VERDICT: No. The directory fails its own row-level evidence requirements: it contains duplicate identities, empty citation fields, secondary reporting presented as original work, and omitted affiliations. These defects falsify the claim that every row qualifies, without establishing that every affected person is unsuitable. I would remove redundant entries and the entirely unsupported Atis Elsts entry; most other defects are repairable. I found insufficient evidence to substantiate promotion, dormancy, or outlet-not-voice accusations. Criteria: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/README.md ; directory: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv

FINDINGS: @soispoke | wrong-flags | https://ethereal.news/resources/ef-people/ @StaniKulechov | rationale-not-original | https://www.cryptotimes.io/2026/09/24/aave-founder-criticizes-morphos-non-custodial-vault-classification/ @brian_armstrong | rationale-not-original | https://andrewmarshall604834.substack.com/p/clarity-fallout-what-next-for-brian @cskiraly | wrong-flags | https://ethereal.news/resources/ef-people/ @DefiIgnas | wrong-flags | https://www.ignasdefi.com/p/co-founder-of-pink-brains-defi-creator @drakefjustin | rationale-not-original | https://bitcoinsuisse.com/uae/industry-blog/justin-drake-bunker-mode-us-government-btc-transfer @kaiynne | rationale-not-original | https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/28492 @ki_young_ju | rationale-not-original | https://coinness.com/en/news/1172691 @mikeneuder | wrong-flags | https://michaelneuder.github.io/public/cv.pdf @misilva73 | wrong-flags | https://ethereal.news/resources/ef-people/ @nero_eth | broken-rationale | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv @PaulFrambot | rationale-not-original | https://www.cryptotimes.io/2026/09/24/aave-founder-criticizes-morphos-non-custodial-vault-classification/ @willywoo | rationale-not-original | https://beincrypto.com/bitcoin-google-searches-willy-woo-buy/ Arantxa Zapico ( arantxazapico ) and Aditi Partap | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv arianaraghi | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Atis Elsts ( atiselsts ) | broken-rationale | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Barnabé Monnot ( barnabe ) | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv CPerezz | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Csaba Kiraly ( cskiraly ) | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv DanGuo (ethresear.ch; GitHub TLM-Research) | cited-by-not-genuine | https://ethresear.ch/t/letting-the-base-fee-be-a-midpoint-a-temporal-liquidity-authorization-for-eip-1559/25958 Davide Crapis ( davidecrapis.eth ) | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Lyn Alden (lynalden.com) | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv matt (Magicians) | broken-rationale | https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-8141-frame-transaction/27617 Mike Neuder ( mikeneuder , ethresear.ch) | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Nicolas Donboly (Trail of Bits) | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Noelle Acheson | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Paul Bottinelli (Trail of Bits) | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Paweł Płatek and Denys Pakizh (Trail of Bits) | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Rebecca Rettig | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Toni Wahrstätter ( Nerolation ) | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Vitalik Buterin (blog; X: VitalikButerin) | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Zsolt Felföldi ( zsfelfoldi ) | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv

REMOVALS: Atis Elsts ( atiselsts ) | no platform, rationale, or citation supplied Barnabé Monnot ( barnabe ) | duplicates @barnabemonnot Csaba Kiraly ( cskiraly ) | duplicates @cskiraly Lyn Alden (lynalden.com) | duplicates @LynAldenContact Mike Neuder ( mikeneuder , ethresear.ch) | duplicates @mikeneuder Noelle Acheson | duplicates @NoelleInMadrid Rebecca Rettig | duplicates @RebeccaRettig1 Toni Wahrstätter ( Nerolation ) | duplicates @nero_eth Vitalik Buterin (blog; X: VitalikButerin) | duplicates @VitalikButerin

