Backpack founder Armani Ferrante addressed community concerns on social media, clarifying that the team did not cash out via OTC trading, outlined holder rights arrangements, introduced a new witch review and handling approach, and emphasized that token performance is closely tied to the team’s interests—while pushing forward related work and product development.

Backpack founder Armani stated on March 25 that the team is reassessing witch hunt cases and will establish an appeal channel to protect user interests, returning at least 50% of tokens to eligible users and conducting token buyback compensation.

Backpack founder Armani recently stated that the witch hunt investigation team is reassessing complex cases and has opened an appeals channel. Eligible users can have 50% or more of their tokens returned through manual verification. Meanwhile, the team will launch a token buyback plan to compensate users.

Foresight News reports that Backpack team member Miho announced that the Backpack S4 season has officially ended and entered the TGE sprint phase. Over the next 4–6 weeks, the team will proceed with the final testing of Vault and the witch point redistribution phase. Vault is now running in the production environment, and the team will continue to tune parameters and test with their own funds. Once ready to open external deposits, an announcement will be made immediately.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Solana Mobile project leader Emmett posted on the X platform stating that before the SKR release, the team is actively identifying additional Seeker clusters beyond the anti-witch measures already taken. These subscription shares will be removed from the initial SKR distribution and returned to the future airdrop pool. The team did not disclose specific detection details and stated that this move aims to ensure the fairness of SKR distribution, directing it toward users and developers who promote platform growth.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Vladimir Novakovski, founder and CEO of Lighter, responded to the witch screening during a Twitter Space interview with jez (@izebeleth) today, saying: “We have an appeal mechanism for witch screening, but so far, the number of appeals has been fewer than we expected. If users feel the algorithm is unfair to them, they are welcome to fill out the appeal form on Discord. We will not disclose specific algorithm details because we do not want targeted optimization. Overall, this involves a lot of data science work, including clustering analysis, behavior pattern recognition, and more. Our quantitative team (whose daily work involves liquidity and market maker connections) also spent several weeks participating in this. Additionally, we have collaborated with some protocol partners who have done similar work, as well as individual-level witches.”

Odaily Planet Daily News: Lighter officials stated in the Discord community, "Today we have distributed the final batch of points for Season 2. At the same time, we have also removed and reallocated points from Sybil behavior, self-trading, and wash-trading."

BlockBeats news, on December 23, Lighter announced on Discord that "we have entered the final stage of the second season point activity, and we are currently conducting data analysis to remove witch addresses, self-trading, and points obtained from wash trading exchanges. All points that are reduced (including those that have already been removed) will be redistributed to the community."

Gate News Bot news, on November 14, according to CoinMarketCap market data, as of the time of writing, APR (aPriori) is currently priced at 0.31 USD, having risen 11.75% in the last 24 hours, with a high of 0.48 USD and a low of 0.23 USD. The 24-hour volume reached 34.7 million USD. The current market capitalization is approximately 56.5 million USD, an increase of nearly 5.94 million USD compared to yesterday. Important news about APR recently: 1️⃣ **Airdrop suspected of large-scale manipulation raises market concerns** The aPriori project experienced a serious anomaly during the APR token airdrop conducted on October 23. On-chain data shows that approximately 80% of the airdropped tokens on the BNB chain were claimed by 5,800 associated wallets, displaying typical characteristics of an industrial-grade witch attack. These suspicious wallets were already prepared before the official announcement of the airdrop eligibility criteria.

On the X platform, on-chain analyst Eye pointed out that MegaETH has not effectively cleared the witch addresses, and some crypto protocol founders, such as SHIFT Protocol co-founder ggmxbt, may be involved. He emphasized the need to strengthen regulation of individuals manipulating the situation, especially during pre-sales and similar events.