Traditional oracles were built to handle crypto assets, and cannot handle real world assets like equities. They lack the structure to communicate necessary price adjustments when stock actions take place. Autonom is specifically designed to power perpetual trading of RWAs, and incorporates a decentralized process to detect and dispute data inaccuracies.
DeFi is missing key technical architecture to price perpetual trades involving equities correctly, which is why perpetual trading protocols struggle to offer equities at scale, despite crypto natives’ demand for diversification.
Autonom was designed to address this from the start. It’s the first oracle purpose-built to power the trading of real-world asset derivatives on-chain.
Enabling seamless on-chain derivatives trading of equities, commodities, indices, and ETFs, Autonom unlocks access to untapped RWA markets with over $143 trillion in annual trading volume without the need to tokenize each individual asset.
Autonom brings composability, transparency, and real-time settlement to global markets — empowering you to build the future of decentralized finance.
Corporate actions like stock splits, issuing dividends, and M&A confuse standard price feed oracles, so perpetuals platforms don’t want to offer equities derivatives as they bleed money when bad actors exploit these actions. Autonom’s unique oracle design automatically accounts for discrete pricing changes from these corporate actions, finally allowing perpetual platforms to comfortably and profitably provide on-chain exposure to an entirely untapped equities and commodities trading market, worth $143T in yearly trading volume off-chain.
Autonom is run as an EigenLayer Actively Validated Service (AVS) that provides data to trading platforms on any blockchain (EVM- and non-EVM).
A network of decentralised EigenLayer operators validate Autonom’s AVS via restaked ETH, EIGEN, AUTO or Liquid Restaking Tokens.
Observers are empowered to dispute inaccurate oracle data following EigenLayer’s token forking model for decisioning — inaccurate operators will have their staked tokens effectively “slashed” by 100%.
This direct inbuilt mechanism for oracle accuracy economically incentivises Autonom and its operators to only provide accurate data.
As an EigenLayer AVS, Autonom’s security is more decentralised, and leverages the existing trust and security mechanisms of Ethereum to underpin oracle operations.
No need for the added complexities of confirming accurate data as seen in other oracles. EigenLayer allows for a more efficient use of resources by handling all processing and validation of chain: transactions instantly confirm.
Autonom is a full service stack provider for perpetual dexes and lending protocols. Off-protocol tasks such as limit orders and autoliquidations no longer need to be externalised to separate parties. By hooking into Autonom, protocols can access these functions via our one-stop task manager, maximising the amount of revenue they keep within their system.
Autonom takes fees based off of trade closure sizes, paid in major stablecoins.
The protocol is designed to externalise overheads, keeping operating costs as low as possible: compute is decentralised across node operators, and gas is split between users and dApps.
Finally, Autonom’s data accuracy model “rents” economic security from restakers — assuming a 20% slashing penalty for bad prices, Autonom only requires $5M worth of restaked tokens to effectively secure the system from oracle attacks for trade sizes up to $1M.
More here including numerical examples about how we’re using real revenue to incentivise restakers and AUTO token holders to stick with us, while keeping overheads low, giving us the most profitable business model of all oracles.
We’re prioritising partners with prior involvement and interest in EigenLayer, restaking platforms, oracles, perpetuals and lending protocols, and equities and commodities trading. Please book in for a discovery call with us here.
Looking to add stocks, indices, ETFs and commodities to your perpetuals offerings by using Autonom as your RWA oracle?
Looking to use Autonom as an additional price feed for cryptocurrency assets?
Please book in for a discovery call with us here.
brings with him over a decade of experience in network security and software development. As a Decentralized Software Engineer at Wintermute, he developed and integrated advanced backend infrastructure and smart contracts to assist with trading and market making, with deployments peaking at 9 figures worth of daily volume. He developed the first OEV product for API3 in 2022, which maximises MEV extraction at the oracle level.
has had a longstanding career in operations and managerial finance as a business controller at a technology MNC with annual revenues >$2B. A mechanical engineer by education, she’s worked in various marketing functions at Web3 projects such as Minterest and API3, most recently as the lead behind Animoca Brands’ @animocainsights.
brings over a decade of experience in operations and business development. Previously, as head of API3’s business development team, he scaled API3’s Airnode to 160 partners, driving a 60% market share increase. His success in go-to-market strategies and operational optimization adds a powerful business development edge.
has been active in the blockchain space since 2017, and recently spearheaded the business side of API3’s Quantum Random Number Generator. Prior to Web3, he performed editorial information relay for Amazon AWS, Oracle, and Wells Fargo’s high-yield bonds and emerging markets division.
has had a career spanning over 25 years of network engineering, security and software project management. He’s worked for numerous multinational enterprises such as HSBC, Dow Jones and Bloomberg. Today, he serves as Director at API3 and advises several startups in the blockchain industry.
(J.D.), is an attorney at Kooperman Mentel Ferguson Yaross, where he focuses on international business transactions, corporate finance, and securities matters. Jon has advised multiple web3 projects on deployment and operations, bringing with him deep knowledge in web3-related issues and regulatory frameworks.
bears >20 years of experience in tech entrepreneurship after creating and exiting a popular online game with 3M+ MAU at age 16. He was previously Head of Engineering at Onramper and Web3 Architect at Animoca Brands, and has led and advised >160 startups across cloud, streaming and distributed ledger tech. Most recently, he co-founded Apium Innovations, a blockchain venture studio with unparalleled experience in launching and scaling early-stage Web3 projects.
