Introduction

SHADE on Base

A privacy-preserving AI agent for token discovery on Base. Real-time launch intelligence delivered through a four-primitive privacy stack — without exposing your wallet, queries, or trade attribution.

Real-Time Launch Intelligence

Every new token on Clanker, Flaunch, Bankr, and Zora scored within 200ms p95 against on-chain and social signals. No human can read 500 launches a day; SHADE does it for you.

Privacy by Construction

Four production-grade primitives: Semaphore zk-membership, XMTP encrypted delivery, Phala TEE inference, and Railgun shielded execution. Identity, queries, and trade attribution stay private.

Honest Scope

SHADE hides only what can honestly be hidden on a public chain. No misleading claims of fully private on-chain trades — the threat model and cryptographic assumptions are stated, not glossed over.

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Overview

Why SHADE

The Base ecosystem is the dominant venue for permissionless token issuance in crypto. Clanker alone has processed more than $7B in cumulative trading volume; hundreds of new tokens deploy every day across Clanker, Flaunch, Bankr, and Zora. Two problems remain unsolved: no human can read 500 launches per day, and every existing AI agent on Base operates as a public surveillance layer.

SHADE is a single product that addresses both. It scores every Base launch in real time and delivers the result through a privacy stack that hides who the user is, what they research, and where their trades come from — while remaining honest that on-chain trades themselves cannot be hidden on a public chain.

Problem

Signal overload, public surveillance

A retail trader monitoring Farcaster, X, and three launchpad feeds simultaneously sees a new candidate token roughly every two to three minutes during peak hours. Each candidate requires liquidity, holder, dev-wallet, bytecode, and social-context diligence. In aggregate this work is impossible for an unaided human — the trader either skips diligence and gets rugged, or skips opportunities and watches others print.

Meanwhile, every Base AI agent in production today exposes user data by design. Bankr logs every wallet that tags it. Aixbt links every call-follower to their on-chain trade. Clanker bots tag deploys to Farcaster IDs permanently. Generic alpha groups gate access via wallet verification, exposing every member's address.

Solution

A four-primitive privacy stack

SHADE composes four production-ready primitives, each addressing a different leak point in the agent pipeline:

Semaphore (BN254): zero-knowledge proofs of $SHADE token ownership for anonymous subscription gating.
XMTP (X3DH + Double Ratchet): end-to-end encrypted signal delivery with forward secrecy and post-compromise security.
Phala TEE (SGX / SEV-SNP): trusted-execution-environment AI inference with remote attestation — queries never leave the enclave in plaintext.
Railgun: shielded UTXOs over Base for trade-attribution unlinkability via a dedicated privacy pool.

Honest Scope

What SHADE hides — and what it doesn't

SHADE is explicit about what is and isn't hideable on a public chain. The protocol intentionally hides only what can honestly be hidden, while leaving on-chain settlement public.

Hidden: user identity at the application layer (Semaphore-gated subscription).
Hidden: research queries and their results (TEE inference).
Hidden: the link between user identity and executed trades (Railgun routing).
Not hidden: the trades themselves — Base is a public chain.
Not hidden: aggregate timing patterns of message bursts (mitigated by cover traffic; not eliminated).

Resource

Whitepaper

The full whitepaper details the threat model, cryptographic assumptions, scoring methodology, and tokenomics. It is the canonical reference for the protocol's adversarial guarantees and parameter choices.