, enabling stakeholders to iterate on their approaches and improve their impact over time. By strengthening collective coordination, IEKit empowers organizations to achieve their goals more effectively. At the heart of this innovation is Ceramic, providing the robust and secure data stream infrastructure crucial for transparent and sophisticated impact evaluation. 

## Key Features of the IEKit
To make this ideal future a reality,  IEKit offers a range of powerful features that make it stand out from other frameworks. Here are some of the key features of IEKit:
- **Eliminate boilerplate development work:** With IEKit, developers can skip the tedious task of building from scratch and get straight to developing coordinating and incentivizing impact.
- **Transparency through open-source code:** The IEKit is designed to be transparent, giving developers the ability to fork, tweak, and audit all the code that's being run. 
- **Full-stack decentralized operation:** The IEKit can be operated in a full-stack decentralized way, allowing for greater resilience and censorship resistance. By leveraging the Autonolas operating framework, IEKit provides developers with the tools they need to build autonomous impact evaluators that are truly decentralized.
- **Highly extensible and composable via Autonolas Protocol:** The Autonolas protocol is at the heart of IEKit, enabling developers to add measurable actions to their IE in a highly extensible and composable way. This means that other developers can easily contribute to your IE by adding new actions that help push the evaluator towards its objectives.
- **Powerful compute capabilities through Autonolas:** IEKit leverages the powerful compute capabilities of the Autonolas protocol, enabling developers to process complex data streams and run sophisticated algorithms. This means that there is no upper limit to the complexity of what can be processed, making IEKit ideal for tackling even the most challenging impact evaluation tasks.

## How IEKit works
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With IEKit, DAOs can create Impact Evaluators with a specific objective in mind, and reward contributors for completing automated actions that push the impact towards the objective. Because these actions are handled by Autonolas, they can be composable and easily integrated with other components created by other developers.

The demo app built with IEKit showcases how an Impact Evaluator can be used to increase Twitter followers for Autonolas. The objective of the app is to get Autonolas’ Twitter account to 10,000 followers. The automated action created by the DAO is to @-mention Autonolas on Twitter, and contributors are rewarded with 300 points for each mention. The Autonolas backend watches for these actions to be completed, calculates rewards based on the relevant action, and writes to Ceramic to issue the points.

With the IEKit demo app, DAOs can create and manage their own Impact Evaluators, configure rewards for actions, and track progress towards a specific impact objective. To see the demo app in action, head over to https://iekit.autonolas.network or watch the demo video below. 

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## In closing
The IEKit is a powerful and innovative framework built with Autonolas and Ceramic data streams that opens up a whole new world of impact evaluation possibilities. Its benefits are numerous and include greater transparency, decentralization, and extensibility, among others. With features such as the elimination of boilerplate development work, open-source code, and full-stack decentralized operation, the IEKit is poised to become the future of impact evaluation. If you are a developer interested in building impactful evaluators on the Ceramic Network, [get started with the IEKit today](https://iekit.autonolas.network)!


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Introducing IEKit

Today marks a significant moment in the Autonolas’ history as we release our whitepaper. This high-fidelity specification unveils our vision for greater human and machine autonomy, beginning with our novel open-source technology for building decentralized and ownable off-chain systems.

This comprehensive document is the result of many months of hard work and research, showcasing our technology, tokenomics, use cases, and governance. We're thrilled to be able to share it with you.

In addition to the full whitepaper, we've also created a distilled version that's just a few pages long, making it easy to get up to speed on the essentials. Whether you're already familiar with Autonolas or just getting started, we think you'll find the whitepaper to be a valuable resource.

We believe that the whitepaper will provide current and potential community members with the opportunity to assimilate the full scope of Autonolas' vision and to develop a deeper understanding of what we're trying to achieve. This, in turn, will enable them to take more ownership of the project and make increasingly important contributions.

At Autonolas, we're committed to making our vision a reality, and we believe that by educating and empowering the community, we'll be able to achieve that goal together. With that in mind, we encourage everyone to take some time to dive into the whitepaper and to engage with us as we continue to build out the Autonolas network. 

And for those who want to go the extra mile, we're excited to announce that any efforts to educate others about Autonolas will be rewarded with Contribute leaderboard points. So if you're eager to get involved and to help spread the word, now's the time!