METHOD: Fetched both requested files first. Audit date: October 26, 2026; freshness cutoff: April 26; activity cutoff: July 28. Selected 60 rows without replacement using Python random.Random(20261026).sample(range(99),60), then sorted; one-based data-row numbers were 2,4,5,7,10,12,13,14,15,17,18,20,21,22,24,25,27,28,30,31,35,36,37,38,40,42,43,44,45,46,48,49,50,51,52,53,56,57,58,62,63,64,66,67,68,70,73,75,77,78,79,81,83,86,87,88,89,94,98,99. Examined both evidence fields for every sampled row: 111 populated fields represented 96 distinct URLs; nine fields were blank. Attempted all 96 URLs: 84 returned readable material and 12 failed. Extended the hunt across all 99 rows, attempting all 154 distinct nonempty evidence URLs; including the two supplied documents and supporting pages, opened or attempted 173 distinct URLs, plus searches and repeat content inspections. This is 60-row audit coverage, not 60 fully verified passes. Sample access failures affected @molly0xFFF, @toly, @barnabemonnot, @benjaminion_xyz, @danrobinson, @kaiynne, @kylesamani, @lightclients, @sui414, Csaba Kiraly, Michael Mosier, and Paweł Płatek/Denys Pakizh. Causes included 403/429 responses and tool-inaccessible pages; corrected Csaba and Trail of Bits addresses exposed the underlying work but did not verify the submitted addresses. Paywalls, incomplete transcripts, and a PDF that subsequently timed out limited further verification. I did not equate access failures with dead links or silence with dormancy. In the required taxonomy, “broken” includes empty fields and failure to identify the required specific, recent piece: nero_eth supplies an account feed; matt’s cited discussion is from January–February 2026. “rationale-not-original” identifies secondary articles or summaries, not plagiarism; substantive interviews and substantial attributed reproductions were admissible. DanGuo’s supplied citation is his own discussion. Flag findings concern omitted Ethereum Foundation affiliations/funding and Ignas’s disclosed Pink Brains role, not proven undisclosed promotion. Listed one principal defect per row. Category overlap alone did not justify misassignment findings. Unlisted rows include unresolved cases and are not certified clean; no comprehensive absence-of-promotion or cross-platform inactivity finding was possible.

Sources offered but not confirmed by this machine:

• https://www.cryptotimes.io/2026/09/24/aave-founder-criticizes-morphos-non-custodial-vault-classification/ — did not return a page
• https://www.ignasdefi.com/p/co-founder-of-pink-brains-defi-creator — does not contain the quoted text
• https://coinness.com/en/news/1172691 — did not return a page
• https://michaelneuder.github.io/public/cv.pdf — does not contain the quoted text
• https://beincrypto.com/bitcoin-google-searches-willy-woo-buy/ — did not return a page
• https://www.bankless.com/read/bigger-blocks-are-coming-to-ethereum — did not return a page

VERDICT: The directory does not meet its own criteria as published. It reads like a raw union of panel lists that was never deduplicated or reconciled. Rows 70–99, which carry the "runA-1113" provenance, are mostly unfinished. Fourteen of those thirty rows have an empty cited_by_url, two (Atis Elsts, Barnabé Monnot) have every link field empty, and at least eight of them repeat a voice already listed under a handle. Those repeats are Vitalik, Lyn Alden, Noelle Acheson, Rebecca Rettig, Csaba Kiraly, Barnabé Monnot, Mike Neuder and Nerolation/nero_eth. So the "99 voices" are about 91 distinct identifiers, and two rows each bundle two people. The handle-keyed rows (1–69) hold up better. Most rationale links resolve to dated first-person work from May–October 2026 (Hayes, Dorman, Alden, Carter, Molly White, soispoke, Monnot, Robinson, Lopp, Hougan, Potuz, Terence, misilva73, Diehl, Kling, Barabander, Erasmo, Peirce and others).

The rows still show two systematic faults:

• Rationale links that aren't the voice's own work. About a dozen point to a news write-up about the voice rather than to the voice's own analysis (toly, Eli Ben-Sasson, Justin Drake, Checkmatey, mert, Kain Warwick, samczsun, Brian Armstrong).
• Cited_by links that aren't citations. Many are a news outlet recapping the voice, which is a type of source the README itself excludes as a "voice". Others are the same piece again, a self-citation, an aggregator profile, or a page that doesn't name the voice at all.

