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Every state-changing event for Mango Markets V3: 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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   2026-05-20 18:44:16Z
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Eisenberg publicly identifies himself and returns $67 million to the protocol treasury.","source":""},{"date":"2022-12-01","event":"FBI arrests Avraham Eisenberg in Puerto Rico on charges of commodities fraud and manipulation.","source":""},{"date":"2023-01-09","event":"CFTC files civil enforcement complaint against Eisenberg for misappropriating over $110 million from Mango Markets.","source":""},{"date":"2023-01-20","event":"SEC charges Eisenberg with anti-fraud and market manipulation violations, alleging MNGO was an unregistered security.","source":""},{"date":"2023-08-07","event":"CoinDesk reports Mango Labs has exhausted its entire 2023 operating budget on legal fees by mid-year.","source":""},{"date":"2024-04-18","event":"Federal jury in the Southern District of New York convicts Eisenberg on all counts: commodities fraud, commodities manipulation, and wire fraud.","source":""},{"date":"2024-09-01","event":"Mango DAO reaches settlement with SEC: agrees to destroy all MNGO tokens, delist from exchanges, and pay $700,000 in civil penalties. 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