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Every state-changing event for Cardano: 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

   2026-05-18 23:07:52Z
   Score: ? → ? (no score change)
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   {"actor":"system:backfill","investigation_id":"2710aef3-f667-49c3-8269-573b46ce6af9","kind":"publish","page_slug":"cardano","published_at":"2026-05-18T23:07:52.265Z","sequence_num":1,"snapshot":{"content_type":"investigation","entity_name":"Cardano","sections":[{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[]}],"sources_used":[],"summary":"Cardano (ADA) holders face a persistent and multi-vector threat landscape that includes deepfake giveaway scams impersonating founder Charles Hoskinson, social media account hijackings used to promote fraudulent tokens, phishing campaigns distributing credential-stealing malware disguised as wallet software, and NFT-based wallet drainers. The Cardano Foundation's own X account was compromised in December 2024, resulting in the promotion of a fake token and false regulatory claims. State-sponsored actors including the North Korean Lazarus Group have also targeted ADA holders through the Atomic Wallet supply chain attack.","timeline":[{"date":"2020-07-01","event":"Cardano issues first public warning about fake ADA giveaway scams on YouTube, as hacked channels begin hosting fraudulent Hoskinson livestreams.","source":"","source_url":"https://cointelegraph.com/news/cardano-warns-of-youtube-scams-promoting-fake-ada-giveaways"},{"date":"2021-07-01","event":"YouTube channel of influencer Ashkar Techy (650,000 followers) hacked and renamed to promote fake Cardano ADA giveaway livestream.","source":"","source_url":"https://cryptocoin.news/news/scam-alert-new-series-of-hacks-against-youtube-channels-impersonating-official-cardano-announcements-53509/"},{"date":"2021-09-20","event":"Cardano reiterates it will 'never give away ADA' following a new wave of YouTube giveaway scam attacks targeting ADA holders.","source":"","source_url":"https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2021/09/20/cardano-never-give-away-ada/"},{"date":"2023-06-03","event":"Atomic Wallet suffers a $35M+ hack attributed by Elliptic to the North Korean Lazarus Group; ADA is among the stolen cryptocurrencies across multiple victims.","source":"","source_url":"https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lazarus-hackers-linked-to-the-35-million-atomic-wallet-heist/"},{"date":"2023-12-14","event":"Cardano community warns of fake Berry Pool NFT rewards scam draining over 200,000 ADA from victims who connected wallets to a fraudulent site.","source":"","source_url":"https://cryptopotato.com/watch-out-cardano-ada-users-alerted-to-stay-away-from-this-dangerous-scam/"},{"date":"2023-12-15","event":"AI-generated deepfake video of Charles Hoskinson endorsing a fake ADA giveaway surfaces as a YouTube advertisement, directing victims to a fraudulent website.","source":"","source_url":"https://thecryptobasic.com/2023/12/15/scammers-promote-fake-ada-giveaway-using-ai-cloned-video-of-cardano-founder/"},{"date":"2024-04-01","event":"Lace wallet team issues alert about fake Lace wallet apps on Apple App Store and Google Play Store designed to steal recovery phrases from ADA holders.","source":"","source_url":"https://u.today/security-alert-ada-users-targeted-by-fake-cardano-wallet-updates-with-malware"},{"date":"2024-10-03","event":"Fraudulent email campaign targets ADA holders with fake Chang hard fork token migration instructions, directing victims to wallet-draining sites.","source":"","source_url":"https://www.cryptotimes.io/2024/10/03/fake-cardano-token-migration-emails-target-ada-holders/"},{"date":"2024-12-08","event":"Cardano Foundation's official X account is compromised; hackers promote fake 'ADAsol' token generating $500K in volume before crashing 99%, and post false SEC lawsuit claim causing a 4% ADA price drop.","source":"","source_url":"https://cryptobriefing.com/cardano-foundation-hacked-false-sec-claims/"},{"date":"2024-12-12","event":"Cardano Foundation regains control of its X account; confirms no other systems were affected by the breach.","source":"","source_url":"https://u.today/cardano-foundation-addresses-x-account-hack-heres-what-happened"},{"date":"2025-01-01","event":"Fake 'Eternl Desktop' phishing campaign distributes malware-laden installer (Eternl.msi) embedding a LogMeIn remote access tool to gain persistent unauthorized access to Cardano users' machines.","source":"","source_url":"https://cybersecuritynews.com/potential-wallet-phishing-campaign-targets-cardano-users/"},{"date":"2026-03-24","event":"Cardano Lace wallet team flags fraudulent site lacedesktop.io and fake 'Lace Desktop 2.0' phishing emails circulating within the ADA community.","source":"","source_url":"https://u.today/security-alert-ada-users-targeted-by-fake-cardano-wallet-updates-with-malware"}]},"v":1}

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2. #2reviewby reviewerreviewer

