Audit log

Every state-changing event for Aethir: moderation decisions on community submissions, plus corrections and updates from the news pipeline. URL-based decisions are designed to carry three independent witnesses — the original source, an Internet Archive snapshot, and a Solana memo signed by our publicly-disclosed publisher key. Archive coverage is still being backfilled, so each decision below reports its own snapshot status rather than assuming one exists.

1. #1publishby system:backfill

   2026-05-29 15:54:35Z
   Score: ? → ? (no score change)
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is a Singapore-based decentralized GPU cloud computing protocol operating as a Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN), founded in 2021 by Mark Rydon and Daniel Wang. The project raised approximately $109M across funding rounds and a $100M+ checker node sale, launched its ATH token in June 2024, and claims $147M+ ARR from enterprise AI and gaming clients. Risk factors include a 95% token price decline from its all-time high, a redirected Season 3 community airdrop, a cross-chain bridge exploit in April 2026 resulting in up to $400K in losses, heavy insider token allocation, and a ZachXBT flag whose specific basis has not been publicly detailed.","timeline":[{"date":"2021-01-01","event":"Aethir founded in Singapore by Mark Rydon and Daniel Wang","source":""},{"date":"2022-01-01","event":"Seed round completed, led by Framework Ventures and Infinity Ventures Crypto","source":""},{"date":"2023-07-01","event":"Pre-A funding round closed at $150M valuation, led by Sanctor Capital and HashKey with participation from Maelstrom (Arthur Hayes), Animoca Brands, and others","source":""},{"date":"2024-02-26","event":"Aethir announces its first decentralized AI node (Checker Node) sale via CoinDesk press release","source":""},{"date":"2024-03-18","event":"Checker Node whitelist sale begins; public sale opens March 20, raising over $100M in ETH within hours across 11,000+ wallet addresses","source":""},{"date":"2024-06-12","event":"ATH token launches on 16+ exchanges; reaches all-time high of approximately $0.1185 on launch day","source":""},{"date":"2024-06-12","event":"Aethir mainnet launches with ATH claim and staking functionality","source":""},{"date":"2025-04-07","event":"ATH token hits all-time low of approximately $0.004878, down over 95% from its launch-day peak","source":""},{"date":"2025-10-23","event":"Aethir Foundation announces cancellation of Cloud Drop Season 3, redirecting 1.26 billion ATH tokens to the Digital Asset Treasury instead of community distribution","source":""},{"date":"2025-12-31","event":"Aethir reports $127.8M in full-year 2025 revenue and $167M ARR; claims to be top-revenue compute DePIN","source":""},{"date":"2026-04-10","event":"Cross-chain bridge exploit detected on AethirOFTAdapter contract; PeckShield estimates $400K lost, Aethir claims user losses under $90K; exchanges blacklist attacker wallets","source":""}]},"v":1}

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2. #2reviewby reviewerreviewer

   2026-06-03 03:07:16Z
   Score: 48 → 48 (no score change)
   Most of Aethir's foundational facts (founding, investors, token launch date, bridge exploit, airdrop redirection) are confirmed by credible sources, though several figures are imprecise or inconsistent across platforms. The most significant factual error is the all-time low date (page states April 7, 2025; both CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap record the true all-time low on February 24, 2026). The ZachXBT flag claim is the weakest element — no credible source was found specifically naming Aethir as a ZachXBT investigation subject, and the cited ZachXBT sources relate to a different project (Memenetic). The $109M funding claim and 11,000+ wallet figure are also not well-supported by available sources.
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3. #3review reviseby judgejudge

   2026-06-03 03:07:16Z
   Score: 48 → 36 (-12)
   The review confirmed 7 of 16 claims outright, with 6 partially supported and no critical structural failures. However, two findings warrant correction before the page is considered accurate. First, claim_findings[14] shows the ATH all-time low date is wrong — the page states April 7, 2025, but both CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap (Tier 1 sources) record the actual all-time low on February 24, 2026. Second, and more significantly, claim_findings[8] found the ZachXBT flag listed as a risk factor is unverifiable: the cited ZachXBT investigations relate to a different project (Memenetic), and no credible source was found naming Aethir directly as a ZachXBT investigation subject. Citing an unsubstantiated third-party flag as a confirmed risk factor is a meaningful accuracy concern. Three high-priority coverage gaps — independent revenue verification, on-chain tokenomics analysis, and sourcing for the ZachXBT claim — further support revision. Reviewer confidence was 0.78.
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4. #4reviewby reviewerreviewer

   2026-10-06 05:36:17Z
   Score: 36 → 36 (no score change)
   The page's core narrative — Aethir's founding, funding history, tokenomics structure, the Season 3 airdrop redirection, and the April 2026 bridge exploit — is well supported by its cited sources and by independent reporting found during this review; dollar and date figures for the bridge exploit, the DAT redirection, and the tokenomics allocation all checked out exactly. Two clusters of real factual problems were found: (1) the node-sale description (100,000 licenses sold to '11,000 unique wallet addresses') is not supported by any source, including the two sources cited for it, and conflicts with Aethir's own 'Pausing' announcement and multiple outlets reporting ~73,000 licenses sold to 20,000+ buyers — this error is duplicated in the timeline; and (2) the ZachXBT flag claim, treated in the text as a contributing basis for the page's trust score, could not be substantiated at all — both of the section's own cited ZachXBT channels were fetched directly and contain zero mention of Aethir. A separate, lower-severity issue is an internal inconsistency between the summary ($147M+ ARR) and two sections of the same page ($167M ARR), which should be reconciled to one figure. A minor mismatch was also found in one illustrative phishing-domain example that doesn't match its cited source. Coverage gaps include the absence of any regulatory-history discussion and no on-chain insider wallet analysis despite the page itself flagging insider concentration as a risk factor.
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5. #5rescoreby systemsystem

   2026-10-10 18:46:08Z
   Score: 36 → 60 (+24)
   Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 36 → 60. Problems weighed by who is responsible: concerns that are not fraud −9.6, incidents the subject suffered −3.2, problems around the subject, caused by others −2.4; legitimacy credit long-running +10; 1 section(s) set aside until a failed fact-check is resolved; fact-check adjustments (−12) now shown as page reliability, not in the score.
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