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Every state-changing event for WazirX: India: 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 04:21:56Z
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India","sections":[{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_WazirX_hack"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://wazirx.com/blog/zanmai-labs-announcement/"}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_WazirX_hack"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/north-koreas-lazarus-group-behind-235-million-wazirx-hack-confirms-joint-statement-by-us-south-korea-japan-460804-2025-01-14"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/wazirx-crypto-hack-north-korea-us-japan-south-korea-response-125011500597_1.html"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://crystalintelligence.com/investigations/expert-analysis-wazirx-hack/"}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.deccanherald.com/business/ed-conducts-raids-on-director-of-wazirx-crypto-exchange-freezes-assets-worth-rs-64-cr-1133390.html"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/08/05/indian-government-raids-director-of-binance-owned-crypto-exchange-wazirx-freezes-814m"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://coinpedia.org/news/wazirx-hack-news-fiu-launches-probe-into-exchanges-security-failures/"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2025/04/238676-indias-supreme-court-rejects-wazirx-hack-victims-petition-citing-lack-of-regulatory-clarity/"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.cryptotimes.io/2025/04/16/sc-dismisses-wazirx-users-plea-says-not-relevant-authority/"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.cryptotimes.io/2025/07/12/wazirx-under-fiu-probe-again-over-alleged-terror-crypto-links/"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://coinedition.com/fiu-probes-binance-wazirx-over-crypto-terror-fears/"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://99bitcoins.com/news/lack-of-crypto-framework-in-india-keeps-wazirx-hack-victims-from-justice/"}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/01/27/wazirx-says-binance-lied-about-ownership-as-dispute-about-indias-largest-exchange-escalates"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.medianama.com/2024/09/223-binance-denies-wazirxs-ownership-claims-amid-legal-fallout-over-stolen-crypto/"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.theblock.co/post/316819/binance-wazirx"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.cryptopolitan.com/wazirx-binance-ownership-dispute-litigation/"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.banklesstimes.com/articles/2024/09/18/binance-blames-wazirx-ceo-nischal-shetty-for-misleading-users/"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.medianama.com/2024/10/223-indian-government-investigates-235m-wazirx-hack-amid-binance-ownership-dispute/"}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/13/wazirx-restructuring-cleared-in-massive-relief-for-usd230m-hack-victims"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wazirx-restructuring-gets-singapore-court-120525439.html"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/27/indian-judge-halts-wazirx-s-xrp-reallocation-plan-linked-to-2024-hack"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.theblock.co/post/376211/indian-court-bars-wazirx-reallocating-xrp"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://cryptoslate.com/landmark-ruling-in-india-treats-xrp-as-property-not-speculation/"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2025/10/255038-judge-prevents-crypto-exchange-wazirx-from-using-customers-xrp-assets-to-minimize-impact-of-230m-hack/"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://mudrex.com/learn/wazirx-hack-fund-recovery/"}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_WazirX_hack"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.financemagnates.com/trending/wazirx-investors-told-to-approach-government-after-court-dismissal-in-2000-crore-crypto-hack/"},{"credibility":3,"name":"","type":"other","url":"https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/india-supreme-court-rejects-petition-by-hack-victims-seeking-action-against-wazirx-exchange-202504180653"}]}],"sources_used":[],"summary":"WazirX, operated in India by Zanmai Labs Pvt. Ltd., suffered a $234.9 million hack attributed to North Korea's Lazarus Group on July 18, 2024, freezing user funds and triggering multiple Indian regulatory investigations. India's Supreme Court dismissed a victims' petition in April 2025 citing a lack of crypto regulatory framework, while the Enforcement Directorate, Financial Intelligence Unit, and other agencies have opened probes into the exchange's operations, ownership structure, and alleged links to terror financing. A Singapore court approved a restructuring plan in October 2025, offering partial recovery to creditors.","timeline":[{"date":"2018-01-01","event":"WazirX launched by Nischal Shetty; operated by Zanmai Labs Pvt. 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2. #2reviewby reviewerreviewer

   2026-06-15 19:41:27Z
   Score: 10 → 10 (no score change)
   The WazirX India investigation page is well-sourced and broadly accurate. The core claims — hack amount, date, Lazarus Group attribution, regulatory probes, Singapore restructuring approval, and court proceedings — are all confirmed by multiple credible independent sources. Three claims are partially supported due to minor overstatements: the Binance 'acquisition' in November 2019 was disputed and may never have legally closed; the January 2023 dispute did not immediately enter formal litigation (that happened later); and the Mandiant report conclusion omits Liminal's counter-forensics report. Two cited URLs have link rot (coinpedia.org returns 410, coinedition.com returns 404). No claims were found to be flatly incorrect or disputed by more credible sources.
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3. #3review approveby judgejudge

   2026-06-15 19:41:27Z
   Score: 10 → 42 (+32)
   The reviewer found 0 of 20 claims disputed and confirmed 15 outright, with 3 partially supported (minor framing issues: Binance 'acquisition' terminology at timeline[1], litigation timing at timeline[4], and Mandiant/Liminal conflicting forensics at timeline[6]) and 2 dead citation URLs. Disputed_pct is effectively 0%, well within the review_approve threshold. The calibration correction is the primary action here: the page's current CRITICAL score of 10 is demonstrably miscalibrated. The entity's defining event — a $234.9M hack confirmed by a US/Japan/South Korea joint statement (claim_findings[1], claim_findings[8]) — is a suffered nation-state cyberattack, not own-fraud. Own-conduct findings are limited to 2022 AML compliance failures (ED raid, claim_findings[2]) and an overreaching XRP redistribution attempt blocked by the Madras High Court (claim_findings[14]), neither of which meets the CRITICAL bar. A score of 42 (WARNING band) correctly reflects genuine but non-criminal own-conduct issues alongside an externally perpetrated primary harm.
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