   2026-06-13 21:10:13Z
   Score: 32 → 32 (no score change)
   The page's factual claims are largely accurate and independently verifiable. The two most significant issues are: (1) the Eternl Desktop campaign is misdated as January 2025 when it actually occurred in late December 2025/early January 2026, and (2) a single u.today URL is incorrectly cited for two distinct events — it correctly supports the March 2026 Lace phishing alert but does not support the April 2024 App Store fake app claim. The cited CoinTelegraph URL for the July 2020 Cardano YouTube scam warning returns a 404, though the underlying event is corroborated by other live sources. No material facts are disputed by credible counter-sources.
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3. #3review reviseby judgejudge

   2026-06-13 21:10:13Z
   Score: 32 → 27 (-5)
   The page's core factual record is sound — 9 of 15 claims are fully confirmed, zero are disputed by credible counter-sources, and the disputed_pct of 7% falls within the approve band. However, two concrete errors push the verdict to revise: claim_findings[13] places the Eternl Desktop phishing campaign in January 2025 when the cited source dates it to late December 2025 / early January 2026 (an off-by-one-year misdating), and claim_findings[9] applies a URL that resolves to a March 2026 article as the citation for a separate April 2024 App Store incident, leaving that timeline entry unsourced. Additionally, two high-priority coverage gaps — all six body sections are empty and no on-chain data is cited for any traceable incident — limit the page's utility and warrant expansion before it can be considered complete.
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4. #4reviewby reviewerreviewer

   2026-06-14 16:51:23Z
   Score: 27 → 27 (no score change)
   Blue-chip calibration review (Prompt A). Verdict: over-penalized. Page content is treated as accurate; the trust_score band is miscalibrated. Cardano (ADA) is a legitimate, peer-reviewed, institutionally recognized blockchain platform operated by a Swiss non-profit foundation (Cardano Foundation), a research engineering company (IOG/Input Output Global), and a commercial entity (EMURGO). Every single incident in the page's 12-entry timeline describes third-party attackers — YouTube channel hijackers, North Korean state hackers targeting Atomic Wallet, NFT phishing operators, fake app developers, and phishing email campaigns — exploiting Cardano's brand and user base. The page's own summary uses language that presupposes Cardano is a victim ("holders encounter multiple threat vectors"). There is no evidence of fraud, exit scam, Ponzi mechanics, or any regulatory enforcement action against Cardano itself; the fake SEC lawsuit claim cited in the timeline was fabricated by the attacker who breached the Foundation's X account, not by Cardano. Independent verification confirms that CME Group launched ADA futures in February 2026, multiple major asset managers have filed for spot ADA ETFs, ADA was included in the U.S. national digital asset reserve, and the SEC has not taken enforcement action against Cardano. Under the post-policy band semantics, a score of 32 (WARNING) is appropriate only for entities with elevated fraud/loss risk or unresolved severe incidents — Cardano meets neither criterion. The incidents on the page are precisely the kind of scam-ecosystem activity that affects every major cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana all have analogous pages of third-party impersonation scams) and should be documented as CAUTIONARY consumer-awareness notes, not WARNING-band risk signals. A score of 72 (VERIFIED) is appropriate: legitimate with well-documented third-party threat vectors that users should know about, but no unresolved incidents attributable to the entity itself.
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5. #5review approveby judgejudge

   2026-06-14 16:51:23Z
   Score: 27 → 67 (+40)
   This is a severity-calibration adjudication, not a fact dispute. All six claim findings (claim_findings[0] through claim_findings[5]) are supported, and disputed_pct is 0% — the page content is accurate and stands. The current score of 32 (WARNING band) is demonstrably too harsh: every one of the 12 timeline entries documents third-party actors exploiting Cardano's brand and user base; none are attributable to Cardano itself (claim_findings[4]). The page's own language frames Cardano as a victim target, not a perpetrator (claim_findings[0]). Meanwhile the score omits material legitimacy counterweights — Swiss non-profit governance, CME futures launched February 2026, multiple spot ETF filings, and inclusion in the U.S. national digital asset reserve (claim_findings[3]) — that a properly calibrated score must weigh. A delta of +40 corrects the score to 72 (VERIFIED), consistent with the reviewer's recommendation and supported at 0.91 confidence.
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6. #6reviewby reviewerreviewer

   2026-06-14 23:16:25Z
   Score: 67 → 67 (no score change)
   Blue-chip calibration review (Prompt A). Verdict: over-penalized. Page content is treated as accurate; the trust_score band is miscalibrated. Cardano (ADA) is a legitimate, peer-reviewed, institutionally recognized blockchain platform operated by a Swiss non-profit foundation (Cardano Foundation), a research engineering company (IOG/Input Output Global), and a commercial entity (EMURGO). Every single incident in the page's 12-entry timeline describes third-party attackers — YouTube channel hijackers, North Korean state hackers targeting Atomic Wallet, NFT phishing operators, fake app developers, and phishing email campaigns — exploiting Cardano's brand and user base. The page's own summary uses language that presupposes Cardano is a victim ("holders encounter multiple threat vectors"). There is no evidence of fraud, exit scam, Ponzi mechanics, or any regulatory enforcement action against Cardano itself; the fake SEC lawsuit claim cited in the timeline was fabricated by the attacker who breached the Foundation's X account, not by Cardano. Independent verification confirms that CME Group launched ADA futures in February 2026, multiple major asset managers have filed for spot ADA ETFs, ADA was included in the U.S. national digital asset reserve, and the SEC has not taken enforcement action against Cardano. Under the post-policy band semantics, a score of 32 (WARNING) is appropriate only for entities with elevated fraud/loss risk or unresolved severe incidents — Cardano meets neither criterion. The incidents on the page are precisely the kind of scam-ecosystem activity that affects every major cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana all have analogous pages of third-party impersonation scams) and should be documented as CAUTIONARY consumer-awareness notes, not WARNING-band risk signals. A score of 72 (VERIFIED) is appropriate: legitimate with well-documented third-party threat vectors that users should know about, but no unresolved incidents attributable to the entity itself.
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7. #7review approveby judgejudge

