About SybilShield

Open-methodology Sybil detection for token distributions.

Why we built this

Every airdrop in 2023-2025 was extracted by farmers running thousands of wallets. Projects either overspend on detection ($150K consulting) or underspend and lose 20-40% of their distribution. The tooling gap is real: Trusta is Ethereum-focused and black-box, Nansen is too expensive and not airdrop-specific, custom Dune analyses take weeks.

We're building the "credit-scoring layer for token distributions" — an evidence-based, auditable, open-methodology service that any project can plug into their TGE flow.

Team Beta

Solo founder + open-source contributors. Funded contributors named here as they join.

Founder · Eng

—

Background in on-chain analytics and ML. DM on Telegram or open a GitHub issue to chat.

Open seat · Data

—

Coming after first grant. Curating labelled corpus + adversarial red-team.

How we sustain

Public-good tier — free single-address scoring API, free CSV export of public retros (aggregate only).
Paid tier — hosted analyses, dedicated SLA, custom models, on-call support.
Grants — applying to Ethereum Foundation ESP, Arbitrum DAO, Octant, Optimism RetroPGF for the public-good components.
No token — we have no plans to launch a token. Anyone claiming "$SHIELD" is a scam.

Legal posture

Pre-incorporation. Will register a Delaware C-corp (Stripe Atlas) after first grant lands. Until then we accept crypto via NowPayments and operate as a public-beta indie project. Customers using SybilShield scores in any public filter list are contractually required to provide an appeal flow.