Prior rug/exit-scam affiliation

Evidence summary #

No rug or exit-scam affiliation identified for any Raydium team member. Team has operated Raydium since February 2021 — 5+ years of continuous protocol operation with $1B+ TVL. Web search 'Raydium AlphaRay XRay rug exit scam' returns no relevant hits linking team to rug activity. The 93% soft-rug rate on Raydium-hosted pools (research finding) relates to third-party token deployers, not Raydium's team.

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Methodology #

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

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