Prior rug/exit-scam affiliation

BENQI's assessment for RD-F-115 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

No rug or exit-scam affiliation found for any named team member via OSINT. rekt.news search returned no BENQI entry. hacksdatabase grep (orchestrator-confirmed) shows zero BENQI entries. Rome Blockchain Labs was incorporated as a software development and incubation firm; BENQI is its primary protocol. No prior crypto project with exit-scam outcome found for Gagnon, Kuusi, or Szul in available public sources.

Sources #

URL
rekt.news — no BENQI rug entriesrekt.news — searched for BENQI and Rome Blockchain Labs; no rug entries foundretrieved 2026-05-16
Internal
hacksdatabase grep resulthacksdatabase grep — orchestrator confirmed no 'benqi' entries in risk-dashboard/hacksdatabase/hacks/retrieved 2026-05-16
URL
Meet The Company That is Avalanche's First Unicorn — newsBTCnewsBTC 2021 co-founder article — prior histories described, no rug affiliation mentionedretrieved 2026-05-16

Methodology #

Determine whether any team member is linked via verified OSINT to a prior rug or exit-scam-labeled protocol.

See the full factor methodology and distribution across all protocols →

rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol benqi factor RD-F-115 score green collected_at 2026-05-16 11:02:12