[Read the whitepaper now](https://autonolas.network/whitepaper). We hope you find it as exciting as we do!

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Autonolas Reaches a Major Milestone: Our Whitepaper is Here


We’re proud to share that [Valory](https://www.valory.xyz/), the team creating Autonolas, has made a successful grant application through the [Ceramic Network](https://ceramic.network/) Grants Program to build a DAO coordination primitive that makes use of Autonolas-based agent services and dynamic data streams on Ceramic. 

The MVP will provide and demonstrate a way to track community contributions in a DAO using datastreams. This project will highlight both Autonolas’ open, modular structure and Ceramic’s potential as a central player in the promising area of [Impact Evaluators](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95TzYSSZN9s). 

The grant will be used to deliver a toolkit for building simple IEs and a live implementation of the toolkit as a decentralized off-chain service powered by Autonolas. 

To learn more about the grant proposal, please visit the [grant proposal](https://forum.ceramic.network/t/proposal-iekit-a-modular-toolkit-for-building-impact-evaluators/553). 

We’d like to extend our gratitude to the Grants Team at Ceramic and look forward to exploring this exciting new use-case for our respective technologies together. 


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A new DAO coordination primitive

Announcing a successful Ceramic Network grant proposal

As we approach the end of the year, we wanted to review the previous 12 months and take a moment reflect on the incredible progress we’ve made. So much has happened and there’s quite a lot to cover, but first we wanted to take a moment to thank all of our friends, community members and supporters: we could not have made it this far without you.

Let's take a look at what was achieved in 2022!

Code and Products
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This year, the codebase grew by leaps and bounds, with 6357 commits to Open Autonomy and 2056 to Open AEA. 

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The team kept a regular cadence as well, with commits spread out across the year. 

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2022 also saw the open-sourcing of two major parts of the Autonolas ecosystem: first was [Open Autonomy](https://github.com/valory-xyz/open-autonomy), which was [announced in June](https://www.autonolas.network/blog/build-your-own-autonomous-services).

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Shortly thereafter, we shared the [Autonolas Protocol](https://protocol.autonolas.network/) and also debuted a web app where users can interact with the protocol directly. We hosted a virtual event for the launch and a recording of that is [available for replay here](https://bit.ly/3zlshry). 

Our documentation got a major upgrade this year - [check out the documentation for Open Autonomy](https://docs.autonolas.network/) and [Open AEA](https://open-aea.docs.autonolas.tech/) to learn more.

We also announced a bug bounty program, so if you’d like to help us ship the cleanest code out there and earn yourself some $$$, you can [learn more about the available bounties here](https://www.autonolas.network/blog/announcing-our-bug-bounty-program).

Academy
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During 2022 we ran 4 academies and produced 16 graduates - congratulations to every Agent Dev that stuck it out and completed the program! 

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Our first cohort was kind enough to [share their experiences with us](https://www.autonolas.network/blog/agent-dev-academy-cohort-1), and one graduate even joined the Valory team later in the year. You can read [more about his experience here](https://www.autonolas.network/blog/from-academy-to-core). 

Another major milestone in the Academy program was the launch of a new self-serve format, where devs can learn at their own pace. If you’re interested in that, you can [get started here](https://www.autonolas.network/academy).


Autonomous Services in Production
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So far, there are 5 autonomous services extant - we have 3 services in use, and 2 in production:

* [El Collectooorr](https://elcollectooorr.art/) - EC started life as an [EthLisbon project](https://github.com/valory-xyz/ethlisbon), and with the help of our Academy devs, became the first full-fledged autonomous service. 

* [Autonomous Fund](https://www.autonolas.network/blog/intro-1) - manages a Balancer pool tracking the Crypto Fear and Greed Index.

* [Autonolas Contribute](https://contribute.autonolas.network/) - tracks community contributions and provides a dynamic NFT reward - more on that later.

* [Autonolas Oracles](https://oracle.autonolas.network/) - the BTC/USD oralce moved to [Polygon in June](https://www.autonolas.network/blog/unleashing-autonolas-oracles-part-two-polygon) and the APY estimator [went live on December 15th](https://www.autonolas.network/blog/introducing-the-ml-apy-oracle).

