Quick update.

This week, we delisted two projects from Launches after seeing strong signals of a large volume of manipulated votes.

We reviewed the data carefully and concluded that we cannot trust the final results those projects received. Because of that, both projects have been removed from the cohort.

We will also postpone the launch of the next Launches cohort to one week.

Instead, we will use that time to improve the claps and voting system and make it much harder to abuse. Identity was built around a simple idea: the platform should help surface signals the community can actually trust. If we are not confident in the integrity of the results, we should not move forward as if everything is fine.

To be honest, vote manipulation was one of the last things I expected to see here. But one positive takeaway is that, because Identity has an open API and transparent data, these patterns were relatively easy to detect. We will keep improving these tools so that identifying this kind of behavior becomes even faster and more reliable over time.

We currently expect to launch the second Launches cohort the following week.

A big thank you to the community members who helped surface issues in the voting logic early. Your attention helped us catch problems in time and start fixing them properly. The contributors who helped identify these issues will receive their rewards tomorrow.

Next week we will launch a Bug Bounty program so the community has a clear way to report these issues and help make Identity stronger.

Thanks again to everyone helping us build a system that is fair, transparent, and worthy of trust.

Stay tuned.