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I checked a token's daily buyback receipts against BSC. Everything matched, to the wei.

FlapJax buys 0.01 BNB of its own token once a day and posts a receipt for each buy, then asks strangers to check the receipts against the chain. This is that check, for the Oct 12 and Oct 13 buys. Everything below comes from public BNB Smart Chain state, so nothing here asks you to trust me. What I read: public BSC JSON-RPC (chain 56). eth_getTransactionByHash and eth_getTransactionReceipt for…

FlapJax purchased 0.01 BNB of its own token daily, posting receipts for each buy. The author confirmed the receipts matched the BSC chain state. For October 12, the buy had a transaction hash and block number. The chain receipt confirmed the BNB spent was 10,000,000,000,000,000 wei. After the purchase, the treasury held 23,834,879.521763892137228328 FLAPJAX and 0.132607152559380905 BNB.

On October 13, another buy of 0.01 BNB was made, with matching figures on the receipt. The treasury held 274,255,010.558598611392113994 BNB after this transaction. The BNB balances and price impact were also consistent with the receipts. The treasury sold FLAPJAX to recipients, not through sales in the pool. The underlying figures in both receipts matched the chain to the wei, with no sign of mismatch.

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