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I ferment all kinds of mushrooms, cultivated and wild. Part of my job is to forage so I come across different kinds. Some develop very interesting flavors, others are just good and a few are terrible (Flammulina velutipes, for example). The most available mushroom we have is white button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) and it gives a nice sour-salty, concentrated mushroom umami liquid.
All agaricus mushrooms, regardless of species, contain agaritine. This has been well-known in mushroom circles for a while and the official advice is to moderate your intake because it is potentially very problematic and doesn't totally break down when cooking, but raw is definitely there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaritine
Mycophagy is a pretty experimental endeavour still and there's lots we don't know. So the available knowledge can sometimes be scarce. Most I know I have directly from local mycologists and our fungi association that sometimes reports on the science. Fermenting mushrooms is even more obscure where I come from, so very few people have good knowledge on this.