{"schema_version":2,"updated":"2026-10-24T07:57:30.399Z","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higher than independent data shows","understated":"reported lower than independent data shows","outdated":"was accurate when reported; on-chain reality has since moved","established":"our own independent measurement; there is no project claim to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":"zetachain","markdown":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/zetachain.md","title":"ZetaChain","token":"ZETA","category":"data","freedomScore":3.9,"returnsScore":3.2,"freedomGrade":"F","returnsGrade":"F","url":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/zetachain/","integrity":{"assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","last_assessed":"2026-10-07","emission_honesty":{"classification":"inflationary","reason":"The only token flow to participants is validator emissions: 6.7515 ZETA a block from the x/emissions module (56.8M a year, 2.71% of the cap), read live. The Anuma AI credits are not a token flow at all: they are USD-denominated entries in Anuma's own ledger, granted monthly against a staked balance Anuma reads from the chain and expiring 30 days later, funded by the company. Chain fees on DeFiLlama are $13.57 in 30 days, so nothing the network earns funds any of it."},"reconciliations":[{"metric":"zeta_credit_meter","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"inflated","claim_holds_up":false,"claim":{"quote":"Lock ZETA, receive credits, and spend them on AI usage. Locked ZETA comes out of circulating supply.","source_url":"https://www.zetachain.com/blog/bringing-zeta-and-private-ai-to-solana","archive_url":null,"date":"2026-09-17"},"reported":{"value":"Lock ZETA, receive credits; locked ZETA comes out of circulating supply","source":"ZetaChain blog, Bringing ZETA and Private AI to Solana (17 Sept 2026)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"The lock contract (ZetaStaking 0x6197...C58D) has stakePaused=true since 24 June 2026 and claimPaused=true since 3 July 2026; about 93,700 ZETA remain in it and 159 ANUMA were ever minted. The live Token Dashboard instead reads ordinary x/staking delegation (21-day unbond, no lock) and grants USD credits in Anuma's off-chain ledger at a rate the company sets; delegated ZETA is bonded, not removed from supply, and ZetaChain's own docs say third parties may count it as circulating.","source":"eth_call stakePaused()/claimPaused()/totalStaked() on 0x6197c0E4Ce29338b8d40b7cC21A31344140eC58D and totalSupply() on the ANUMA token 0x01B08B2f445C2000dAd05FeedB0ea0866Db2272f (ZetaChain mainnet, block 18,970,511); full event scan from deployment; verified source on zetascan.com; Anuma help centre 'Token Dashboard' articles (31 Aug 2026); chat.anuma.ai Token Dashboard read in Chrome on 2026-09-21."},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"high"},{"metric":"zeta_lock_contract_state","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"outdated","claim_holds_up":false,"claim":{"quote":"Locked ZETA earns a 12% annual reward rate in Anuma Tokens.","source_url":"https://www.zetachain.com/blog/anuma-access-launch","archive_url":null,"date":"2026-06-01"},"reported":{"value":"12% annual reward rate in Anuma Tokens on locked ZETA","source":"ZetaChain blog, Introducing ZETA Access (1 June 2026)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"Deployed 13 May 2026 (block 15,985,942) by EOA 0xfa79...5512, which holds DEFAULT_ADMIN_ROLE alone. First stake 22 May. RewardRateUpdated on 5 June cut the rate from 1.68 to 0.48 ANUMA per ZETA per year (-71%). stake paused 24 June, claim paused 3 July, withdrawImmediate added 3 July. Lifetime: 79 stakers, 347,842 ZETA in, 253,971 ZETA withdrawn immediately, 159.19 ANUMA minted, about 93,700 ZETA still inside. Re-read 2026-09-29: about 83,691 ZETA still inside (93,701 on 2026-09-24), with stake and claim both still paused.","source":"ZetaChain mainnet event log and current state of 0x6197...C58D and 0x01B0...272f; verified Solidity on zetascan.com (ZetaStaking, AnumaToken, compiler 0.8.26)."