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Venus Core Pool

Venus Core Pool official site →
Multi-chain: Binance, Ethereum, Arbitrum, zkSync Era, Base, Unichain

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  • Evidence: this reading is based on 100% of the scored weight, verified against named sources. Categories without verified data are excluded from the reading, never counted as safe.
  • Validation: measured against 3 comparable incidents/controls in this protocol's TVL, age and category bucket.
Score by categories
Historical incidents13.4

This protocol has 2 prior incidents of its own, hard floor applied regardless of current size/age.

Dependency risk12.7

Uses 5 oracles (Venus Core Pool prices collateral through its Resilient Price Oracle, which takes a main price (usually Chainlink), checks it against a second pivot source such as RedStone, Binance or Atlas, and falls back to another source if the main one fails.), composable with 1 other protocol.

Audit profile10.0

7 audits/contests on record, most recent (CertiK, 2025-09-19) has unread findings, scored as unknown, not assumed clean.

Governance attack surface7.5

Top 10 holders control 89.86%, quorum requirement 5%, adjusted figure may still include pooled custody (untagged exchanges, infrastructure contracts) due to tagging coverage limits; exclusions require positive identification.

TVL profile5.5

TVL is 81% below this protocol's own peak; TVL change (23%) is within a stable range.

Code characteristics3.0

Admin key: 48h timelock in place, open source.

Team factors1.7

Doxxed team, track record: unknown.

Bug bounty1.7

Has a bug bounty program.

Protocol age1.5

2111 days live, past the ~1yr floor; treated the same as any older protocol, not scored progressively safer with more age.

Assets held (3)

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Dependencies (2)

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Incident history (4)

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Audit history (7)

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This assessment follows Foreshock's published methodology. Exact category weights, scoring rules, thresholds, and aggregation logic are proprietary and not shown here. How to interpret this assessment