As AI technology accelerates its penetration into the financial sector, AI Agents are becoming an important direction for digital finance innovation. Recently, the Ziying Protocol announced the official opening of its AI Agent-powered quant trading for live trading to DeFi. Over the past four years, in live verification, the monthlyized returns have remained consistently in the range of 15%–30%+, with a maximum drawdown not exceeding 12%, and a Sharpe ratio greater than 2.5. We hope to explore the greatest value that AI + quantitative trading can create for investors by combining AI decision-making, smart contracts, and on-chain transparency mechanisms.
Three major bottlenecks in the market: trust, security, and accessibility for all.
The trust dilemma: Does an AI Agent’s quantitative capability truly come from real strength, or is it a “black-box magic” act? Some projects in the market use AI as a gimmick; their technical strength is significantly inflated. AI technology is difficult to be implemented in reality, and investors find it hard to tell what’s genuine and what’s not.
Security concerns: under models such as staking mining and asset custody, investors’ top concerns always include fund safety, smart contract safety, and the platform’s operational sustainability. Rug-pull failures and explosions happen frequently; the whereabouts of funds are opaque; users’ principal safety is not guaranteed at all. The “turn savings into losses” drama keeps playing out.
Hard to achieve broad adoption: Traditional quant trading generally has high participation thresholds and strong professional requirements, making it difficult for ordinary users to truly share the digital finance benefits brought by AI technology.
How to strike a balance between trust-building, asset security, and low-threshold participation is becoming the core question that the AI digital finance industry urgently needs to solve.
AI-driven solutions of Zhiying Protocol
Solving investors’ trust issues: Zhiying Protocol uses four years of live order execution for technology validation. All trading signals and profit distribution can be checked on-chain. Four years of live trading stress tests have packaged the AI trading capability of 15%–30%+ monthly returns into a custody service and deployed it on-chain. Investors can verify Zhiying Protocol’s live trading records and evidence, proving that Zhiying Protocol’s AI agent quant trading technology is trustworthy.
Use five layers of risk control to solidify the security baseline: user custody principal is stored in a 3/5 multisig wallet, and the AI trading account has trading permissions only—no withdrawal permissions—eliminating the risk of fund misappropriation by mechanism. A daily drawdown of 5% triggers a circuit breaker to stop opening new positions; the risk insurance vault serves as a backstop for extreme market conditions. Combined with black-swan emergency response plans and on-chain reserve proofs, this builds a five-layer protection system: fund isolation, circuit breaker mechanisms, insurance backstops, emergency mechanisms, and on-chain verification.
A dual-track model enables broad-based participation: through a “zero-cost initial-miner-machine offering + staking to unlock custody/half-custody trading” dual-track design, users across different capital levels can participate—registering gives you a level-0 miner machine at zero cost to get started, and staking unlocks AI full-custody/half-custody trading services. Break the traditional barrier of starting with millions in investment, so ordinary users can also share the era’s benefits of AI quant trading.
Introduction to the Zhiying Protocol project
Zhiying Protocol (ZY Protocol) was established in 2021. Its headquarters is in Kuala Lumpur, a federal territory in Malaysia. It is a decentralized financial infrastructure service provider that integrates AI artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and traditional financial trading. The company’s core business focus is international FX and digital finance. It is currently fully entering the AI agent quant trading field, with the Asia-Pacific region as its core strategic market.
Our mission is simple—to make AI quant trading capability that has been validated through live trading available to every ordinary user in a decentralized way.
ZYT is the native protocol token of Zhiying Protocol (ZY Protocol). Total supply: 10 billion ZYT. Initial benchmark price: 0.13 USDC.
Zhiying Protocol’s value ecosystem
Zhiying Protocol builds a dual-value system for ZYT to safeguard investors’ returns. First, it uses an AI agent quant trading economic model to establish a complete closed loop: “AI burning Token → miner mining → staking to unlock custody → AAI real trading → service fee buyback and burn → token single-direction upward.” Users get a zero-cost initial miner machine when registering to start a new miner campaign. By staking 3,000 ZYT, users can unlock AI full-custody/half-custody trading services, and receive USDC收益 (daily settlement) every day.
