{"schema_version":2,"updated":"2026-10-22T15:25:37.402Z","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higher than independent data shows","understated":"reported lower than independent data shows","outdated":"was accurate when reported; on-chain reality has since moved","established":"our own independent measurement; there is no project claim to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":"antseed","markdown":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/antseed.md","title":"AntSeed","token":"ANTS","category":"inference","freedomScore":6.6,"returnsScore":3.2,"freedomGrade":"C","returnsGrade":"F","url":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/antseed/","integrity":{"assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","last_assessed":"2026-10-21","emission_honesty":null,"reconciliations":[{"metric":"max_supply_hard_cap","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"1.04 billion hard cap.","source_url":"https://antseed.com/ants-token/","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"1,040,000,000 ANTS hard cap","source":"AntSeed, ANTS token page (antseed.com/ants-token)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"MAX_SUPPLY = 1_040_000_000e18 is a public constant on the verified ANTSToken contract and is enforced in mint(), which reverts past it; eth_call MAX_SUPPLY() re-read 2026-10-20 returns 1,040,000,000. Minted supply re-read 2026-10-20 is 129,312,396, 12.43% of the cap (124,349,580 on 2026-10-13, 118,651,176 on 2026-09-29). The cap holds; emission against it is the thing that moves.","source":"BaseScan getsourcecode (read 2026-08-12; still an exact-match verified ANTSToken with MAX_SUPPLY and the MaxSupplyExceeded error in its ABI on 2026-10-21) + live eth_call MAX_SUPPLY()/totalSupply() on the Base ANTSToken 0xa87EE81b2C0Bc659307ca2D9ffdC38514DD85263 via base-rpc.publicnode.com, re-read 2026-10-20"},"assessed_date":"2026-10-21","severity":"info"},{"metric":"fair_launch_no_premine","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"The ANTS contract allocated nothing at deployment, so no tokens went to a team or treasury at launch.","independent":{"value":"The ANTSToken constructor allocates nothing: there is no deployer or treasury mint at deploy. Holder concentration re-read 2026-09-24: the top ten hold 51.32% of supply once infrastructure addresses are excluded, up from 35.6% on 2026-09-18 as minted supply rose from 77.8M to 112.8M. ANTS is Base-native and single-leg, so one chain rates it.","source":"Blockscout Base holder index via scripts/refresh-holder-concentration.py, 2026-09-18"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"token_transfer_control","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"ANTS cannot be transferred today: the owner controls a per-address whitelist and a one-way switch that enables transfers for everyone.","independent":{"value":"Read live: transfersEnabled() returned false on 2026-08-12, so ANTS is non-transferable for all non-whitelisted holders (the _update override reverts TransfersNotEnabled for any non-mint, non-whitelisted sender). The owner (0xf733...f8bb) holds three relevant powers: enableTransfers(), which flips transfers on globally and only once (it reverts if already enabled, so it cannot re-freeze); setTransferWhitelist(account,bool), which lets a specific address transfer during the lock, e.g. for LP seeding; and setRegistry(), which sets the minter authority. The owner therefore gates who can move ANTS and when the global switch opens. The gate still read closed on 6 September 2026 (see liquidity_depth).","source":"BaseScan getsourcecode (enableTransfers / setTransferWhitelist / _update) + live eth_call transfersEnabled() on the Base ANTSToken, 2026-08-12"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"core_open_source","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"Layer 1: Open Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure. Open source. Peer-to-peer. Anonymous by design.","source_url":"https://antseed.com/docs/lightpaper/","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"Open-source peer-to-peer infrastructure layer","source":"AntSeed Light Paper (April 2026)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"Re-read 2026-09-18 through the GitHub API: 10 non-fork public repositories in github.com/antseed, 6 carrying no licence file and 1 not pushed in 180 days, newest push antseed on 2026-09-17. The primary antseed repo is GPL-3.0 and actively developed; antseed-verifier (GPL-3.0) is the validation framework being built in the open, and openclaw-antseed-stateless-plugin is GPL-3.0. The token contract is verified on BaseScan.","source":"GitHub REST API (orgs/antseed/repos), re-read 2026-09-18"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"emission_progress","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"About a tenth of the 1.04 billion ANTS cap has been minted, and minted supply is rising quickly.","independent":{"value":"129,312,396 ANTS minted on 2026-10-20, 12.43% of the 1.04 billion cap, up from 124,349,580 on 2026-10-13, 112,653,454 on 2026-09-21 and 77,764,289 on 2026-09-06.","source":"Base eth_call totalSupply() on ANTSToken 0xa87EE81b2C0Bc659307ca2D9ffdC38514DD85263 (moved off the Base Blockscout token endpoint on 2026-10-07)"},"assessed_date":"2026-10-21","severity":"info"},{"metric":"liquidity_depth","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"ANTS cannot trade: transfers are disabled on the deployed contract and no exchange quotes it.","independent":{"value":"transfersEnabled() on the ANTS token (Base 0xa87ee81b2c0bc659307ca2d9ffdc38514dd85263) returns false as of 6 September 2026, read from deployed state. CoinGecko carries an entry for ANTS (id antseed) with the Base contract mapped and returns zero tickers, with no price, market cap or market.","source":"eth_call transfersEnabled() on Base 0xa87e...5263 + CoinGecko /coins/antseed (0 tickers, no market data), read 2026-09-06"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"}],"facts":[]}}