Giza

Market position

Giza describes itself as providing autonomous financial intelligence for on-chain capital and, via its blog, frames its approach as a new paradigm of "Active Capital" and "Swarm Finance." It reported more than $1.5B moved by its agents in six months as of September 2025 and cited Re7 as the first institution deploying its agents at institutional scale. Earlier coverage placed it among firms applying zero-knowledge proofs to bring AI to smart contracts.

Giza positions its combination of self-custody with delegated execution — users keep ownership while agents act — and its emphasis on verifiable, auditable and explainable agent decisions as core distinctions. Its technical background in zero-knowledge/STARK-based proof systems underpins the claim that recommendations and actions can be cryptographically shown to come from a specified open-source algorithm.

Technology

Giza's current stack centers on agent smart accounts and a TypeScript SDK covering wallet connection, smart-account creation, agent activation/deactivation, top-ups, portfolio and performance queries, withdrawals and transaction history, plus an MCP server (SSE, OAuth, Redis-backed sessions, Vercel-deployable) that exposes these tools to AI assistants. Agents evaluate liquidity depth, yield curves and risk metrics across many pools and execute rebalancing autonomously. The company's proof-oriented work includes LuminAIR, a zkML framework using Circle STARK proofs to verify computational graphs; NumerAIR, a fixed-point arithmetic library for STWO-based programs; the archived Orion ONNX runtime in Cairo for verifiable ML inference using STARK; and a cryptographic system to prove that each recommendation was generated by an open-source algorithm. The original platform ran on StarkNet and supported TensorFlow, PyTorch and Scikit-Learn models with on-chain storage of model information and usage data.

Go-to-market

Giza reaches retail users directly through its website and agent creation flow, and reaches institutions and builders through partner API keys, an agent SDK, a hosted MCP server and a Claude Code plugin distributed via ClawHub and GitHub. Content marketing runs through the company blog, and community/incentive programs include a $GIZA airdrop, staking, governance and a Giza Rewards program on Base. An institutional deployment with Re7 was announced in May 2025.

Retail crypto users seeking automated yield on stablecoins and other assets from a self-custodial wallet; institutional DeFi allocators (e.g., Re7); and developers or partner platforms embedding Giza's agent SDK, MCP server or Claude Code skills to add yield management to their own products.

Geography

The company is incorporated as Gizatech AG. Domain registry coverage identifies Giza as a Spain-based customer, and its CEO organized Web3 events in Madrid and Barcelona; products are deployed across the Base, Arbitrum, Plasma and HyperEVM networks rather than in specific geographic markets.

History

Giza was founded in October 2022 by Cem Dagdelen, Fran Algaba and Renç Korzay, and initially built infrastructure for verifiable machine learning: a platform letting AI developers generate zero-knowledge proofs for models running off-chain, built on StarkNet atop Ethereum and supporting TensorFlow, PyTorch and Scikit-Learn. After a $3 million pre-seed announced in July 2023, the company said it planned to release its underlying infrastructure and fully launch the platform by the end of 2023. Its public repositories reflect that ZKML lineage (Orion, an ONNX runtime in Cairo, now archived; LuminAIR, a Circle STARK-based zkML framework; giza-cli and giza-agents). From late 2024 the company's published work shifted toward autonomous DeFi agents: posts on agent architecture (December 2024), Giza Protocol (March 2025), a $GIZA airdrop (May 2025), an institutional deployment with Re7 (May 2025), a tokenomics report (July 2025) and a claim of $1.5B in agent-moved volume (September 2025). In February 2026 Giza shipped a new agent and a "Giza World" migration.

Risks & controversies

The company's own disclosures state that yield is variable and not guaranteed and that DeFi carries smart-contract and protocol risks, advising users to review documentation, audits and local regulation before using Arma, and noting the material is not investment advice. Delegating execution to autonomous agents and reliance on third-party lending protocols are inherent to the model. Public traction figures on the live site displayed as zero at the time of collection, and the Base savings product remains unlaunched.