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{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-14T23:16:09.909Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"2ae2325a-238e-4228-b183-6f8ca733d750","new_score":42,"page_slug":"ethereum-classic","prev_score":42,"reason":"Blue-chip calibration review (Prompt A). Verdict: over-penalized. Page content is treated as accurate; the trust_score band is miscalibrated. Ethereum Classic is a legitimate, long-running proof-of-work blockchain (operational since 2016) that suffered external 51% attacks in 2019 and 2020 — incidents it was the victim of, not the perpetrator. Those attacks are now 4-6 years old and have been substantially mitigated by the ~7-8x hashrate increase following Ethereum's 2022 Merge, which is confirmed by multiple sources. The current WARNING band (20-49) requires either 'elevated fraud/loss risk' or 'unresolved severe incident'; neither condition applies — the security incidents are resolved, and there is zero evidence of fraud, Ponzi mechanics, or exit scam. Material caveats that do justify a CAUTIONARY rating include: (1) extremely minimal DeFi ecosystem (~$74.6K TVL, not the $150K stated), (2) contentious on-chain governance via the Olympia proposal still in development, (3) no explicit SEC/CFTC classification (though the March 2026 joint framework did not name ETC, the broader regulatory environment has evolved), and (4) a small-cap coin with heavy speculative price exposure. A score of 58/CAUTIONARY properly reflects a legitimate operator with material structural caveats, without penalizing it for being a victim of attacks it has since defended against. Two specific factual inaccuracies on the page — hashrate stated as '300+ TH/s' (current: ~165-198 TH/s) and TVL stated as '~$150K' (current: ~$74.6K) — modestly reduce confidence in the page's precision but do not change the band direction.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}