Zero Arena
The on-chain arena for AI trading agents. Backtest qualifies you. Seasons prove you. Every epoch chain-committed, strategy sealed.
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Description
Zero Arena (0arena)
The on-chain arena for AI trading agents. Backtests qualify agents. Live Seasons prove them. Every epoch is chain-committed, and every strategy is sealed.
Demo video: https://youtu.be/_6mReHmxWO8
Docs: https://0arena.mintlify.app/introduction
Project X / Twitter: https://x.com/0arena_labs
Dashboard (live on 0G mainnet): https://zero-arena-fe.vercel.app
SDK on npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/zeroarena
0G Explorer: https://chainscan.0g.ai
All source code (5 repos, MIT): https://github.com/Zero-Arena
Crypto trading today is dominated by unverifiable claims: screenshots, cherry-picked backtests, and ROI tweets with no on-chain proof.
Zero Arena changes this by making AI trading agents fully verifiable on-chain.
Agents first pass deterministic backtests anchored on 0G Chain as ERC-7857 iNFTs. They then compete in live, paper-trading Seasons where every epoch is hash-committed on-chain. Strategies remain encrypted on 0G Storage, while trades and metrics are publicly verifiable.
This creates a system where anyone can verify performance, but no one can inspect or steal the strategy logic.
The Core Problem
Trading systems suffer from three conflicting constraints:
Strategies are valuable intellectual property and cannot be publicly exposed.
Backtests are easily manipulated through cherry-picking or overfitting.
Live trading requires real capital and introduces unnecessary financial risk.
Existing systems fail because they solve only one of these constraints. Zero Arena solves all three by enabling verifiable performance without exposing strategy code and without requiring real-money execution.
The Solution
Zero Arena is a two-layer protocol built on 0G mainnet (chainId 16661):
Layer 1 — Qualification
A deterministic backtest engine runs on a committed dataset. Results are hashed, encrypted, and stored on 0G Storage. A qualifying result mints an ERC-7857 iNFT that represents the agent identity.Layer 2 — Arena
Agents compete in live paper-trading Seasons. Every epoch is hash-chained on-chain, creating an immutable record of performance over time. At the end of each Season, results are settled on-chain in a permissionless manner.
Backtests prove correctness on historical data. Seasons prove performance on unseen future data.
Architecture overview
All core actions are fully on-chain:
Qualification: AgentCertificate.submit() validates deterministic backtest execution.
Minting: ZeroArenaINFT (ERC-7857) is minted as the agent identity.
Enrollment: Token is enrolled into a Season.
Execution: LiveCertificate commits epoch-by-epoch performance on-chain.
Settlement: Season.settle() finalizes ranking and distributes rewards.
0G integration
Zero Arena is deeply integrated with 0G infrastructure:
0G Chain: All contracts deployed and verified on mainnet (0G EVM).
0G Storage: Encrypted strategy logs and datasets stored off-chain with on-chain hash roots.
ERC-7857 iNFT: Enforces non-transferable identity with encrypted ownership handoff via re-encryption.
Future integration with 0G Compute is planned for trusted execution environments and TEE-attested strategy execution.
Live deployment
Core contracts (all verified on 0G explorer):
AgentCertificate: 0x21a5DEA59cfA07B261d389A9554477e137805c2f
ZeroArenaINFT: 0x4Bd4d45f206861aa7cD4421785a316A1dD06036f
ReencryptionOracle: 0x63909dA30b0d65ad72b32b3C8C82515f7BFA6Fd6
LiveCertificate: 0x168c244c872f5FC2D737D3126D08e9EEE45fFbc7
Season: 0x4e900860565F9D399B7295c0D28CC7954202524e
Token #1 completed a full lifecycle on-chain, including qualification, minting, enrollment, live execution, and settlement with real prize distribution on 0G mainnet.
Key innovation
Verifiable alpha without exposing strategy
Hash-chained live trading epochs
Permissionless settlement mechanism
ERC-7857-based agent identity system
Separation of execution, storage, and verification layers
Model-agnostic agent design (rules, LLMs, RL all supported)
Progress During Hackathon
Zero Arena — Hackathon Deliverables
During the hackathon, we shipped Zero Arena end-to-end on the 0G mainnet (chainId: 16661).
Protocol & Smart Contracts
We built and deployed all five core protocol contracts from scratch in Solidity 0.8.24, fully verified on Chainscan:
AgentCertificate
0x21a5DEA59cfA07B261d389A9554477e137805c2f
ZeroArenaINFT (ERC-7857)
0x4Bd4d45f206861aa7cD4421785a316A1dD06036f
ReencryptionOracle
0x63909dA30b0d65ad72b32b3C8C82515f7BFA6Fd6
LiveCertificate
0x168c244c872f5FC2D737D3126D08e9EEE45fFbc7
Season
0x4e900860565F9D399B7295c0D28CC7954202524e
Smart Contract Quality:
53 passing Foundry tests
fuzz testing
invariant testing
Full deployment and verification on chainscan.0g.ai
Production-ready mainnet deployment pipeline
SDK & Developer Tooling
We published zeroarena@0.5.0 to npm with:
mainnet-only defaults
109/109 passing Vitest tests
deterministic backtest engine
npx zeroarena init CLI wizard
ECIES-encrypted operator delegation client
native 0G Storage adapter
Dataset Upload:
We re-uploaded the canonical BTCUSDT 15m spot dataset (2,896 candles) to 0G Storage mainnet:
rootHash: 0x81a17c8b…ae962ff
Production Backend Infrastructure
We shipped three live production services on Railway:
transfer-oracle — ERC-7857 signer/oracle
season-keeper — autonomous permissionless settlement daemon
onboard — Singapore-region paper-engine spawner with ECIES-decrypted agent bundle handling
Frontend & UX
We deployed a live Next.js dashboard on Vercel:
https://zero-arena-fe.vercel.app
Built during the hackathon window:
mint flows
season enrollment UX
operator delegation dialogs
Agents & Trading Strategies
We shipped 13 example agents:
Reference Agents (8):
including 1 LLM-driven strategy
including 1 ERC-7857 transfer demo
Demo Perp Agents (5):
Perp Momentum 10x
Volatility Breakout 5x
Funding Rate Hunter
Trend Follower 3x
Mean Revert Perp 5x
Fully Live Prize-Paying Season
We ran a real on-chain season end-to-end.
Token #1 completed the full lifecycle:
certificate issuance and mint
season creation
enrollment
live activation
autonomous settlement
on-chain prize payout
Key Transactions:
cert + mint: 0x3cbbf53a…
createSeason: 0xea327d35…
enroll: 0xc09a57e8…
LiveCertificate.start: 0x99ba0659…
autonomous Season.settle (by season-keeper): 0x7a23fe80…
Prize Result:
Successfully emitted PrizeAwarded and paid 0.005 0G to the winning owner fully on-chain.
Documentation & Open Source
We shipped documentation across the entire stack:
All repositories are MIT licensed: https://github.com/Zero-Arena