We’re thrilled to congratulate Autonity on its mainnet launch, a major step forward in the evolution of decentralized finance infrastructure. As one of the earliest institutional supporters of Autonity, Chorus One is proud to back this groundbreaking Layer 1 blockchain through both strategic investment and hands-on validator participation.
Autonity is not just another EVM-compatible chain. It’s the first Layer 1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives clearing, introducing an entirely new design space for programmable risk transfer. Developed by Clearmatics, a pioneer in the application of blockchain to financial instruments, Autonity represents a bold vision: building infrastructure that expands the universe of tradable risk far beyond the narrow boundaries of crypto speculation.
At its core, Autonity addresses a fundamental gap in today’s DeFi landscape: the lack of robust infrastructure for derivatives that can track real-world risks — from macroeconomic indicators like inflation to environmental metrics like global temperatures. Traditional finance fails to offer instruments for many of these exposures, while current DeFi platforms are mostly confined to crypto-native assets, plagued by liquidity fragmentation and inefficiencies.
Autonity’s solution is elegant and deeply considered. By decoupling trading venues from the clearing layer via its Autonomous Futures Protocol (AFP), Autonity creates a unified, permissionless clearinghouse for diverse risk markets. Its architecture allows forecast contracts — a new class of fully on-chain derivatives that follow public time series data — to be created, traded, and settled efficiently, opening doors for innovation in quant finance, machine learning, and institutional risk hedging.
Autonity features:
These primitives work together to provide a flexible, secure, and scalable foundation for derivative instruments that can hedge or speculate on almost anything — not just tokens, but real-world metrics.
We’ve been closely involved with Autonity’s development from its earliest stages. As a strategic validator partner, Chorus One participated in over six testnets, helping to validate network performance, test slashing mechanisms, and refine the protocol’s consensus and oracle systems.
Autonity is also a Chorus One Ventures portfolio company. We believe that enabling programmable, decentralized markets for any measurable risk factor is not only the next step in the evolution of DeFi, but also a fundamental leap forward in how we structure global financial systems.
From concept to code to mainnet, the Autonity team has executed with precision, vision, and purpose. As investors and infrastructure partners, we at Chorus One are honored to have supported this journey, and we’re incredibly excited to see what comes next.
