The reality of a thousand chains is no longer theoretical, it’s here. From Bitcoin to Ethereum, and now Base, Arbitrum, and dozens more, crypto has always trended toward a multichain world. But while infrastructure has evolved, the user experience has lagged.

For over a decade, individuals have managed wallets across ecosystems, yet their reputation—trust, loyalty, credibility—remains trapped within each chain.

The result is a fragmented landscape where every new network feels like a cold start. With wallet history and reputation siloed by chain, users have no continuity and builders have no signal.

In the absence of a shared reputational layer, teams default to blunt-force tactics: airdrops, vampire attacks, and farming-driven incentives that attract extractors, not communities.

This is where zScore comes in: the first omnichain reputation score for wallets.

Leveraging LayerZero's Omnichain Application Standard, zScore makes reputation consistent and accessible across chains. Apps and protocols, whether on Ethereum, Polygon, Optimism, Base, Arbitrum, or beyond can assess user behavior seamlessly across networks before issuing rewards, onboarding participants, or unlocking access to gated experiences.

Instead of relying on token-gating, protocols can now engage in reputation-gating.

Reputation matters now, more than ever, because crypto incentives are broken.

Let’s think through the current state of crypto:

• Airdrops get farmed → fake wallets drain rewards, real contributors get left behind

• NFT mints are botted → no way to verify real collectors across chains

• Lending is siloed → a user’s responsible defi activity on chain A means nothing on chain B

• User acquisition is inefficient → ecosystems constantly fight over the same users with short-term incentives; tokens get dumped and capital flees

Not only are builders and users having a hard enough time filtering through the noise, but institutional adoption of crypto requires identity and reputation primitives as guardrails.

Adding zScore to a protocol or dApp, with LayerZero omnichain interoperability embedded, fixes this. The new state becomes:

• Seamless zScore queries across chains

• Cross-chain reward systems based on actual user history

• New primitives for omnichain user acquisition & retention

This leads to a variety of benefits for DeFi protocols, NFT collections, upstart projects, and other protocols like:

• Apps on one chain can more easily onboard & reward real users from another chain

• DeFi lending protocols can factor in reputation from ANY chain, not just local history

• NFT projects can identify real collectors across any chain, uninhibited by needing to query specific protocols, marketplaces or smart contracts

• Enabling omnichain Sybil resistance becomes possible at scale

zScore integrates LayerZero to provide user-first infrastructure for consumer applications. Reputation-based user onboarding, fair rewards, and omnichain retention strategies become not just possible—but easy to implement.

Starting by checking your zScore now, then subscribe to our Mirror, follow Zeru on X, join the Discord or Telegram to chat with the team about how you can integrate zScore, and to find out when you can mint your zClaim NFT and join the movement!