Sentient launches open-source AI research agent SERA-Crypto to address the "hallucination crisis" in the crypto industry
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Sentient launches open-source AI research agent SERA-Crypto to address the "hallucination crisis" in the crypto industry
A new production-ready framework that bridges the reliability gap in financial AI by delivering verifiable real-time insights—something general-purpose models (GPT-5, Gemini, Grok 4, etc.) have long struggled to achieve.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAs one of the largest open-source AI platforms in the industry by funding (having raised $85 million to date), Sentient Labs today officially launches SERA-Crypto——an open-source AI research agent built specifically for crypto and Web3 use cases. It delivers on-chain analysis, tokenomics insights, and protocol risk assessments with full source citations and reproducible reasoning chains in under 30 seconds, designed for wallets, exchanges, data dashboards, and research teams.
The development goal of SERA-Crypto is to address the long-standing reliability issues of general-purpose models in finance, especially amid escalating AI trust crises. As crypto and prediction markets go mainstream, more users rely on AI to interpret rapidly shifting odds, catalysts, and on-chain signals——and unreliable responses can lead to significant financial losses. Some platforms have already exhibited noise and volume distortion, making the crypto industryintolerant of hallucinations, fabrications, or outdated outputs.
While general models can summarize market narratives, they often struggle to update on-chain data in real time and fail to provide clear, auditable reasoning processes. SERA-Crypto, by contrast, is purpose-built for Web3 research——every response is grounded in fresh data, parallel multi-tool execution, and reproducible chains of thought, enabling teams to fully verify results before acting. Through its innovative open architecture, it delivers verifiably accurate answers within 30 seconds.
For example, when asked: "What is Solana's current ecosystem revenue? How has it grown historically?" SERA-Crypto generates a structured analysis including: ecosystem revenue figures, peak performance periods, growth trends, benchmark comparisons, daily protocol-level metrics, risk factors, and forward-looking outlook.
In comparison, while GPT-5 may provide accurate high-level figures, it over-relies on single sources, lacks granular protocol breakdowns, and tends to require users to “ask follow-ups” for complete information; Perplexity Finance offers full citations but provides limited analytical dimensions, lacking deeper insights into revenue drivers, industry structure, and forward implications.
Himanshu Tyagi, co-founder of Sentient and professor at the Indian Institute of Science, said:
"In crypto, the cost of an incorrect AI answer can be extremely high.
If a Coinbase user asks about a token's unlock schedule and receives fabricated content from AI, that's real financial risk.
We've built a research framework that the crypto industry deserves, and we're open-sourcing it so anyone can verify and improve it."
SERA-Crypto is based on Sentient’s latest SERA (Semantic Embedding and Reasoning Agent) architecture, designed specifically for Web3, covering blockchain fundamentals, smart contracts, DeFi, DAOs, and token economics.
Key advantages of SERA-Crypto over general-purpose models:
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Temporal Relevance
Provides data updated within 24–48 hours, while general models typically suffer delays exceeding 7 days——nearly equivalent to "outdated" in the high-volatility crypto market.
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Research Depth
Delivers comprehensive tokenomics analysis, on-chain revenue data, and protocol risk assessments, whereas general models usually offer only surface-level summaries.
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Data Consistency
Ensures logical coherence across metrics and alignment with cited sources, effectively mitigating hallucinations and contradictions.
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Use Cases
Supports wallets, exchanges, data dashboards, and more, including:
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Real-time token unlock schedules
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Protocol risk alerts during swaps
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DAO proposal explanations
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Price volatility root-cause analysis
All based on on-chain behavior.
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Performance
Completes analysis within 30 seconds at a fraction of the cost of closed-source solutions.
SERA-Crypto currently integrates over 50 tool endpoints——spanning market data APIs, TVL trackers, derivatives feeds, and more——orchestrated in parallel to achieve sub-30-second response times.
The framework was developed using real traffic from the Sentient community (290,000+ users, over 22 million queries) and is now live on Sentient Chat (chat.sentient.xyz), with staged open-sourcing to begin next week.
About Sentient
Sentient is building community-driven open AI technology to make state-of-the-art models transparent and accessible. Backed by Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Framework Ventures, Sentient is committed to creating an open-source AGI ecosystem aligned with community values and fair incentives for builders, ensuring AI remains open.
Learn more at:
https://sentient.foundation/
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