The Agents

What the agents did

Counted from what each run reports it produced. Only agents that record their output are counted.

Research agents

Scheduled AI agents that find, write and fact-check the pages on this site.

• Scout

  Working

  Searches the web for new scams, hacks, rug pulls and enforcement actions, and queues the ones worth investigating.

  Runs

  three times a day (03:00, 11:00 and 19:00 UTC)

  Last success

  2h ago

• Queue drain

  Working

  Works through the investigation queue: researches each requested entity and writes its page.

  Runs

  six times a day (00:00, 04:00, 08:00, 12:00, 16:00 and 20:00 UTC)

  Last success

  1h ago

• Nightly fact-check

  Working

  Fact-checks published pages against the evidence they cite, concentrating on the pages people read or asked for.

  Runs

  four times a day, hourly from 05:07 to 08:07 UTC

  Last success

  16h ago

• Telegram analyst

  Working

  Reads the posts collected from crypto investigators' Telegram channels and turns the notable ones into public queue entries or evidence for review.

  Runs

  six times a day (02:30, 06:30, 10:30, 14:30, 18:30 and 22:30 UTC)

  Last success

  2h ago

Background workers

Small programs that keep the evidence, the on-chain audit trail and the notifications moving. None of them uses AI.

• Watchlist alerts

  Working

  Sends an alert to people who follow an entity when something about it changes.

  Runs

  every 7 minutes

  Last success

  2m ago

• Request fulfilment

  Working

  Tells people who requested an investigation when their page is published.

  Runs

  every hour

  Last success

  2m ago

• Wallet guardian

  Working

  Warns wallet owners when they deal with a counterparty flagged as risky.

  Runs

  every minute

  Last success

  58s ago

• Push dispatcher

  Working

  Delivers the app notifications the other workers queue up.

  Runs

  every 1m

  Last success

  1m ago

• Telegram answer bot

  Not switched on yet

  Built, but not switched on yet, so it is not doing this today. Once on: Answers /check lookups in Telegram.

  Planned

  every 30 seconds

• Merkle roots

  Not switched on yet

  Built, but not switched on yet, so it is not doing this today. Once on: Publishes an hourly fingerprint of the page history on the Solana blockchain, so anyone can prove a page was not quietly edited.

  Planned

  every hour

• Signals detectors

  Not switched on yet

  Built, but not switched on yet, so it is not doing this today. Once on: Watches for stablecoin peg breaks and price-oracle disagreements. Readings go to the operator first, never straight to the public.

  Planned

  every 10 minutes

• Solana anchoring

  Working

  Writes each editorial decision to the Solana blockchain, so the audit history can be checked without trusting this site.

  Runs

  every 30 seconds

  Last success

  5s ago

• Corrections propagator

  Working

  Carries accepted corrections and updates through to the pages they correct.

  Runs

  every minute

  Last success

  59s ago

• Structured sources

  Not switched on yet

  Built, but not switched on yet, so it is not doing this today. Once on: Pulls official and community datasets once a day: US sanctions (OFAC), SEC and CFTC actions, DeFiLlama, Web3 Is Going Great and CryptoScamDB.

  Planned

  once a day

• Helius address sync

  Failing

  Keeps the set of wallets watched on-chain in step with the wallets our pages track.

  Runs

  every 6 hours

  Last success

  5d ago

  Last problem

  reported an error

• Source URL archive

  Not running

  Saves a copy of every cited source to the Internet Archive, so the evidence survives if the original link disappears.

  Runs

  every minute

  Last success

  38m ago

  Last problem

  never finished

• Submission archive

  Working

  Saves a copy of the links in community submissions to the Internet Archive.

  Runs

  every minute

  Last success

  30s ago

• On-chain heartbeat

  Not switched on yet

  Built, but not switched on yet, so it is not doing this today. Once on: Posts a daily signed heartbeat on-chain, showing the publishing key is still alive (see /about/keys).

  Planned

  once a day

• Telegram collector

  Working

  Collects new posts from the crypto investigators' Telegram channels we follow, for the Telegram analyst to read.

  Runs

  every 10 minutes

  Last success

  4m ago

• Fleet watchdog

  Not switched on yet

  Built, but not switched on yet, so it is not doing this today. Once on: Watches every other worker on this page and alerts the operator when one goes quiet.

  Planned

  every hour