{"schema_version":2,"updated":"2026-10-22T15:25:37.421Z","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higher than independent data shows","understated":"reported lower than independent data shows","outdated":"was accurate when reported; on-chain reality has since moved","established":"our own independent measurement; there is no project claim to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":"giza","markdown":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/giza.md","title":"Giza Review","token":"GIZA","category":"agent","freedomScore":4.2,"returnsScore":2.8,"freedomGrade":"D","returnsGrade":"F","url":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/giza/","integrity":{"assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","last_assessed":"2026-09-24","emission_honesty":null,"reconciliations":[{"metric":"aua","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"unverifiable","claim_holds_up":false,"claim":{"quote":"Since her deployment, ARMA saw incredible rates of adoption, reaching >$10M AUA (our version of AUM) and a whopping >$400M in volume at time of writing.","source_url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250729193213/https://www.gizatech.xyz/blog/giza-tokenomics-report","archive_url":null,"date":"2025-07-24"},"reported":{"value":">$10M assets under agency and >$400M volume for ARMA, July 2025","source":"Giza blog, Giza Tokenomics Report (24 July 2025)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"Unverifiable. DeFiLlama on-chain ~$14K residual (mostly HyperEVM; Base only ~$219)","source":"DeFiLlama giza adapter (api.llama.fi/protocol/giza) + adapter source review"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"high"},{"metric":"giza_staked","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"GIZA staking is live on Base, and the staked balance is shrinking.","independent":{"value":"38,410,539 GIZA staked in the Staker contract (Base), re-read 2026-09-18.","source":"Base RPC eth_call balanceOf(Staker 0xE576...) on the GIZA token 0x590830... (wired giza_staked data_source, auto-refresh)"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"token_control","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"In Phase 1, a Security Council maintains executive authority, while the community provides input through off-chain Snapshot votes and forum discussions, establishing a foundation of stability and responsiveness.","source_url":"https://docs.gizaprotocol.ai/governance/overview","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"Phase 1: a Security Council holds executive authority; community input through off-chain Snapshot votes","source":"Giza docs, Governance Overview","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"The GIZA token contract (GizaMainChain, 0x5908...7774) is Ownable by a 2-of-4 Gnosis Safe (0xa87d...6ae0; getThreshold 2, getOwners 4), with no timelock and no on-chain governance contract in the path. That is Stage G0 control, and it is what a Security Council with executive authority looks like in code. The owner's one privileged function, mint(uint256), is capped at the 1,000,000,000 maxSupply, which is already fully issued.","source":"Ethereum RPC eth_call: owner() on the GIZA token, getThreshold()/getOwners() on the owning Safe; Etherscan verified-source ABI (mint, Ownable), 2026-08-13"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"high"},{"metric":"supply_cap_enforcement","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"The total fixed supply of GIZA tokens is allocated across several key stakeholder groups and strategic allocations","source_url":"https://docs.gizaprotocol.ai/token/distribution","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"GIZA has a fixed total supply","source":"Giza docs, Token Distribution Overview","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"maxSupply is a contract constant of 1,000,000,000 GIZA, and mint(uint256) reverts if totalSupply plus the amount would exceed it. totalSupply() reads exactly 1,000,000,000, so no further GIZA can be minted on Ethereum.","source":"Blockscout verified source of GizaMainChain (0x5908...7774) + Ethereum RPC totalSupply(), 2026-09-23"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"holder_concentration","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Once the LayerZero bridge adapter and other infrastructure are excluded, GIZA's top ten holders hold a modest share, but the holder base is thin.","independent":{"value":"The raw top-10 number is alarming and the real one is not. Top-10 holders control 97.72% of supply, but 88.53% of that is a single LayerZero OFT adapter (the bridge lock holding supply that circulates on other chains) and the labelled infrastructure share is 88.89%. Excluding infrastructure, the top 10 hold 8.92% across 2,186 holders, with the largest non-infra holder being the team Safe at 8.49%.","source":"Blockscout labelled top-holder read (coldstart holders source) + Ethereum RPC, 2026-08-13"},"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":"Giza's code is public on GitHub, but development has stalled: no repository has been pushed since 23 March 2026.","independent":{"value":"Re-read 2026-09-18 through the GitHub API: 28 non-fork public repositories in github.com/gizatechxyz (32 public in total, 4 of them forks), 19 carrying no licence file and 27 not pushed in 180 days. The newest push is giza-hub on 2026-03-23; LuminAIR (the proving library, 57 stars) and giza-token last moved in September 2025. The token contract source is verified on Etherscan.","source":"GitHub REST API (orgs/gizatechxyz/repos), re-read 2026-09-18"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"protocol_revenue","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"outdated","claim_holds_up":false,"claim":{"quote":"Every uptick in the AUA feeds fee flows back to the treasury, closing the loop between fundamentals and token value.","source_url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250729193213/https://www.gizatech.xyz/blog/giza-tokenomics-report","archive_url":null,"date":"2025-07-24"},"reported":{"value":"Agent activity feeds fee flows back to the treasury","source":"Giza blog, Giza Tokenomics Report (24 July 2025)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"The fee mechanism has stopped producing. Re-read 2026-09-18: $127,490 all-time protocol revenue, $56,685 in the trailing year, and zero across the trailing 30 days, 7 days and 24 hours. The mechanism ran and has gone quiet. The trailing year still carries revenue earned before it stopped, which is why the annual figure alone reads healthier than the position is.","source":"DeFiLlama open-source on-chain dimension adapter (giza)"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"liquidity_depth","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"GIZA liquidity is very thin: no centralised listing remains and CoinGecko no longer tracks a market for it.","independent":{"value":"1 ticker on CoinGecko, re-read 2026-10-20 (2 on 2026-10-07, 0 on 2026-09-29, 1 on 2026-09-24): an Aerodrome Slipstream pool on Base, with negligible 24h volume; the Uniswap V3 (Base) pool no longer lists. No centralised exchange quotes GIZA.","source":"CoinGecko tickers (paginated) + turnover from src/data/turnover.json, read 2026-09-06"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"high"},{"metric":"token_control_surface","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"The GIZA token has no pause function and no proxy, so transfers cannot be halted and its logic cannot be replaced; a 2-of-4 Safe owns it, and its mint is capped at the supply already issued.","independent":{"value":"GIZA is owned by a 2-of-4 Safe. Its only privileged function, mint, is capped in code at the 1,000,000,000 maxSupply, which is fully issued. There is no pause function and no proxy, so the logic cannot be replaced and transfers cannot be halted.","source":"Ethereum RPC control-surface probe on 0x590830dfdf9a3f68afcdde2694773debdf267774, via npm run discover:control-surface, read 2026-09-07"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"}],"facts":[{"metric":"agentic_volume","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","kind":"limit","flag":"unmeasurable","positive_control":false,"severity":"high","detail":"UPDATED 2026-06-25: ARMA and Pulse were retired (announced 26 Feb 2026, migration deadline 26 Mar 2026) and user funds returned; the successor unified agent (Giza World) has no verifiable current AUA. DeFiLlama on-chain TVL has collapsed to ~$14K (mostly residual; the adapter's account-feed endpoints api.arma.xyz/api.gizatech.xyz now 404/301, so even that is an undercount). The homepage ~$19.48M AUA is a static Framer counter and the Giza World app replays a frozen snapshot dated 2026-03-23; both are stale/self-reported. Cumulative 'agentic volume' and agent counts remain off-chain and unverifiable.","assessed_date":"2026-06-25"}]}}