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Reserve Protocol

Reserve Protocol official site N/A

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  • Evidence: this reading is based on 100% of the scored weight, verified against named sources. Categories without verified data are held at the neutral midpoint at their full weight, never counted as safe.
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Published 2026-10-03, unchanged since. Subscribers are told the day it changes.

Why this rating
Dependency risk10.5
Uses 2 oracles, composable with 5 other protocols. Reserve's Yield protocol prices every collateral through Chainlink aggregators (contracts/plugins/assets/OracleLib.sol imports AggregatorV3Interface and reverts on a stale round or a non-positive price; the L2 LSD plugin also takes the L1 exchange rate from a Chainlink feed).
Show the evidenceThe collateral status machine moves a plugin to IFFY on a stale feed or a peg break and to DISABLED on a sustained one, per docs/collateral.md. Reserve's Index overview states 'No price oracles or collateral plugins'; Index DTFs are valued by on-chain NAV from share-to-asset ratios and rebalance prices come from the manager-set ranges described above. No bridge sits in the accounting of either product; cross-chain movement is user-initiated.
Code characteristics9.0
Admin key: 3/5 multisig (requires 3 of 5 keys to act), upgradeable without a meaningful timelock, open source.
TVL profile6.5
TVL is 92% below this protocol's own peak and has not recovered, so the revenue that funds audits, bounties and maintenance is largely gone while the contracts still hold value; TVL change (7%) is within a stable range.
Governance attack surface5.0
Top 10 holders control 42.65%, adjusted figure may still include pooled custody (untagged exchanges, infrastructure contracts) due to tagging coverage limits; exclusions require positive identification.
Historical incidents2.3
No known own or inherited incidents as of 3 October 2026.
Team factors1.7
Doxxed team, track record: unknown.
Protocol age1.5
1318 days live, past the ~1yr floor; treated the same as any older protocol, not scored progressively safer with more age.
Bug bounty1.0
Has a bug bounty program, up to $10 000 000.
Audit profile0.0
27 audits on record, most recent audit is recent (<=180d); the most recent audit found 0 High and 0 Medium severity issues. This reflects code quality at the time of that audit only, not a claim that these specific issues are still unresolved today.
Assets held (6)

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Dependencies (2)

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Incident history (0)

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Audit history (27)

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Common questions about Reserve Protocol

Foreshock's independent reading of Reserve Protocol is Moderate risk, 37.5 out of 100, as of 3 October 2026. The largest single contributor to that reading is dependency risk: uses 2 oracles, composable with 5 other protocols. Reserve's Yield protocol prices every collateral through Chainlink aggregators (contracts/plugins/assets/OracleLib.sol imports AggregatorV3Interface and reverts on a stale round or a non-positive price; the L2 LSD plugin also takes the L1 exchange rate from a Chainlink feed). All nine scored categories are backed by verified evidence. This published reading is fixed at that date. Re-scoring never stops, and when a reading changes it reaches plan holders on the day it changes rather than this page. Foreshock publishes the reading and the reasoning behind it. It is not a verdict on whether to use this protocol, and it is not investment advice.

Is Reserve Protocol safe?
Foreshock does not answer that as a yes or a no. Its independent reading of Reserve Protocol is Moderate risk, 37.5 out of 100, as of 3 October 2026, led by dependency risk: uses 2 oracles, composable with 5 other protocols. Reserve's Yield protocol prices every collateral through Chainlink aggregators (contracts/plugins/assets/OracleLib.sol imports AggregatorV3Interface and reverts on a stale round or a non-positive price; the L2 LSD plugin also takes the L1 exchange rate from a Chainlink feed). The score and the reasoning are published in full so the reading can be checked rather than trusted.
Has Reserve Protocol been audited?
27 audits on record, most recent audit is recent (<=180d); the most recent audit found 0 High and 0 Medium severity issues. This reflects code quality at the time of that audit only, not a claim that these specific issues are still unresolved today. An audit describes the code at the time it was reviewed. It is not a statement that the protocol is safe today.
Who controls Reserve Protocol?
Admin key: 3/5 multisig (requires 3 of 5 keys to act), upgradeable without a meaningful timelock, open source. Top 10 holders control 42.65%, adjusted figure may still include pooled custody (untagged exchanges, infrastructure contracts) due to tagging coverage limits; exclusions require positive identification.
Has Reserve Protocol been exploited before?
No known own or inherited incidents as of 3 October 2026. Foreshock records an incident against a protocol whether it originated there or was inherited from something it depends on.
When was this Reserve Protocol assessment last updated?
3 October 2026, and that date does not move on its own. A reading published here is fixed when it is published; re-scoring never stops, and a changed reading reaches plan holders on the day it changes rather than this page. Every category carries the date of the evidence behind it.
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