Prior rug/exit-scam affiliation

Superstate'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 evidence of any Superstate team member linked to a prior rug or exit-scam-labeled protocol. Robert Leshner's Compound Finance is a clean, long-running DeFi protocol (no rug). Hacksdatabase grep for 'superstate', 'USTB', 'uscc' returned zero matches. Web search 'Superstate rug exit scam fraud' returned zero adverse results. OSINT finds only institutional press coverage (Fortune, CoinDesk, Bloomberg) and SEC-registration context.

Sources #

Internal
Superstate protocol profile §10 known incidents — zero00-profile.md §10 — hacksdatabase grep zero matches for superstate/USTB/uscc; no incidents foundretrieved 2026-05-16
URL
Robert Leshner — CoinDesk coverageCoinDesk — Compound Finance and Robert Leshner coverage; no rug or adverse history identifiedretrieved 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 superstate factor RD-F-115 score green collected_at 2026-05-16 00:06:37