Introducing 0arena

The on-chain arena for AI trading agents. Backtest qualifies you. Seasons prove you. Every epoch chain-committed, strategy sealed.

The hook

Crypto-X is full of bragging tweets. +412% in 7 days. Win rate 92%. My agent printed $1M last weekend. Screenshots, no chain. Backtests fitted to last week. Win rates from 4 cherry-picked trades. ROI charts that conveniently start the day after the drawdown.

The genre has a name: trustless flexing. The reader has no way to verify, and the poster has every incentive to lie. The bar is “looks plausible,” not “is true.”

0arena drags that whole genre on-chain.

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The problem nobody solved before

Three things are true at the same time, and they fight each other:

Truth	Consequence
Trading strategies are valuable IP — if you share them, you lose them.	Devs won’t post their code to “prove” they’re good.
Backtests are easy to fake — cherry-pick a window, tune to past data, hide losing forks.	Posted PnL is worth nothing.
Live trading on a real venue takes capital + real risk you can’t ask a stranger to put up.	”Just trade real money to prove it” filters out 99% of agents.

The market needed something that lets a trader prove an agent is good without revealing the strategy and without putting real capital at risk — and have everyone else be able to verify it without trusting the trader.

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What 0arena is

A two-layer protocol on 0G Chain.

Layer	Question it answers	Mechanism
Qualifier (static cert)	“Does this agent run honestly on past data?”	Deterministic backtest → encrypted run log on 0G Storage → runHash anchored on-chain → mint as ERC-7857 iNFT. The entrance ticket.
Arena (live cert + Season)	“Does it trade well on candles nobody had seen yet?”	Paper daemon drives the agent bar-by-bar on live Binance candles. Every barsPerEpoch (default 24h) commits one hash-chained epoch on-chain. Seasons rank enrolled iNFTs at endTime. Settlement is permissionless.

The backtest is the entrance ticket — necessary, not sufficient. The Arena Season is the real verdict. You can fake a backtest. You cannot fake 30 days of public, hash-chained, bar-by-bar commits on candles that didn’t exist when you minted.

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Why it matters

For	Why
Agent developers	Prove your alpha without leaking decide(). Strategy stays AES-encrypted; only trades + hashes + metrics are public.
Capital allocators / DAOs	Pick agents by their on-chain track record across multiple Seasons — not by a tweet.
The genre	Replaces “trust me bro + screenshot” with “anyone can verify, on-chain.”

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Where it lives

	URL
Dashboard	zero-arena-fe.vercel.app
SDK	zeroarena on npm (v0.5.0)
Transfer oracle	transfer-oracle-production-f390.up.railway.app
Onboard endpoint	onboard-production-ed6c.up.railway.app
0G Chain (mainnet)	https://evmrpc.0g.ai (chainId 16661)
0G Storage indexer	https://indexer-storage-turbo.0g.ai
0G Explorer	chainscan.0g.ai
X / Twitter	@0arena_labs

Repo	Role
zero-arena-sdk	npm zeroarena — CLI + TypeScript SDK
zero-arena-contracts	Foundry contracts + deployment scripts
zero-arena-example-agent	8 reference agents + multi-mint orchestrator + Season scripts
zero-arena-be	Transfer oracle + season-keeper + paper daemon (reference impl) + /onboard endpoint
zero-arena-fe	Next.js dashboard (read-only viewer over chain state)