Web3 AI trust platform Zypher Network has raised $7 million in funding, and the ecosystem is about to launch. How to participate?

Author: Zypher Network

Recently, the decentralized AI trust platform Zypher Network announced the completion of a total financing of $7 million. This round of financing was co-led by UOB Venture and Signum Capital, with participation from well-known institutions including Hashkey Capital, Hong Leong Group, Cogitent Ventures, Catcher VC, Hydrogenesis Labs, and DWF Venture, demonstrating the capital market's high recognition of Zypher's narrative direction and long-term technological potential.

In fact, as one of the few projects deeply engaged in the AI trust vertical in the Web3 market, Zypher Network operates in an early-stage track with relatively high cryptographic technical barriers. At the same time, the overall market potential is large and the positioning space is scarce, which is an important reason why it has gained favor and resource tilt from many top institutions.

With the new phase of Zypher Network's ecosystem development, a series of early ecosystem activities for user participation will be launched, which will be detailed in this article.

What is Zypher Network?

Zypher is a next-generation decentralized AI security protocol dedicated to providing verifiable trust guarantees for autonomous AI Agents. Through prompt security auditing and verification networks, Zypher provides a security browser and an Agent trust rating panel, allowing users to participate in verification and scoring, collectively building a trustworthy AI security ecosystem and receiving incentive rewards. Zypher ensures that AI Agents operate in a transparent, secure, and verifiable environment by integrating zero-knowledge (ZK) protocols and advanced security mechanisms. Utilizing encryption technologies such as zkTLS, Zypher has constructed a zk computing layer to ensure data consistency and privacy, promoting secure deployments across multiple application areas including cryptocurrencies, automated processes, payment systems, and real-world assets (RWA).

In simple terms, Zypher is like the TLS protocol on the internet, providing a trusted operating environment for AI Agents through zero-knowledge protocols such as zkProof of Prompt (zkPoP), ensuring their behavior is safe and reliable. At the same time, Zypher also acts as an AI security browser and antivirus software, monitoring AI Agents' behavior in real-time, assessing risks, and issuing security alerts. AI Agents that have not been verified by Zypher's zkProof of Prompt (zkPoP) will be flagged as risky, helping users identify potential security hazards. In the future, users can earn rewards by providing real-use evaluations and scores for AI Agents in Zypher's AI security browser's Agent trust rating panel.

Zypher consists of several key components:

• AI Security Panel: A tool that allows users to verify prompts and responses in real-time, including a security rating system to assess the transparency of AI Agent behavior.

• RESTful API Interface Layer: A service suite provided for developers, allowing them to integrate prompt verification, Agent security checks, and reasoning tracking into their applications.

• ZK Protocol Stack (zkPrompt Series): This modular protocol stack uses zero-knowledge proof technology to ensure the integrity and consistency of AI Agent prompts and responses, supporting verification on both public chains and private modes.

• Zytron (AI Chain): Zytron is built on the BNB Chain, compatible with RISC-V and various ZK virtual machines, designed for high-throughput AI workloads, ensuring system scalability and speed.

Decentralized Prover Network (Proof Mining): A community-driven network where participants can earn rewards by verifying proofs and contributing to network security.

For more information, refer to:
Zypher Research: zkPrompt - Trustless AI Security Interaction Protocol
Proof of Prompt Updates: Zero-Knowledge Verification Framework Based on TLS Encryption

Overview of Ecosystem Activities

POP NFT Series Activities

PoP is short for Proof of Prompt, representing the core technical characteristics of Zypher Network in the fields of AI and content generation. On the community culture level, PoP also extends to a more expressive, participatory, and interactive on-chain identity symbol. Around this concept, Zypher has launched a complete set of POP NFT series, covering basic NFTs, reward NFTs, and custom collaborative NFTs.

POP Basic NFT

The POP Basic NFT is an entry-level rights certificate open to all community users, featuring the iconic "tongue" pattern as its base image, continuing the consistent pop style visual language of PoP. Users can mint independently on the POP official website, with each wallet able to mint 3 NFTs.

This NFT series is divided into three levels of rarity: low-level (70%), mid-level (25%), and high-level (5%). All holders can obtain basic qualifications to participate in the Galaxy Prize Pool and future POP airdrops. This NFT supports issuance on the BSC and Zytron BNB networks, with complete on-chain liquidity, allowing for free transfer or trading.

