ZeruAI x Florentines
**__Overview of Zeru__**
ZeruAI builds trust-oracle infrastructure for wallet-based economies. Its core primitive, zScore, converts long-term wallet behavior into context-specific trust, risk, and contribution signals using native wallet-behavior pipelines and neural-network models with published, peer-reviewable research behind its adversarial-robustness claims. The same wallet gets different scores depending on whether the decision is about credit, liquidity durability, or launch access, unlike one-size-fits-all reputation systems. ZeruAI aims to become the default behavior-oracle infrastructure layer used whenever capital, rewards, access, credit, or risk limits are allocated to wallets in identity-optional economies.
__**Zerus Collection**__
- **Supply**: 3333
- **Price**: Freemint
- **Chain**: Robinhood
- **Launch Platform**: Opensea
__**Utilities**__
- Free Hall of Fame Entry - No need to pay the $7 Z Score NFT mint fee to access the airdrop from the Zaps Hall of Fame leaderboard
- Zaps Multiplier - Increased zaps earning on trading activity, which directly increases airdrop amounts (higher zaps = higher airdrop allocation)
- Free Campaign Participation Tickets - Free entry to approximately 4-5 partner campaigns (normally requiring zaps to be burned for entry)
- Token-Bound Account with Royalty Distribution - Royalties from OpenSea secondary sales are funneled back to holders via token-bound accounts (ERC-6551)
- Acts as Z Score NFT Equivalent - Functions the same as a Z Score NFT for hall of fame access and leaderboard ranking purposes
**__Platform Stats__**
- 320M+ wallets scored
- 1M+ API calls served
- 185 DAU, 4,750 MAU
- Live explorer integrations: Etherscan, Basescan, Arbiscan, Hyperevm Scan, Celoscan
- Paying protocol customers: GAIB, Citrea, Unlloo, Bion Protocol, ChangeNOW, Upscale
- zScore calculations are verified and backed by a crypto-economic security of over $1B on EigenLayer
**__Products**
- zScore: behavioral trust, risk, and contribution scoring for any wallet across incentives, liquidity, trading, launches, credit, and screening
- Zaps: capital allocation application built on ZeruAI, enabling protocols to allocate rewards, access, liquidity incentives, and launch participation based on wallet behavior
Wallet behavior APIs: life-to-date behavior filtering and screening of wallets for AML, credit, underwriting, incentive allocation etc for enterprises. zDrop, zLend, zScreen.
- zDrop: airdrop and incentive allocation API
- zLend: behavioral credit and underwriting API for lending protocols
- zScreen: wallet screening and counterparty risk API for payments, OTC, and compliance-adjacent workflow.
**__Fundraisings__**
- Total Raised: $7.5M
- FDV: $100M
- Token: $ZERU, chain agnostic, core protocol smart contracts on Base and Ethereum
- TGE: 3rd or 4th week of October
- Pre-sale: TGE minus 2 weeks
- Launchpads in discussion: Fjord, Legion, Kommunitas, Cakepad
- CEXs in discussion: Binance, OKX, Bitget
- Target CEXs: Binance, OKX, Upbit, Coinbase, Bybit, Bitget
- Market maker: sorted, retainer model
**__Team__**
- Ashutosh Sahoo, Founder and CEO: ex-J&J, Hewlett-Packard, Trump, Sobha Realty; academician at S P Jain Global School of Management
- Ajay Bhat, COO: two decades of Indian Army leadership in cryptography and electronic warfare, ex-Router Protocol Head of BD
- Akshay S P and Gurukiran S: Founding Engineers
- Girish: AI Engineer
- Zuzanna and Keval: Growth and Marketing
- Team previously worked on Polytrade, Reef Protocol, Router Protocol, Uniqly
**__Notable Partners and Backerss__**
- EigenLayer: live AVS, Eigen Foundation grant recipient; Sreeram Kannan (Founder) publicly posted about ZeruAI
- Ethereum Foundation: follows ZeruAI; Tomasz K. Stanczak (Co-Executive Director) publicly posted about Zeru
- Aave: Stani Kulechov personally reviewed Zeru's lending ML model
- Etherscan: zScore natively integrated, giving passive distribution to every user checking a wallet address
- Base, EigenCloud, Celo, Stellar (Builder's Program), Arbitrum, RobinHood: ecosystem projects
- GAIB case study: 56% sybil cut vs baseline, 49% quality wallet gain, 50% sell pressure reduction
**__Official Links__**
- Website: https://zaps.wtf/
- Telegram: t.me/zerufinancediscussions
- Twitter/X: x.com/zerufinance