},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"high"},{"metric":"memory_zero_knowledge","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"It is encrypted in transit and at rest, but not end-to-end encrypted, so it may be accessible to Anuma and its service providers for operation, safety and legal compliance.","source_url":"https://www.anuma.ai/how-memory-works","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"Memory encrypted in transit and at rest, not end-to-end; accessible to Anuma and its providers","source":"Anuma, How Memory Works (anuma.ai)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"The at-rest half holds: @anuma/sdk (MIT, github.com/anuma-ai/sdk, commit e897ded 2026-09-18) encrypts messages, titles, vault entries and files with AES-GCM under an HKDF key derived from a wallet signature (info string anuma-sdk-aes-gcm-v3), held in memory only, and the shipped chat.anuma.ai bundle carries that string, the enc:v3: prefix and the backup flow. The live path does not: every message is POSTed in plaintext to Anuma's /api/v1/embeddings (src/lib/memoryEngine/generate.ts, default model qwen/qwen3-embedding-8b, which Anuma hosts itself) so the vector can be stored, and every prompt plus any recalled memory transits Anuma's self-hosted Bifrost gateway on the way to the model. Regex PII redaction is opt-in. The key comes from a Privy embedded wallet signing silently, so custody is Privy's split-key model, not a key 'only you hold'. The production client (zeta-chain/ai-memoryless-client) is private.","source":"github.com/anuma-ai/sdk source (ENCRYPTION.md, PII_REDACTION.md, src/lib/memoryEngine/generate.ts, src/react/useEncryption.ts); the 101 JS chunks served by chat.anuma.ai on 2026-09-21 (grep for anuma-sdk-aes-gcm-v3, enc:v3:, /api/v1/embeddings, redeem-tokens, ZETA_STAKING_ABI); zetachain.com blog 14 Sept 2026 ('Qwen3-Embedding-8B, that we host ourselves')."},"assessed_date":"2026-10-07","severity":"info"},{"metric":"chain_fees","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Gas fees on the ZetaChain L1 are negligible, and neither ZetaChain nor Anuma publishes a revenue figure.","independent":{"value":"$78.75 gas fees in 30 days, re-read 2026-10-20 ($64.13 on 2026-10-13, $50.01 on 2026-10-07, $32.26 on 2026-09-29, $13.57 on 2026-09-21), against $363,338 all-time (DeFiLlama chain adapter).","source":"api.llama.fi/overview/fees/zetachain and /v2/chains, 2026-09-21"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"anuma_revenue","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"unverifiable","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Anuma sells subscriptions and credit packs but publishes no revenue or subscriber figures, and no independent source measures them.","independent":{"value":null,"source":"None. Token Terminal 'zetachain' carries no fee or revenue metric (metric_availability read 2026-09-21); DeFiLlama has no Anuma adapter; Stripe billing is off-chain."},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"high"},{"metric":"anuma_users","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"unverifiable","claim_holds_up":false,"claim":{"quote":"More than 300,000 people have joined since February","source_url":"https://www.zetachain.com/blog/bringing-zeta-and-private-ai-to-solana","archive_url":null,"date":"2026-09-17"},"reported":{"value":"More than 300,000 people joined since February","source":"ZetaChain blog, Bringing ZETA and Private AI to Solana (17 Sept 2026)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":null,"source":"None. Accounts are Privy wallets auto-created at sign-up on ZetaChain; no public index distinguishes them from other EOAs and no third-party analytics covers Anuma."},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"high"},{"metric":"proposal_68_vote","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"ZETA holders approved this proposal with 99.4% in favor.","source_url":"https://www.zetachain.com/blog/bringing-zeta-and-private-ai-to-solana","archive_url":null,"date":"2026-09-20"},"reported":{"value":"Proposal 68 approved with 99.4% in favour","source":"ZetaChain blog, update of 20 Sept 2026 to Bringing ZETA and Private AI to Solana","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"Final tally on chain: Yes 263,651,809 ZETA (99.44%), Abstain 752,300 (0.28%), No 744,658 (0.28%), Veto 0; 265.1M voted of 455.1M bonded (58.3% turnout, 40% quorum). 