Grants
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This year, [Valory](https://valory.xyz) applied for, and was accepted into two grant programs to build using Autonolas:

* [Balancer](https://medium.com/@BalancerGrants/valory-is-building-smart-managed-pools-on-balancer-1b03a2f4cc89) - We’re hard at work launching our Smart Managed Pools MVP - [learn more about that here](https://www.autonolas.network/autonomous-asset-management-infra). 
* [Ceramic](https://forum.ceramic.network/t/proposal-iekit-a-modular-toolkit-for-building-impact-evaluators/553) - The team will use this grant to develop a DAO coordination primitive. 

Blog Posts, Articles and other Writing
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We released quite a few articles in 2022. One of the most popular entries on the blog was our [Guide to Getting into Web3](https://autonolas.medium.com/getting-into-web3-a-guide-for-developers-f77ebc97f8a). In the same vein, we also published [The case for Blockchain and Autonomy](https://www.autonolas.network/blog/the-case-for-blockchain-and-autonomy), so check those out if you haven’t already.  

Our community members also contribute some great writing as well. Check out Odin.THOR’s “Autonomous Augmentations” series for fascinating explorations of Autonolas-based service concepts. 
* *Autonomous Augmentations*: [Volume One](https://www.autonolas.network/blog/14), [Volume Two](https://www.autonolas.network/blog/38) and [Volume Three](https://www.autonolas.network/blog/17).

**Education Articles**

We wanted to make it as easy as possible for newcomers to get up to speed with Autonolas, so we created this [series of Educational Articles](https://www.autonolas.network/education-articles). There’s even a short quiz you can take to [test your knowledge](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrPpVCZf8CvcsU1qi-5pOCYKAjCJBUankYfqg8jRBySUbF7g/viewform) once you’re finished.

**Technical Articles**

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Over the course of the year, we shared several in-depth articles that explained our project on a technical level. Those include: 

* [Autonolas Oracles - Technical Details](https://www.autonolas.network/blog/autonolas-oracles-technical-details)
* [Autonomous Asset Management with Autonolas](https://www.autonolas.network/blog/autonomous-asset-management-with-autonolas)
* [Decentralizing Cross-Chain Bridges with Autonomous Services](https://www.autonolas.network/blog/decentralizing-cross-chain-bridges-with-autonomous-services)
* [Maintaining and Resetting Consensus in Autonomous Services](https://www.autonolas.network/blog/maintaining-and-resetting-consensus-in-autonomous-services)

Podcasts and Talks
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Our team upped their presence in the Web3 space in 2022, with [Valory](https://valory.xyz) team members appearing on multiple stages and podcasts sharing the Autonolas vision. Here are some of the highlights:

**Podcasts**

[Chorus One - Enabling Autonomy in DAOs: David Minarsch & Oaksprout the Tan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucxwaJhBr20) 

[The Crypto Podcast - Autonolas: Automating offchain services for DAOs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNNXlizKnYM)

**Other Appearances**

* NFTBerlin - Oaksprout’s El Collectoorr Demo
* Starknet.cc - [Fill The Gap in your Web3 Stack - David Galindo](https://bit.ly/3DoeC54)
* [The Trends in Modern DAO Treasury Management](https://bit.ly/3FnHFIh) - Oaksprout the Tan (Autonolas) with Carlos Noe Saavedra (Fyre) and Luca Mossini (Avantgarde Finance) moderated by Lawrence Chiu (Trading Strategy)
* EpicWeb3 Summit - How to Keep Web3 Users Engaged During a Downturn - David Minarsch

We also hosted a few very interesting Twitter Spaces, and recordings are available in our Discord’s [Media Library](https://discord.gg/xAVafAvTjq). 

Refreshing the Brand
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One change that affected all areas of Autonolas was our brand redesign: we overhauled our visual identity from top to bottom. Check out the announcement we put out [and see some of the behind-the-scenes process](https://www.autonolas.network/blog/a-new-visual-identity-for-autonolas).

Community Projects
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**Community Leaderboard**

This year, we wanted to find a new way to reward our community members who have stuck by us and contributed their time, effort and expertise to our project. We started with a [simple leaderboard MVP](https://www.autonolas.network/blog/introducing-the-community-leaderboard-program) which grew into [Autonolas Contribute](https://www.autonolas.network/blog/introducing-autonolas-contribute), which now includes dynamically updating NFTs that reflect your progress. You can see [the latest ranking here](https://contribute.autonolas.network/).