Three rows link a rationale older than the six-month window: ERC-5564 (2022), ERC-8004 (Aug 2025) and EIP-8141 (Jan 2026). I found no evidence-backed case of an account that is primarily paid promotion, of a news outlet listed as a voice, or of dormancy. One flag gap is supported by a public allegation (Hayes). No row is named_by three or more panelists, so the README's retention rule protects none of them.

FINDINGS: @CryptoHayes | wrong-flags | https://www.kucoin.com/blog/my-zachxbt-accuses-arthur-hayes-exit-liquidity @AlanaDLevin | cited-by-not-genuine | https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/26251 @CryptoHayes | cited-by-not-genuine | https://coinpaper.com/35227/arthur-hayes-targets-10k-ethereum-as-ena-and-ethfi-face-200-upside @jdorman81 | cited-by-not-genuine | https://www.opalesque.com/716724/The_Four_Areas_of_Crypto_Investments672.html @LynAldenContact | cited-by-not-genuine | https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2026-09-29/lyn-alden-holding-gold-says-fed-bailing-boat-leaking-bucket @LynAldenContact | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv @mert | rationale-not-original | https://defi-planet.com/2026/10/helius-and-ledger-leaders-challenge-fears-that-ai-could-soon-break-bitcoins-security/ @StaniKulechov | rationale-not-original | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv @StaniKulechov | cited-by-not-genuine | https://www.theblock.co/news/defi/2026-09-16-aave-founder-pitches-uber-path-defi-clarity-act-fails-senate-vote-415278 @toly | rationale-not-original | https://cryptobriefing.com/solana-toly-validator-stake-weighted-oracle/ @TrustlessState | cited-by-not-genuine | https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3069574/ @valkenburgh | cited-by-not-genuine | https://www.kucoin.com/news/insight/BTC/6a8f74df8d481c0007b81238 @VitalikButerin | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv @barnabemonnot | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv @brian_armstrong | rationale-not-original | https://andrewmarshall604834.substack.com/p/clarity-fallout-what-next-for-brian @brian_armstrong | cited-by-not-genuine | https://andrewmarshall604834.substack.com/p/clarity-fallout-what-next-for-brian @Checkmatey | rationale-not-original | https://techflowpost.com/en-US/article/34187 @cskiraly | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv @drakefjustin | rationale-not-original | https://bitcoinsuisse.com/uae/industry-blog/justin-drake-bunker-mode-us-government-btc-transfer @EliBenSasson | rationale-not-original | https://forklog.com/en/starknet-considers-transition-to-l1-due-to-quantum-threat/ @ErikVoorhees | cited-by-not-genuine | https://unchainedcrypto.com/uneasy-money-why-erik-voorhees-calls-ais-hidden-filter-deceptive/ @ilblackdragon | cited-by-not-genuine | https://www.theblock.co/news/ecosystems/2026-07-20-ai-assisted-hacking-outpacing-traditional-code-reviews-near-co-founder-says-408943 @jessepollak | cited-by-not-genuine | https://ceointerviews.ai/entity/151160-jesse-pollak-coinbase-global/ @kaiynne | rationale-not-original | https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/28492 @ki_young_ju | broken-rationale | https://coinness.com/en/news/1172691 @kylesamani | cited-by-not-genuine | https://cryptobriefing.com/backpack-us-kyle-samani-board-appointment/ @mikeneuder | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv @nero_eth | broken-rationale | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv @nero_eth | duplicate | https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/erc-5564-stealth-addresses/10614 @NoelleInMadrid | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv @PaulFrambot | rationale-not-original | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv @PaulFrambot | cited-by-not-genuine | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv @RebeccaRettig1 | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv @samczsun | rationale-not-original | https://cryptobriefing.com/samczsun-steps-back-seal-org-interim-ceo/ @willywoo | cited-by-not-genuine | https://www.enkidu.uk/willy-woo Arantxa Zapico ( arantxazapico ) and Aditi Partap | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv arianaraghi | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Atis Elsts ( atiselsts ) | broken-rationale | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Atis Elsts ( atiselsts ) | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Barnabé Monnot ( barnabe ) | broken-rationale | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Barnabé Monnot ( barnabe ) | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv CPerezz | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Csaba Kiraly ( cskiraly ) | broken-rationale | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Csaba Kiraly ( cskiraly ) | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Csaba Kiraly ( cskiraly ) | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv DanGuo (ethresear.ch; GitHub TLM-Research) | cited-by-not-genuine | https://ethresear.ch/t/letting-the-base-fee-be-a-midpoint-a-temporal-liquidity-authorization-for-eip-1559/25958 Davide Crapis ( davidecrapis.eth ) | rationale-not-original | https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/erc-8004-trustless-agents/25098 Davide Crapis ( davidecrapis.eth ) | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Lyn Alden (lynalden.com) | rationale-not-original | https://www.lynalden.com/orange-juice/ Lyn Alden (lynalden.com) | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Lyn Alden (lynalden.com) | wrong-flags | https://www.lynalden.com/orange-juice/ Lyn Alden (lynalden.com) | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv matt (Magicians) | rationale-not-original | https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-8141-frame-transaction/27617 Mike Neuder ( mikeneuder , ethresear.ch) | cited-by-not-genuine | https://ethresear.ch/t/proprietary-amms-and-ethereum/25543 Mike Neuder ( mikeneuder , ethresear.ch) | duplicate | https://ethresear.ch/t/ethereum-propamms-today-and-tomorrow/26129 Nicolas Donboly (Trail of Bits) | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Nicolas Donboly (Trail of Bits) | wrong-flags | https://trailofbits.com/2026/07/30/building-secure-uniswap-v4-hooks/ Noelle Acheson | duplicate | https://www.cryptoismacro.com/p/weekly-coldcard-brca Paul Bottinelli (Trail of Bits) | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Paul Bottinelli (Trail of Bits) | wrong-flags | https://trailofbits.com/2026/09/25/dont-let-tees-break-your-mpc/ Paweł Płatek and Denys Pakizh (Trail of Bits) | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Paweł Płatek and Denys Pakizh (Trail of Bits) | wrong-flags | https://trailofbits.com/2026/08/25/state-divergence-enables-unauthorized-access/ Rebecca Rettig | wrong-flags | https://www.fortune.com/2026/09/18/onchain-finance-is-coming-to-wall-street-and-ignoring-it-is-no-longer-an-option/ Rebecca Rettig | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Shayon Sengupta | cited-by-not-genuine | https://www.coinage.media/2026/why-hyperliquid-can-still-surge-250-higher-according-to-multicoin Toni Wahrstätter ( Nerolation ) | rationale-not-original | https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/erc-5564-stealth-addresses/10614 Toni Wahrstätter ( Nerolation ) | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Toni Wahrstätter ( Nerolation ) | wrong-flags | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Toni Wahrstätter ( Nerolation ) | duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Vitalik Buterin (blog; X: VitalikButerin) | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Vitalik Buterin (blog; X: VitalikButerin) | wrong-flags | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Vitalik Buterin (blog; X: VitalikButerin) | duplicate | https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/09/27/the_cryptographic_world_computer.html Zsolt Felföldi ( zsfelfoldi ) | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv

