zScore-N: A Neural Network for On-Chain Wallet Reputation Scoring

Abstract:Wallet reputation scores decide who receives an airdrop, who can borrow, and who enters an allowlist across decentralised finance. They almost always begin as hand-written formulas: compositions of clamped logarithmic, linear and square-root transforms over behavioural features, with every threshold and point award set by hand. Such a formula is readable and deterministic, but it is piecewise and non-differentiable, it cannot improve as data accumulates, and it cannot distinguish a feature that is genuinely zero from one its pipeline failed to capture. We present zScore-N, the neural network that replaced ours in production. The formula served as its teacher: calibrated against 5,208,952 wallets sampled across 2019-2024 and verified to reproduce production output to within 2.3e-13, it supplies unlimited labelled training data at zero label noise. The trained network reproduces it to 0.58 points RMSE on the 1000-point scale (R^2 = 0.99997), against 2.25 for gradient-boosted trees and 28.04 for linear regression on identical features and splits. Trained with missing-value masks against uncorrupted targets, it halves the error that incomplete data introduces: at 10% feature-level missingness the formula drifts 51.4 points from its own complete-data output with a systematic -12.5 point bias, while the network drifts 17.9. The network carries the score at production scale, across a population of millions of wallets spanning six orders of magnitude in size and activity.

Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

arXiv:2609.08247 [cs.AI]

(or arXiv:2609.08247v1 [cs.AI] for this version)

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