Second, based on the same AI foundational architecture, build an AI real-person short drama content ecosystem. Real application scenarios determine a project’s long-term investment value. Zhiying Protocol not only developed an AI + MT5 + AIONEXON FX quant trading system, but also built, on top of an AI technology foundation, an AI real-person short drama content industry ecosystem covering end-to-end capabilities across scripts, casting/selection, filming, production, and distribution. Users are not only investors, but also content consumers and co-creators—expanding the project from a single financial trading product to a short drama market at the trillion-scale, increasing token demand, strengthening community stickiness, and also feeding back into AI R&D. This enables a brand crossover from DeFi to a global content-ecosystem user base, achieving the production of 300 high-quality AI short drama products per year.
Zhiying Protocol will integrate value with the short drama ecosystem. Users can use ZYT to invest in short drama projects and receive USDC returns based on click/share ratios. Watching short dramas and completing interactions (likes, comments, shares) earns ZYT rewards. Users can use ZYT to trade IP-derived NFTs. Advertising revenue generated by short dramas will be used to buy back ZYT.
Zhiying Protocol creates demand for ZYT while also suppressing ZYT issuance inflation. By using real application scenarios to break the industry’s narrative of fabricated value, users not only gain stable returns from ZYT AI quant trading, but can also participate in the globally popular AI real-person short drama sector and enjoy global liquidity benefits.
ZYT single-direction upward engine
Total ZYT issuance: 10 billion tokens, with an initial benchmark price of 0.13 USDC. It increases daily with a rigid rise of ≥0.1%.
ZYT distribution and release mechanism:
40% for miner mining; approximately 4 billion tokens with an output linear release over about 5 years;
Liquidity injection reward: 15%. Release upon injection of 1.5 billion; linear release over 30 days;
Team and development: 10%; 1 billion locked for 2 years; then linear release over the next 24 months;
Liquidity pool: 15%; TGE release at 1.5 billion (15%); the remaining amount is locked for 3 months and then released linearly over 6 months;
Ecosystem promotion (including team rewards): 20%, with 2 billion smart contracts distributed daily.
ZYT buyback, burn, and backstop mechanism:
5% of the total daily custody service fees and a 10% fee collected when users withdraw/swap ZYT, as a source of funds for buybacks;
Buy back ZYT at market price and burn it;
If the service fee on a given day is 0, buybacks are still performed using withdrawal fees, with the liquidity reserve pool serving as a backstop.
Zhiying Protocol’s sustainable development plan
Phase 1 (2026): Deep expansion of AI trading
Based on existing FX quant models, expand to more trading instruments and strategy combinations to increase the protocol-layer capital capacity limit. Meanwhile, continuously improve the AI short drama content ecosystem to achieve a content production target of 300 short dramas per year, building a complete closed loop for entertainment content investing, watch-and-earn mining, and NFT trading.
Phase 2 (2027): AI + full-domain finance expansion
Expand from AI + FX to diverse financial scenarios such as AI + perpetual contracts, AI + prediction markets, and AI + stablecoin lending, building the protocol layer into infrastructure capable of supporting multiple types of AI trading strategies. AI agents will evolve from a single FX trading executor into an autonomous decision-making system covering multiple markets and strategies.
Stage 3 (2028 and beyond): DAO governance and ecosystem self-administration
Protocol governance power is gradually handed over to the community. ZYT holders participate in key decisions such as protocol upgrades, strategy whitelisting, and parameter adjustments. Zhiying Protocol will transition into a decentralized autonomous organization driven by the community, realizing the true meaning of “code is law, and the community is the主体 (the real decision-maker).”
Long-term vision: build a globally leading decentralized AI trading service protocol layer.
Driven by the infinite expansion of superior strategies, it deeply integrates multiple scenarios such as AI + perpetual contracts, AI + prediction markets, and AI + content creation to achieve continuous evolution of stable returns and scalable growth. This allows every user to share the era’s benefits of AI quant trading with extremely low thresholds.
Team strength of Zhiying Protocol
The company is led by CEO Lorne. McCalllen, President for the Asia-Pacific region, is fully responsible for business expansion and operational management across Asia-Pacific. The team is distributed across Singapore, Hong Kong, and North America.
Zhiying Protocol invites developers worldwide, community leaders, and every user to join in this great AI digital experiment together.