Audit log

Every state-changing event for Saga: 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

   2026-05-26 19:42:41Z
   Score: ? → ? (no score change)
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The SAGA token launched on April 9, 2024 at an all-time high of approximately $7.53, but had declined roughly 99% from that peak by late 2025. In January 2026, the protocol's SagaEVM chainlet suffered a $7 million smart contract exploit that drained bridged assets, caused the Saga Dollar stablecoin to depeg, and led to a 55% TVL crash.","timeline":[{"date":"2022-05-19","event":"Saga raises $6.5 million seed round at a $130 million valuation from investors including Maven 11, Hypersphere, Samsung Next, and Polygon Studios.","source":""},{"date":"2023-01-01","event":"Saga raises a $5 million seed extension round led by Placeholder, bringing total funding to over $13.5 million.","source":""},{"date":"2024-04-05","event":"Saga listed on Binance Launchpool as project #51; over $13.4 billion staked in under 24 hours, making it the largest Launchpool in Binance history.","source":""},{"date":"2024-04-09","event":"Saga mainnet launches and SAGA token begins trading. Token reaches all-time high of approximately $7.53, then begins a sustained decline. Community Genesis Airdrop distributed to over 200,000 wallets.","source":""},{"date":"2024-04-01","event":"Saga reveals 'Power Level Over 9000' ongoing airdrop program distributing $10 million in tokens across partnerships with over 100 projects.","source":""},{"date":"2025-10-10","event":"SAGA token reaches all-time low of approximately $0.053, representing a decline of roughly 99% from the April 2024 all-time high.","source":""},{"date":"2026-01-21","event":"SagaEVM chainlet suffers a $7 million smart contract exploit. Attacker exploits an inherited Ethermint EVM precompile vulnerability to mint unbacked Saga Dollar (D) stablecoins, converts to ETH, and launders funds through Tornado Cash. Saga pauses SagaEVM at block 6,593,800.","source":""},{"date":"2026-01-22","event":"Saga Dollar stablecoin depegs to $0.75. Protocol TVL crashes approximately 55% to $16 million. SAGA token falls to $0.053. Saga identifies exploiter wallet and coordinates blacklisting with exchanges.","source":""},{"date":"2026-03-01","event":"Saga begins implementing ICS-20 security patch from Cosmos ecosystem as part of SagaEVM remediation process.","source":""},{"date":"2026-05-12","event":"SAGA token experiences anomalous 171% price surge in 24 hours with $582 million trading volume against approximately $19.5 million market cap.","source":""}]},"v":1}

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2. #2rescoreby systemsystem

   2026-10-10 18:46:47Z
   Score: 32 → 55 (+23)
   Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 32 → 55. Problems weighed by who is responsible: concerns that are not fraud −12.8, incidents the subject suffered −3.2, problems around the subject, caused by others −1.6; legitimacy credit long-running +8.
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   {"actor":"system","decided_at":"2026-10-10T18:46:47.886Z","decision":"rescore","investigation_id":"9e1f237b-1644-4675-8fac-49a2afcd3c83","new_score":55,"page_slug":"saga","prev_score":32,"reason":"Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 32 → 55. Problems weighed by who is responsible: concerns that are not fraud −12.8, incidents the subject suffered −3.2, problems around the subject, caused by others −1.6; legitimacy credit long-running +8.","score_delta":23,"score_model":"v2","sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}

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3. #3acceptby agent:avoid-moderatoranalyzer

   2026-10-17 07:34:34Z
   Score: 55 → 54 (-1)
   Halborn's blog post confirms the January 2026 SagaEVM hack of roughly $7M via a vulnerability inherited from Ethermint's EVM precompile code, which allowed unbacked minting of Saga Dollar; the stablecoin fell to $0.75.
   Source:https://www.halborn.com/blog/post/explained-the-sagaevm-hack-january-2026

   Wayback:archived snapshot2026-09-23 21:38:21Z
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4. #4reviewby reviewerreviewer

