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Yearn Finance

Yearn Finance official site N/A

Multi-Chain

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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: the rubric is backtested against past exploits of protocols in the same TVL, age and category bucket. None has been evaluated for this one yet, so the reading rests on its evidence alone.
Score by categories
Historical incidents14.2

This protocol has 3 prior incidents of its own, hard floor applied regardless of current size/age.

Audit profile9.9

3 audits/contests on record, most recent (Trail of Bits, 2021-07-19) has unread findings, scored as unknown, not assumed clean.

Dependency risk9.0

Uses 1 oracle (Yearn's own 'Understanding The Risks' docs state Vaults 'inherit the risk of the underlying protocols they earn yield from' -- lending strategies lend to protocols like Aave/Morpho/Spark/LlamaLend, AMM strategies use Curve/Aerodrome/Velodrome, and leverage strategies use Aave/Morpho/Moonwell. The same docs explicitly flag oracle risk for lending and leverage strategies: 'Incorrect price feed causes the collateral to go to such a value that the loan is liquidated' (lending) and 'Incorrect price feed leads to incorrect liquidation of positions' (leverage) -- i.e., Yearn strategies are exposed to whichever price feed the underlying protocol relies on, not a single named Yearn-run oracle.), composable with 8 other protocols.

Code characteristics7.5

Admin key: none.

TVL profile6.5

TVL is 97% 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 (6%) is within a stable range.

Governance attack surface2.5

Top 10 holders control 21.52%, adjusted figure may still include pooled custody (untagged exchanges, infrastructure contracts) due to tagging coverage limits; exclusions require positive identification.

Protocol age2.5

Protocol age unknown.

Team factors1.7

Doxxed team, track record: unknown.

Bug bounty1.2

Has a bug bounty program, up to $200 000, hosted on Immunefi.

Assets held (6)

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Dependencies (2)

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Incident history (3)

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Audit history (3)

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