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rubric v1.7.0

Deprecated contract paused but pause reversible by live admin

Axelar Network's assessment for RD-F-167 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

No deprecated Axelar EVM contracts holding material value identified. The AxelarGatewayProxyMultisig is the current live system (not deprecated). InterchainTokenService v1 deprecation status not confirmed but no material orphaned TVL in old addresses observed. Profile does not flag any deprecated contracts with funds.

Sources #

  • Etherscan
    AxelarGateway Proxy — EtherscanAxelarGateway proxy 0x4F44...D56A5 — active, no deprecated replacement foundretrieved 2026-05-17
  • Internal
    Protocol Profile §3 Deployments.research/protocols/axelar/00-profile.md §3 — no deprecated contracts flaggedretrieved 2026-05-17

Methodology #

Determine whether a deprecated-and-paused contract's pause state is revertible by a currently-live admin role.

See the full factor methodology and distribution across all protocols →

rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol axelar factor RD-F-167 score green collected_at 2026-05-16 21:57:49