{"schema_version":2,"updated":"2026-10-24T07:57:30.288Z","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higher than independent data shows","understated":"reported lower than independent data shows","outdated":"was accurate when reported; on-chain reality has since moved","established":"our own independent measurement; there is no project claim to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":"flux","markdown":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/flux.md","title":"Flux","token":"FLUX","category":"compute","freedomScore":7.4,"returnsScore":5.7,"freedomGrade":"B","returnsGrade":"C","url":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/flux/","integrity":{"assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","last_assessed":"2026-09-24","emission_honesty":null,"reconciliations":[{"metric":"circulating_supply","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Most of the 560M FLUX cap is already mined, and daily block rewards keep adding to circulating supply.","independent":{"value":"The explorer's supply statistics put mined supply at 430,232,792.5 FLUX on 2026-09-20, 76.8% of the 560M cap, growing by about 40K a day. The explorer's separate total-supply endpoint reads 419,744,862 on the same day, 2.4% below the statistics series, and neither endpoint documents its basis, so the two are not reconciled here. The 560M cap is a fork parameter that no endpoint exposes; it is carried as the project's statement.","source":"explorer.runonflux.io /api/statistics/supply (newest dated entry) and /api/statistics/total-supply, read 2026-09-20"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"low"},{"metric":"open_source_footprint","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Flux's core node code is public under AGPL-3.0, but a large share of its own repositories carry no licence file.","independent":{"value":"Read 2026-09-18 through the GitHub API: 110 non-fork public repositories in github.com/RunOnFlux (189 public in total, 79 of them forks), 79 carrying no licence file and 60 not pushed in 180 days, newest push fluxhashes on 2026-09-17. The core flux node repo is AGPL-3.0 and not archived.","source":"GitHub REST API (orgs/RunOnFlux/repos), re-read 2026-09-18"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"node_count_and_providers","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"outdated","claim_holds_up":false,"claim":{"quote":"As of mid-2025, it has over 10,000 nodes distributed across 66+ countries and operated by more than 560 independent infrastructure providers","source_url":"https://docs.runonflux.com/fluxnodes/what-are-fluxnodes/","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"Over 10,000 nodes and more than 560 independent infrastructure providers, as of mid-2025","source":"Flux documentation, What Are FluxNodes","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"The live node count sits about 30% below the documented figure: 7,015 nodes in the deterministic node list, re-read 2026-10-05 (6,108 on 2026-09-18; CUMULUS 3,532, STRATUS 1,807, NIMBUS 1,676). The providers half is consistent with the data: the nodes resolve to 859 distinct payment addresses, an upper bound on independent operators, so more than 560 sits inside what the data allows.","source":"Flux daemon API (api.runonflux.io/daemon/viewdeterministiczelnodelist + /daemon/getzelnodecount) and the runonflux.com homepage counter, both read 2026-08-16"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"node_operator_and_hosting_concentration","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"This global spread eliminates single points of failure.","source_url":"https://docs.runonflux.com/fluxnodes/what-are-fluxnodes/","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"The global spread of nodes eliminates single points of failure","source":"Flux documentation, What Are FluxNodes","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"No single point of failure, though concentrated on the operator and hosting axes. Operators: the largest single payment address runs 423 nodes (6.9% of the network), the top 10 run 28.0%, and 50 addresses run 52.2%, while 397 addresses run exactly one node each. Hosting: the 6,093 nodes sit in 571 distinct /16 IP blocks, but the top 10 blocks hold 31.5% of them. RIPE RDAP registers the two largest commercial blocks to Hetzner Online GmbH (65.108.0.0 and 65.109.0.0, 654 nodes between them) and the single largest block to Norlys Telco A/S, a Danish ISP group (62.107.0.0, netname DK-STOFANET, 416 nodes). Block production is the healthiest axis: 232 distinct producers over a 2,880-block window, the largest at 14.55%, and 11 producers needed to reach half the blocks.","source":"Flux deterministic