{"schema_version":2,"updated":"2026-10-24T07:57:30.289Z","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","cite_as":"Own Your Mind, \"Decentralised AI Freedom and Returns score dataset\", https://ownyourmind.ai/integrity/","attribution":"Own Your Mind (ownyourmind.ai). Link the specific project review when citing a single project.","integrity_notice":{"summary":"Each integrity record carries its own record_type, verdict and assessment_level. A 'claim' record quotes the project's own published statement; a 'reported' value is that claim, not a verified fact, unless verdict is 'match'. A 'finding' record is our own measurement and grades no one's claim. assessment_level 'not-assessed' means unchecked, never clean. Findings are dated snapshots, not a live feed.","verdicts":{"match":"verified against independent data","inflated":"reported higher than independent data shows","understated":"reported lower than independent data shows","outdated":"was accurate when reported; on-chain reality has since moved","established":"our own independent measurement; there is no project claim to grade","unverified":"independently checkable, not yet checked","unverifiable":"checked, could not independently confirm"},"record_types":{"claim":"the project's own published statement, quoted verbatim, graded against independent data","finding":"our own measurement for a score dimension; no claimant and never a verdict on a claim"},"methodology":"https://ownyourmind.ai/resources/integrity-checks/"},"slug":"gensyn","markdown":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/gensyn.md","title":"Gensyn","token":"AI","category":"compute","freedomScore":5.1,"returnsScore":3.8,"freedomGrade":"D","returnsGrade":"F","url":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/gensyn/","integrity":{"assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","last_assessed":"2026-09-24","emission_honesty":null,"reconciliations":[{"metric":"total_supply","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"The Ethereum leg of $AI is a bridged component of the canonical supply on Gensyn's L2, and holds a small share of it.","independent":{"value":"436,493,177 AI on the Ethereum leg (component, not the total; it was 465,482,862 when this anchor was first read on 2026-06-13, so the bridged leg has shrunk as supply moved back to the canonical L2)","source":"Ethereum ERC-20 0x4d70...d48 (name 'Gensyn', ticker AI) total_supply via Blockscout (wired data_sources anchor as ethereum_bridged_supply)"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"canonical_supply_fixed","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"Total Supply: 10,000,000,000","source_url":"https://docs.gensyn.network/ai-token","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"10,000,000,000 AI total supply","source":"Gensyn Network Docs, $AI Token","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"Confirmed on the CANONICAL Gensyn L2 leg (now readable via the mapped gensyn chain, chainid 685689). The GensynToken implementation (behind ERC1967 proxy 0x4e74...bad0, impl GensynToken 0xA18f...Ef16, MIT) mints INITIAL_SUPPLY = 10,000,000,000e18 ONCE in its initializer and exposes NO mint function (mint() reverts on-chain; only the init _mint exists). It is ERC20Burnable, so supply can only DECREASE: live L2 totalSupply = 9,999,888,174 AI (~0.001% burned from the 10B init). The Ethereum leg (~436.5M, a LayerZero OFT held by the GensynTokenOFTAdapter) is a bridged component of this canonical 10B, not additional supply. CAVEAT: the token is a UUPS proxy, so the fixed supply is not immutable at the code level - the DEFAULT_ADMIN_ROLE can upgrade the implementation (e.g. add a mint); that admin is an OpenZeppelin TimelockController (0xb041...a9e9), so any such change is delay-gated, not instantaneous.","source":"eth_call totalSupply() + mint()/paused() (both revert) on the Gensyn L2 (chainid 685689) via https://gensyn-mainnet.g.alchemy.com/public + Blockscout-verified GensynToken implementation source (gensyn-mainnet.explorer.alchemy.com), read 2026-08-12"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"token_admin_surface","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"The $AI token has no pause, blacklist or transfer fee; its one admin lever is a UUPS upgrade held by a TimelockController.","independent":{"value":"The GensynToken transfer layer is PERMISSIONLESS: there is NO pause (paused() reverts), NO per-address blacklist, and NO fee/transfer tax in the implementation (plain ERC20 + Burnable + Votes + Permit). It is an ERC20Votes governance token. The ONLY admin lever is UUPS upgradeability: _authorizeUpgrade is gated to DEFAULT_ADMIN_ROLE, which live is held (un-renounced, no RoleRevoked) by an OpenZeppelin TimelockController (0xb041762ee4efca8f9e33e5f67ec0bcdc4cb1a9e9), i.e. upgrades are subject to a mandatory timelock delay rather than an instant multisig/EOA action. So the token cannot be frozen or censored today, and the one path to changing that (a logic upgrade) is delay-gated.","source":"eth_call paused()/mint() (both