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An audit read the code and found the proposal that specifies it. Not one ZIP
earns a shipped verdict in any runtime, and the reason is uniform: every
primitive the corpus specifies — ML-DSA, ML-KEM, SLH-DSA, Corona, Pulsar, FHE,
the DEX VM — is reached by a blank import of luxfi/precompile, and no
repository carries a replace directive. The specification is Zoo's; the code
is Lux's.
| | shipped | partial | none | not assessed |
| Go | 0 | 10 | 4 | 132 |
| C++ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146 |
| Rust | 0 | 1 | 0 | 145 |
Two findings behind those numbers. The most substantial original systems code
in the estate is a two-thousand-line Rust Kubernetes operator with four
working custom resources, and no ZIP specifies it. And chains/zoo-evm
registers pulsar where node/vm/factory.go does not, so the binary an operator
actually runs lacks the primitive ZIP-0811's finality is built on.
ZIP-0803 is Final with nothing found in Go and is left unwritten rather than
demoted.
Co-authored-by: Hanzo Dev <[email protected]>
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Zoo Improvement Proposals (ZIPs)
Zoo Improvement Proposals (ZIPs) are the primary mechanism for proposing new features, gathering community input, and documenting design decisions for the Zoo ecosystem. This process ensures that changes to the Zoo platform are transparently reviewed and achieve community consensus before implementation.
Mission: Democratizing AI Through Decentralization
Zoo Labs Foundation (501c3 non-profit) is building a decentralized network to democratize access to AI through:
- Decentralized AI Training: Distributed compute marketplace enabling anyone to contribute GPU resources for training frontier AI models
- Open Source Frontier AI: Zen model family - ultra-efficient LLMs from 600M to 480B parameters, co-developed with Hanzo AI Inc (Techstars '17)
- Collective Intelligence: Byzantine-robust coordination enabling multiple AI agents to learn and adapt together (Decentralized Semantic Optimization)
- Verifiable AI Compute: Proof of AI (PoAI) consensus mechanism ensuring quality and authenticity of AI inference and training work
- Fair Distribution: Historic October 2021 genesis with 100% airdrop to CryptoZoo community - no presale, no VC allocation
Website: zoo.ngo | AI Chat: ai.zoo.ngo | Training Library: gym.zoo.ngo Blockchain: zoo.network | Models: zenlm.ai | Papers: github.com/zooai/papers
What is a ZIP?
A Zoo Improvement Proposal (ZIP) is a design document that provides information to the Zoo community about a proposed change to the system. ZIPs serve as the formal pathway to introduce improvements and build agreement on their adoption. They are used for:
- Proposing new DeFi protocols and NFT standards
- Defining AI-powered gaming mechanics
- Collecting community input on metaverse features
- Documenting design decisions for DAO governance
Quick Start
- 📖 New to ZIPs? Begin with ZIP-0, which provides an overview of the Zoo ecosystem
- 🚀 Create a new ZIP: Use the provided template to scaffold a proposal draft
- 📋 View all ZIPs: the ZIP Index below, or browse them at zips.zoo.ngo
- 🔍 Check status: a ZIP's
status:frontmatter is the source of truth; the index is generated from it
Core Research Papers
Zoo Labs Foundation publishes academic and technical papers documenting the research behind our protocols:
- Zoo DSO Paper - Decentralized Semantic Optimization: Byzantine-robust prior aggregation for collective AI intelligence
- Zoo Genesis Whitepaper - October 2021 foundational paper on AI agent-backed NFTs
- Zen Models Documentation - Ultra-efficient frontier LLMs (600M-480B parameters)
- Hanzo ASO - Active Semantic Optimization (foundation for Zoo DSO)
- Hanzo HMM - Hamiltonian Market Maker for AI compute marketplace
ZIP Index
146 proposals. Generated from the ZIP frontmatter by scripts/index.py -- edit the ZIP, not this table.
status: is one word for a whole proposal, so it cannot say that Go has a thing and Rust does not. A ZIP may also carry implementation-go, implementation-cpp, implementation-rust. An empty cell is not none -- it means nobody has read that runtime yet, and the two are counted apart here.
