{"schema_version":2,"updated":"2026-10-22T15:25:37.425Z","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higher than independent data shows","understated":"reported lower than independent data shows","outdated":"was accurate when reported; on-chain reality has since moved","established":"our own independent measurement; there is no project claim to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":"heurist","markdown":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/heurist.md","title":"Heurist","token":"HEU","category":"compute","freedomScore":3.5,"returnsScore":2.2,"freedomGrade":"F","returnsGrade":"F","url":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/heurist/","integrity":{"assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","last_assessed":"2026-09-24","emission_honesty":null,"reconciliations":[{"metric":"max_supply_hard_cap","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"The maximum supply is 1,000,000,000.","source_url":"https://docs.heurist.ai/protocol-overview/tokenomics","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"1,000,000,000 HEU maximum supply","source":"Heurist docs, Tokenomics","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"MAXIMUM_SUPPLY = 1_000_000_000e18 hard-coded in the verified HEU contract and enforced in mint() (reverts HEU__CanNotExceedMaximumSupply past the cap); on-chain totalSupply already equals 1B, so mint() can never emit another token. Contract is a plain OpenZeppelin ERC-20 + Ownable (not a proxy); owner() = the deployer EOA 0xfb93...cd33f, but its only live powers are mint (dead at cap) and transferOwnership. No pause, blacklist, fee, or upgrade functions exist; renounceOwnership() is overridden to revert (permanent but powerless owner).","source":"Etherscan-verified source + RPC totalSupply on the canonical Ethereum HEU ERC-20 (0xec463D00aa4dA76fb112cD2e4AC1C6BeF02da6ea), read via the coldstart evidence run 2026-08-10"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"core_open_source","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Heurist's agent and mesh tooling is public on GitHub, mostly under permissive licences, but the flagship agent framework carries a custom licence and the mining client has been frozen since February 2025.","independent":{"value":"Re-read 2026-09-18 through the GitHub API: 25 non-fork public repositories in github.com/heurist-network (35 public in total, 10 of them forks), 12 carrying no licence file and 18 not pushed in 180 days, newest push heurist-mesh-x402 on 2026-09-15. The count is stated on a non-fork basis, which is lower than the public total this row quoted before: counting forks credits a project for code it did not write. heurist-network org: 35 public repos, actively developed. Active components carry permissive licenses (heurist-mesh-mcp-server, heurist-finance, gpt-search-web, heurist-skills-cli MIT; x402 Apache-2.0); the flagship heurist-agent-framework (820 stars, last push 2026-07-26) carries a custom/unrecognised license. The miner-release GPU-mining client (72 stars) is public and not archived but frozen since 2025-02-26, ~1 month after mining was paused (Jan 2025).","source":"GitHub REST API (orgs/heurist-network/repos), re-read 2026-09-18"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"liquidity_depth","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"HEU liquidity is very thin: CoinGecko tracks only two tickers, with daily volume in the tens of dollars on each.","independent":{"value":"3 tickers on CoinGecko, re-read 2026-09-24 (2 on 2026-09-18, when volume was Uniswap V3 on Base $65 and Gate $45 a day).","source":"CoinGecko tickers + market_chart, read 2026-09-06 (paginated ticker set, 7-day turnover median)"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"high"},{"metric":"holder_concentration","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"HEU supply is highly concentrated: one multisig holds about two-thirds of it, and fewer than a hundred addresses hold the token at all.","independent":{"value":"The chain is considerably starker than the prose. A single SafeProxy holds 66.20% of supply, insider share of the top ten is 70.51%, raw top-10 concentration is 98.92% and the infra-excluded figure is 79.34%. The token has 82 holders in total. The second-largest position is a 19.30% bridge proxy, and a vesting contract holds 0.51%.","source":"Ethereum Blockscout token-holders index via scripts/refresh-holder-concentration.py, classified by coldstart.sources.holders, read 2026-09-06"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"high"},{"metric":"snapshot_governance_activity","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Heurist's public proposal register, the Snapshot space heurist.eth, is dormant and weighted by an NFT rather than HEU.","independent":{"value":"The space is real and it is finished. Eleven proposals, all between 5 March and 22 August 2024, 94 followers, and the voting strategy is erc721: votes were weighted by the Imaginaries NFT, not by HEU, which did not exist yet. The most consequential of them reallocated 1.75% of the governance token supply to NFT holders on 60 votes. Nothing has been posted in over two years. Read at the venue: the space's own declared website is https://heurist.ai, which is how it is bound to the project rather than by name.","source":"Snapshot Hub GraphQL (hub.snapshot.org/graphql), space heurist.eth, read 2026-09-06"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"token_control_surface","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"The HEU contract has a single-key owner, but its only live powers are a mint that is dead at the cap and the right to transfer ownership.","independent":{"value":"The contract answers owner() and the address behind it is an externally owned account (0xfb93...cd33f), so one private key holds whatever onlyOwner guards. The verified source, read on 2026-08-10 for the supply row, shows those powers are mint(), which reverts past the 1B cap that supply already equals, and transferOwnership; renounceOwnership() is overridden to revert. There is no pause, proxy, blacklist, fee or public freeze getter.","source":"Ethereum RPC control-surface probe on 0xec463D00aa4dA76fb112cD2e4AC1C6BeF02da6ea, via npm run discover:control-surface, read 2026-09-07"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"}],"facts":[{"metric":"inference_requests","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","kind":"measured","flag":"stale-cache","positive_control":false,"severity":"medium","detail":"The TGE figures are frozen: mining has been paused since January 2025, so the self-reported usage is stale and does not reflect current activity.","assessed_date":"2026-06-08"}]}}