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Zeva

Zeva is an intelligent agentic system that manages your wealth on Arbitrum. We wanted to make DeFi as easy as sending a DM. With Zeva, you don't need to be a crypto expert to earn yield. You just tell Zeva what you want to do, and it executes the strategy for you. It’s secured by ZK-Email and your phone's biometrics, so you get the ease of a bank with the security of a hardware wallet.

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Tech Stack

Solidity
React
Next
Web3
Node

Description

Meet Zeva.

Every developer/newbie in crypto knows the 'Wallet Dance.'

You find a promising new protocol. You click 'Connect.' Suddenly, you're hit with a list of 12 random words you have to write on a physical piece of paper. If you don't, you're 'doing it wrong.' If you lose that paper, your life savings are gone.

Then comes the gas. You want to try a pool on Arbitrum, but you realize your ETH is on the wrong chain. So you bridge. You wait. You pay a fee just to pay a fee. By the time you’ve actually deposited your first $50, you’ve clicked 'Confirm' six times and spent twenty minutes squinting at hex data.

To a crypto native, this is 'self-custody.' To the rest of the world, this is a barrier.

We built Zeva to kill the Wallet Dance."

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Adaptive Identity (Google to Safe)

Zeva removes the friction between Web2 identities and Web3 sovereignty. By using a deterministic salt derived from a verified Google or Email session, Zeva instantly predicts and deploys a Gnosis Safe v1.4.1 Vault for the user.

This is not a "shadow wallet" or a custodial account. It is a full-featured, on-chain Smart Account that replaces the complexity of seed phrases with the familiarity of a one-tap login.

The Identity Bridge

Biometric Command: FaceID/TouchId(or any device supported biometrics) as a Hardware Wallet

Passwords and seed phrases are replaced by the Secure Enclave. Through Passkeys (WebAuthn), Zeva turns your mobile device or laptop into a biometric hardware wallet. Every DeFi operation is authorized with a glance or a touch-hardware-grade security delivered with consumer-grade ease.

The Sovereign Brain (Intent Orchestration)

Zeva shifts the paradigm from manual transaction management to Declarative DeFi. Instead of navigating complex UIs to execute a multi-step strategy, you express your goal in natural language. Zeva’s orchestration layer parses your intent, researches the ecosystem, and constructs the optimal execution path in real-time.

It is the difference between telling a GPS your destination and trying to steer a ship by manually adjusting every valve. Zeva doesn't just provide information, it prepares the action.


The Intent Lifecycle

The Unholy Trinity (ZK-Email Safety Net)

Self-custody is only as strong as its weakest link. For most wallets, that link is a piece of paper with 12 words. Zeva replaces this fragile recovery path with ZK-Email. By using Zero-Knowledge proofs, users can recover their high-security vaults by simply sending a verified email—maintaining 100% sovereignty without relying on a central authority.


The Recovery Lifecycle

Code Deep Dive: On-Chain Verification

The heart of our recovery system is the ZkEmailValidator. It ensures that the vault only executes a recovery if the email proof is cryptographically valid and the DKIM signature originates from the user's expected domain.

Proactive Wealth (The Agentic Shift)

Standard wallets are passive; they sit idle until you provide a command. Zeva is proactive. It functions as a partner that monitors your portfolio and the Arbitrum ecosystem simultaneously. By analyzing your idle balances against live on-chain opportunities, Zeva identifies yield gaps and market trends before you even have to ask.

This is the shift from Passive Storage to Active Growth. Zeva doesn't just hold your assets; it ensures they are working for you.


The Proactive Insight Loop

Institutional-Grade Intelligence

Behind every suggestion is the Neural Research Layer. Zeva performs deep scans of Arbitrum liquidity and lending pool stability using the Korv SDK. It doesn't just hunt for the highest APR; it filters for the most sustainable strategies based on real-time market depth. This turns hours of manual DeFi research into a single, actionable insight delivered directly to your chat.