| shipped | partial | none | not assessed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Go | 0 | 10 | 4 | 132 |
| C++ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146 |
| Rust | 0 | 1 | 0 | 145 |
| Number | Title | Type | Status | Go | C++ | Rust |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZIP-0000 | Zoo Ecosystem Architecture & Framework | Meta | Living | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0002 | Genesis Airdrop to Original ZOO Token Victims | Standards Track | Final | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0004 | Gaming Standards for Zoo Ecosystem | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0005 | Post-Quantum Security for DeFi & NFTs | Standards Track | Final | partial | - | - |
| ZIP-0006 | User-Owned AI Models on Zoo - NFT-Based Model Ownership | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0007 | BitDelta + DeltaSoup - Personalized and Community AI | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0008 | Specialized Avatar Tutors for Personalized Learning with ... | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0010 | Zoo Launch Models - Eco-1, Coder-1, and Nano-1 | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0011 | Spatial Web, Active Inference, and Agent-to-Agent Economi... | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0012 | LP (Lux Proposals) Integration - Chain-Agnostic AI Standards | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0014 | Zoo KMS Integration via Lux KMS | Infrastructure | Final | partial | - | - |
| ZIP-0015 | Zoo L2 Chain Architecture | Standards Track | Final | partial | - | - |
| ZIP-0016 | ZOO Token Economics | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0017 | DAO Governance Framework | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0018 | Treasury Management Protocol | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0019 | Validator Rewards Conservation Split | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0020 | Impact Metric Oracle | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0021 | Zoo Naming Service | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0022 | Multi-Chain Bridge Standard | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0023 | Community Grant Program | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0024 | Data Availability Layer | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0025 | Privacy-Preserving Donations | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0026 | Ecosystem Reputation System | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0027 | Emergency Governance Protocol | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0028 | Zoo SDK Specification | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0029 | Gasless Transactions for Conservation | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0030 | On-Chain Species Registry | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0031 | Zoo adopts LP-0010: Brand Sovereignty and Federation Disc... | Meta | Final | partial | - | - |
| ZIP-0032 | Zoo adopts LP-0011: Onchain Federation Registry | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0033 | Zoo Decentralized Identification Service (DID) | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0034 | Zoo XP & Quests Protocol | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0035 | ZOO Supply and the 50/50 Foundation Split | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0036 | Zoo DAO Safe & Zoo Z Safe — Foundation Ownership | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0037 | Azorius Sub-DAO Structure | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0042 | Cross-Ecosystem Interoperability Standard | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0100 | Zoo Contract Registry | Standards Track | Living | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0101 | Conservation Bond Protocol | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0102 | Impact Yield Vaults | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0103 | Green Staking Mechanism | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0104 | Research Funding DAO Treasury | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0105 | Carbon Credit DEX | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0106 | Automated Market Maker for Conservation | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0107 | Impact Lending Protocol | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0108 | Carbon Offset Tokenization | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0109 | Wildlife Insurance Protocol | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0110 | Conservation DAO Treasury Yield | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0111 | Impact Perpetuals Market | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0112 | Micro-Donation Streaming | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0113 | Habitat Restoration Bonds | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0201 | Species Adoption Certificate Protocol | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0202 | Conservation Badge Standard | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0203 | Habitat NFT Fractional Ownership | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0204 | Dynamic Metadata for Living NFTs | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0205 | Wildlife Photography NFT Standard | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0206 | NFT Conservation Royalties | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0207 | Breeding Simulation NFT | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0208 | Endangered Species Collection | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0209 | NFT-Backed Microhabitat | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0210 | Cross-Collection Composability | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0300 | Virtual Habitat Simulation Protocol | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0301 | Play-to-Conserve Game Mechanics | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0302 | AI Wildlife Behavior Engine | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0303 | Multiplayer Conservation Game Protocol | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0304 | Game Asset Interoperability | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0305 | Leaderboard Oracle | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0306 | Virtual Sanctuary Governance | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0400 | Conversational AI for Conservation | Standards Track | Final | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0401 | Persistent Semantic Memory | Standards Track | Final | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0402 | AI-Augmented NFTs | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0403 | On-Chain AI Identity | Standards Track | Final | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0404 | Content-Addressable Semantic Memory System | Standards Track | Final | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0405 | Conservation-Aware Language Models | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0406 | Multi-Modal Conservation AI | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0408 | Unified Multimodal Architecture (Jin) | Standards Track | Final | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0409 | Active Semantic Optimization (ASO) | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0410 | Decentralized Semantic Optimization (DSO) | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0411 | AI-Powered Search with RAG | Standards Track | Final | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0412 | MCP Server Architecture | Standards Track | Final | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0413 | Foundation Language Model Architecture (Zen Base) | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0414 | Mixture of Distilled Experts (MoDE) | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0415 | Code Intelligence at Scale (Zen-Code) | Standards Track | Final | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0416 | Vision-Language Models (Zen-VL) | Standards Track | Final | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0417 | Real-Time Conversational AI (Zen-Live) | Standards Track | Final | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0418 | Hamiltonian Large Language Models (HLLM) | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0419 | Proof of AI (PoAI) | Standards Track | Draft | partial | - | - |