REMOVALS: Atis Elsts ( atiselsts ) | every link field is empty, so the row claims nothing that can be checked Barnabé Monnot ( barnabe ) | empty duplicate of @barnabemonnot Csaba Kiraly ( cskiraly ) | duplicate of @cskiraly, with a malformed URL and no citation Lyn Alden (lynalden.com) | duplicate of @LynAldenContact Mike Neuder ( mikeneuder , ethresear.ch) | duplicate of @mikeneuder, with the same rationale and a self-citation Noelle Acheson | duplicate of @NoelleInMadrid (same site, same cited_by) Rebecca Rettig | duplicate of @RebeccaRettig1, with the affiliation flag dropped Toni Wahrstätter ( Nerolation ) | duplicate of @nero_eth, with a 2022 rationale and no citation Vitalik Buterin (blog; X: VitalikButerin) | duplicate of @VitalikButerin (same rationale URL) @brian_armstrong | the only link is a third party's post about him, used as both rationale and citation @PaulFrambot | rationale and cited_by are the same news story, headlined about the Aave founder, not his work

METHOD:

• What I read. I extracted all 99 data rows from voices.csv in three passes and read README.md. Every row was screened for empty fields, shared URLs and duplicate identities, which covers the structural findings for rows 70–99.

• Sample. This was not a random draw. I chose rows to cover every category and both provenance groups: rows 1–69 almost entirely, plus 73, 76, 79–89, 91, 92 and 95–97. I opened at least one link for 79 distinct rows, about 115 link fetches and searches in total, including follow-ups on authorship, date and whether the voice is named.

• Defect class for stale rationales. Rationales older than six months are classed rationale-not-original because they fail the README's six-month originality requirement.

• Hayes flag. This finding rests on a public allegation from ZachXBT (promoting tokens and then selling), not on an established finding of paid promotion.

• Promotion search. I ran one web search for undisclosed-promotion evidence. It surfaced ZachXBT's 2025 price-sheet reporting, but none of the coverage names a directory row. I make no promotion or dormancy accusation, because I could not find evidence for one.

• What I could not verify. These pages returned 403/429, could not be fetched, or rendered no usable content:

  • cryptotimes (Stani/Frambot), beincrypto (Woo), nitter (nero_eth) and the SSRN paper (Mosier/Malekan)
  • the UK Parliament written evidence (Diehl), listennotes (Gromen), investigations.co (zachxbt), The Atlantic (McKenzie) and press.vgdh.io
  • the YouTube cited_by (Molly White)
  • the SEC PDFs for lex_node, Tuminelli and Jennings, which were compressed (lex_node's authorship was confirmed from metadata only)

  I also did not open the cited_by links for rows 2, 6, 12, 21, 24, 28, 33, 43, 49, 51, 54, 60, 62, 65, 74, 80, 83 and 84.

• Things I suspect but could not prove. That "matt (Magicians)" is the same person as @lightclients; that @samczsun's "anon" flag is wrong; and that rows 70 and 94, which each bundle two people, should be split. None of these is listed as a finding.

Sources: The Block on ZachXBT promo findings, KuCoin blog on Hayes allegation, Forklog on undisclosed promotions

Sources offered but not confirmed by this machine:

• https://cryptobriefing.com/solana-toly-validator-stake-weighted-oracle/ — did not return a page
• https://cryptobriefing.com/samczsun-steps-back-seal-org-interim-ceo/ — did not return a page
• https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/28492 — does not contain the quoted text
• https://www.lynalden.com/orange-juice/ — does not contain the quoted text
• https://www.coinage.media/2026/why-hyperliquid-can-still-surge-250-higher-according-to-multicoin — does not contain the quoted text
• https://ethresear.ch/t/letting-the-base-fee-be-a-midpoint-a-temporal-liquidity-authorization-for-eip-1559/25958 — does not contain the quoted text
• https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3069574/ — did not return a page
• https://blog.lopp.net/bitcoin-quantum-migration-debate/ — does not contain the quoted text

VERDICT: The directory does not meet its stated criteria. I checked 94 of the 99 rows and fully verified about 80. Of those, 50 rows have at least one defect. The defects fall into five groups:

