Is there a ZeruAI airdrop?
None confirmed. ZeruAI has announced a token, and its docs say "$ZERU is the network token", but details are held back until later: "Detailed token utility, economics and launch parameters will be published through official Zeru channels closer to TGE." There is no launch date, contract or allocation.
The docs also don't link zaps to $ZERU. They say: "A campaign is the one place zaps convert into a token." They go on: "Everywhere else in Zaps a zap is standing." Those campaign tokens belong to sponsors. The only conversion wording we found is an older line in the zPass docs, "ZERU points (to be converted at TGE)", from the earlier yield-vault product. Posts elsewhere that promise an allocation for zaps had no official source we could find.
Warning Don't farm zaps expecting a set reward. ZeruAI itself wrote about points programs "with no guarantee the conversion will be worth your time or capital".
What ZeruAI is
The company describes itself this way: "ZeruAI is a trust oracle for onchain finance." It announced its new name in February 2026: "Zeru Finance is now ZeruAI." Its main product is zScore, a wallet score from 0 to 1,000 based on past behaviour. Businesses buy the same data to screen wallets and filter airdrops.
Zaps is the consumer app, and "Zaps is run by ZeruAI." It went public on 25 February 2026 and now has leaderboards, clans and sponsor campaigns. The newest part is Activity Markets, which issue meme coins called zTokens. The docs say "zTokens are not live yet."
How ZeruAI zaps work
Zaps come from three places. First is a welcome grant: "Zaps reads what your wallets have already done and gives you a welcome grant of zaps and a Trader Score." After that you earn from trading and from referrals, where the app offers this: "Earn 10% of what each friend earns for 28 days."
The formula changed on 14 October 2026: "Your lifetime trading history now counts, not just activity since joining Zaps." The same post added a penalty: "Prolonged periods of inactivity or sybil acts can now slash Zaps".
Real money comes only from sponsor campaigns, and these were the live items on 2 November 2026:
- Aspen trading competition: "$50,000 pool. 1,000 spots. 6 weeks. Oct 15 - Nov 25, 2026." The app page says it ends earlier, "from October 15 to November 17, 2026". Plan for 17 November. You must "Trade at least $10,000 in volume to win a prize", and "All $50,000 unlocks at $15M of total volume." First place gets $6,000 if the whole pool unlocks.
- Ditto trading competition: "The Ditto Trading Competition has ended, and rewards are now claimable." It paid the top 600 from a $50,000 pool. No Ditto deadline is stated, but the docs' standard is: "The claim window is 30 days. Anything unclaimed returns to the sponsor." That would mean about 2 December.
- zETH Activity Market: a new meme coin earned through Ethereum activity. The page showed 484 registered and a live race on 2 November. A seat isn't a free token, and zTokens are bought at auction.
ZeruAI airdrop step-by-step guide
There is no confirmed airdrop. These steps get you zaps and into a sponsor campaign.
- Open app.zaps.markets and paste a wallet address to preview it. You don't need to sign in for this.
Warning ZeruAI uses many domains, including zeruai.org, zaps.markets and zaps.market, which makes fake sites easier to pass off. The docs say: "Verify the destination before connecting a wallet."
- Sign in with X or a wallet: "You can start with a wallet and add X later." With wallet-only sign-in, that wallet becomes your public identity, so X is the more private choice.
- Link your other wallets: "Link up to 10 wallets by signing a message that costs nothing." Never enter a seed phrase.
- To enter a campaign, open it in Zaps, press Join or Register, and trade only through the link Zaps gives you. For Aspen you also need an Aspen account and a deposit: "Deposit funds into your Aspen account and run your strategy live."
- For zETH, register at zaps.markets/markets and mint a zScore: "You need a minted zScore to win a seat." Then "do the market's activity for real: pay fees, pay interest, supply capital."
- After a campaign settles, claim from your Zaps profile: "Your reward is claimed, not sent, and you pay the gas for your own claim."
Open ZapsOpens app.zaps.markets
ZeruAI costs and fees
"Joining Zaps costs nothing." The free route earns only standing, though. Winning money takes capital: Aspen needs a deposit and $10,000 of volume, and trading losses and fees are yours. A clan member also gives up part of any prize: "If you're in a clan, 5% of your prize goes to your clan leader."
The zScore mint is optional for normal use. In February 2026 ZeruAI said "Minting costs just $6.70 on Ethereum or Base." plus gas, and we couldn't confirm today's fee. zTokens cost your own money at auction.
ZeruAI risks and eligibility
- We couldn't read the terms. The Zeru page showed only "Loading Terms of Service...", and the terms and privacy links in the docs led to a 404 page. So we can't tell you the excluded countries, age limit or VPN rules.
- Prize pools can shrink: "The pool size is never a guaranteed payout." Your share also falls as others join: "Your share is a fraction, and it shrinks as more people join." The first campaign paid a test token: "AEROSTRAT, the reward token used here, has no value."
- zTokens are meme coins: "Like any meme, its price is set by the people who trade it."
- Aspen places trades for you from posted calls, using money held on Aspen. We didn't review Aspen's terms, and its promotional graphic shows a large return figure that you shouldn't take as a forecast.
- Official pages disagree. Besides the Aspen dates, the docs name zETH as the first market, while zeruai.org says "First market zBASE: a market mined by Base".
- Season 1 paid referrers 1 USDC when a referred user made the paid zScore mint, so treat referral links for that mint as paid promotion.
- User numbers come from ZeruAI and aren't independently checked. We found no audit report.
Who is behind ZeruAI?
The project names "ZeruAI's founder and CEO @Ashutosh_Sahoo", and Ashutosh Sahoo is also a co-author of its ZAPs research paper. The Zaps site says it is "operated by Zeru Technologies Holdings Inc." without giving a country. Official pages don't name investors or amounts, and we could read its X posts only from 5 October to 2 November 2026, so an older post could change the airdrop picture.
Sources
- Zaps FAQ Zaps docs
- Campaigns Zaps docs
- $ZERU token Zaps docs
- Account Zaps docs
- Market lifecycle Zaps docs
- Activity Markets Zaps
- Aspen campaign Zaps
- ZeruAI llms.txt ZeruAI
- Zaps overview ZeruAI
- ZeruAI whitepaper ZeruAI
- Introducing ZeruAI ZeruAI blog,
- Zaps is live ZeruAI blog,
- The first Zaps campaign on Aerodrome ZeruAI blog
- Season 1 referral rewards ZeruAI blog
- zPass docs ZeruAI
- Terms of Service Zeru
- Aspen competition article ZeruAI on X
- Zaps formula update ZeruAI on X,
- Ditto rewards claimable ZeruAI on X,
- Founder and CEO post ZeruAI on X
This guide explains how the program works. It isn't financial advice, and no airdrop is guaranteed. Check ZeruAI's official channels before you connect a wallet or deposit funds.
