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Every state-changing event for Gala: 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.

1. #1publishby system:backfill

   2026-05-20 15:27:00Z
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Both co-founders have filed competing civil suits alleging misappropriation of hundreds of millions of dollars, while Thurston also faces an unrelated SEC fraud action over a separate crypto mining venture.","timeline":[{"date":"2019-01-01","event":"Gala Games (Blockchain Game Partners, Inc.) founded by Eric Schiermeyer and Wright Thurston","source":""},{"date":"2021-02-01","event":"Alleged unauthorized transfer of 8.6 billion GALA tokens from company wallets by Wright Thurston, per Schiermeyer's later lawsuit","source":""},{"date":"2021-11-26","event":"GALA token reaches all-time high of approximately $0.84, peak market capitalization in billions of dollars","source":""},{"date":"2022-02-01","event":"Gala Games introduces Project GYRI / GalaChain, an independent Layer-1 blockchain for the ecosystem","source":""},{"date":"2022-09-01","event":"Alleged liquidation of stolen GALA tokens begins; Thurston allegedly sells via Coinbase and Kraken through 43 wallets, per lawsuit","source":""},{"date":"2022-12-31","event":"GALA price has declined over 97% from its all-time high, closing year around $0.017","source":""},{"date":"2023-03-03","event":"SEC files fraud charges against Wright Thurston and Green United LLC for alleged $18M crypto mining scam unrelated to Gala","source":""},{"date":"2023-05-31","event":"Alleged liquidation of stolen GALA tokens ends, per Schiermeyer lawsuit; Thurston alleged to have netted approximately $130M","source":""},{"date":"2023-08-31","event":"Eric Schiermeyer and Wright Thurston each file civil lawsuits against the other in U.S. District Court for the District of Utah; Schiermeyer seeks $130M+ recovery, Thurston seeks $750M","source":""},{"date":"2023-09-04","event":"GALA token drops approximately 18.5% on the week as public reporting on the dual lawsuits triggers market FUD","source":""},{"date":"2024-05-20","event":"External attacker mints 5 billion GALA tokens via compromised minter private key; sells ~600M tokens for ~$21-29M on Uniswap; GALA drops ~20% intraday","source":""},{"date":"2024-05-20","event":"Gala Games freezes exploited wallet within 45 minutes; CEO Schiermeyer states 'We messed up our internal controls' and confirms FBI and DOJ engagement","source":""},{"date":"2024-08-01","event":"Utah District Court denies True North / Thurston motion for preliminary relief that would have replaced Schiermeyer as CEO","source":""},{"date":"2026-04-30","event":"Gala community vote approves disinflationary tokenomics update with fee-sharing and permanent token burns","source":""}]},"v":1}

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2. #2reviewby reviewerreviewer

   2026-06-14 23:16:05Z
   Score: 10 → 10 (no score change)
   Blue-chip calibration review (Prompt A). Verdict: over-penalized. Page content is treated as accurate; the trust_score band is miscalibrated. Gala Games is a legitimate, continuing blockchain gaming operator that has experienced serious but categorizable incidents: (1) a civil insider-dispute lawsuit between co-founders with unresolved competing allegations, (2) a May 2024 access-control exploit causing ~$21.8M in realized losses (mostly recovered), and (3) an SEC enforcement action against co-founder Thurston for a wholly separate crypto mining scheme. None of these establish that the entity itself is fraudulent. A score of 10/CRITICAL requires evidence of fraud, scam mechanics, or Ponzi structure — none of which appears in the page's own evidence base or in independent sources. The page's own timeline uses the word 'Alleged' for the Thurston token transfer, yet the score treats it as confirmed fraud. The correct band is WARNING (20-49): Gala has material, unresolved legal exposure, a history of poor internal controls, and a co-founder under active SEC litigation, but it is an operating platform with active games, a live tokenomics governance process as of April 2026, and no adjudicated finding of entity-level fraud. A score of 28 reflects the seriousness of the incidents while correctly distinguishing between 'suffered by / associated with a bad actor co-founder' and 'is itself a fraudulent scheme.'
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3. #3review approveby judgejudge

   2026-06-14 23:16:05Z
   Score: 10 → 28 (+18)
   The calibration review (reviewer confidence 0.82) found 0% of page claims disputed — the factual record stands entirely. The issue is band placement: the current CRITICAL score of 10 overstates entity-level risk by treating unresolved civil allegations as adjudicated fraud, attributing a co-founder's separate SEC action (Green United LLC, claim_findings[3]) to Gala Games itself, and using the exploit's face-value mint (~$200M) rather than realized loss (~$21.8M, subsequently recovered, claim_findings[1]). The page's own timeline language labels the Thurston token transfer 'Alleged' (claim_findings[5]), which is inconsistent with a CRITICAL fraud designation. Gala Games remains an active, operating platform with a community-approved tokenomics update as recently as April 2026 (claim_findings[4]). A score of 28 (WARNING band) correctly reflects material but unresolved legal exposure and poor internal controls without asserting entity-level fraud that the evidence does not support.
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