• Duplicates. Eight people appear twice, under an X handle and again as a forum or full-name row. All eight second copies come from batch runA-1113, and their flags or categories often contradict the first copy.
• Missing links. 14 rows have no cited_by_url, and 2 of them also have no rationale_url.
• News stories as rationale. About a dozen rationale links are third-party news articles or summaries, not the voice's own work. Two rows (@brian_armstrong, @PaulFrambot) use the same article for both rationale and cited_by.
• Self-citations. About 20 cited_by links are the voice's own podcast appearance, their own show, their own earlier post, a translation of their own piece, or a profile/index page. None is another credible voice engaging with them.
• Dead or stale links. Three Trail of Bits links return 404 on trailofbits.com; the posts live on blog.trailofbits.com. Rationale links from 2022, August 2025 and January 2026 fall outside the 6-month window.

I found no dormant accounts and no news outlet posing as a voice. No voice met the evidence bar for "primarily paid promotion". Two rows show disclosed self-interest rather than undisclosed shilling. Evanss6's rationale post has labelled referral links and disclosed holdings. Kyle Samani's rationale argues for Backpack after he disclosed a $4M stake and a board seat. Two rows bundle two people into one "voice" (Zapico/Partap and Płatek/Pakizh). The core research and policy rows are sound: ethresear.ch posts, Flashbots MEV-letter citations, SEC comment letters and the CFTC Federal Register citations.

