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Neural network zScore-N enhances wallet reputation scoring in DeFi

Researchers have developed zScore-N, a neural network designed to replace traditional hand-written formulas for scoring wallet reputation in decentralized finance. This new model, trained on over 5 million wallets, significantly improves accuracy and handles incomplete data more effectively than previous methods. zScore-N achieves a 0.58 RMSE on a 1000-point scale, outperforming gradient-boosted trees and linear regression, and demonstrates a marked reduction in error when features are missing. AI

IMPACT Improves accuracy and robustness of reputation scoring in DeFi, potentially impacting access to financial services.

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Neural network zScore-N enhances wallet reputation scoring in DeFi

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Girish G N, Ashutosh Sahoo, Akshay SP, Gurukiran S, Dhanashekar Kandaswamy ·

    zScore-N: A Neural Network for On-Chain Wallet Reputation Scoring

    arXiv:2609.08247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wallet reputation scores decide who receives an airdrop, who can borrow, and who enters an allowlist across decentralised finance. They almost always begin as hand-written formulas: compositions of clamped logarithmic, linear and sq…