node list (api.runonflux.io) grouped by payment_address and /16; RIPE NCC RDAP for the network registrations; explorer.runonflux.io /api/statistics/total for block production, 2026-08-16"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"fluxcloud_deployed_apps","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"FluxCloud's application registry is broad, with over a thousand distinct owners, though one owner holds a large share of the specifications.","independent":{"value":"The global application registry holds 2,080 specifications, of which 2,033 are unexpired (read 2026-10-12; 1,823 on 2026-09-28 and 1,018 in August), requesting 8,829 instances across 1,487 distinct application owners. The largest single owner accounts for 197 specifications, about 10% of the unexpired set.","source":"Flux app registry (api.runonflux.io/apps/globalappsspecifications) filtered against /daemon/getblockcount, 2026-08-16"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"takedown_surface","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"No single operator or host can stop the Flux network, but 38 payout addresses run half the nodes and two Hetzner blocks hold 727.","independent":{"value":"No single point of failure, though concentrated on the operator and hosting axes (index read 2026-09-28, block 2,991,152). Operators: the largest single payment address runs 415 nodes (6.3% of the network), the top 10 run 28.9%, and 38 addresses run half, while 361 addresses run exactly one node each. Hosting: the 6,570 nodes sit in 564 distinct /16 IP blocks, but the top 10 blocks hold 34.8% of them and 25 blocks hold half. RIPE RDAP registers the single largest block to GHOSTnet GmbH (5.230.0.0, 499 nodes), the two Hetzner Online blocks (65.109.0.0 and 65.108.0.0) to 727 nodes between them, and 62.107.0.0 to Norlys Telco A/S, a Danish ISP group (407 nodes). Block production is the healthiest axis: 234 distinct producers over a 2,875-block window, the largest at 11.58%, and 12 producers needed to reach half the blocks.","source":"Flux deterministic node list (api.runonflux.io) grouped by payment_address and /16; RIPE NCC RDAP for the network registrations; explorer.runonflux.io /api/statistics/total for block production, 2026-08-16"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"low"},{"metric":"liquidity_depth","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"FLUX lists on Binance, Kraken, KuCoin, Gate and Crypto.com, but more than half of reported volume sits on one venue, GroveX.","independent":{"value":"Binance, Kraken, KuCoin, Gate and Crypto.com Exchange all list FLUX, among 42 tickers on 34 venues: Binance $94,248, Kraken $41,084. GroveX alone carries $1,666,271 of $3.05M reported 24h volume, 54.7%, roughly eighteen times Binance's share of the same book. Turnover reads an 18.89% 7-day median on that basis and roughly 8.6% without GroveX.","source":"CoinGecko tickers + market_chart, read 2026-09-06 (paginated ticker set, 7-day turnover median)"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"holder_concentration","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"FLUX custody is concentrated: ten addresses hold most of the supply, and one unattributed address holds over a third of it.","independent":{"value":"Ten addresses hold 59.43% of the 419,769,138 FLUX the explorer reports as supply, and one P2SH address (t3ThbWogDoAjGuS6DEnmN1GWJBRbVjSUK4T) holds 38.12% of it on its own. Without that one address the top ten is 21.32%, and without the top two it is 11.91%. The largest address has 23 transactions in its life, has received 277.0M FLUX and sent 117.0M, and moves in round 5M and 10M chunks to a single counterparty, which is the behaviour of a vault rather than a holder. The second (39.5M, 9.41%) has four transactions. Neither is attributed anywhere Flux publishes. Several of the rest carry large blocks_mined counts and read as mining pools. The listed thousand addresses hold 92.14% of supply between them.","source":"explorer.runonflux.io /api/statistics/richest-addresses-list (1,000 rows) against /api/supply, plus /api/addr and /api/txs for the largest address's history, via scripts/refresh-holder-concentration.py, read 2026-09-20"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"}],"facts":[{"metric":"volume_turnover_pct","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","kind":"measured","flag":"concentration","positive_control":false,"severity":"medium","detail":"GroveX carries $1,666,271 of FLUX's $3.05M reported 24h volume (54.7%), so the turnover ratio measures one venue rather than market depth. Without it turnover is roughly 8.6% rather than 18.89%. Read the ratio for FLUX only alongside this flag.","assessed_date":"2026-09-06"}]}}