FINDINGS: @jdorman81 | cited-by-not-genuine | https://www.opalesque.com/716724/The_Four_Areas_of_Crypto_Investments672.html @hosseeb | cited-by-not-genuine | https://www.bankless.com/podcast/rollup-robinhoods-meme-economy-solana-cuts-issuance-saylors-comeback-ai-alarm @RyanSAdams | cited-by-not-genuine | https://www.bankless.com/podcast/rollup-the-bull-market-test-clarity-dies-sec-opens-the-door-hyperliquid-comes-onshore @TrustlessState | cited-by-not-genuine | https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3069574/ @mert | rationale-not-original, cited-by-not-genuine | https://defi-planet.com/2026/10/helius-and-ledger-leaders-challenge-fears-that-ai-could-soon-break-bitcoins-security/ @toly | rationale-not-original, cited-by-not-genuine | https://cryptobriefing.com/solana-toly-validator-stake-weighted-oracle/ @balajis | cited-by-not-genuine | https://tradingstrategynews.com/balajis-farcaster-takeover-sparks-backlash-over-bans/ @brian_armstrong | rationale-not-original, cited-by-not-genuine | https://andrewmarshall604834.substack.com/p/clarity-fallout-what-next-for-brian @Checkmatey | rationale-not-original | https://techflowpost.com/en-US/article/34187 @DefiIgnas | cited-by-not-genuine | https://www.aicoin.com/en/article/551210 @drakefjustin | rationale-not-original | https://bitcoinsuisse.com/uae/industry-blog/justin-drake-bunker-mode-us-government-btc-transfer @dwr | cited-by-not-genuine | https://podwise.ai/episodes/9126413 @EliBenSasson | rationale-not-original, cited-by-not-genuine | https://forklog.com/en/starknet-considers-transition-to-l1-due-to-quantum-threat/ @ErikVoorhees | cited-by-not-genuine | https://unchainedcrypto.com/uneasy-money-why-erik-voorhees-calls-ais-hidden-filter-deceptive/ @Evan_ss6 | cited-by-not-genuine | https://en.theblockbeats.news/news/63799 @gametheorizing | cited-by-not-genuine | https://www.bidclub.ai/e/is-bottom-what-lads-are-buying @hasufl | rationale-not-original | https://collective.flashbots.net/t/a-take-on-quick-slots/5979 @jessepollak | cited-by-not-genuine | https://ceointerviews.ai/entity/151160-jesse-pollak-coinbase-global/ @jessewldn | cited-by-not-genuine | https://spoken.md/episode/jesse-walden-variant-fund-1000797449377 @jvisserlabs | cited-by-not-genuine | https://www.tftc.io/jordi-visser-economy-is-an-ai-trade @kaiynne | rationale-not-original | https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/28492 @lopp | cited-by-not-genuine | https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/ai-came-for-bitcoin-first-jameson-lopp/id1482455669?i=1000789808546 @nero_eth | broken-rationale, duplicate | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv @NoelleInMadrid | cited-by-not-genuine | https://finance.yahoo.com/video/bitcoin-headwinds-sign-monetary-tightening-194105249.html @PaulFrambot | rationale-not-original, cited-by-not-genuine | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv @samczsun | rationale-not-original | https://cryptobriefing.com/samczsun-steps-back-seal-org-interim-ceo/ @Travis_Kling | cited-by-not-genuine | https://podscripts.co/podcasts/unchained/why-travis-kling-thinks-not-looking-at-ai-agents-would-be-a-big-mistake-ep-763 @willywoo | cited-by-not-genuine | https://www.enkidu.uk/willy-woo Arantxa Zapico ( arantxazapico ) and Aditi Partap | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv arianaraghi | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Atis Elsts ( atiselsts ) | broken-rationale, broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Austin Barack | cited-by-not-genuine | https://therollup.co/podcast/austin-barack-my-ai-bull-thesis-and-what-im-holding Austin Campbell | cited-by-not-genuine | https://unchainedcrypto.com/after-the-ledger-reseller-hack-austin-campbell-says-self-custody-users-should-be-over-solving-for-simplicity/ Barnabé Monnot ( barnabe ) | duplicate, broken-rationale, broken-cited-by, wrong-flags | https://ethlabs.org/writings/quick-slots-ecosystem.html CPerezz | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Csaba Kiraly ( cskiraly ) | duplicate, broken-rationale, broken-cited-by, wrong-category | https://ethresear.ch/t/seacast-fast-lean-broadcast-for-ethereum-with-an-executable-spec-and-a-formal-model/26167 DanGuo (ethresear.ch; GitHub TLM-Research) | cited-by-not-genuine | https://ethresear.ch/t/letting-the-base-fee-be-a-midpoint-a-temporal-liquidity-authorization-for-eip-1559/25958 Davide Crapis ( davidecrapis.eth ) | rationale-not-original, broken-cited-by | https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/erc-8004-trustless-agents/25098 Lyn Alden (lynalden.com) | duplicate, broken-cited-by, wrong-flags | https://www.lynalden.com/orange-juice/ matt (Magicians) | rationale-not-original | https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-8141-frame-transaction/27617 Mike Neuder ( mikeneuder , ethresear.ch) | duplicate, cited-by-not-genuine, wrong-category | https://ethresear.ch/t/proprietary-amms-and-ethereum/25543 Nicolas Donboly (Trail of Bits) | broken-rationale, broken-cited-by, wrong-flags | https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/07/30/building-secure-uniswap-v4-hooks/ Noelle Acheson | duplicate, cited-by-not-genuine | https://finance.yahoo.com/video/bitcoin-headwinds-sign-monetary-tightening-194105249.html Paul Bottinelli (Trail of Bits) | broken-rationale, broken-cited-by, wrong-flags | https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/09/25/dont-let-tees-break-your-mpc/ Paweł Płatek and Denys Pakizh (Trail of Bits) | broken-rationale, broken-cited-by, wrong-flags | https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/25/state-divergence-enables-unauthorized-access/ Rebecca Rettig | duplicate, wrong-flags | https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/onchain-finance-coming-wall-street-120000001.html Shayon Sengupta | cited-by-not-genuine | https://www.coinage.media/2026/why-hyperliquid-can-still-surge-250-higher-according-to-multicoin Toni Wahrstätter ( Nerolation ) | duplicate, rationale-not-original, broken-cited-by | https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/erc-5564-stealth-addresses/10614 Vitalik Buterin (blog; X: VitalikButerin) | duplicate, broken-cited-by, wrong-flags | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv Zsolt Felföldi ( zsfelfoldi ) | broken-cited-by | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openinterest-ai/paper/main/masthead/voices.csv