**Alter Orbis**

![img04 - wbat.png](/uploads/img04_wbat_a06ac3ea39.png)

One highlight this year was the World Buildathon, where we held a collaborative contest to expand Alter Orbis, our companion lore. We enjoyed everyone's submissions, but the winners were community members Grave and Focs. You can [see their entries here](https://www.autonolas.world/).

So, that’s a wrap! We hope you have a very happy New Year and once again, thank you very much for your time and attention. We can’t wait to check in with you at the end of 2023. 

To keep up with all of our latest news and updates, [follow us on Twitter](https://twitter.com/autonolas) and join our community on [Discord](https://discord.gg/RHY6eJ35ar). Here's to another exciting year!


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A look back... 

2022 Year in Review

Today, we're excited to announce the launch of Autonolas Contribute, a new product that streamlines the contribution experience for members of the Autonolas community.

## Show off your contributions
![badge.jpeg](/uploads/badge_cc94b3331d.jpeg)
One of the key features of Autonolas Contribute is the ability to show off your contributions with badges. When you mint a badge, it will start at the first tier. As you complete actions that contribute to the success of Autonolas, you'll earn points and climb the leaderboard. When you earn enough points to reach a higher badge tier, your badge will automatically update to reflect your new rank. This is a great way to demonstrate your contributions on NFT-enabled social media sites and earn recognition that reflects your contribution within the Autonolas community.

## Streamline your contribution experience
![ui.jpeg](/uploads/ui_3f62c087cf.jpeg)
In addition to badges, Autonolas Contribute also includes a dedicated [app](https://contribute.autonolas.network) for tracking and managing your contributions. The app includes a leaderboard, a list of actions you can complete to earn points, and your badge. From here, you can easily keep track of your progress and see how you're doing relative to other members of the community.

## A new demo of an Autonomous service
![autonomous-service.jpeg](/uploads/autonomous_service_374fc658b2.jpeg)
Contribute is powered by an autonomous service. We'll soon be releasing the code as an open-source toolkit. This will allow other teams to fork and run their own versions of the service, making it even easier for teams to track and manage contributions.

## Get started right away!
To start, visit the [app](https://contribute.autonolas.network). It's free to mint a badge - you'll only have to pay gas fees. For a step-by-step walkthrough, check out the [badge section of our documentation](https://contribute.autonolas.network/docs#section-badge).
We're excited to see how Autonolas Contribute will be used by members of the Autonolas community. Whether you're a long-time contributor or just getting started, we hope you'll join us in using this new product to streamline your contribution experience and show off your contributions to the community.

If you already have points you'll need to migrate them. Simply complete the [verification](https://contribute.autonolas.network/verification) and then wait. If it's taking a while for your points to show up, feel free to ping us on Discord.


Autonomous Contributors

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A new product that streamlines the contribution experience for members of the Autonolas community

Introducing Autonolas Contribute

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From the blog

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Autonolas Reaches a Major Milestone: Our Whitepaper is Here

Announcing a successful Ceramic Network grant proposal

2022 Year in Review

Introducing Autonolas Contribute

Enter Alter Orbis

Keep up with Autonolas

Own & Decentralize Your Off-chain Processes

Our open-source software stack enables you to run your DAO Ops as a unified, decentralized off-chain system.

Scale your DAO

Products

For Developers

Core

Open Autonomy

Autonolas Protocol

Toolkits

SMPKit

MintKit

CoordinationKit

MLKit

OracleKit

IEKit

For Users — by Ecosystem Builders

Autonomous Fund

El Collectooorr

Autonolas Contribute

Learn and build

Learn

Build

Who’s pushing the autonomous edge?

Contribute to Autonolas

Press

Autonolas: Automating offchain services for DAOs - The Crypto Podcast Ep. 3

Enabling Autonomy in DAOs: David Minarsch & Oaksprout the Tan - Autonolas | Chorus One Podcast #54

From the blog

Introducing IEKit

Autonolas Reaches a Major Milestone: Our Whitepaper is Here

Announcing a successful Ceramic Network grant proposal

2022 Year in Review

Introducing Autonolas Contribute

Enter Alter Orbis

Keep up with Autonolas

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as a unified, decentralized off-chain system.