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Symbiotic

Symbiotic official site N/A

Ethereum

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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 2026-09-06, unchanged since. Subscribers are told the day it changes.

Why this rating
Dependency risk9.0
Uses 1 oracle, composable with 6 other protocols. The dependency set here is unusually concrete because it is readable in Symbiotic's own contract source, not just its prose: AaveV3Adapter, MorphoVaultV2Adapter and EulerAdapter each carry an immutable pointer to the external protocol, and every adapter inherits CoWSwapConverter and MerklClaimer, so CoW Protocol and Merkl are dependencies of ALL of them rather than of one.
Show the evidenceThe corresponding factories are deployed and listed on Symbiotic's own addresses page. On oracles the honest record is a documented silence with a documented risk: Symbiotic's Liquid Lane risk list names 'Oracle provider-related risks (asset prices and NAV reporting)' and warns that underlying asset prices may move unfavourably leading to NAV impairment, but NO provider is named on any page checked, including the RFQ how-it-works page which describes market makers signing bids without saying how price is derived. Symbiotic consumes price and NAV data; it does not publish it. Note also what is deliberately absent: the protocol-wide list of accepted collateral assets is not enumerated in the current V2 docs, so no LST collateral is recorded. Liquid Lane vaults take USDC exclusively. The architecture is permissionless by design and Symbiotic says so, warning that vaults using liquidity adapters carry 'additional operational and financial risks beyond the application's own infrastructure'.
Audit profile8.0
3 audits on record, most recent audit is 1-2 years old; the most recent audit found 0 High and 4 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.
Governance attack surface7.0
No governance token; control sits with multisig rather than a vote, so decision rights are concentrated rather than capturable. The form of that key is scored separately under code characteristics.
Code characteristics6.8
Admin key: 2/3 multisig (requires 2 of 3 keys to act), open source.
TVL profile5.5
TVL is 83% below this protocol's own peak; TVL change (31%) is within a stable range.
Historical incidents2.3
No known own or inherited incidents as of 6 September 2026.
Team factors1.7
Doxxed team, track record: unknown.
Bug bounty1.5
Has a bug bounty program, up to $500 000.
Protocol age1.5
817 days live, past the ~1yr floor; treated the same as any older protocol, not scored progressively safer with more age.
Assets held (4)

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Dependencies (2)

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Incident history (0)

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Audit history (3)

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Common questions about Symbiotic

Foreshock's independent reading of Symbiotic is Moderate risk, 43.3 out of 100, as of 6 September 2026. The largest single contributor to that reading is dependency risk: uses 1 oracle, composable with 6 other protocols. The dependency set here is unusually concrete because it is readable in Symbiotic's own contract source, not just its prose: AaveV3Adapter, MorphoVaultV2Adapter and EulerAdapter each carry an immutable pointer to the external protocol, and every adapter inherits CoWSwapConverter and MerklClaimer, so CoW Protocol and Merkl are dependencies of ALL of them rather than of one. 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 Symbiotic safe?
Foreshock does not answer that as a yes or a no. Its independent reading of Symbiotic is Moderate risk, 43.3 out of 100, as of 6 September 2026, led by dependency risk: uses 1 oracle, composable with 6 other protocols. The dependency set here is unusually concrete because it is readable in Symbiotic's own contract source, not just its prose: AaveV3Adapter, MorphoVaultV2Adapter and EulerAdapter each carry an immutable pointer to the external protocol, and every adapter inherits CoWSwapConverter and MerklClaimer, so CoW Protocol and Merkl are dependencies of ALL of them rather than of one. The score and the reasoning are published in full so the reading can be checked rather than trusted.
Has Symbiotic been audited?
3 audits on record, most recent audit is 1-2 years old; the most recent audit found 0 High and 4 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 Symbiotic?
Admin key: 2/3 multisig (requires 2 of 3 keys to act), open source. No governance token; control sits with multisig rather than a vote, so decision rights are concentrated rather than capturable. The form of that key is scored separately under code characteristics.
Has Symbiotic been exploited before?
No known own or inherited incidents as of 6 September 2026. Foreshock records an incident against a protocol whether it originated there or was inherited from something it depends on.
When was this Symbiotic assessment last updated?
6 September 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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