Pause activations (trailing 12 months)

Evidence summary #

April 2026 KelpDAO rsETH incident: Compound V3 paused WETH/USDC/wstETH on Ethereum + WETH on Optimism/Base/Arbitrum/Linea for one documented external reason. Threshold: yellow = 1-2 pauses with documented reason.

Detail #

Multiple market-level pauses (6+ markets) were activated by the Community MultiSig (Pause Guardian) upon the April 2026 KelpDAO exploit. All pauses were for a single documented reason: precautionary isolation of rsETH collateral risk. This constitutes one documented pause event (one root cause) with multiple market-level activations. Threshold: green=0 pauses; yellow=1-2 pauses with documented reason; red=>=3 or undocumented. Scoring yellow.

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Methodology #

Count the number of deliberate pause activations with documented reason in the trailing 12 months.

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