Emre Yumlu 
Trusta.AI (TA) is an innovative platform that integrates artificial intelligence (AI) and the crypto ecosystem to provide a secure and seamless digital experience. With the philosophy of “more trust, less friction,” it creates a reliable identity network for both human users and AI agents. This network accumulates data, reputation, and credit, aiming to establish a universal credit infrastructure for all intelligences. Trusta.AI seeks to adapt to the needs of the AI era through a decentralized identity system.
What is Trusta.AI? What Does It Offer?
Artificial intelligence is evolving through two main trends:
Scaling Laws: Larger AI models offer higher intelligence. For example, OpenAI’s o1 model, launched in September 2024, demonstrates PhD-level intelligence, achieving an 83% success rate in the International Math Olympiad qualifiers.
Domain-Specific AI Agents: Autonomous AI agents are designed to solve specific tasks. Systems like ElizaOS integrate AI with Web3 applications, enabling developers to create AI agents easily.
AI Identity Awakening
Unlike human intelligence, AI systems lack identity recognition. Currently, AI identities are artificially assigned by humans (e.g., prompting an AI as an “expert writer”). Trusta.AI believes in the AI Identity Awakening, where every intelligent entity (human or AI) develops an identity through self-recognition and community validation. This makes Web3 transactions more efficient and secure.
Trusta.AI’s Efforts
Trusta.AI, the largest Identity and On-Chain Reputation Protocol, offers three main products:
- Trustgo: Evaluates on-chain value with the MEDIA score.
- Trustscan: Uses AI and knowledge graphs to prevent Sybil attacks.
- Trusta Agent: Generates verification credentials for humans and AI agents.
Trusta.AI provides Sybil resistance and airdrop consulting for projects like Celestia, Starknet, and Arbitrum. It collaborates with Binance, Galxe, and Gitcoin Passport, and is the leading Proof-of-Humanity (POH) provider on Linea. It has issued over 2.5 million on-chain verifications for 1.5 million users, ranking first on Linea and BSC, third on Scroll, and second on TON Chain. It has a total of 3 million users: 1.8 million wallet addresses, 700,000 web accounts, and 500,000 Telegram users. Monthly active users range from 300,000 to 500,000, with over 700,000 Twitter followers. The team consists of Fintech and Web3 experts; its co-founders held significant roles at Alipay and won championships at Gitcoin and TON hackathons.
The Role of AI Agents in the Crypto World
AI agents will dominate the crypto space for four reasons:
- Evolving Infrastructure: AI agent frameworks and crypto tools reduce creation barriers. At least five on-chain AI agents per user are expected.
- Alignment with Crypto: AI agents’ simple, reliable, and secure structures are ideal for crypto’s trustless environments.
- Transforming Human Interaction: AI agents shift from the cumbersome “Connect Wallet” method to intent-driven interactions, e.g., “I want over 4% APY on my USDC assets.”
- Value Capture: AI-driven applications attract attention and gain value through tokenization.
Challenges and Solutions
Challenge 1: Distinguishing Humans, Sybils, and AI Agents
Sybil accounts manipulate airdrops with fake identities. Trusta.AI’s Proof-of-Humanity (POH) separates humans from Sybils, but in the AI era, AI agents also deserve rewards. The solution is to detect Sybils while assigning legitimate identities to humans and AI agents.
Challenge 2: Lack of Verifiable Identity Layer
Trusta.AI’s Trusta Attestation Service (TAS) offers an open and verifiable identity layer, supporting document, biometric, and AI-based verifications. Users can verify once and use their identity across platforms.
Challenge 3: Reputation and Credit Evaluation
The MEDIA Score assesses on-chain engagement across five dimensions (Monetary, Engagement, Diversity, Identity, Age), helping users understand their accounts and enabling projects to target contributors.
Challenge 4: Decentralization
Decentralized identity enhances trust and transparency. Trusta.AI uses the $TA token to incentivize participation and eliminate single points of failure.
From Proof-of-Humanity to Proof-of-Intelligence
Sybil attacks threaten Web3 airdrop integrity. Trusta’s two-stage AI-ML framework:
- Stage 1: Analyzes Asset Transfer Graphs (ATGs) using Louvain and K-Core algorithms to identify Sybil clusters.
- Stage 2: Uses K-means to examine behavioral similarities, filtering false positives.
The Test-of-Humanity (TOH) verifies identities in the TON ecosystem with personalized questions. For example, Catizen players easily answer $CATI airdrop questions, while bots struggle. The system is simple, secure, and privacy-preserving.
Trusta Attestation Service (TAS)
TAS operates as a public attestation registry on the blockchain, enabling issuers to provide Media Reputation or POH attestations for Solana accounts. Applications include:
- Sybil Resistance: Combines methods to prevent fraud.
- Reputation Scores: Supports undercollateralized lending markets.
- User Profiles: Enhances dApp discovery through recommendation engines.
MEDIA Score
The MEDIA Score (0–100) measures on-chain user value across five dimensions:
- Monetary (25 points): Account balance, interaction volume.
- Engagement (30 points): Active days/weeks/months, interaction duration.
- Diversity (15 points): Variety of contracts/protocols.
- Identity (10 points): NFT ownership, major airdrops, ENS.
- Age (20 points): Time since first bridge/interaction.
The score is calculated using a normalized sigmoid function, with weighted sub-scores scaled to 0–100.
Use Cases
- AI Agent Fair Launch: Proof-of-Humanity prevents bot and Sybil manipulation, ensuring fair participation.
- AI Agent Airdrop: AI agents earn airdrops based on data-driven contributions.
- AI Agent Payments: AI agents access payment services based on credit evaluations.
- Crypto + AI Lending: Reputation scores enable undercollateralized lending markets.
- Crypto + AI Social Connections: AI agents engage in social protocols, fostering human-AI networks.
Roadmap
- 2025 Q1: Integrate AI agents with systems like ElizaOS, issue initial AI identities.
- 2025 Q2–Q3: Launch smart identity service, issue 1 million AI agent identities, develop credit-backed lending.
- 2025 Q4: Launch Crypto+AI reputation mainnet, establish open identity network, expand token use.
Trusta.AI (TA) Tokenomics
The $TA token powers the identity network:
- Distribution:
- Community: 25%
- Foundation: 20%
- Team: 18%
- Marketing: 13%
- Seed Investment: 9%
- Liquidity: 5%
- Strategic Investment: 4%
- Airdrop: 3%
- Advisors: 3%
Trusta.AI (TA) Investors
Trusta.AI is backed by leading investors, including SevenX Ventures, Vision Capital, Redpoint, SNZ, Hashkey Capital, Consensys, Solana, Starknet, GSR, Uxlink, and goplus.
Trusta.AI (TA) Team
The Trusta.AI team consists of experienced leaders:
- Peet Chen, Co-Founder and CEO
- Simon, Co-Founder and CTO
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