{"schema_version":2,"updated":"2026-10-24T07:57:30.283Z","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","cite_as":"Own Your Mind, \"Decentralised AI Freedom and Returns score dataset\", https://ownyourmind.ai/integrity/","attribution":"Own Your Mind (ownyourmind.ai). Link the specific project review when citing a single project.","integrity_notice":{"summary":"Each integrity record carries its own record_type, verdict and assessment_level. A 'claim' record quotes the project's own published statement; a 'reported' value is that claim, not a verified fact, unless verdict is 'match'. A 'finding' record is our own measurement and grades no one's claim. assessment_level 'not-assessed' means unchecked, never clean. Findings are dated snapshots, not a live feed.","verdicts":{"match":"verified against independent data","inflated":"reported higher than independent data shows","understated":"reported lower than independent data shows","outdated":"was accurate when reported; on-chain reality has since moved","established":"our own independent measurement; there is no project claim to grade","unverified":"independently checkable, not yet checked","unverifiable":"checked, could not independently confirm"},"record_types":{"claim":"the project's own published statement, quoted verbatim, graded against independent data","finding":"our own measurement for a score dimension; no claimant and never a verdict on a claim"},"methodology":"https://ownyourmind.ai/resources/integrity-checks/"},"slug":"cookie-dao","markdown":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/cookie-dao.md","title":"Cookie DAO","token":"COOKIE","category":"data","freedomScore":2.2,"returnsScore":5,"freedomGrade":"F","returnsGrade":"D","url":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/cookie-dao/","integrity":{"assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","last_assessed":"2026-09-24","emission_honesty":null,"reconciliations":[{"metric":"max_supply_fixed","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"The $COOKIE token total supply is 1,000,000,000 $COOKIE.","source_url":"https://docs.cookie.community/cookie-dao/usdcookie-token/tokenomics","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"1,000,000,000 COOKIE total supply","source":"Cookie DAO docs, Tokenomics (docs.cookie.community)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"The token is a plain LayerZero OFT (contract 'Cookie' is Ownable + OFT) that mints its initial supply ONCE to the delegate in the constructor; there is no owner or public mint function, and cross-chain moves are supply-neutral (burn-on-send / mint-on-receive). Live totalSupply summed across all deployed legs on 2026-08-17: BNB 737,002,714 + Base 262,997,286 + Ethereum 0 = 1,000,000,000 COOKIE exactly, matching the 1B claim. No dilution path exists.","source":"eth_call totalSupply() on the same-address OFT (0xc0041ef357b183448b235a8ea73ce4e4ec8c265f) across BNB / Base / Ethereum + BaseScan-verified contract source, read 2026-08-12"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"token_transfer_permissionlessness","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"The COOKIE token has no pause, blacklist or transfer tax; the owner's only levers are LayerZero bridge settings.","independent":{"value":"The Cookie OFT is a standard Ownable + LayerZero OFT ERC-20 with no pause, no blacklist and no fee-on-transfer or tax on token transfers (the 100+ 'fee' references in the flattened source are LayerZero MessagingFee plumbing, not a transfer tax). Local transfers cannot be frozen or censored. The owner (delegate) powers are LayerZero-config only, chiefly setPeer (which remote chains and contracts are trusted for bridging) and the LZ delegate role, so the owner controls the bridge topology but not local transferability.","source":"BaseScan-verified 'Cookie' OFT source (0xc0041ef357b183448b235a8ea73ce4e4ec8c265f), read 2026-08-12"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"open_source_footprint","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Cookie DAO publishes no product code: its GitHub organisations hold no product repositories and the token contract is marked UNLICENSED.","independent":{"value":"Re-read 2026-09-18 through the GitHub API: 0 non-fork public repositories in github.com/cookie3 (0 public in total, 0 of them forks), with no repository to date. github.com/cookiedotfun has 0 public repos, and the only 'cookiedao' org repos are an unrelated, stale 2022 Stacks DEX (CookieSwap / CookieSwap-FE), not the cookie.fun agent-index product. The verified token contract declares 'SPDX-License-Identifier: UNLICENSED'. The codebase behind the data product cannot be audited, forked or independently checked.","source":"GitHub REST API (orgs/cookie3/repos), re-read 2026-09-18"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"liquidity_depth","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"COOKIE is listed on major centralised exchanges and trades across dozens of venues, with daily volume a fraction of market cap.","independent":{"value":"43 tickers on 38 venues, re-read 2026-10-07 (49 on 42 venues earlier), including Binance, Bybit, KuCoin, Coinbase, Kraken, MEXC and Bitget. Turnover is a 17.40% 7-day median, so daily volume is about a sixth of market cap. Distribution is even for a token this size, with Binance top at 14.0% of volume and Bybit and LBank at 10.3% each.","source":"CoinGecko tickers (paginated) + turnover from src/data/turnover.json, read 2026-09-06"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"low"},{"metric":"holder_concentration","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"COOKIE's concentration sits on its BNB leg, where exchange wallets lead; the Base leg has four times the holders and no dominant position.","independent":{"value":"The two live legs hold very different books, and reading either alone would mislead. BNB Smart Chain carries 737,141,626.5 COOKIE across 23,799 holders; Base carries 262,858,373.45 across 97,537; Ethereum carries zero. The legs sum to exactly 1,000,000,000, so the OFT accounting is intact. Concentration sits almost entirely on BNB: its largest holder is Binance: Hot Wallet 20 at 20.7970% of that leg, three of its top ten are exchange wallets (Binance 20, Binance 28, Bybit 13), and the Cookie DAO multisig is tenth at 2.7132%. Base is the opposite shape, four times the holders and a largest position of 2.95% measured against the full 1B, itself an exchange wallet. No address in Base's top fourteen appears anywhere in BNB's top seventeen, so the two books are held by different people and a merged ranking would not collapse into one.","source":"bscscan.com token page for the BNB leg, read in Chrome 2026-09-20 (BscScan serves no keyless holder API and Cloudflare blocks non-browser clients); base.blockscout.com /api/v2/tokens/.../holders for the Base leg; eth.blockscout.com for the empty Ethereum leg"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"low"},{"metric":"fee_burn_leg","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"No COOKIE burn is taking place: the burn addresses hold almost nothing and total supply still equals the full 1B.","independent":{"value":"On BNB Smart Chain, where most of the 1B supply sits, the burn addresses hold 2.47 COOKIE, re-read 2026-09-24 (2.17 on 2026-09-21). The three legs sum to exactly 1,000,000,000, the full cap, so no COOKIE has been destroyed by a burn() call either. Both routes were checked because an ERC-20 can burn by transfer to a dead address or by reducing totalSupply.","source":"eth_call balanceOf on the COOKIE BEP-20 (0xc004...265f) for 0x...dEaD and 0x0, plus totalSupply on all three legs via bsc-dataseed, base-rpc.publicnode.com and ethereum-rpc.publicnode.com, read 2026-09-21; the project's documentation read from its own docs.cookie.community/llms.txt index and the Wayback CDX enumeration of the docs host"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"}],"facts":[{"metric":"technical_claims","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","kind":"limit","flag":"unmeasurable","positive_control":false,"severity":"medium","detail":"Zero open-source code; cannot audit, fork, or independently verify any technology claims.","assessed_date":"2026-06-08"},{"metric":"circulating_supply","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","kind":"limit","flag":"unmeasurable","positive_control":false,"severity":"low","detail":"Circulating supply differs across data sources.","assessed_date":"2026-06-08"}]}}