98 vote transactions from 87 addresses: 14 of 44 validators voted (133.7M stake, 12 Yes, 1 No, 1 Abstain); the five largest validators (OmniChain1, Blockchain.com, OmniChain2, MP1, RockX, 46.2% of stake) did not vote; 73 non-validator addresses cast the other ~131M, 69 of them Yes. Proposer zeta14m8s4x036jkjnfnkw92004zweh5prqzq69n880. Votes are pruned after tally, so this comes from tx search.","source":"https://zetachain.blockpi.network/lcd/v1/public/cosmos/gov/v1/proposals/68 and /cosmos/tx/v1beta1/txs?query=proposal_vote.proposal_id=68, validators list, 2026-09-21"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"validator_set","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"Anyone can run a validator to earn rewards by securing the network.","source_url":"https://www.zetachain.com/docs/about/token-utility/validators/","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"Anyone can run a validator","source":"ZetaChain docs, Validator Incentives","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"44 bonded validators, 455.1M ZETA bonded; top-4 = 37.8% (Nakamoto 4), top-8 = 70.3%; min commission 5%; 21-day unbond; slashing 1% double-sign, 0.1% downtime (x/slashing params). The x/authority module gives a 7-member group (threshold 6 of 8 weight) admin messages including MsgUpdateContractBytecode, MsgUpdateSystemContract and MsgMigrateTssFunds, and a 1-of-7 'groupEmergency' policy.","source":"https://zetachain.blockpi.network/lcd/v1/public x/staking, x/slashing, zeta-chain/authority/policies, cosmos/group policy info, 2026-09-21"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"tss_custody_wind_down","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"Withdrawals will remain open for a defined wind-down period so existing users can move funds out cleanly.","source_url":"https://www.zetachain.com/blog/private-memory-layer-for-ai","archive_url":null,"date":"2026-06-01"},"reported":{"value":"Withdrawals stay open during a defined wind-down period","source":"ZetaChain blog, The Private Memory Layer for AI (1 June 2026)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"crosschain_flags: isInboundEnabled=false, isOutboundEnabled=true. The TSS still holds 90.88 ETH (0x70e9...FD83, nonce 79,218) and 1.772 BTC (bc1qm24...el6y), and the Ethereum ERC20 custody 0x0Bad...23B5 holds 63,643 USDT and 36,240 USDC. The node repo carries RFC 002 'Emergency TSS native-fund drain (crosschain shutdown)' and a mainnet drain build (release drain-mainnet-20260826) that moves ~100% of TSS-held native funds to fixed non-TSS 'safe' addresses on a trigger from a centrally hosted, operator-signed Drain API, with 'zero zetacore changes' (no vote). Both safe receivers held 0 on 2026-09-21, so it has not fired.","source":"LCD observer/crosschain_flags and get_tss_address; Ethereum RPC balances; mempool.space; github.com/zeta-chain/node docs/rfc/002_tss_emergency_drain.md and releases, 2026-09-21"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"high"},{"metric":"circulating_supply","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"unverifiable","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"ZETA supply on the L1 is attested on-chain, but circulating supply follows the team's vesting schedule and cannot be checked on-chain.","independent":{"value":"The chain attests 1,709,179,682 ZETA on the L1 (x/bank) and 455.1M bonded; the cross-chain 2.1B total and circulating supply follow the team's schedule. Walking the published allocation table to month 31 gives roughly 68% released, and ZetaChain's docs say third parties may count staked ZETA as circulating.","source":"https://zetachain.blockpi.network/lcd/v1/public x/bank supply and x/staking pool; zetachain.com/docs/about/token-utility/distribution (schedule), 2026-09-21"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"}],"facts":[{"metric":"anuma_users","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","kind":"measured","flag":"definitional-gap","positive_control":false,"severity":"high","detail":"A 'user' is a wallet auto-created at sign-up (18 Aug 2026 post). Sign-ups are not active users; the company's own request count implies about four requests per account over seven months.","assessed_date":"2026-09-21"},{"metric":"validator_stake_share","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","kind":"measured","flag":"concentration","positive_control":false,"severity":"medium","detail":"44 bonded validators; top-4 hold 37.8% (Nakamoto coefficient 4), top-8 hold 70.3%. OmniChain1 and OmniChain2 alone hold 19.1%. Read from x/staking on 2026-09-21.","assessed_date":"2026-09-21"},{"metric":"anuma_revenue","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","kind":"limit","flag":"unmeasurable","positive_control":false,"severity":"high","detail":"No revenue disclosure exists for Anuma or for the ZETA credit programme; Token Terminal carries no fee metric; DeFiLlama's $13.57 in 30 days is L1 gas. Checked 2026-09-21.","assessed_date":"2026-09-21"}]}}