Methodology

How ZAFU treats community risk signals.

Community Signals help ZAFU warn about risky addresses earlier, while keeping labels explainable and avoiding overclaiming from a single report.

Short version: community-reported means high risk, not confirmed malicious. Stronger labels require repeated evidence, pattern detection, team review, or trusted external confirmation. Disputes can reduce or remove confidence.

Signal states

StateWhat it means
Community-reportedOne or more ZAFU users reported the address, and the address crossed the community threshold. Treat it as high risk and verify independently.
Pattern-detectedZAFU detected suspicious behavior such as dust, zero-value inbound transactions, or poisoning-style lookalike activity while indexing opted-in wallet history.
Team-reviewedA human review checked available evidence, on-chain behavior, and report context. This raises confidence but still remains evidence-based.
Confirmed maliciousThe address is confirmed by trusted threat intelligence, strong on-chain evidence, or a reviewed campaign cluster. ZAFU reserves this wording for higher-confidence cases.
DisputedA user or address owner challenged the signal. Disputes are reviewed and can lower confidence, change copy, or remove an address from warnings.

What reports include

ZAFU community submissions are designed around security evidence, not user tracking. Reports can include the suspected attacker address, chain, signal source, timestamp, and a private install ID for deduplication and abuse resistance.

Public share links use a separate referral ID. The private install ID is not placed in public URLs.

What ZAFU does not collect by default

How warnings are applied

ZAFU checks community signals alongside bundled blocklists and external threat checks. If a community-only address appears, ZAFU describes it as community-reported and asks users to verify independently. That language is intentional.

Explainable signals Not every report is confirmed