revert) + RoleGranted/RoleRevoked(DEFAULT_ADMIN_ROLE) logs via Gensyn Blockscout + eth_getCode on the admin (a verified TimelockController) + Blockscout-verified GensynToken source, read 2026-08-12"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"open_source_footprint","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Gensyn publishes its code on GitHub and the token contract is MIT, but about half of its own repositories carry no licence file.","independent":{"value":"Re-read 2026-09-18 through the GitHub API: 31 non-fork public repositories in github.com/gensyn-ai (40 public in total, 9 of them forks), 15 carrying no licence file and 12 not pushed in 180 days, newest push gensyn-audit on 2026-09-16. The on-chain GensynToken implementation is MIT (SPDX header on the Blockscout-verified source).","source":"GitHub REST API (orgs/gensyn-ai/repos), re-read 2026-09-18"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"delphi_buyback_burn","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"70%: Burned. Permanently removed from circulating supply. The burn is executed by decreasing the vault's $AI balance and reducing total supply directly.","source_url":"https://docs.gensyn.network/ai-token","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"70% of each buyback burned","source":"Gensyn Network Docs, $AI Token","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"Running at the contract as documented. BuybackVault burnBps = 7000 (70%) and executorRewardBps = 100 (1%), unpaused. Cumulative $AI burned by buybacks reads 128,654.68, re-read 2026-09-24 (111,825.57 after the 14 rounds to 2026-08-11), still a tiny share of the cap. The gateway bounds the trading fee per market at 0.5% to 5%.","source":"Gensyn L2 chainId 685689: BuybackVault 0x2cbe...0243, DynamicParimutuelGateway 0x4e4e...dE40, $AI 0x4e74...51A2"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"delphi_stake_asset","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Delphi stakes and settles in bridged USDC; $AI's only live role in Delphi is as the buyback target.","independent":{"value":"Delphi stakes and settles in BRIDGED USDC (0x5b32...ddF5). TOKEN() returns that same address on both the DynamicParimutuelGateway and DelphiFactory, and the gateway's TOKEN_DECIMAL_SCALER of 1e12 is consistent with a 6-decimal settlement asset. $AI's only live role in Delphi is as the buyback target.","source":"eth_call TOKEN() on Gensyn L2 gateway and factory, 2026-08-17"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"liquidity_depth","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"$AI trades across a broad spread of centralised venues, and volume has fallen sharply since the TGE window.","independent":{"value":"31 tickers on 22 venues. Reported 24h volume is about 88% below the early-May 2026 reading, with LBank top at 26.3% and a Binance venue row second. Whether that Binance row is the Alpha market or a main-spot pair is not established here: Binance carries an AIUSDT symbol in TRADING state, but more than one project uses the AI ticker, so the symbol alone does not identify Gensyn. Turnover is an 8.50% 7-day median.","source":"CoinGecko tickers (paginated) + turnover from src/data/turnover.json, read 2026-09-06"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"low"},{"metric":"holder_concentration","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"$AI on the Gensyn L2 is concentrated: one unlabelled address holds more than the other nine of the top ten combined.","independent":{"value":"Top-10 on the Gensyn L2 leg is 49.89% raw and 46.01% excluding infrastructure, across 3,918 holders. One unlabelled address holds 33.97%, more than the other nine combined. The only classified infrastructure in the top ten is the GensynTokenOFTAdapter at 4.42%, which locks the supply circulating on Ethereum. Insider share reads 0% only because 9 of the top ten carry no explorer label.","source":"Gensyn L2 Blockscout via scripts/refresh-holder-concentration.py, classified by coldstart.sources.holders, read 2026-09-06"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"delphi_fee_basis_reconciliation","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Delphi's protocol-share fees reach the buyback vault and are almost all spent on $AI buybacks; lifetime flows are small.","independent":{"value":"The BuybackVault has received $4,580.96 across 1,333 USDC transfers, fully paginated to exhaustion, against $4,499.49 spent across 17 buybacks and $81.46 still undeployed.","source":"Our own scripts/refresh-gensyn-buyback.ts over the Gensyn L2 Blockscout, both vault legs, read 2026-09-21"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"}],"facts":[{"metric":"revenue","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","kind":"limit","flag":"unmeasurable","positive_control":false,"severity":"low","detail":"Compute revenue is zero and the training-network mainnet has not shipped; on-chain burn data is not yet live (only the Delphi prediction market is active). Pre-revenue.","assessed_date":"2026-06-08"}]}}