Olympus DAO

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Olympus is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) focused on creating a decentralized reserve currency for Web3.

History

On February 1st, 2021 a Medium article was posted, "Introducing OlympusDAO, An Algorithmic Currency Protocol."[1] Shortly after, the protocol also introduced themselves on Twitter. The token was initially named $OLY but then changed to $OHM.[2] The founder of Olympus goes by the pseudonym Zeus. The protocol reached a peak TVL of $860 million in December of 2021.

Timeline

The Initial Discord Offering (IDO) for the Olympus token, $OHM, was announced on March 2nd, 2021.[3] The only requirement was to be in the Olympus Discord prior to March 3rd at 03:00 UTC.

The launch sale took place from March 12th 03:00 UTC to March 14th 15:00 UTC.

Public trading of the $OHM token opened on March 14th at 18:00 UTC.

On June 9th of 2021, Olympus announced a partnership with Frax. [4]

In the same month, Olympus migrated to Version 1.1 to enable new functionality and features.[5]

In July 2021, Olympus launched Ohmie-Cards which garnered widespread use on crypto twitter. [6]

On September 17th of 2021, Olympus launched Olympus Pro; a bonding marketplace for protocols to build-up their own Protocol Owned Liquidity.[7]

The next month, Olympus announced the upcoming V2 migration[8] that would eventually take place in December 2021.[9]