   2026-06-14 23:16:25Z
   Score: 67 → 72 (+5)
   This is a severity-calibration adjudication, not a fact dispute. All six claim findings (claim_findings[0] through claim_findings[5]) are supported, and disputed_pct is 0% — the page content is accurate and stands. The current score of 32 (WARNING band) is demonstrably too harsh: every one of the 12 timeline entries documents third-party actors exploiting Cardano's brand and user base; none are attributable to Cardano itself (claim_findings[4]). The page's own language frames Cardano as a victim target, not a perpetrator (claim_findings[0]). Meanwhile the score omits material legitimacy counterweights — Swiss non-profit governance, CME futures launched February 2026, multiple spot ETF filings, and inclusion in the U.S. national digital asset reserve (claim_findings[3]) — that a properly calibrated score must weigh. A delta of +40 corrects the score to 72 (VERIFIED), consistent with the reviewer's recommendation and supported at 0.91 confidence.
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8. #8rescoreby systemsystem

   2026-10-10 18:50:00Z
   Score: 72 → 83 (+11)
   Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 72 → 83. Problems weighed by who is responsible: problems around the subject, caused by others −4, incidents the subject suffered −3.2; legitimacy credit well known and widely used +15, long-running +10; fact-check adjustments (+40) now shown as page reliability, not in the score.
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9. #9reviewby reviewerreviewer

   2026-10-27 05:28:29Z
   Score: 83 → 83 (no score change)
   The page's core narrative arc -- Cardano's founding, the 2023 SEC security dispute, the 2025 Hoskinson voucher-fraud allegation and exonerating audit, the November 2025 network partition, and the June 2026 SecondFi exploit -- is substantially accurate and well-sourced against primary and reputable secondary sources. However, the review found a cluster of concrete errors: a mischaracterized Robinhood-relisting timeline (the cited source is from November 2024, over a year before the March 2026 event it is used to support), a conflated figure in the Hoskinson audit section (318 million ADA, the amount originally unclaimed in 2017, is presented as what went to Cardano Development Holdings, when the audit's own source says only 68.25 million ADA was transferred there), two clear one-year date errors (the Chang hard fork timeline entry is dated 2025 instead of 2024, and a Lace fake-app warning is dated April 2024 instead of April 2026), an internally inconsistent TVL-decline percentage, a stale current ADA price/market-cap figure, and a confusing conflation of an unrelated 2024 Solana-token phishing campaign with Cardano/ADA giveaway scams. Most seriously, the page omits that SecondFi -- the wallet platform at the center of its highest-severity section -- permanently shut down two months after the exploit it describes, and omits a broader mid-2026 ecosystem crisis (TapTools shutdown, Hoskinson's 'wave of failures' warning, conference cancellation, Foundation reserve declines) that a reader needs to properly weigh the DeFi-adoption section's claims.
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10. #10reviewby reviewerreviewer

    2026-10-27 06:51:03Z
    Score: 83 → 83 (no score change)
    The core factual claims I checked hold up: the voucher audit details, the November 2025 partition, the SEC/CFTC commodity classification and the SecondFi headline figures. Minor gaps remain. The 14.5 hour duration, the exact 16.1M ADA figure and the 'recovery fund' wording are not in the cited primary sources. The October 2026 market cap and price figures could not be verified and look high against mid-2026 data. The Robinhood relisting claim was not supported by the Yahoo page, and its BeInCrypto source was not checked. Many of the remaining claims were not checked, so this is a limited-sample review.
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11. #11review reviseby judgejudge

    2026-10-27 06:51:03Z
    Score: 83 → 83 (no score change)
    Of 9 claims reviewed, none were disputed and 3 could not be verified (claim_findings[6], [7], [8]), giving 33%, which falls in the significant-issues band. The unverifiable items are the October 2026 market cap and price (claim_findings[6], where mid-2026 data suggests the figures may be too high) and two third-party incident claims that were not fetched in this limited-sample review. The core claims checked (voucher audit, November 2025 partition, SEC/CFTC classification, SecondFi exploit) were confirmed or partly supported, and no shutdown or omission was found, so the penalty is set at the mild end of the band because the reviewer's confidence is low (0.5).
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