   2026-10-28 00:41:50Z
   Score: 54 → 54 (no score change)
   The core January 2026 exploit account (date, amount, addresses, Tornado Cash routing, inherited ICS20 flaw, advisory details) matches Rekt, The Block and the Cosmos advisory. Weak points are an implied-fault claim about patching that sources do not support, an internal $7M versus $6.2M Tornado Cash inconsistency, and a stale all-time-low figure. The page also misses that SagaEVM is being permanently sunset (final cessation 2026-11-23) and that SAGA pairs were delisted in Sept 2026. Many funding, team and tokenomics claims were not independently checked.
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   {"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"59dd4cc6ff80b546ae5e9e4a1da73d58","decided_at":"2026-10-28T00:41:50.514Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.2727,"findings_hash":"813mKREiQk61Xu79p8qMtpvY2NFSessHfUHjAba4mbd1","investigation_id":"9e1f237b-1644-4675-8fac-49a2afcd3c83","judge_def_hash":"8800307026131ea9d5da939d32b9a1f1884b2b84a5de33c8e87931d36f38d0f8","new_score":54,"omissions":{"material":2,"total":2},"page_content_hash":"0983a69dac4378df4b3683fb7503ac9ac5486674b5bf48197ff848ff82a276ed","page_slug":"saga","prev_score":54,"reason":"The core January 2026 exploit account (date, amount, addresses, Tornado Cash routing, inherited ICS20 flaw, advisory details) matches Rekt, The Block and the Cosmos advisory. Weak points are an implied-fault claim about patching that sources do not support, an internal $7M versus $6.2M Tornado Cash inconsistency, and a stale all-time-low figure. The page also misses that SagaEVM is being permanently sunset (final cessation 2026-11-23) and that SAGA pairs were delisted in Sept 2026. Many funding, team and tokenomics claims were not independently checked.","reviewer_def_hash":"bc11388ce4bc4deea1b064fea362663ae06e3f4f687f99604769044d6ffba770","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"subject_status":"operating","subject_status_contradicts_page":true,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}

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5. #5review reviseby judgejudge

   2026-10-28 00:41:50Z
   Score: 54 → 54 (no score change)
   The core January 2026 exploit account (date, amount, addresses, Tornado Cash routing, inherited ICS20 flaw) is confirmed by Rekt, The Block and the Cosmos advisory (claim_findings[0], [1], [5]). By claim count alone, 3 of 11 findings are unverifiable, about 27%, which would be a minor band. However, the page does not say that SagaEVM is being permanently shut down (omission_findings[0], critical) or that SAGA pairs were delisted in September 2026 (omission_findings[1], material), so it presents the chain as merely paused. Other weaknesses are an unsupported implication that Saga was at fault for not patching (claim_findings[3]), a $7M versus $6.2M Tornado Cash inconsistency (claim_findings[6]), and a stale all-time-low price (claim_findings[7]). Reviewer confidence is moderate (0.6), so the penalty sits in the lower-middle of the band and the page is not delisted.
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   {"actor":"judge","artifact_identity":"59dd4cc6ff80b546ae5e9e4a1da73d58","band_override":null,"decided_at":"2026-10-28T00:41:50.514Z","decision":"review_revise","delist_requested":false,"disputed_pct":0.2727,"investigation_id":"9e1f237b-1644-4675-8fac-49a2afcd3c83","judge_def_hash":"8800307026131ea9d5da939d32b9a1f1884b2b84a5de33c8e87931d36f38d0f8","new_score":54,"page_slug":"saga","prev_score":54,"reason":"The core January 2026 exploit account (date, amount, addresses, Tornado Cash routing, inherited ICS20 flaw) is confirmed by Rekt, The Block and the Cosmos advisory (claim_findings[0], [1], [5]). By claim count alone, 3 of 11 findings are unverifiable, about 27%, which would be a minor band. However, the page does not say that SagaEVM is being permanently shut down (omission_findings[0], critical) or that SAGA pairs were delisted in September 2026 (omission_findings[1], material), so it presents the chain as merely paused. Other weaknesses are an unsupported implication that Saga was at fault for not patching (claim_findings[3]), a $7M versus $6.2M Tornado Cash inconsistency (claim_findings[6]), and a stale all-time-low price (claim_findings[7]). Reviewer confidence is moderate (0.6), so the penalty sits in the lower-middle of the band and the page is not delisted.","reviewer_def_hash":"bc11388ce4bc4deea1b064fea362663ae06e3f4f687f99604769044d6ffba770","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":5,"severity_override":{"applied":true,"band":"significant","from_band":"minor","reason":"omission_findings[0] is critical: SagaEVM, the exploited chainlet, is being permanently shut down (sunset from 2026-09-24, final cessation 2026-11-23, users must withdraw assets), and subject_status.contradicts_page is true because the page says only that the chain remained offline pending a post-mortem. The claim-level percentage (3 of 11, about 27%) understates this, so the significant band applies instead of minor."},"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}

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