How Zera Won Educhain Semester 3: AI-Powered Smart Contract Lifecycle

The full story of building Zera — an AI-powered all-in-one smart contract solution — and winning at Educhain Semester 3.

The Problem

Smart contract development is often fragmented across multiple tools: one for contract generation, one for tests, one for docs, and another for reporting.

Zera was designed to unify this flow into a single AI-assisted developer experience.

The Idea: Zera

Zera is an AI-powered all-in-one contract solution that handles the complete smart contract lifecycle from a single prompt:

Contract generation
Test case generation
Documentation generation
On-chain report generation

How It Works

Zera takes a natural-language prompt and orchestrates a full pipeline:

generate Solidity contract drafts via LLM
generate starter tests and documentation
persist outputs and artifacts
generate on-chain lifecycle reports for traceability

The Build

The build focused on reliability under hackathon constraints: fast generation loops, clear outputs, and demo-first UX.

Winning Educhain Semester 3

Zera won Educhain Semester 3 by showing an end-to-end smart contract workflow that reduced development friction and improved delivery speed.

Extension: Agent Zera

After the Educhain win, the project evolved into Agent Zera with a stronger agentic workflow for contract lifecycle automation.

Extended submission: DoraHacks — Agent Zera