| ZIP-0420 | 7680-Dimensional Embeddings (Zen-Reranker) | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0421 | Training-Free Preference Optimization (GRPO) | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0422 | Computer Use Framework (Operative) | Standards Track | Final | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0423 | Privacy-Preserving AI Training (FHE) | Standards Track | Draft | partial | - | - |
| ZIP-0424 | Federated Wildlife Monitoring | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0425 | Satellite Ecological Monitoring | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0426 | 1M Token Context Extension | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0427 | BitDelta Model Compression | Standards Track | Final | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0428 | Knowledge Distillation Pipeline | Standards Track | Final | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0429 | Multilingual 100+ Language Coverage | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0430 | AI Safety Framework (Zen-Guard) | Standards Track | Final | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0431 | Neural Machine Translation (Zen-Translator) | Standards Track | Final | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0432 | Sovereign AI Memory | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0434 | Decentralized Training Infrastructure | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0500 | ESG Principles for Conservation Impact | Meta | Living | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0501 | Conservation Impact Measurement | Meta | Living | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0502 | Wildlife Corridor Mapping | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0503 | Anti-Poaching Alert Network | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0504 | Marine Conservation Tracking | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0505 | Reforestation Verification | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0510 | Species Protection & Monitoring | Meta | Living | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0520 | Habitat Conservation | Meta | Living | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0530 | Community Partnerships & FPIC | Meta | Living | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0540 | Research Ethics & Data Governance | Meta | Living | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0550 | Conservation Standards Alignment Matrix | Meta | Living | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0560 | Evidence Locker Index | Meta | Living | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0570 | Zoo Labs Impact Thesis | Meta | Living | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0600 | DeSci Protocol Framework | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0601 | Open Biodiversity Database Standard | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0602 | Citizen Science Contribution Protocol | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0603 | Research DAO Governance | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0604 | Decentralized Peer Review | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0605 | Open Access Publication Protocol | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0606 | Reproducibility Attestation | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0700 | ZRC-20: Fungible Token Standard | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0701 | ZRC-721: Non-Fungible Token Standard | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0702 | ZRC-1155: Multi-Token Standard | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0703 | Token-Bound Accounts for Wildlife NFTs | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0800 | Zoo-Lux Bridge Protocol | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0801 | Zoo-Hanzo Settlement Integration | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0802 | Zoo Omnichain Teleport Extension | Standards Track | Final | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0803 | Encrypted Streaming Replication for Zoo Services | Standards Track | Final | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0804 | Zoo L1 Graduation | Standards Track | Draft | partial | - | - |
| ZIP-0805 | Zoo DEX (V2/V3 Native, V4 Lux DEX Precompile) | Standards Track | Draft | partial | - | - |
| ZIP-0806 | Zoo AI Desktop | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | partial |
| ZIP-0807 | zoo-bot — Pure-Go Agentic Bot Framework | Standards Track | Draft | none | - | - |
| ZIP-0808 | Zoo Bridge — Cross-Ecosystem Bridge for Zoo L1 | Standards Track | Draft | none | - | - |
| ZIP-0809 | Mesh Identity, Gossip & Payments (PQ) — Zoo mirror of HIP... | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0810 | Z-Chain — Post-Quantum Identity & Attestation Rollup (Zoo... | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0811 | Q-Chain — Quasar Finality Block Standard (Zoo mirror of H... | Standards Track | Draft | none | - | - |
| ZIP-0812 | Pulsar-M — Threshold ML-DSA DKG & Signing (Zoo mirror of ... | Standards Track | Draft | partial | - | - |
| ZIP-0813 | Wallet PQ Account Type — Zoo mirror of HIP-0085 | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0814 | TxAuthEnvelope — Zoo mirror of HIP-0086 | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0815 | PQ Permit — Zoo mirror of HIP-0087 | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0816 | Session KEM — Zoo mirror of HIP-0088 | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0817 | DRBG / Randomness Beacon — Zoo mirror of HIP-0089 | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0818 | Bridge PQ-Only Profile — Zoo mirror of HIP-0103 | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0819 | Governance / Upgrade Keys — Zoo mirror of HIP-0098 | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0820 | Contract Auth via Z-Chain Proof — Zoo mirror of HIP-0104 | Standards Track | Draft | - | - | - |
| ZIP-0901 | Beluga L3 Thinking-Chain Architecture | Standards Track | Draft | partial | - | - |
| ZIP-0902 | Proof-of-Thought Receipts on Zoo | Standards Track | Draft | none | - | - |
ZIP Process
Write the ZIP, open a pull request, take review, land it. A ZIP is born Draft
and stays there until someone can point at the code.