REMOVALS: Atis Elsts ( atiselsts ) | no rationale or cited-by link at all Barnabé Monnot ( barnabe ) | duplicate of @barnabemonnot, with no links Csaba Kiraly ( cskiraly ) | duplicate of @cskiraly Lyn Alden (lynalden.com) | duplicate of @LynAldenContact Vitalik Buterin (blog; X: VitalikButerin) | duplicate of @VitalikButerin, with the same rationale URL Rebecca Rettig | duplicate of @RebeccaRettig1 Noelle Acheson | duplicate of @NoelleInMadrid Mike Neuder ( mikeneuder , ethresear.ch) | duplicate of @mikeneuder, with the same rationale URL Toni Wahrstätter ( Nerolation ) | duplicate of @nero_eth, with a 2022 rationale and no cited-by @brian_armstrong | no original work cited; rationale and cited_by are the same third-party Substack post @PaulFrambot | rationale and cited_by are the same news article about another founder Davide Crapis ( davidecrapis.eth ) | rationale dated Aug 2025, outside the window, and no cited-by

METHOD: I got the CSV and README through a summarising fetcher, so the CSV rows were transcribed in three chunks rather than read raw. I did not draw a random sample. I tried to open both links for every row, which gave 94 rows with at least one link checked and about 80 with both links verified. That took roughly 140 fetches, plus three PDFs that I read locally (the Daugherty and a16z SEC letters and the Gibson Dunn update).

Dates are judged against today (2026-10-26): 6 months back is about 2026-04-26, and 90 days back is about 2026-07-28.

What I could not verify, and why:

• Blocked or rate-limited: cryptotimes.io (@StaniKulechov and @PaulFrambot rationale) returned 403, so the @PaulFrambot finding rests on the identical URLs in the CSV. nitter.rdrama.net (@nero_eth) returned 403. beincrypto (@willywoo rationale) returned 403. podcastrex (@dwr, @RyanWatkins_) returned 403. committees.parliament.uk (@smdiehl cited_by) returned 403. investigations.co (@zachxbt) returned 429. press.vgdh.io (@VitalikButerin cited_by) dropped the connection. theatlantic.com (@ben_mckenzie) could not be fetched. coinness (@ki_young_ju) loaded an empty page. The YouTube page (@molly0xFFF cited_by) loaded no video metadata.
• Not opened: the @CryptoHayes cited_by (coinpaper), the @mikeneuder handle-row link pair, and @RyanWatkins_'s rationale year (the page shows "Aug 27" with no year).
• Affiliation flags: I listed wrong-flags only where a page I opened states the affiliation, or where the directory contradicts itself. Unflagged Ethereum Foundation and client-team affiliations (for example @soispoke, @misilva73, @potuz, @terencechain) are plausible but I did not document them.
• Suspected duplicate: "matt (Magicians)" may be the same person as @lightclients. The EIP-8141 author list names lightclient, but I could not confirm the identity, so I did not list it as a duplicate.
• Unconfirmed authorship: @hasufl's rationale is listed as a "take" by Hasu, but the forum shows boz1 as the author.

Sources offered but not confirmed by this machine:

• https://cryptobriefing.com/solana-toly-validator-stake-weighted-oracle/ — did not return a page
• https://cryptobriefing.com/samczsun-steps-back-seal-org-interim-ceo/ — did not return a page
• https://tradingstrategynews.com/balajis-farcaster-takeover-sparks-backlash-over-bans/ — does not contain the quoted text
• https://finance.yahoo.com/video/bitcoin-headwinds-sign-monetary-tightening-194105249.html — could not be read: Parse Error: Header overflow
• https://www.sec.gov/comments/S7-2026-27/s7202627-1098679-3869546.pdf — did not return a page
• https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/infi-the-future-of/ep-156-are-fed-rate-hikes-dI6vgHyflX7/ — did not return a page