Post-exploit response score
dYdX v4 (dYdX Chain)'s assessment for RD-F-081 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
Assessed against the Oct 2025 operational incident (closest analog to an exploit-response event on v4). Oct 2025: compensation approved ($462K from insurance fund), root cause named (order-of-operations in collateral pool transfer), sequencing fix documented, validators coordinated patch in ~8h — strong response. Apr 2024 chain halt: no formal post-mortem published, only contemporaneous news coverage — weak response record. Composite: 3.5/5. Yellow due to the Apr 2024 gap.
Sources #
- URLdYdX Chain Recovers from 9.5-Hour Outage Caused by UpgradeApr 2024 chain halt coverage (no post-mortem found)retrieved 2026-05-17
- October 2025: dYdX Chain Incident Review & Community UpdateOct 2025 incident reviewretrieved 2026-05-17
- dYdX Chain October 2025 Incident: Compensation and Community UpdateOct 2025 compensation postretrieved 2026-05-17
Methodology #
Curator-score (1–5) the most recent incident response on: compensation completeness, transparency of disclosure, root-cause analysis depth, and operational recovery speed.
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