Dolphin
DPHN
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AI Analysis
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Dolphin (DPHN) on the Base network represents the legacy token of a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) and AI compute protocol. The project officially executed a migration and rebranding, replacing the DPHN contract with the POD token contract (0xed664536023d8e4b1640c394777d34abaff1df8f). As a result of this transition, active development and official community operations for the legacy DPHN contract have ceased, triggering data gaps (-1.0 scores) in Active Development and Community Support. The remaining evaluated metrics reflect low utility, dead liquidity, unverified smart contract audits with retained admin privileges, and an unrecovered >99% price collapse on the legacy contract. While the project is led by recognized AI researcher Eric Hartford and shows no evidence of fraudulent intent or security exploits, the legacy DPHN token is completely deprecated.
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About Dolphin (DPHN)
Dolphin (DPHN) is a deprecated token on the Base network that migrated to a new contract under the ticker POD. Originally created within the Cognitive Computations ecosystem and led by AI researcher Eric Hartford, Dolphin Network was designed as a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) for peer-to-pool artificial intelligence inference and compute resource monetization. The protocol aims to connect idle GPUs to support open-source AI model execution and generation.
The DPHN token was initially launched on Base with a total supply of 1 billion tokens, utilizing mechanisms such as automated buybacks funded by inference spreads, node bonding with slashing penalties, and lock-up reward multipliers. Following the project's official rebranding and migration to the POD contract—which introduced a 500 million maximum supply cap—active development, ecosystem utility, liquidity, and community channels transitioned entirely to the successor token, rendering the original DPHN contract inactive.
The legacy DPHN contract carries significant structural and market risks. Following the migration, liquidity moved to the POD token, precipitating an unrecovered price crash of more than 99% from DPHN's all-time high. Furthermore, the DPHN token contract has no record of a completed security audit by an established third-party cybersecurity firm, and automated contract analyses identified elevated deployer privileges capable of modifying fees, managing minting, and restricting transfers. Governance remains centralized under the core development team without a functioning decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) or on-chain voting mechanism.