The Technical Dossier (Master Architecture)

Zeva’s architecture is designed for redundancy, sovereignty, and sub-second performance. We bridge the gap between high-scale cloud infrastructure and the Arbitrum blockchain using a multi-layered approach.


1. Full-Stack System Architecture

A comprehensive map of the interaction between the User hardware, Cloud orchestrator, and the Arbitrum network.

2. The Intent Sequence (Atomic Execution)

The lifecycle of a transaction from natural language input to confirmed on-chain state change.

3. The Identity Stack

Mapping Web2 identities to deterministic, multi-signature Smart Accounts.

Why Arbitrum?

Zeva is built on Arbitrum because high-frequency agentic finance requires more than just low fees, it requires determinism and depth.

For an AI Wealth Agent to provide real-time suggestions and sub-second execution, the underlying network must mirror that speed. Arbitrum’s sub-second block times and massive liquidity across protocols like GMX and Uniswap provide the perfect "nervous system" for Zeva’s brain. We chose Arbitrum not just for its scalability, but because it is the only ecosystem where a sovereign agent can move at the speed of human thought.

Why Zeva Wins

Zeva is not just another wrapper for a wallet; it is a fundamental redesign of how humans interact with value on-chain. Here is why Zeva is the winning agentic layer for the Arbitrum ecosystem:

  • Sovereignty without the Struggle: Most "easy" onboarding solutions are custodial (they hold your keys). Zeva is 100% Non-Custodial. We use the "Unholy Trinity" of Safe + Passkeys + ZK-Email to give you the UX of a neobank with the security of a private bank.

  • Actions, Not just Answers: Most AI agents are chatbots that give you advice. Zeva is an Active Orchestrator. It doesn't just tell you about a yield opportunity; it prepares the strategy, calculates the slippage via the Korv SDK, and executes it atomically.

  • The End of "Gas Anxiety": New users fail at the "Gas Barrier." Zeva eliminates this. By leveraging Pimlico’s Paymaster infrastructure on Arbitrum, every interaction is gasless for the user. You don't needs to "bridge for gas" before you can start earning.

  • Invisible Cryptography: We've hidden the "scary parts" of crypto behind biometric scans and email recovery. We use ZK-Email to provide a decentralized "Forgot Password" feature, something that was previously impossible in a truly sovereign wallet.

What’s Next for Zeva

  • Mainnet Launch: Transition from Sepolia to Arbitrum One for live production deployment.

  • Advanced Orchestration: Recurring strategies including Smart DCA and automated portfolio rebalancing.

  • Native Mobile App: Dedicated iOS/Android versions for high-touch biometric security.

  • Social Vaults: Shared agentic strategies and multi-user sovereign accounts.

  • Deep DeFi Integration: Native connectivity with Pendle, GMX v2, and Arbitrum blue-chips.

  • Predictive Research: AI-driven market forecasting to suggest higher-alpha yield strategies.

Progress During Hackathon

During this buildathon, we successfully developed and deployed a multi-layered agentic infrastructure that bridges the gap between Web2 familiarity and Web3 sovereignty. We built a Neural Intent Orchestrator powered by Groq and Llama 3 that translates human goals into atomic on-chain operations via our custom Korv DeFi SDK. To solve the onboarding crisis, we implemented the Identity Bridge, which leverages Google OAuth and biometric Passkeys (WebAuthn) to turn mobile devices into secure, non-custodial hardware wallets. On the security front, we deployed ZK-Email recovery contracts on Arbitrum Sepolia, providing users with a decentralized "forgot password" safety net through Groth16 proofs. Finally, we integrated Safe v1.4.1 with Pimlico’s Paymaster to enable a completely gasless experience, while launching an autonomous research service that proactively surfaces yield opportunities, moving the user experience from passive storage to active, intelligent wealth management.

Fundraising Status

Zeva is currently in a pre-seed, early-stage development phase, having been bootstrapped and incubated natively within this buildathon. We have not raised any external institutional capital or private funding to date. Our focus remains on finalizing the core agentic infrastructure and security primitives on Arbitrum.
Team Leader
SSeun Victor
Project Link
Sector
InfraDeFiAI