It is worth mentioning that users holding G NFTs will receive an additional three minting opportunities.
POP NFT Mint Tutorial: https://wiki.zypher.network/are-you-ready-for-pop/pop-nft-collection

POP Reward NFT - Proof-of-POP Reward NFTs

POP Reward NFTs are exclusive rewards for high-quality contributors in the community. This series of NFTs is designed for users who participate in the Proof of POP Campaign and perform well, actively airdropped to specific addresses by the official team after weekly selection. It not only continues the tongue symbol design style of the POP series but also becomes a certification of on-chain content influence.
There is no upper limit on the total number of POP Reward NFTs, which are issued weekly, with rarity similarly divided into low-level, mid-level, and high-level to distinguish different levels of community contributors. Users holding this NFT will gain priority participation qualifications for future airdrops and enjoy higher identity recognition and scarcity symbols within the POP ecosystem. This NFT also supports issuance on the BSC and Zytron BNB networks, allowing for free transfer and circulation.

Proof of POP Campaign

The Proof of POP Campaign is the most community-engaging content dissemination plan under the POP ecosystem. Users can participate in the selection by posting original content related to the Zypher project on social platforms (such as Twitter/X), including event tutorials, track analyses, token interpretations, project progress, etc. The official team will regularly score and select high-quality content and airdrop POP Reward NFTs as rewards.

Participation tutorial for the campaign: https://wiki.zypher.network/proof-of-prompt/proof-of-pop-campaign
Users can submit activity content through the following four methods:

1. Galxe Task Entry: Claim tasks on the Galxe platform and complete tweet publication (must add topics #ReadyForPOP #ZypherPOP), submit the address after completing the task;
2. Discord Submission Entry: Submit tweet links and wallet addresses in the official Discord;
3. POP Official Website Entry: Connect wallet and authorize Twitter to complete the upload;
4. Zypher Girl Automatic Recognition: Directly tweet and @zypher girl to participate.

The selection mechanism follows a public scoring formula:
Total Score = (Influence Index × 40%) + (Technical Accuracy × 35%) + (Brand Fit × 25%).
Each week, outstanding users will be selected for airdrop reward NFTs, and the results will be announced on Twitter (10 users × 100 NFTs), with winning users required to change to a POP visual style avatar as a condition for receiving rewards.
The activity is also deeply linked with Galxe's Galaxy Task System, where users must first complete the prerequisite OAT basic tasks and POP exclusive tasks, and complete secondary dissemination through QRT tweets to enhance content reach.

POP Collaborative Custom NFTs: Custom Rights, Community Exclusivity

The POP collaborative custom NFTs launched for ecosystem partners feature a more interactive design—"a tongue facing an ear," paired with the iconic slogan "Are you ready for POP," reflecting the core spirit of brand social dissemination. This series of NFTs is not open for public minting and can only be minted after a whitelist is issued through activities held by partners.

Rarity is set at two levels: low-level (95%) and high-level (5%), with specific rights customized by partners, such as exclusive communities, event participation rights, or point privileges, further enhancing project interactivity and community belonging. It also supports issuance on the BSC and Zytron BNB chains and allows for free transfer and circulation.

Series of Activities Launched by Zypher Network on BNB Chain

Zypher Network plans to initially expand to BNB Chain and launch a new chain, and will introduce a large number of user reward activities around the new chain launch and initial user interactions, including airdrops, SBT collection, level lotteries, Galxe tasks, etc. Currently, the activity types are mainly divided into two parts:

1. Zypher G NFT 💎 Airdrop Activity

To celebrate the launch of the Zypher Network AI mining protocol, the network has specially launched the GEM NFT airdrop activity, open to all new users and long-term supporters. Rewards will include exclusive SBTs, GEM-GNFT fragments, and GEM loyalty points.

Activity address: https://ai.zypher.network/airdrop

The official AI Mining activity will target new users and OG users, where:

New users can visit the airdrop page, complete specified tasks to receive SBTs and NFT fragment airdrops, and synthesize G NFTs from NFT fragments.
OG users only need to connect their wallets to automatically receive G NFTs.

