{"schema_version":2,"updated":"2026-11-14T16:38:39.603Z","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higher than independent data shows","understated":"reported lower than independent data shows","outdated":"was accurate when reported; on-chain reality has since moved","established":"our own independent measurement; there is no project claim to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":3.4,"freedomGrade":"F","returnsGrade":"F","url":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/zetachain/","integrity":{"assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","last_assessed":"2026-11-04","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":"Your memory is encrypted in transit and at rest, and an encrypted backup is held on Anuma servers (you can turn backups off in Settings). It is not end-to-end encrypted, so Anuma and its service providers may access it for operation, safety, and legal compliance.","source_url":"https://www.anuma.ai/faq","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"Memory encrypted in transit and at rest, encrypted backup on Anuma servers, not end-to-end; accessible to Anuma and its providers","source":"Anuma FAQ, 'Is my memory private?' (anuma.ai/faq)","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":"39 bonded validators of a 75 maximum, 338.4M ZETA bonded (21.1% of supply); top-5 = 60.3%, top-10 = 85.9%, Nakamoto (halt) 3 on 2026-11-14, down from 44 validators, 455.1M bonded and Nakamoto 4 on 2026-09-21; 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; count, stake and slashing params re-read on zetachain-api.polkachu.com and zetachain.blockpi.network 2026-11-14 (src/data/validator-sets.json networks.zetachain)"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"tss_custody_wind_down","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"outdated","claim_holds_up":false,"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 (re-read 2026-10-31). The TSS Ethereum address 0x70e967acFcC17c3941E87562161406d41676FD83 sent 90.8647 ETH on 2026-10-15 (tx 0x6436094d…7678363, nonce 79,220) to the externally owned address 0x0a538985123729f48D70DBCaE82a7f47f1CbA8f8, after two 0.01 ETH sends to it on 2026-10-05 (nonces 79,218 and 79,219); the TSS now holds 0.000016 ETH and the receiver 90.88 ETH with no outgoing transactions. The TSS Bitcoin address bc1qm24wp577nk8aacckv8np465z3dvmu7ry45el6y still holds 1.772 BTC (last spend 2026-10-06, a dust output). 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); the capped test sends followed by a full transfer match the sequence it describes. On 2026-09-21 the TSS held 90.88 ETH and 1.772 BTC and the Ethereum ERC20 custody held 63,643 USDT and 36,240 USDC.","source":"LCD observer/crosschain_flags and get_tss_address/8332; Ethereum RPC balance and nonce; eth.blockscout.com address transactions; mempool.space; github.com/zeta-chain/node docs/rfc/002_tss_emergency_drain.md and releases, 2026-10-31"},"assessed_date":"2026-10-31","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"},{"metric":"liquidity_depth","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"ZETA trades on four of the five tier-1 venues with no Binance spot pair, and a long tail of smaller exchanges carries most of the volume.","independent":{"value":"42 market pairs, down from 49 on 2026-09-21. Tier-1 spot venues with a live pair: Bybit, Coinbase, Kraken and OKX; Binance has none. The five largest venues by 24h volume are LBank $1.33M, Hotcoin $404K, WhiteBIT $302K, BitDelta $256K and Bybit $221K, against $3.46M of all-venue 24h volume (5.7% of market cap).","source":"CoinGecko tickers (paginated, 1 page) read 2026-11-04 13:31 UTC via refresh:primary; CoinGecko /coins/markets 24h volume read 2026-11-04 13:38 UTC"},"assessed_date":"2026-11-04","severity":"info"},{"metric":"open_source_footprint","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"ZetaChain's node and EVM protocol contracts are public and MIT-licensed, with daily development; the Anuma client and backend are not public.","independent":{"value":"zeta-chain/node: MIT licence (copyright Meta Protocol, Inc.), not archived, 202 stars, 333 open issues, last push 2026-11-04. zeta-chain/protocol-contracts-evm: MIT, not archived, last push 2026-11-03. The zeta-chain organisation holds 76 public repositories.","source":"GitHub API, zeta-chain/node and zeta-chain/protocol-contracts-evm, read 2026-11-04"},"assessed_date":"2026-11-04","severity":"info"},{"metric":"holder_concentration","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Native ZETA is held by 5.59 million accounts, but ten accounts outside the chain's own modules hold 43% of supply and the largest holds 13.8%.","independent":{"value":"5,587,877 accounts hold a native ZETA balance, every one enumerated, and their balances sum exactly to the 1,709,178,808 ZETA bank supply. Chain modules hold 514.2M (30.1%), led by bonded_tokens_pool at 380.0M, so staked ZETA sits there rather than with its delegators. The ten largest non-module accounts hold 736.9M, 43.1% of supply and 61.7% of everything outside the modules; the largest, zeta13ld529ngvuwsg4letfvzeg66v9d9agc6slula8, holds 236.4M (13.8%). None of the large accounts carries a public label, so this measures concentration, not who the insiders are.","source":"cosmos/bank/v1beta1/denom_owners/azeta enumerated in full (559 pages of 10,000) against cosmos/bank/v1beta1/supply/by_denom, module addresses from cosmos/auth/v1beta1/module_accounts, all via zetachain-mainnet-api.itrocket.net, read 2026-11-04"},"assessed_date":"2026-11-04","severity":"low"}],"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"}]}}