Hey everyone!
Earlier this year, we were honored to receive a $100,000 grant from the FORTH DAO to develop Maze, our consumer-facing app that brings inflation-beating DeFi yields to mainstream users. We’ve made significant progress on the MVP and remain committed to making the Ampleforth ecosystem (and upcoming Fragments Protocol) accessible to the next wave of users and capital.
As we’ve been building out our infrastructure, we’ve developed technology that goes beyond consumer applications. Our Orchestrator SDK enables efficient agentic yield optimization while maintaining full self-custody, and essentially, capabilities that are increasingly relevant for DAO treasury management.
We’ve noticed the recent discussions within the FORTH DAO about deploying treasury funds into various lending markets and DeFi vaults. Managing these positions manually presents real challenges: yield opportunities shift rapidly, governance processes create lag time, and the complexity of the Ampleforth ecosystem (with AMPL, WAMPL, SPOT, ampUSD, Bill Broker…) makes optimization difficult without specialized tooling.
This is where we believe we can add value:
We’re proposing a Letter of Intent to build a bespoke treasury management dashboard specifically for the FORTH DAO. This would leverage our existing Orchestrator SDK to give the DAO a dedicated yield optimization agent that maintains full self-custody while continuously rebalancing across the most attractive opportunities. Working with our advisor Brandon Iles, we’d also integrate Ampleforth-specific strategies that simplify interactions with the protocol’s unique mechanics.
Below, you’ll find the full LOI outlining this collaboration. We’re excited about the possibility of supporting the DAO’s treasury operations while simultaneously stress-testing our infrastructure with one of DeFi’s most sophisticated protocols.
Looking forward to your feedback and to joining next Wednesday’s AMA on the Ampleforth Discord server to share more about our progress!
Ampli Technologies
LOI Ampli Technologies - FORTH DAO
Between Ampli Technologies, Inc. and FORTH DAO
Effective Date: Nov 3rd, 2025
This non-binding Letter of Intent (“LOI”) outlines the current intent of:
Ampli Technologies, Inc. (“Ampli”), and Forth DAO (“Forth DAO”), steward of the Ampleforth ecosystem (AMPL, WAMPL, SPOT).
1. Purpose
Supported by a grant from the FORTH DAO awarded earlier this year, Ampli Technologies has been building infrastructure that makes agentic yield optimization in Decentralized Finance accessible to consumers, institutions, and corporate treasuries. The advantages of Ampli’s tech stack (seamless UX, continuous optimization of yield sources without the need for human intervention, institutional grade security) are attractive to DAO treasury management as well: Yield across different protocols, lending markets and vaults can change rapidly which poses difficulties to entities that need to follow governance processes before they can act. Maintaining self-custody of the funds is paramount which speaks against handing the funds over to an external party for management.
The FORTH DAO is currently discussing the deployment of treasury funds into various lending markets and vaults in DeFi, as well as the support of the Ampleforth ecosystem with their stablecoin and AMPL holdings.
The purpose of this document is to state the intention by Ampli to create a bespoke treasury management dashboard for the FORTH DAO that is built on Ampli’s Orchestrator SDK and will allow the FORTH DAO to operate their own dedicated yield optimization agent. Furthermore, Ampli is going to cooperate with their advisor Brandon Iles to add Ampleforth ecosystem specific strategies to the dashboard that facilitate the deployment of AMPL and stablecoins to support and generate yield in Ampleforth’s economy. Ampleforth is one of the more complex DeFi protocols in existence so simplifying the interactions with the many moving pieces is going to help make the system more efficient and reliable. Depending on performance Ampli is going to explore a phase 2 where this strategy could be made accessible to a wider group of users (either as an open and permissionless app or as part of Ampli’s suite to consumers and institutions).
The FORTH DAO, in return, commits to using Ampli’s treasury management dashboard to manage their yield farming operations and to help Ampli build a better product by communicating their needs and providing user feedback.
2. Areas of Collaboration
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Technical Exploration: Share documentation and hold feasibility sessions on AMPL/WAMPL/SPOT use cases
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Prototype/Pilot: If agreed, run a pilot to validate UX and operational fit.
3. Principles
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Best-Efforts Only: No service-level or resource commitments under this LOI.
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Own Costs: Each party bears its own costs unless otherwise agreed in writing.
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Compliance: Each party is responsible for its own legal, regulatory, tax, and accounting obligations.
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Confidentiality: Non-public information marked or reasonably understood as confidential will be protected and used only for purposes of this LOI.
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IP: No license or transfer of intellectual property is granted by this LOI.
4. Nature of Document
This LOI is non-binding and does not create a partnership, joint venture, agency, or fiduciary relationship. Any binding terms require a separate definitive agreement executed by both parties.
5. Term & Termination
This agreement is effective as of the Effective Date and will continue for an initial term of twelve (12) months. It will automatically renew for successive twelve (12)-month periods unless either party provides notice of non-renewal. Either party may also terminate this agreement at any time with thirty (30) days’ prior notice.