Status
A ZIP's status: frontmatter is the only place its status is recorded. The
table above and the pages on zips.zoo.ngo are derived
from it. Three values, each meaning one thing:
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
Draft |
Proposed. No implementation, or the ZIP describes an experiment rather than a shipped system. |
Final |
The thing the ZIP specifies exists in code, and repository: names where. |
Living |
Never finalises. Policy, registries and indexes that are amended as the ecosystem moves. |
Zoo Labs Foundation is a research network, so Draft is an ordinary resting
place, not a failure — a proposal describing an experiment belongs there for as
long as it is an experiment. Do not move a ZIP to Final without naming the
code, and do not leave a ZIP at Final once the code it named has gone.
Earlier revisions of this repository used Active, Review, Implemented,
Proposed, Accepted and Superseded as well. Active on a registry became
Living; Active on a completed adoption became Final; the rest were never
carried by a ZIP. A superseded ZIP is deleted rather than tombstoned — the
successor carries what mattered.
Index
scripts/index.py reads the ZIP frontmatter and rewrites the table above. It
refuses to write when a ZIP has no frontmatter, carries a status outside the
three values, disagrees with its own filename, shares a number with another ZIP,
requires: a ZIP that does not exist, or when the corpus has shrunk below the
floor recorded in the script. CI runs scripts/index.py --check.
Types of ZIPs
- Standards Track: Technical changes affecting Zoo
- Core: Blockchain, consensus, AI models
- DeFi: Financial protocols and mechanisms
- Gaming: GameFi and metaverse features
- ZRC (Zoo Request for Comments): Token and NFT standards
- Meta: Process proposals
- Informational: Guidelines and best practices
Resources
- 🌐 Website: zoo.ngo - Zoo Labs Foundation (501c3 non-profit)
- 🤖 AI Chat: ai.zoo.ngo - Chat with Zoo AI agents
- 🏋️ Training Library: gym.zoo.ngo - Decentralized AI training network
- ⛓️ Blockchain: zoo.network - Zoo blockchain explorer
- 📊 Models: zenlm.ai - Zen model family documentation
- 📥 Model Downloads: huggingface.co/zenlm - Pre-trained models
- 📄 Research Papers: github.com/zooai/papers - Academic publications
- 💬 Contact: [email protected]
Public Goods Innovations (78 Contributions)
Zoo Labs Foundation has contributed 78 innovations permanently granted to humanity:
| Category | Contributions | Highlights |
|---|---|---|
| Zen LLM Family | 18 | 600M-480B frontier models, Qwen3+ based |
| DeSci Infrastructure | 12 | Research ledger, peer review DAO, datasets |
| PoAI Consensus | 8 | Proof of AI, verifiable inference |
| Training Infrastructure | 10 | 3D parallelism, mixed precision, curriculum |
| Inference Serving | 8 | PagedAttention, speculative decoding |
| Safety & Alignment | 9 | Constitutional AI, RLHF, red teaming |
| Datasets | 7 | Zen-Instruct, Zen-Code, Zen-Math |
| Benchmarks | 6 | ZenBench, ZenCode-Eval, ZenSafety-Eval |
All innovations are public domain (CC0) - free to use, modify, and commercialize.
See INNOVATIONS.md for complete documentation. See PUBLIC-GOODS-NOTICE.md for legal grant.
License
All ZIPs are released under CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
Democratizing AI through decentralized training and open source frontier models.
Zoo Labs Foundation - Building collective intelligence for everyone.
Zoo Labs Foundation - Building collective intelligence for everyone.