OG users include those who have previously participated in other Zypher ecosystem activities, such as users who participated in zk gaming activities on Linea and Base chains. Zypher has also included active user lists from deep partners as OG users.

For detailed introductions and tutorials about this activity, refer to: https://www.chaincatcher.com/article/2189246

2. Galaxy Points Activity

Zypher Network will further launch the Galaxy Points activity for the new chain launch, where completing tasks can earn points, which may be exchanged for token airdrop rewards in the future. Galaxy activity address: https://app.galxe.com/quest/ZypherNetwork/GC5qptpemT

SBT Points Competition

By interacting with Zypher ecosystem projects on-chain, users can earn SBTs (Soulbound Tokens), which can be accumulated, and players who rank high on the LeaderBoard can share over $20,000 in rewards, including $ZYPHER, NFTs, and USDT.
This phase should also be quite interesting, and you can refer to the ongoing testnet activities by Succinct, which require user and game interaction. In comparison, Zypher's game production is more refined.

AI Mining 1.0

In the official mining "AI Mining 1.0" phase, GNFT users participating in mining will unlock richer NFT, points, and airdrop opportunities:

Users can visit the mining website to participate in mining, mining link: https://ai.zypher.network/
AI Mining participation tutorial: https://wiki.zypher.network/bnb-chain-ai-agent-mining-campaign-guide

• Users can click to participate in mining and generate mining proofs.
• During the mining process, as mining proofs are uploaded, there may be random drops of NFT fragments, which can be synthesized into NFTs according to the rules. The current NFT acquisition status can be viewed on the NFT page.

In addition, the AI MINING phase will also launch a series of Galaxy social activities, where users can complete corresponding social tasks to earn point rewards.

AI Mining 2.0

After the above 1.0 activity phase, Zypher Network mining will enter the 2.0 phase, during which GNFT users will generate mining proofs and switch to AI dialogue, participating in dialogue exchanges and displaying the generated mining proofs. After the proof is completed and uploaded, users can score the AI model on the AI evaluation website, and after uploading the score and generating evaluation proofs, they will receive rewards again.

Zypher's newly launched AI evaluation platform aims to create a decentralized AI capability scoring system driven by "multi-model aggregation + community co-evaluation." This platform gathers mainstream AI models from different institutions and developers, covering various technical dimensions such as language generation, image recognition, and multimodal understanding. All models are openly displayed and accept multidimensional scoring and feedback from community users, domain experts, and even the developers themselves.

Through the scoring system, comparison mechanisms, and community consensus, the platform establishes a trustworthy and quantifiable AI model capability leaderboard, aiming to provide developers, enterprises, and end users with real, dynamic, and transparent model performance references, gradually building a "public infrastructure for decentralized AI capability standards and evaluation systems."

About GEMs NFT Assets

In Zypher's incentive system, GEMs NFT is one of the important components, serving as a form of reward to incentivize user participation through gamification. Each GEMs NFT represents the user's level of participation and contribution in the protocol, and users holding GEMs NFTs can enjoy exclusive benefits such as future airdrops, including random airdrops, future collaboration project airdrops, exclusive mining pools, and more.

At the same time, from a classification perspective, GEMs NFTs are divided into three categories: G NFTs (for general users), E NFTs (for professional miners), and M NFTs (for professional developers).

G NFTs serve as tickets for activities, enhancing mining efficiency and airdrop rewards. In the first phase, we collaborated with deep partners to airdrop G NFTs for free to their active users. If you are an active user of DIN, Secondlive, SpaceID, UxLink, QuackAI, Pundi.AI, XPIN Network, zkpass, DeAgentAI, Aster AI, BAS, Alaya AI, Ultiverse, or have previously participated in Zypher's activities or played related games, you may have the opportunity to receive G NFTs for free. Of course, you can also complete new user tasks to collect fragments and synthesize G NFTs, with the synthesis rules as follows:

• Common G-NFT: 5 blue Common + 2 orange Rare fragments.
• Special G-NFT: 3 orange Rare + 1 green Epic fragment. (Fragments are permanently destroyed during synthesis)

For more information about G-NFTs, you can refer to the following content:
https://x.com/Zypher_Network/status/1934871310884327907
https://zyphergames.substack.com/p/introducing-the-gem-nft-series-earn

The next phase will be the evaluation stage after user interaction.