| EC-001 | CB Insights lists Injective as a unicorn with a $1B valuation, April 20, 2021 join date, United States/New York metadata, Financial Services industry and investors Pantera Capital, Cadenza Ventures and BlockTower Capital. | verified high | SRC-001 |
| EC-002 | Public-source status screen supports treating Injective Labs as private and active, with no obvious U.S. public-company ticker found and active official 2026 product/legal sources. | partially verified medium | SRC-019SRC-024SRC-002SRC-003SRC-015 |
| EC-003 | Injective announced a $40M financing from Jump Crypto and BH Digital and cited over 92M on-chain transactions and $7B cumulative dApp volume at that time. | partially verified medium | SRC-004 |
| EC-004 | The Block reported Injective raised $10M through a private placement token sale at a $1B+ valuation from investors including Mark Cuban, Pantera, BlockTower, Hashed, CMS and QCP, with a 22-person team and plan to double. | verified high | SRC-005 |
| EC-005 | Crypto Fundraising aggregates Injective total public fundraising at about $59.8M, including $40M in 2022 and $10M in 2021 rounds plus earlier launchpad/private/seed entries. | partially verified medium | SRC-006 |
| EC-006 | Injective positions itself as a fast Layer 1 blockchain for DeFi and finance apps, built for finance. | verified high | SRC-003 |
| EC-007 | Injective docs describe orderbook, MEV-resistant FBA, IBC/Ethereum interoperability, EVM smart contracts, AI tools, sustained 25,000 tx/s, theoretical 600,000 tx/s, 650ms block time and about $0.0003 standard fee. | partially verified medium | SRC-007 |
| EC-008 | Injective oracle docs say the oracle module supplies external price data to the exchange module, with governance-controlled relayers and Band IBC integration. | verified high | SRC-008 |
| EC-009 | Multiple Injective public repositories showed current public development activity near the access date, including TypeScript, Go and Python SDKs and core chain repository metadata. | verified high | SRC-009SRC-010SRC-011SRC-012 |
| EC-010 | DeFiLlama point-in-time metrics showed Injective TVL about $13.44M, stablecoins market cap about $15.14M, chain fees/revenue 24h about $13,101, DEX volume 24h about $921,819 and perps volume 24h about $13.68M. | verified medium | SRC-013 |
| EC-011 | CoinGecko showed INJ around $4.91 and calculated across approximately 115 exchanges and 190 markets at access time. | verified medium | SRC-014 |
| EC-012 | Injective announced US-regulated INJ futures live on Bitnomial, and Bitnomial states subsidiaries are CFTC-regulated as DCM/DCO/FCM. | partially verified medium | SRC-015SRC-016 |
| EC-013 | Injective announced native EVM mainnet launch with 30+ dApps/infrastructure providers and unified EVM/WASM assets, liquidity and modules. | partially verified medium | SRC-017 |
| EC-014 | Injective announced Circle-issued native USDC and CCTP live on Injective mainnet for cross-chain transfers across 20+ blockchains. | partially verified medium | SRC-018 |
| EC-015 | Injective announced a Musicow partnership to bring music IP on-chain. | partially verified medium | SRC-027 |
| EC-016 | LinkedIn lists Injective Labs as Software Development, Contributors to Injective, company size 51-200, privately held, with 31 visible employees. | partially verified medium | SRC-019 |
| EC-017 | Injective Labs team page lists Eric Chen and Albert Chon and shows business development and market research roles. | partially verified medium | SRC-020 |
| EC-018 | Injective Labs careers page states teammates span the globe and references benefits/values including tokens, PTO, office/remote flexibility and parental leave. | partially verified medium | SRC-021 |
| EC-019 | Injective Terms of Use dated April 16, 2026 include an important prohibited-person notice and restricted jurisdictions/persons. | verified high | SRC-022 |
| EC-020 | CourtListener exact public searches returned zero results for Injective Protocol and for INJ token Injective in-session. | partially verified medium | SRC-023 |
| EC-021 | Helix describes itself as a premier decentralized spot and derivatives exchange, and Mito describes automated trading vaults and launchpad products. | partially verified medium | SRC-025SRC-026SRC-002 |
| EC-022 | Competitor public sources show Injective competes with dYdX, Hyperliquid, Sei and Solana/Ethereum-like ecosystems for finance/trading workloads. | verified medium | SRC-028SRC-029SRC-030SRC-031 |
| EC-023 | Public sources did not provide audited financials, projections, customer revenue, cap table, token ledger, contracts, insurance, compensation, incentive plans or complete legal schedules. | not publicly verifiable high | SRC-001SRC-004SRC-013SRC-019SRC-022 |
| EC-024 | Public legal/IP review found several permissively licensed SDK repositories but no comprehensive patent/trademark clearance, insurance, material contract or regulatory correspondence evidence. | partially verified medium | SRC-009SRC-010SRC-011SRC-012SRC-022SRC-023 |
| EC-025 | Injective Labs describes itself as an R&D company and one of the core contributors to Injective, contributing to Injective, Helix, validator nodes and Mito. | verified high | SRC-002 |