New ERC-20 approval to unverified contract from whale

Convex Finance's assessment for RD-F-096 — scored gray on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Applicable in principle for large CVX/cvxCRV holders. No specific whale-approval anomaly to unverified contracts detected via public OSINT. Signal requires user-level monitoring of high-TVL wallet approval events. Not deployed for static assessment. Gray.

Sources #

Internal
Convex Finance data cache.research/protocols/convex-finance/00-data-cache.json — TVL $613.3M confirming high-TVL user base existsretrieved 2026-05-16

Methodology #

Detect whether a top-TVL depositor grants a new token approval to an unverified contract that interacts with this protocol.

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol convex-finance factor RD-F-096 score gray collected_at 2026-05-16 02:41:28