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Railgun (RAIL) Token Autopsy: Private Money on Ethereum — Shield or Smoke Screen? | Daily Crypto IQ

Token Autopsy · streamed 2026-11-03 · runtime 1:19:35

Takeaways

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• Token Autopsy on Railgun (RAIL): zero-knowledge proofs validate a spend on Ethereum without publishing the sender, asset path or amount. Entry and exit stay public, so the crowd does the hiding in between.
• Fee path: a 0.25% deduction on shielding and unshielding goes to DAO-controlled contracts, and every two weeks a share of the treasury is allocated for active stakers to claim. Claiming costs gas, and unstaking means a 30-day wait with rewards stopped.
• Supply: about 60 million of the 100 million max is circulating, roughly 41.6 million sits in the staking contract, and governance can approve more minting, which it already did with a July 2026 treasury mint.
• Risk drags the score: the FBI says Lazarus used Railgun to launder ETH from the Harmony theft (Railgun disputes it), terror victims' families sued the DAO, and the number of unique users is unknown by design.
• Final score: 68 out of 100. A dismissed suit, fresh audits on recent code and more wallet inflows would help; another mint, fees under $200K a month or an exploit would not.

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