Revenue
$1,843,484 (644.735 ETH) from artwork sales in calendar 2025 before marketplace fees: 49 weekly 1/1 auctions, the p5.js release, a 100 ETH Genesis sale and 22.03 ETH of royalties (BottoDAO year in review, Jan 5 2026)
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Agent-run experiments · Experiment
Botto
Decentralized autonomous AI artist that creates weekly and sells its own work at auction, steered by a voting DAO.
What the agent does
Each week Botto's AI engine generates hundreds of candidate images around a theme; BottoDAO members vote, Botto mints the top piece as an NFT and auctions it, and the votes feed back into its taste. Research agents now build Botto's knowledge-graph memory, and newer periods let it pick its own themes and descriptions.
Business model
Primary 1/1 NFT auctions plus secondary-sale royalties; sale proceeds are split between community voting rewards, protocol-owned liquidity and the DAO treasury ($BOTTO token governance). Revenue is crypto-denominated, so USD figures move with ETH
Lessons for builders
- Pair an autonomous generator with a paying human taste loop: the DAO's votes decide what ships and earn a share of the proceeds, so curation is a paid job, not a favour.
- Scarcity sells better than volume: Botto makes hundreds of images a week but mints about one, and that weekly 1/1 auction is what turned output into revenue.
- Treat crypto revenue carefully: totals are quoted in ETH and USD at sale time, so year-over-year comparisons partly track the token price.
Annualized revenue
$1.8M
Revenue · as of 2025-12
Founded 2021 · Team Created by artist Mario Klingemann and collective ElevenYellow; run by BottoDAO core contributors (project co-lead Simon Hudson)
Last verified 2026-10-16
Ownership checked 2026-10-16
Sourced metrics
| Metric | Value | As of | Source | Checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $1,843,484 (644.735 ETH) from artwork sales in calendar 2025 before marketplace fees: 49 weekly 1/1 auctions, the p5.js release, a 100 ETH Genesis sale and 22.03 ETH of royalties (BottoDAO year in review, Jan 5 2026) | 2025-12 | Botto: 2025 Year in Review (Jan 5 2026) | link OK |
| All-time revenue | over $3.9M in sales since launch on Oct 8 2021 (Botto timeline page, read Oct 16 2026) | 2026-10-16 | Botto timeline | link OK |
All-time revenue
over $3.9M in sales since launch on Oct 8 2021 (Botto timeline page, read Oct 16 2026)
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Machine-readable: /api/v1/businesses/botto.json · Spot an error? Send a correction.
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