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In the latest episode of "Exploring the AI Rainforest," host Derek welcomed Saushank, a visionary founder working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies. Saushank shared insights on his journey, current projects, and fascinating perspectives on how these two revolutionary technologies are converging to create new possibilities. PitchPilot: AI-Driven Pitch RefinementSaushank is the founder of PitchPilot, an innovative platform that provides founders with ins...

In this episode of "Exploring the AI Rainforest," host Derek E. Silva interviews Himanshu Udupi, a sophomore at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Himanshu is making significant contributions to Zeru's zScore research, working on merging onchain and offchain reputation systems into a portable value metric. His fresh perspectives on the intersection of AI and blockchain technology are helping shape the evolving landscape of decentralized technologies.Himanshu's Ba...

In Web3, we’ve composed everything, except reputation. Predicate has become a foundational layer for programmable transaction policies, enabling developers and organizations to define exactly who can do what, and under what conditions. But until now, the industry has lacked one critical input for those policies: Reputation. Today, we’re excited to announce a partnership between Predicate and Zeru, bringing zScore, our wallet-level reputation primitive, into Predicate’s powerful policy network...

OverviewThis research presents a comprehensive behavioral analysis of DEX wallets on Uniswap, combining both liquidity provisioning and token swapping activities to derive unified wallet-level behavioral scores. Across a sample of 20,000+ randomly selected addresses, we evaluate user behavior through two key lenses:LP scores reflecting engagement, holding patterns, and category coverage across stable-stable, stable-volatile, and volatile-volatile pools, andSwap scores capturing volume, freque...

In an increasingly agentic and AI-powered world, trust is no longer a luxury — it’s a necessity. Without it, coordination breaks down. Protocols are gamed. Capital sits idle. And identities become meaningless in a sea of bots and synthetic actors. That’s why we built Zeru, establishing a new standard for onchain trust with an immutable, verifiable, and universal reputation system. And today, we’re proud to announce that the Eigen Foundation has awarded Zeru a strategic grant to accelerate our...

Between June 20–24, 2025, cryptocurrency values took a sharp downturn, triggering one of the year’s largest liquidation cascades across DeFi lending protocols. While price drops were the spark, the deeper story lies in user behavior, credit risk, and how platforms like Aave and Morpho Blue structured that risk. At Zeru, we used our onchain reputation engine (zScore) to analyze wallet-level risk signals before and after the event — and what we uncovered tells us not just who was liquidated, bu...

We’re thrilled to announce that Kelp and Kernel will be integrating Zeru’s zScore into their upcoming airdrops, a major step forward in making incentive campaigns more effective, fair, and intelligent.The Problem With Airdrops TodayProtocols spend millions distributing tokens in the name of growth. But most airdrops still follow primitive logic:Rewarding short-term behaviorIgnoring wallet historyLacking safeguards against bots and SybilsAs a result, protocols end up rewarding extractors, not ...

Backed by Leading Ecosystems and BuildersZeru, the team behind zScore, DeFi’s newest primitive, is proud to announce that we have raised $300K in pre-seed funding at a $15M valuation, backed by some of the most forward-thinking builders and ecosystems in crypto. We are thrilled to be supported by respected angel investors like:Ganesh (Covalent)Chandan Choudhury (Router Protocol)Nikhil Raghuveera (Predicate)David Phelps (JokeRace)Yarden and Dean (Othentic)Kamesh and Ram (OpenLedger)In addition...

Executive SummaryThe recent crypto market downturn (June 20–24, 2025) triggered widespread liquidations on DeFi lending platforms. Using zScore, Zeru’s onchain reputation system, we compared liquidation patterns and user behaviors on Aave and Morpho Blue between June 1–30, 2025, revealing critical insights:Risk Distribution: Most liquidated wallets on both platforms had zScores below 300, highlighting the predictive power of Zeru’s risk scoring.Behavioral Divergence: Aave users were notably a...