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Technical overview

The Autonolas Protocol benefits from a modular design with a clear separation of concerns and opportunity for extensibility without compromising its security and permissionless nature. From an architectural point of view, the smart contracts that make up the protocol satisfy the following properties:

  • Follow a core-periphery architecture (such as in Uniswap), which allows for changing out periphery functionality without changing the data models at the core.
  • Allow for extension via modules (such as in MakerDAO).

Examples of modules include governance and staking. Governance is particularly important in a modular system, as it is used to vote on the adoption or abandoning of modules. By ensuring an immutable core, the Autonolas protocol provides guarantees that once created, the ecosystem’s agent components, canonical agents, and services are not mutable by governance – an important guarantee of censorship resistance.

The Autonolas Protocol is built with the Open Autonomy framework in mind as the primary framework for realizing agent services. However, it does not enforces the usage of the Open Autonomy framework, and it allows for services to be implemented on alternative frameworks.

Learn more

Read the Technical Architecture, Tokenomics and Governance sections in the Autonolas Whitepaper for the full details of the Autonolas Protocol.

Registry

This section gives an overview on the technical details of the Autonolas Protocol Registry, where NFTs representing software packages can be minted.

Core smart contracts

Core smart contracts are permissionless. Autonolas governance controls the process of service management functionalities and of minting new NFTs representing components and agents (i.e. it can change the minting rules and pause minting). The remaining functionalities, in particular transfer functionalities, are not pausable by governance.

Core smart contracts

Generic Registry
An abstract smart contract for the generic registry template which inherits the Solmate ERC721 implementation.
Unit Registry
An abstract smart contract for generic agents/components template which inherits the Generic Registry.
Component Registry
An ERC721 contract that inherits the Unit Registry and represents agent components.
Agent Registry
An ERC721 contract that inherits the Unit Registry and represents canonical agents.
Service Registry
An ERC721 contract that inherits the Generic Registry, is used to represent services and provides service management utility methods.

Autonolas extends the ERC721 standard to support appending additional hashes to the NFT over time. This allows developers and service owners to record version changes in their code or configuration, and to signal it on-chain without breaking backward compatibility.

Periphery smart contracts

Periphery contracts are fully controlled by the governance and can be replaced to enable new functionality. They also act as guards to restrict existing functionality.

Periphery smart contracts

Generic Manager
An abstract smart contract for the Generic Registry manager template.
Registries Manager
A contract inheriting from Generic Manager via which developers can mint component and agent NFTs.
Service Manager
A contract inheriting from Generic Manager via which service owners can create and manage their services.

Contract addresses

Find below the addresses of the Registry contracts currently deployed on different chains.

Contract Ethereum Görli
Component Registry View on Etherscan View on Etherscan
Agent Registry View on Etherscan View on Etherscan
Service Registry View on Etherscan View on Etherscan
Registries Manager View on Etherscan View on Etherscan
Service Manager View on Etherscan View on Etherscan

Tokenomics

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Contract addresses

Find below the addresses of the Tokenomics contracts currently deployed on different chains.

Contract Ethereum Görli
Donator Black List View on Etherscan View on Etherscan
Tokenomics View on Etherscan View on Etherscan
Tokenomics Proxy View on Etherscan View on Etherscan
Treasury View on Etherscan View on Etherscan
Generic Bond Calculator View on Etherscan View on Etherscan
Depository View on Etherscan View on Etherscan
Dispenser View on Etherscan View on Etherscan

Governance

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Contract addresses

Find below the addresses of the Governance contracts currently deployed on different chains.

Contract Ethereum Görli
OLAS View on Etherscan View on Etherscan
Timelock View on Etherscan View on Etherscan
veOLAS View on Etherscan View on Etherscan
GovernorOLAS View on Etherscan View on Etherscan
buOLAS View on Etherscan -
wveOLAS View on Etherscan -
GovernorOLAS (II) View on Etherscan -