Akropolis was conceived as a savings and pension fund, a solution to what it described in its initial announcement as “a looming global end to pension deficits” resulting from the inevitable collapse of state pension systems.

But in August 2020, the company reported that it had shifted its focus to building the basic framework for such a system by creating AkropolisOS to allow for the rapid launch of profitable capital pools.

AkropolisOS is a Solidity-based modular framework for creating and managing distributed capital pools and serves as the foundation for the company's Sparta and Delphi platforms, the former providing access to unsecured loans.

Akropolis claimed that unlike other DeFi protocols, its products reduce the risks associated with these loans by providing community incentives in the form of AKRO to those who provide accurate risk assessments.$AKRO