{"schema_version":2,"updated":"2026-10-24T07:57:30.397Z","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higher than independent data shows","understated":"reported lower than independent data shows","outdated":"was accurate when reported; on-chain reality has since moved","established":"our own independent measurement; there is no project claim to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":"warden","markdown":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/warden.md","title":"Warden Protocol","token":"WARD","category":"agent","freedomScore":4.5,"returnsScore":4.8,"freedomGrade":"D","returnsGrade":"D","url":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/warden/","integrity":{"assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","last_assessed":"2026-09-23","emission_honesty":null,"reconciliations":[{"metric":"cumulative_onchain_transactions","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"unverifiable","claim_holds_up":false,"claim":{"quote":"By the end of the year, the Warden ecosystem had processed: 10,876,397 cumulative onchain transactions","source_url":"https://wardenprotocol.org/blog/warden-report-2025","archive_url":null,"date":"2025-12-31"},"reported":{"value":"10,876,397 cumulative onchain transactions across the Warden ecosystem by the end of 2025","source":"Warden blog, Warden Report 2025","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"Not measurable from any source we can reach. Warden's figure covers the Warden ecosystem across EVM and Solana to 31 December 2025, the first three months after the 1 October 2025 WardenChain genesis. The public LCD is pruned and refuses historical heights, so that window cannot be counted. Re-sampled 2026-09-18 at the tip: 1.033 transactions per block across 60 blocks, on a chain of 10,851,860 blocks (2.80s blocks).","source":"Cosmos LCD block sampling (warden-api.polkachu.com), re-run 2026-09-18"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"info"},{"metric":"supply_inflation_model","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"Upon evolution to the Proof-of-Stake framework, an emission of $WARD tokens commences, with a programmatic emission based on the proportion of $WARD tokens staked relative to the total supply.","source_url":"https://docs.wardenprotocol.org/ward/supply","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"Initial supply 1,000,000,000 WARD; staking-linked emission between 1% and 10% a year once on Proof-of-Stake","source":"Warden docs, Supply","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"Uncapped and inflating on the native leg. WardenChain is a Cosmos-SDK chain, so the base staking denom award is read via the Cosmos bank module: 1,052,451,039 WARD (18 decimals), about 5.2% above the 1,000,000,000 initial supply. The chain's mint module reports 10.0% a year (/cosmos/mint/v1beta1/inflation = 0.10), the top of the documented band, which is where the documented rule sits while staking is below its 65% target (14.16% of supply is bonded). The Base and BSC ERC-20 contracts are minority bridge wrappers, not the canonical supply.","source":"Cosmos LCD /cosmos/bank/v1beta1/supply/by_denom?denom=award (18 decimals) + /cosmos/mint/v1beta1/inflation on WardenChain via the keyless cosmos.directory REST proxy, read 2026-08-12"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"info"},{"metric":"open_source_footprint","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Warden's core chain monorepo is public under Apache-2.0 and actively maintained.","independent":{"value":"The github.com/warden-protocol org carries 38 public repositories; the core chain monorepo warden-protocol/wardenprotocol is Apache-2.0, 2,162 stars, not archived, pushed within days of assessment. The Cosmos-SDK chain, modules and tooling are public under a permissive licence.","source":"GitHub API (warden-protocol org + wardenprotocol repo), 2026-08-12"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"info"},{"metric":"onchain_governance_activity","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"a mechanism allowing the decentralized community to update the protocol through direct voting that is recorded onchain","source_url":"https://docs.wardenprotocol.org/learn/glossary","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"On-chain governance by direct vote of staking participants","source":"Warden docs, Glossary (Governance)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"Re-read 2026-09-18 from the chain's own x/gov module via v1: 5 proposals, 4 passed and 1 rejected. Three upgrade proposals (v0.7.2, v0.7.4, v1.0.0) and a transaction-fee increase passed; proposal 4, \"Set Fixed 3% Inflation Rate\", was rejected, with opposing stake more than two orders of magnitude above the support.","source":"WardenChain LCD cosmos/gov/v1/proposals (warden-api.polkachu.com)"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"liquidity_depth","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"WARD lists on KuCoin, Bitget, BingX and several smaller venues but not Bybit, and daily volume runs at about half the market cap.","independent":{"value":"13 tickers on 11 venues: KuCoin top at 23.3%, then Bitget, MEXC, a Uniswap V3 BSC pool, Gate, Toobit, Kraken and XT.COM. BingX is absent from the aggregator but lists WARD, its own symbols endpoint returning WARD-USDT open for trading. Bybit's spot instruments endpoint returns no WARDUSDT, while the same call resolves GRASSUSDT. Turnover is a 52.15% 7-day median, so daily volume is about half the market cap.","source":"CoinGecko tickers (paginated) + turnover from src/data/turnover.json, read 2026-09-06"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"holder_concentration","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Native WARD is concentrated: two vesting accounts the chain itself names hold over a quarter of supply, and a bridge contract holds another quarter.","independent":{"value":"Native WARD top-10 is 79.17% of the 1,057,241,799 coin supply. Excluding infrastructure it is 39.51%, and 27.59% of supply sits in two vesting accounts the chain names itself: a delayed-vesting account holding 200M WARD whose end time passed on 27 April 2026, and a continuous-vesting account holding 120M that runs to 27 October 2026. The largest single address is a Hyperlane native bridge contract at 24.98%, and the staking module holds a further 13.76%. 4 of the top ten are still unattributed, holding 8.57% between them.","source":"WardenChain Blockscout rich list plus the chain's auth module via scripts/refresh-holder-concentration.py, classified by coldstart.sources.holders, read 2026-09-06"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"info"},{"metric":"consensus_censorship_surface","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Two validators together hold enough stake to halt WardenChain.","independent":{"value":"Two validators can halt this chain. The Nakamoto halt coefficient is 2, the lowest of the six chains we measure, with the single largest validator holding 28.6% of stake and the top ten 66.02%. There are 33 active validators and 14.16% of supply is bonded, so the stake defending the chain is both small and concentrated.","source":"WardenChain LCD staking and bank modules via scripts/refresh-validator-sets.ts, read 2026-09-07"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"high"}],"facts":[{"metric":"agent_runs","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","kind":"limit","flag":"unmeasurable","positive_control":false,"severity":"medium","detail":"The 60.4M 'agent runs' headline is dominated by off-chain activity with no independent analytics coverage; the off-chain portion cannot be independently confirmed.","assessed_date":"2026-03-06"}]}}