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Every state-changing event for ARA Finance: moderation decisions on community submissions, plus corrections and updates from the news pipeline. URL-based decisions carry three independent witnesses — the original source, an Internet Archive snapshot taken at submission time, and a Solana memo signed by our publicly-disclosed publisher key.

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   2026-05-30 12:21:21Z
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RugDoc review conducted prior to launch flagged no Masterchef timelock and per-block emission antipattern.","source":"RugDoc project reviews (AraFinance, AraFinance Token)","source_url":"https://rugdoc.io/project/arafinance-token/"},{"date":"2021-12-21","event":"ARA Finance DApp (farm and reserve currency protocol) launched on Avalanche.","source":"RugDoc project review","source_url":"https://rugdoc.io/project/arafinance/"},{"date":"2022-01-01","event":"OlympusDAO and its Avalanche-based forks began suffering cascading losses as the DeFi 2.0 bull market reversed; OHM halved within hours after a major token holder dumped $11 million.","source":"Protos — DAO Leader Causes Cascade Across Rebase Tokens","source_url":"https://protos.com/rebase-daos-olympus-ohm-leader-dump-cascade-crypto/"},{"date":"2022-01-01","event":"ARA Finance v1 Postmortem published on Medium, acknowledging the ARA market had 'turned down' and the v1 farm had failed despite fee-free structure.","source":"Ara Finance — Medium","source_url":"https://medium.com/@AraFinance"},{"date":"2022-01-01","event":"ARA Finance team announced transition to v2 via Medium article 'ARA aka ARA v2,' with no detailed accounting of v1 treasury or developer actions.","source":"Ara Finance — Medium","source_url":"https://medium.com/@AraFinance"},{"date":"2022-12-28","event":"ARA token recorded a variant all-time high of $0.003674 on CoinPaprika, after which price declined to effectively zero.","source":"CoinPaprika — ARA Token","source_url":"https://coinpaprika.com/coin/ara-ara-token/"},{"date":"2026-05-01","event":"Protocol TVL stands at approximately $1,500 with no change over 30 days. Token has zero active exchange listings and is classified as a dead coin on CoinRanking.","source":"AlphaGrowth; CoinRanking","source_url":"https://alphagrowth.io/ara-finance"}]},"v":1}

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