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Watchlist — every removal, downgrade, and open investigation.

The cases below are projects whose ratings have been suspended, downgraded, or revoked, and projects under active editorial review. Every entry is published with date, evidence sources, and where it exists, the project's response. Once an action is taken, it is never quietly reversed.

Total actions · all time
82
across 28 chains
Removed for cause
41
cannot be re-rated
Active watchlist
23
downgraded · unresolved
Under investigation
18
rating suspended
Resolved · last 30d
4
restored to active
May 2026 3 actions
EmberSwap
DeFi · DEX · BNB Chain · 0xb4a7…3F02
Downgraded · Watchlist
May 24, 2026 · 09:14 UTC
Score 71 · Verified 42 · Watchlist −29 pts · all categories affected Action signed · 0xA4E1…c8d2

Reason for action

Critical audit findings unresolved for 90+ days. The Halborn 2025 review identified two high-severity issues in the v3 router contract: a slippage-bypass vector and an oracle-staleness window. Onyx confirmed via on-chain analysis that the affected functions remain reachable from production.

Compounding this: the project's three known treasury wallets have not transmitted a transaction since 2026-02-14 (Q1), in violation of the financial transparency commitment made at the time of rating.

Open findings
2 high · 0 resolved
Days since last treasury tx
98 d
TVL · change since action
−47% in 72h
Active users · 7d
−68%
Project response

"We acknowledge receipt of the action. The findings cited remain under internal review by our development team and additional independent counsel. We dispute the characterization that production functions are reachable and will publish a technical response within seven days."

— EmberSwap Foundation · signed 0x82Cf…7a2B · May 24, 18:42 UTC
Status & next steps
Re-review scheduled within 30 days. Removal becomes possible if findings remain unresolved past 2026-06-23.
Reviewer · Marisol Chen · DeFi lead
Case 2026-0042 · last update 2h ago
NovaPlay
GameFi · P2E · Ethereum Polygon · 0xc88d…d901
Removed for cause
May 19, 2026 · 14:08 UTC
Score 68 · Listed Removed Rating revoked · cannot be re-rated Action signed · 0xA4E1…c8d2

Reason for action

Team identity falsification. Two of the five publicly listed founders — "Andrei Kovalenko" and "Maya Patel-Sharma" — were not employed by NovaPlay at any point during the rating window. Onyx contacted the named individuals directly; both confirmed they had no relationship with the project. KYC documents on file with Onyx, supplied by NovaPlay at application, do not match passport records held by the relevant jurisdictions.

In accordance with Section 13 of the methodology, removal is the only available action when team identity is materially falsified. Once removed for cause, the rating cannot be reinstated. NovaPlay will not be re-rated under any methodology version, including by a successor entity using shared infrastructure.

Falsified identities
2 of 5
User funds at exposure
~$4.2M TVL
Token unlock — next 14d
$8.6M
Onyx exposure window
Aug 2025 – May 2026
No response received from project · 5 days elapsed since notification
Investigations · Riya Patel
Case 2026-0041 · final · cannot be re-opened
Stratos AI
AI Agents · Trading · Base · 0x71a9…fE40
Under investigation
May 15, 2026 · 11:32 UTC
Score 74 · Verified Suspended Rating held pending review · est. 14 d Suspension signed · 0xA4E1…c8d2

Open question

Anomalous on-chain agent volume. Onyx's monthly review of the AI Agents category identified that 78% of reported agent transactions on the Stratos network in April 2026 originate from 14 wallets — and those 14 wallets were all funded by the same source within a 9-hour window in March.

This is not, on its face, evidence of misconduct: it may reflect legitimate testing, market-making activity, or a single institutional integration. But it is inconsistent with the agent-diversity claims made at time of rating (Verified · Q1 2026). The rating is therefore suspended, not downgraded, pending response.

Concentration · top 14
78.4% of volume
Funding source
Single wallet · 9h window
Response deadline
May 29, 2026 · 14 d
Reviewer
Tomás Reyes · Infra lead
Project response · received May 17

"We are preparing a complete technical disclosure on the wallet activity in question. The transactions originate from our internal QA harness and a single institutional partner whose anonymity was contractually required at time of integration. We have requested permission to disclose; response by May 24."

— Stratos AI Labs · signed stratos.eth · May 17, 09:08 UTC
Possible outcomes
Reinstate at Verified if disclosure resolves the discrepancy.
Downgrade to Listed or below if explanation is partial.
Removal only if disclosure is refused.
Reviewer · Tomás Reyes · Infra & AI lead
Case 2026-0040 · last update 4d ago
April 2026 2 actions
HyperGain Yield
DeFi · Yield aggregator · Arbitrum · 0x4912…ab1c
Removed · exit
Apr 22, 2026 · 03:18 UTC
Score 62 · Listed Removed $28.4M drained · contract owner key compromised Action signed · 0xA4E1…c8d2

Reason for action

Exit transaction by contract owner · $28.4M user funds drained. On Apr 21, 22:14 UTC, the HyperGain master vault contract was upgraded via a privileged-role call that transferred all user-deposited funds to a single externally-owned address. The address bridged the funds to Tornado Cash within 38 minutes.

Whether this is a private-key compromise or a deliberate exit is, at present, unknowable. The outcome — total loss of user funds with no remediation path — is the same in either case. Rating revoked; project will not be re-rated.

Funds drained
$28.4M
Time to bridge
38 minutes
Affected wallets
~14,200
Remediation
None offered
Project unreachable · all communication channels offline since incident
Investigations · Riya Patel
Case 2026-0036 · final
Memecoin Maps
Infrastructure · Analytics · Solana · DRiP3…aHX9
Resolved · restored
Apr 11, 2026 · 17:42 UTC
Score Suspended (Mar 2026) 71 · Verified Reinstated at original tier Action signed · 0xA4E1…c8d2

Resolution summary

Investigation opened Mar 14, 2026 over concentration of moderation rights within a small set of admin wallets. Memecoin Maps published a multi-sig migration plan within 7 days, executed the migration on Apr 8, and the moderation power is now distributed across 7 signers including 3 external contributors. Rating reinstated at original Verified tier.

Project response

"We disagreed with the framing but agreed with the substance. The new multi-sig is live and the seven signers, including external contributors, are listed at maps.coin/sigs. We thank Onyx for raising the concern publicly rather than privately."

— Memecoin Maps · maps.eth · Apr 8 12:08 UTC
Reviewer · Amara Okonkwo · NFT & GameFi lead
Case 2026-0028 · closed · resolved cleanly
March 2026 4 actions · 2 still open
VaultAxis Protocol
DeFi · CDP · Ethereum · 0x88c2…e120
Under investigation
Mar 28, 2026 · 21:04 UTC
Score 66 · Listed Suspended Open 58 days · response received Suspension signed · 0xA4E1…c8d2

Open question

Oracle-manipulation exposure. On Mar 24, $4.1M of bad debt accumulated against the WETH/USDC vault during a 9-minute window in which the price feed (operated by a third party) deviated 8.4% from CEX consensus. Onyx is reviewing whether VaultAxis's oracle-staleness checks, as deployed, conform to the protections described at time of rating.

Project response · Mar 30

"The bad debt has been absorbed by the protocol reserve fund. No user lost principal. We have published a post-mortem and have begun migration to a dual-oracle architecture (Chainlink + RedStone). Migration ETA mid-April."

— VaultAxis · vault.eth · Mar 30 09:14 UTC
Reviewer · Marisol Chen · DeFi lead
Case 2026-0024 · open 58 days · re-review scheduled May 30
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