SHADEFAQ
The questions worth answering.
If something here is unclear or feels incomplete, the answer is probably in the whitepaper or in our Telegram. Both are linked at the bottom of every page.
The product
What is SHADE?
An AI agent that scores every new token launch on Base — across Clanker, Flaunch, Bankr, and Zora — using on-chain and social signals, and delivers ranked alpha to subscribers through a four-primitive privacy stack.
How is this different from Bankr or Aixbt?
Bankr and Aixbt operate as public surveillance layers: every query is logged, every wallet is on-chain, every act on a call is publicly visible. SHADE hides identity at the application layer, encrypts research, and routes trades through Railgun — while remaining honest that on-chain settlement on Base is public.
Do I need to give up my wallet to subscribe?
No. Subscription is gated by a Semaphore zero-knowledge proof. You prove you hold ≥ T $SHADE without revealing which wallet — the wallet address never leaves your device.
Privacy
What does SHADE hide?
Three things: who you are at the application layer (Semaphore), what you research (TEE inference), and the link between you and your trades (Railgun routing).
What does SHADE not hide?
The trades themselves. Base is a public chain. Anyone claiming on-chain trade privacy on Base without using a dedicated privacy chain is either lying or misinformed.
What if the operator turns malicious?
The operator is modeled as honest-but-curious in our threat model. Even a malicious operator cannot break TEE attestation, decrypt XMTP messages, forge Semaphore proofs, or correlate Railgun deposits to withdrawals. The privacy stack composes around the operator, not on top of it.
$SHADE token
Is there a presale?
No. $SHADE is an ERC-20 deployed on Base, launched directly on Uniswap v3 against WETH — no launchpad intermediary, no third-party deployer fees. There is no presale, no team allocation at launch, and no vesting cliff hiding insider supply.
How does value accrue?
Subscribers pay in ETH or USDC. After operational cost, all revenue market-buys $SHADE on Base via a programmatic TWAP executor. Bought tokens fund a weekly Merkle-drop reward pool to the top public snipers ranked by realized PnL.
Is the liquidity locked?
Yes. The full initial supply is paired against WETH on Uniswap v3 (Base) and the LP position is time-locked on-chain until the year 2100.
Risk
What about regulatory risk?
SHADE is designed around pseudonymity, not full anonymity. Subscription is gated by token ownership, not anonymity-preserving cash. The protocol does not custody user funds. The honest scope (no on-chain trade hiding) materially reduces exposure relative to mixer-style protocols.
What if a TEE side-channel is found?
TEEs make hardware trust assumptions and documented side-channels exist. SHADE publishes remote attestation, supports multi-vendor TEEs (SGX, SEV-SNP, future TDX), never holds user funds inside the enclave, and audits the published binary against the running code.
Is SHADE financial advice?
No. The score is a quantitative signal and the leaderboard is a public dataset. Nothing on this site is investment advice. Trade at your own risk.