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Every state-changing event for DEUS Finance: 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

   2026-05-20 22:36:27Z
   Score: ? → ? (no score change)
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The protocol suffered three separate security exploits between March 2022 and May 2023, resulting in combined losses exceeding $22 million across flash loan oracle attacks and a smart contract implementation flaw, with stolen funds routed through Tornado Cash in the 2022 incidents. Repeated security failures across distinct vulnerability classes raise severe concerns about the protocol's security practices and long-term viability.","timeline":[{"date":"2022-03-15","event":"First exploit: Flash loan attack manipulates Muon oracle on Fantom via USDC/DEI pool price data; approximately $3 million stolen (200,000 DAI and 1,101.8 ETH). Funds laundered through Tornado Cash.","source":""},{"date":"2022-03-15","event":"Lafayette Tabor deactivates affected contracts and pledges reimbursement via smart contract funded by personal and DAO reserves.","source":""},{"date":"2022-04-28","event":"Second exploit: A second flash loan oracle manipulation attack on Fantom drains approximately $13.4 million. Attacker borrows $143 million in a flash loan, artificially inflates DEI price, borrows additional capital against inflated collateral. Tx hash: 0x39825ff84b44d9c9983b4cff464d4746d1ae5432977b9a65a92ab47edac9c9b5. Funds bridged to Ethereum and laundered via Tornado Cash.","source":""},{"date":"2022-04-28","event":"DEUS token price drops approximately 16.5% within 24 hours. Team states loss falls on protocol, not individual users; pauses DEI lending.","source":""},{"date":"2023-05-05","event":"Third exploit: A burnFrom parameter reversal bug in the DEI stablecoin contract is exploited across Arbitrum (~$5M), BNB Smart Chain (~$1.3M), and Ethereum (~$135K), totaling approximately $6.38–$6.5 million. DEI depegs to approximately $0.20.","source":""},{"date":"2023-05-07","event":"DEUS Finance announces partial white-hat recovery of approximately 5.5 million out of 7 million DEI-equivalent tokens. Recovered funds placed in a 2/3 multisig managed by @lafachief and Yearn Finance contributors. All affected contracts paused and subsequently destroyed.","source":""}]},"v":1}

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2. #2rescoreby systemsystem

   2026-10-10 18:49:09Z
   Score: 10 → 53 (+43)
   Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 10 → 53. Problems weighed by who is responsible: incidents the subject suffered −9.6, concerns that are not fraud −3.2, problems around the subject, caused by others −0.8; legitimacy credit long-running +2.
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3. #3reviewby reviewerreviewer

   2026-10-27 19:07:23Z
   Score: 53 → 53 (no score change)
   The core exploit narrative (March 2022 ~$3M, April 2022 ~$13.4M, May 2023 ~$6.5M burnFrom bug, Tornado Cash laundering, CertiK audit scope) matches the sources I fetched. Details I could not confirm from fetched sources include the 800 ETH Tornado funding, the per-chain May 2023 split, the OFAC/SEC/CFTC cross-check and the recovery multisig. The current-status section is stale (TVL is now $0). The prose has leftover editorial references to a 'survivor page' and 'merged page'.
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4. #4review reviseby judgejudge

   2026-10-27 19:07:23Z
   Score: 53 → 53 (no score change)
   The core account of the three exploits (March 2022 about $3M, April 2022 about $13.4M, May 2023 about $6.5M) matches CoinDesk and CertiK (claim_findings[0], [1], [2], [3]). One of six claims (16.7%) could not be verified: the OFAC/SEC/CFTC cross-check cites no source (claim_findings[4]). The Current Status section is out of date, since DefiLlama now shows $0 TVL rather than a decline (claim_findings[5]), and some details in the April 2022 and May 2023 sections were not confirmed. The penalty is at the mild end of the minor band because the main allegations hold up and the reviewer's confidence is moderate (0.5).
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